Heres your look at this week in Loveland area history from the archives of the Reporter-Herald: 10 Years Ago • The Loveland Boys & Girls Club received a new 20-passenger bus with $50,000 to take children to activities, thanks to a grant from the Thomas McKee Charitable Foundation. • Meals on Wheels, which had operated out of the basement at the old Thompson School District Administration Building, prepared to move to a new location at 437 N. Garfield. • After more than a decade in business and four years of declining sales, plans were announced for a makeover for the outlet mall in east Loveland. 25 Years Ago • The Loveland Fire Department was an “organization divided, unorganized and reactive rather than proactive,” according to a city assessment that called for changes in policy, procedures, attitudes and environment. The city manager, however, came to the department’s defense. • After a body was found in Carter Lake, and was believed to have been in the water about five years, authorities said it could be one of four men who were lost in the lake between 1984 and 1986, three to boating accidents and one when a plane crashed in the lake. The man’s body was later identified as Dennis Larson, who had fallen into the water along with his wife when their skiff overturned in October 1985. • Other area merchants expressed concern about plans to build a median in Eisenhower Boulevard in front of the Sam’s Club building under construction. 50 Years Ago • After more than a year of trying to sell the old airport property northwest of the city, Loveland officials received two bids they called reasonable for the 96 acres. They convened a study session to consider whether to sell the land for $160,000 to Wheeler Realty of Greeley. • Vern Buress, caretaker of the Larimer County Fairgrounds, said his job was relatively quiet most of the year, but not as the county fair neared. In the 18 years he had been caretaker, the grounds had grown from one exhibit building and one horse barn to include five metal sheds for animals and additional exhibit space. Buress said the type of cowboy competing in the fair rodeos had also changed through the years, saying they had become orderly and well-behaved.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 13:00:00 +0000
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