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On Thursday (May 25th) from 4-6, GoFarm will celebrate the beginning of another Local Food Share season. Please join the GoFarm staff and other Local Food Share members for the GoFarm Spring Happy Hour.  The soiree will be held at Connects Workspace in the Armory Building, 1301 Arapahoe Street.

Immediately after the Happy Hour, those wild GoFarm folks will head over to Foothills Art Center for Art on Tap from 6-8.  Together, they’ll cook a new recipe inspired by a work in the Colorado Watercolor Society State Exhibit, then they’ll taste it and take home the recipe.  Golden City Brewery will be providing the beer.  Please reserve your space in advance.  This is a 21+ event and you must have a valid ID.

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Let the festivities begin!

The Halloween festivities begin in earnest today.  The Library‘s weekly DIY Lab (5:30-7:30) is focused on Halloween Creations.  They invite you to use their DIY space to help make your Halloween costume.  If you already have a costume, they’ll help you create your own battery-operated torch.  Patrons under 12 should be accompanied by a grown-up.

Golden High School is hosting their annual Trick-or-Treat Street tonight from 5:30-7.  Elementary School children are invited to this safe trick-or-treat experience in the GHS cafeteria, complete with games, candy, and fun.  701 24th St. (map)

Creepy Climbers at Earth Treks Climbing Center

Earth Treks Climbing Center is hosting a Creepy Climber Gathering tonight from 6-10.  They’ll have a costume contest, tricks and treats, WongWay Vegetarian Food Truck, free beer, and a Zombie-land photo booth.  700 Golden Ridge Road (map)

Golden City Brewery is holding their monthly Beer Class tonight from 7-10.  They’re focusing on Pumpkin Beer this month.  920 12th St. (map)

You can see the full Halloween weekend line-up at www.goldenhalloween.com.

The CSM Geology Museum is holding their Fall Mineral, Book, and Fossil sale this weekend.  Thousands of minerals, books, fossils, maps, journals, and more will be available to choose from.   The sale will be open from 9-4 Saturday and Sunday, but today they’ll have a member’s only preview from 4-6.  What better time to become a member?  For more information, call 303-273-3815.  The Museum is located at 1310 Maple Street, Golden, CO (map).

Dr. Greg Wilson from NREL will be at the Unitarian Church (map) at 7PM, discussing Sun Power Squared – How to Ramp Up Solar to Power the World.

Junk, Chili, and Feeding Your Bugs

Last night, City Council voted to approve the new 44-unit affordable housing complex at 24th and Ford.  The vote was 5-2, with councilors Gould and Behm opposing it.

Councilor Brown is hosting Coffee with a Councilor tomorrow morning from 10-11 on the 2nd floor of the Community Center.


The Beautiful Junk Sale, which supports the Jeffco Action Center, is open from 8:30-7 today and 8-4 tomorrow.  The sale takes place at the Jeffco Fairgrounds.  Admission is $4.  Bring two or more non-perishable food donations and receive $1 off of admission!  Learn more….


Golden Chamber Beer Tasting and Chili Cook-Off

The Chamber of Commerce Beer Tasting and Chili Cook-Off is tomorrow, from 1-4, on Arapahoe between 12th and 13th.  Come on down and enjoy tasting of more than 40 beers and many, many chilis made at the site. The COORS musical RV, specials in stores and restaurants, entertainment in businesses on Washington Ave. and on side streets, and the list will go on.  Presented by the Golden Chamber of Commerce & Coors Distributing. Proceeds will benefit the Golden Chamber of Commerce, its community projects, and St. Jude Children’s Hospital. Your ticket includes free samples from all the chili competitors including red, green, and white chilis. You will be voting on your favorite chili for the People’s Choice Award. The Chili & Beer ticket also includes free samples of numerous types of beers. Call 303-279-3113 for more information. It’s going to be a great day of fun, food, drinks and music. The weather should be perfect!


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Golden City Brewery is also doing a chili cookoff tomorrow!  Their 16th ANNUAL CHILIFEST goes from 12-3.  They will have several chilis to try and FOUR TYPES of chili beer!  Proceeds from their event goes to the Golden Christian Action Guild food pantry.


Earth Sweet Botanicals is having a Super End of Summer Sale today through:  20% off all summer products  in their greenhouse!

