Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago
Sept. 18, 2014

Bryan Lenhart and Mike and Janice Hibbard have announced that they will be closing Lucky’s Liquor at 140 E. Denver St. in the near future.

Abts Express Pharmacy in Holyoke, as well as Abts Pharmacy in Julesburg, will maintain the same names while assuming new ownership. Mike Bemis, RPh, owner of Bemis Drug in Kimball, Nebraska, purchased the two Abts pharmacies from Travis and Melissa Bumgardner, effective Sept. 12.

Local barbershop quartet Equally Delinquent has been selected to sing the national anthem at the National Western Stock Show on Jan. 12, 2015. Vocalists are lead Maury Kramer of Amherst, bass Dan Kafka of Holyoke, baritone Steve Schwartzkopf of Ogallala, Nebraska, and tenor Chris Garcia of Wray.

Ten Years Ago
Sept. 17, 2009

Lance Murray, a member of Holyoke Volunteer Fire Department, took part in the Denver Stair Climb, climbing twice up the 55 stories of the Quest building in Denver, wearing his bunker gear and self-contained breathing apparatus, in honor of the 343 firefighters who lost their lives during the 9/11 attacks.

The Miles farm, owned by Lucille Miles, was one of 21 farms honored as Colorado Centennial Farms at the 2009 Colorado State Fair on Aug. 28 in Pueblo.

Returning to Holyoke’s main street, PC Telcom’s customer service office may once again be found at 240 S. Interocean Ave. Next week, RadioShack will move from 102 S. Campbell Ave. to the north portion of the newly upgraded office building on Interocean Avenue.

Twenty-Five Years Ago
Sept. 22, 1994

Beginning April 2, 1995, northern and western Colorado communities currently served by the 303 area code, including Phillips County, will change to the new 970 area code.

Rick Schulte has been named as the regional recycling coordinator for northeastern Colorado. The Northeastern Colorado Recycling Project is the product of the Healthy Plains Initiative, a thinktank of civic-minded citizens from the six-county region of northeast Colorado.

Encore Dance Studio of Grant, Nebraska, has expanded to open a studio at the former Big R building just north of Holyoke. Owners Martin and Patti Bremmer of Venango, Nebraska, noted that the local studio opened Sept. 13.

Fifty Years Ago
Sept. 18, 1969

Members of the Holyoke Golf Club met last Thursday night and voted to hold a membership drive to try to raise the amount needed to apply to FHA for a loan to grass-green the golf course.

The first load of beets arrived at the Holyoke station Monday morning from the Henry Krumm farm near Champion, Nebraska. The beet harvest is two weeks earlier than usual this year because of the increased acreage planted. The first two weeks of the harvest is limited to new growers and those who increased their acreage.

Hunters are reminded that they must wear 300 square inches of plainly visible fluorescent orange material this season. The material must be displayed on an outer garment above the waist and a head covering combined. Recent action of the Colorado Legislature has raised the requirement to 500 square inches for next year, but the new law will not take effect until Jan. 1, 1970.

Seventy-Five Years Ago
Sept. 21, 1944

Avery Kelso opened his new produce station on Market Street, a half block west of Interocean Avenue on the south side of the street, Tuesday, by serving chicken and cheese sandwiches, donuts and coffee to all callers. The new building is of stucco construction over cinder blocks, with a frame roof and concrete floors. The front room is used for office and receiving and testing cream and eggs. In the rear is the work and storage room, equipped for cleaning cream cans and utensils.

Because of drastically reduced quotas of Grade I tires for passenger cars, many Colorado motorists eligible for such tires are being issued certificates for Grade III tires by their local War Price and Rationing Boards.

Holyoke stores are requested to close when official word comes of V-Day. The town siren will be sounded in one long blast as in the “all clear” signal. The Holyoke Lions Club, at a regular meeting last Thursday, took action requesting all Holyoke places of business to close for the remainder of the day if the signal is given in the afternoon and to remain closed all of the following day. If the signal is given in the forenoon, the stores are to close the remainder of the day.