Peekin’ into the past

Five Years Ago — Jan. 23, 2014
    Ardie Besse is retiring from her local beauty salon on Jan. 24 after 51 years in the business.
    With all SunSet View tenant laundry traffic previously confined to a 90-square-foot room at the community center entrance, SunSet View moved all washing and drying machines due east into a recently completed 940-square-foot building. The new building houses twice as many machines and a lounge room.
    
Ten Years Ago — Jan. 22, 2009
    Pastor Kurt Hatteberg has been installed as the new pastor at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Amherst and Venango, Nebraska.
    Dustin Wieland became the latest Boy Scout from Holyoke Troop 32 to earn his Eagle rank at a special Court of Honor on Jan. 18 at the Lions Den in Holyoke.
    Maddie Starkebaum and Dylan Bradley were recognized at the Holyoke basketball game Jan. 16 for being Wendy’s High School Heisman winners. The awards are given each year to high school seniors based on academic aptitude, athletic talent and community leadership.
    HHS junior Duncan Brandt was recognized Jan. 18 as the District IV winner of the annual Voice of Democracy contest, sponsored by Veterans of Foreign Wars.
    
Twenty-Five Years Ago — Jan. 27, 1994
    Temporary office headquarters have been set up, shop work will resume next week, and plans for rebuilding Leon Atkins Motors are progressing. Fire damage to the farm machinery business located at the corner of Highway 6 and Highway 59 in Haxtun is estimated in the $1 million range.
    Jewelry and money were taken from Frank and Joan Salvador’s home 13 and a half miles south and a mile east of Paoli after the home was broken into between Jan. 14-16.
    Feb. 3 will be a milestone event in the life of Holyoke native Howard Shafer as it is the 100th anniversary of his birth.

Fifty Years Ago — Jan. 23, 1969
    Last Friday afternoon, 54 students of the fifth-grade science class, accompanied by their teachers Larry Hayes and Elda McClenahan, were taken by school buses to the Great Western Sugar factory in Ovid. Their guided tour of the factory included following the raw beet from the railroad car, through the processing plant to the refined sugar being sacked. They were also shown the process used to transform beet pulp into feed pellets for livestock.
    On Jan. 21, the citizens’ advisory committee, Re-1J school district board members, faculty and representatives from the Education Planning Service at Colorado State College in Greeley met to continue the educational study now in progress in the district. They explained the results of the behavioral outcome exercise, which was designed to help determine what the people in the Holyoke community want in the way of skills, attitudes, etc. for the students.
    The annual Holyoke machinery auction next Thursday will probably be one of the largest ever held in Holyoke. Close to 200 items are already consigned for the sale, which is sponsored by Brown Auction Service.
    
Seventy-Five Years Ago — Jan. 27, 1944
    Marie Henriksen, registered nurse, has been secured to examine all children of town and rural schools of Phillips County who do not have school doctors, according to word received by County Superintendent Gladys Hofmeister, and will remain in the county working on the school health program until Feb. 26.
    Snow began falling here before noon Wednesday and continued with varying intensity during the afternoon. By dark the fall had totaled 4-6 inches on the level, but a stiff breeze was drifting it some. Snow continued to fall until sunrise Thursday, and the wind increased in force during the night, piling snow into drifts, blocking roads and paralyzing transportation.