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Holiday cheer will be at an all-time high at the Oak Creek Holly Festival on Saturday, Dec. 10, as local businesses host events and specials throughout the day that will end with the tree lighting,...
Pete Morales, 90, searches an old panoramic photo of the Mt. Harris mining town from 1942 to try to locate a house he lived in when he worked for the mine from 1955 to 1958. (Photo by Dylan Anderson) Tink Arroyo remembers in 1939 when his dad got on a bus to Denver to register for the draft ahead of World War II. When officials found out Arroyo’s dad and the other men were coal miners from the Mt. Harris mining town, they were sent back to the Yampa Valley. “They told them, ‘Your job is more important than going into the draft,’” Arroyo recalled. “All of our dads wanted to go to t...