Heres your look at this week in Loveland history from the archives of the Reporter-Herald: 10 Years Ago This Week • St. John the Evangelist Catholic Church announced it would close its food pantry because organizers felt too many people were “working the system.” The church gave its food to House of Neighborly Service to distribute to the poor. The director of that agency said some people were “church hopping” to get donations from the Loveland churches that had food banks. • Two Thompson Valley High School juniors, Kal Halax-Winans and Alex Diederich, used the skills they’d just learned in a life-guarding class to help a girl who’d been injured in a sledding accident. The girl was paralyzed from the waist down, but the teens’ actions to help stabilize the girl’s neck were credited with preventing further spinal damage. • Wal-Mart Corp. announced plans to buy 28 acres on the west side of U.S. 287, south of 66th Street, to build a second supercenter in Loveland. • The Thompson School District offered Agilent Technologies $4.7 million for a building at 800 S. Taft Ave., where the school board hoped to relocate the district administrative offices. • A bill to expand the vote center concept tried in Larimer County to other counties met some skepticism from state lawmakers. It had support from Larimer County lawmakers from both parties. 25 Years Ago This Week • A Valentine season event, the Great Loveland Kiss-Off, was postponed due to bad weather, giving Loveland residents more time to practice for the rescheduled event. • An Arctic air mass descended on the region, dropping Loveland area temperatures to 19 below zero. • Loveland residents were asked to comment on a proposal for a new sculpture at South Shore Scenic Park at the edge of Lake Loveland. A new sculpture was being proposed to replace “Redman,” the wooden carving of an American Indian that had been at the lake edge for about a decade. • A fire in a chemical storage area at the Hewlett-Packard plant gave Loveland firefighters cause for worry, but once the fire was extinguished it appeared no chemicals had burned. 50 Years Ago This Week • The Denver architect firm of Linder, Wright and White revealed the design for the new Loveland Public Library, to be built at the site of the old library at Sixth Street and Cleveland Avenue. • “If the trend continues, it may be only a few years before the Sweetheart City’s Valentine decorations are as elaborate as those for Christmas,” the Reporter-Herald said in a story about the new red hearts with love slogans the Loveland Jaycees were hanging from light poles in the downtown area. • Mr. and Mrs. Homer Macey of Loveland were recognized as Loveland’s oldest Valentine couple. They were married Feb. 14, 1906. “The first 50 years are the hardest,” Mr. Macey joked.
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