Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago

May 3, 2018

May 1 marked the start of a community relationship with AirLife helicopter service serving Melissa Memorial Hospital, with the helicopter housed on the pad east of the hospital.

Taking his 20-plus years of experience in commercial and residential construction, general contractor Derek Razo is the owner-operator of a new local construction business, Classic Builders.

Holyoke School District put words into action, and students were out and about town April 27 for a spring community service day.

Ten Years Ago

May 2, 2013

“To be continued” is the message for the Holyoke School District technology committee that is researching the implementation of a 1-to-1 iPad program in the district.

Holyoke celebrated its 125th anniversary on April 24 with a melodrama, “Shawnee Lou, the Prairie’s Purest Dressmaker,” at the HHS auditorium.

Twenty-Five Years Ago

May 7, 1998

Dr. Dennis Jelden joined Family Practice of Holyoke on May 1.

Holyoke Police Chief Barry Winckler recently announced his resignation, effective May 15. He has been hired as an officer for the Littleton Police Department.

Phillips County is a few steps closer to being placed in the National Flood Insurance Program, which means residents are closer to being able to purchase flood insurance. A draft Floodplain Regulation has been recommended for adoption by the county commissioners, and a public hearing on the proposed regulation has been set for June 15.

Holyoke’s downtown area was partially revitalized last week with the installation of new banners and the placement of new trash receptacles.

Fifty Years Ago

May 3, 1973

Rod Paul, chairman of the board of First National Bank in Brush, announced today that a group of bankers has purchased Holyoke Bank and Trust Co. and Holyoke Agency Inc.

Additional moisture in the form of rain mixed with snow, amounting to 1.89 inches, that moved into the area the past week has caused field preparation to come to a complete standstill.

Schneider Feed & Seed, Paoli, has been appointed the authorized Ritemix “Moneymaker” feed dealer for this area.

Seventy-Five Years Ago

May 6, 1948

Funeral services were held in Haxtun Tuesday for Harold Jesson and Harold Cheney. The two young men were killed Sunday morning when their light plane crashed into a ravine in El Paso County. They left Holyoke about 6:45 a.m. Sunday, en route to Florence to attend a Flying Farmers breakfast.

At the school election, which was held May 3, 148 voters turned out to elect a treasurer for District No. 39. The largest number of voters that has ever turned out at a school election were present. Theo F. Fiedler received 93 votes, and Earl Rudder received 55.

The nation’s memorial to World War II dead — the Gold Star Lapel Button — will be ready for distribution after June 1, 1948, to the next of kin of men and women of all Armed Services who died for their country at home and abroad. The authority for this recognition came in Public Law No. 306, enacted by the 80th Congress.

Colorado Day, Aug. 1, will be observed by the naming of one of her mountain peaks after Edward John Wilcox, who built the Argentine Railroad in 1917. The peak which will be named is the one up which the railroad was built, 8 miles west of Georgetown.

The Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce has started a movement to bring the remains of Zebulon Pike to that city and have him buried in a crypt on top of the peak that bears his name. They have in mind making it a shrine something like the Buffalo Bill shrine on top of Lookout Mountain.