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Holyoke Community Excellence Award winners display their plaques Monday evening at the Phillips County Event Center following the Holyoke Chamber’s 31st annual gala. Pictured from the left are Julie Haake, owner of Business of the Year, Creative Traditions; Peggy Davis, Citizen of the Years; Jackie Thompson, owner of New Business of the Year, Thompson’s Grill & Market; Kyrah McConachie, Youth of the Year; Allyn Robinson, owner of STAR Award-winning Happy Jacks Barbeque; Jessie Stewart, Employee of the Year; and Fr. Jerry Rohr, Citizen of the Year. Individual pictures are available on Page 12. — Andrew Turck | The Holyoke Enterprise

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Holly Ferguson, right, former executive director for the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce, presents awards to local community members and businesses. To the left is Jessica Allen Ayala, who took the position Jan. 6. — Andrew Turck | The Holyoke Enterprise

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A Holyoke community member begins a standing ovation for Happy Jacks Barbeque after the business wins the Holyoke Chamber of Commerce’s STAR Award. This award is the only one picked solely by the chamber. — Andrew Turck | The Holyoke Enterprise

Community Pillars

Ninety local residents filled available tables to a chair Monday evening in the Phillips County Event Center, where Holly Ferguson presided over her final gala as executive director for the Holyoke

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A wheat harvest in Phillips County around 1919 is pictured. Included in the group are Glenn, Jerry, Cliff and Charlie Goddard, together with neighbors. Cliff and Charlie Goddard owned the header and header boxes. Harvesting was a neighborhood affair. — The Holyoke Enterprise File Photo

Peekin' into the Past

Five Years Ago

Jan. 25, 2018

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Ashton Robles, a courtesy worker at Holyoke Marketplace, sets paper and plastic bags into a customer’s trunk Tuesday afternoon. Beginning January, stores and retail establishments with more than three locations in Colorado must charge a fee of 10 cents or higher per bag – whether they be paper or plastic. By January 2024, the state will ban distribution of all single-use bags, with the exception of stores that operate only in Colorado and have fewer than three locations, as well as restaurants that serve take-out. — Andrew Turck | The Holyoke Enterprise

Taking out the bags

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