Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago

Sept. 7, 2017

It’s been touted as a “sexting workshop,” but the recent series of programs organized by Holyoke School District were much more than that. Ruthie Kolb of Colorado Youth Matter delivered four different presentations specifically tailored to their unique audiences — teachers, parents and community members, students in grades 5-12 and student leaders — Aug. 30-31 at Holyoke JR/SR High.

Phillips County now lacks just $81,000 for the Pavilion and Education Center project. Commissioners reported at the Aug. 31 meeting that the county recently received a $125,000 grant from the Daniels Fund in support of the project.

Chelsey Salyards, PT, DPT, officially began physical therapy services at Koch Chiropractic Clinic at 111 W. Emerson St. in Holyoke on Aug. 31. She will be available for appointments every Thursday.

Ten Years Ago

Sept. 6, 2012

Jeff Weaver has been hired to fill the vacant executive director position for Phillips County Economic Development Corporation. He replaces Erica Ayoub, who announced her resignation earlier this year.

Melissa Memorial Hospital has announced a contract has been signed with a new doctor. MMH administrator John Ayoub announced during the regular meeting of East Phillips County Hospital District on Aug. 27 that Dr. Aaron Wilson has recently been hired and is expected to begin next July.

2012 is the hottest year Holyoke has seen in a long time, if not the hottest summer ever. A grand total of 24 days broke the 100-degree mark in June, July and August, with the hottest day reaching 110 degrees on June 26.

Effective Oct. 1, Phillips County will be charging a fee to out-of-county people obtaining drivers’ licenses. Phillips County commissioners gave County Clerk Beth Zilla permission to initiate this new fee because of the increased number of out-of-county drivers using Phillips County to obtain licenses and the burden it puts on county employees.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

Sept. 11, 1997

Starting a new chapter in their lives, Dr. Myrlen Chesnut and Cheryl Chesnut, MSN, FNP, will be closing Chestnut Family Medicine in mid-October. They will both be affiliating with a clinic in northwest Colorado in the community of Craig. The move represents the closing of a 28-year practice in Holyoke for Dr. Chesnut.

The Koshare Indian Dancers will start the 1997-98 concert series sponsored by the Holyoke Community Arts Council with a performance on Sept. 13 at the Holyoke High School gymnasium.

Plans for a recycling center in Holyoke are being finalized, and residents of the area are urged to start saving their recyclable items. A door-to-door drive will be conducted in Holyoke on Sept. 24.

Last week, the building in the 200 block of South Interocean Avenue which formerly housed Sherm Walrod’s law practice was torn down. Claire O’Neal plans to build a new office and relocate her accounting firm, hopefully by the first of 1998. The office space is located between the Heginbotham Trust office and the Peerless Theatre.

Fifty Years Ago

Sept. 7, 1972

Jerald A. Beavers, new county welfare director for Phillips County, assumed his duties Sept. 5. Beavers has 10 1/2 years in public welfare — eight and a half years in Colorado and two years in Alaska.

General field work and the start of dry bean harvest has been hampered by additional rainfall in the county during the past week. Rainfall during the past week amounted to 1.02 inches. Total precipitation received in Holyoke since Jan. 1 has amounted to 16.78 inches. Daytime temperatures during the past week ranged from 66-88 degrees.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

Sept. 11, 1947

William F. Perkins, director of revenue, today announced that official forms on which to report accidents under Colorado’s new Motor Vehicle Financial Responsibility Law, which becomes effective Oct. 1, will be available throughout the state in county clerk’s offices, local police departments, sheriff’s stations of the state patrol and from all officers of the patrol. According to the new law, every accident involving any degree of human injury or damage to the property of any one person amounting to $50 or more must be reported in writing to the director of revenue within 10 days of its occurrence.

Shortly, the state will place 11 million sales tax tokens on the market. They are made of plastic, fiber chips and aluminum and are supposed to be worth $22,700. Colorado formerly used these tokens in the making of correct change in the collection of sales tax before doing away with them and placing the sales tax collections on a penny basis. They are only good for the value of the stuff from which they are made, and the state proposes to sell them to the highest bidder.