Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago
May 16, 2013
    Cathy Sullivan is retiring at the end of the school year after teaching for 38 years — 37 of which were spent at Holyoke Elementary School.
    Holyoke City Council members aimed to reduce the problems caused by uninhabitable and dangerous buildings during a work session after the May 7 council meeting. Many issues were raised after the April 8 storm that caused damage around town.
    Holyoke Elementary School art teacher Christina Martinez has been elected to serve with the Colorado Art Educators Association as the regional board representative for the northeast region.
    
Ten Years Ago
May 15, 2008
    Moving the sixth grade to the junior high building in Holyoke for the 2008-09 school year brought a number of citizens to the May 6 school board meeting to ask questions, listen to reasoning and express opposition. Following lengthy discussion, the board voted 5-1 to approve the move for the upcoming school year.
    Within a couple of hours May 7, the original Phillips County Event Center building, which had stood for approximately 60 years, was brought to the ground.
    
Twenty-Five Years Ago
May 20, 1993
    Indicating that he’s an employee that they would hate to lose, the Holyoke City Council offered an unsolicited pay increase to shop foreman Mark Brown following a special council meeting held May 13. Brown accepted the offer May 17. The special meeting was called to discuss the possibility of losing Brown to another employer.
    The California Cuties Comedy Softball Team, a four-man team, will play the local nine-man 16-18-year-old baseball team. The game will be a seven-inning fast-pitch softball game played on June 4 at the local ballfield.
    HHS industrial arts projects will be displayed at a project fair on May 22 in the HHS old gym. Winners will be named in beginning woodworking, advanced woodworking and architectural drafting.
    
Fifty Years Ago
May 16, 1968
    Tuesday was the last day of school for Holyoke High School’s 55 graduating seniors, and they will receive diplomas at commencement exercises at 8 o’clock tomorrow evening in the HHS gym.
    Winners of wiglets in a recent event sponsored by the Holyoke Jayceettes are Pat Leffingwell of Greeley and Mrs. George Browning of Holyoke. The stylish hairpieces were donated by Helen’s Beauty Salon and Ardie’s Beauty Barr.
    
Seventy-Five Years Ago
May 20, 1943
    A tennis tournament, sponsored by the Holyoke Junior City Council, newly formed youth organization, will open May 29 and run through June. Arrangements have also been made for the operation of a duckpin bowling alley by the council, and the alleys will be opened as soon as necessary repairs can be made.
    Rev. P.H. Evans of Lusk, Wyoming, has accepted a call to the pastorate of the First Baptist Church of Holyoke and will assume his duties as such the fore part of June.
    A limited number of Colorado women will have the opportunity to attend an established U.S. Army Signal Corps communication school. They will be trained in radio operation, radio repair, radio telephone and radio typewriter operation. They will draw excellent pay while taking this outstanding course, with salaries ranging from $100.60 to $135.20 per month.