They’re also hosting a free Food Talk this afternoon (10/14) from 5:30-6:  Feed Your Bugs.  Join Cheryl Rojic, Holistic Chef & Health Coach as she discusses the benefits of healthy bugs.  Learn how fermented foods contain probiotics that help improve digestion and allow you to absorb nutrients from your food. Discover how healthy bugs help to decrease bloating, gas and digestive discomfort and improve your immune system giving you a over-all feeling of well-being. 


The moon is full tonight at 10:23.

Plan For A Big Thursday

Armory - Golden ColoradoTomorrow is the Community Needle-Free Flu Shot Day.  Stop by Connects Workspace in the Armory Building (1301 Arapahoe St.) between 11AM and 6:30PM to get your flu shot.  You’ll get to try Pharamajet’s needle-free jet injection technology, which is billed as “fast, comfortable, and easy.”  You’ll also receive a Sam’s Club Shopping Pass and a free drink at the Buffalo Rose.  $20.  Please bring your insurance card, if you have one.  Learn more and make reservations.   Walk-ins are also welcome.


Tomorrow night from 6-8, plan to visit Foothills Art Center for Art on Tap.  Enjoy  local craft beer from Golden City Brewery and an evening of trivia with Exhibitions Manager, Eriq Hochuli. Come with friends or a date and stay to test your art and general knowledge and win great local prizes!  This is free to members, $10 for non-members, $16 for couples.


Yet another Thursday option: from 6-8PM, you can attend a lecture at the Golden History Center about Central City: The Cornish, the Irish and Aunt Clara. The cost is $10 for members and $15 for non-members.

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And this is only a Tuesday!

Are you familiar with the Golden.com calendar?  It’s the single best place in Golden to find out what’s going on…in fact, it’s what I use every day to see what I should write about.  Our calendar includes business, civic, non-profit, and cultural events, all in one place.  And it’s all-Golden, all the time.  We don’t cover anything outside of Golden.  Look what’s happening, just today!

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Tuesday July 12th
AM
7 – Golden Walks: Weekly Sunrise Walk
7 – Golden Optimists Club at Windy Saddle
7:15 – Golden Rotary at Rolling Hills
9:15 and 10:15 – Story Time at the Library
11:30 – Your Medicare Options at the Library
PM
2 – Tween Coding Camp at the Library
4 – Lego Play & Build at the Library
5 – Line Dancing at the Buffalo Rose
5 – Mountain Bike Ride from Big Ring Cycles
5:30 – Paint Your Own Growler at Golden City Brewery
6 – Foothills Running Cycling Club Trail Runs
6 – Bingo at the VFW
6 – Your Medicare Options at the Library
6:30 – Golden Beer Talks: Mosquitoes, Bed Bugs and Other Blood-Sucking Monsters (featuring beer from the Golden City Brewery)
6:30 – Golden Kiwanis Club on the CSM campus
6:30 – Geeks who drink at the Buffalo Rose
6:30 – EdComm Meeting
7 – Parks & Rec Meeting
7 – Trivia at the Ace Hi

The calendar also details the exhibits going on at every museum in town.  It provides links to the meeting announcement and map links for the locations.

The calendar has a permanent place on the Golden.com home page, so check it anytime you want to know What’s Happening in Golden–today, tonight, or in the foreseeable future.

Bed Bugs & Beer

Bed Bug

This month’s Golden Beer Talk will take place this Tuesday (July 12th) at Windy Saddle Cafe.  The topic is Mosquitoes, Bed Bugs and Other Blood-Sucking Monsters, and the speaker is Dr. Robert G. Hancock, Metropolitan State University, Denver.

Blue jungle mosquitoes that feed on monkeys, swarming hoards of “swamp angel” mosquitoes in the everglades, wicked mosquitoes that transmit Zika, West Nile and other agents of disease, bedbugs, lice… believe it or not, Dr. Hancock loves them all.  He finds a special beauty in their syringe-like anatomies and marvels at the ways in which they steal blood from titanic hosts (like us) to survive and reproduce.   This Golden Beer talk will make you laugh, squirm and wonder about the amazing world of blood suckers and one man’s pursuit to get to know as many of them as he can.

This month’s beer will come from Golden City Brewery.  Learn more about the timing and the speaker at www.goldenbeertalks.org.

Preview of July Events in Golden

July 2016 Events in Golden Colorado

For more information on any of these events, please check the Golden.com calendar.

Foothills Art Center:  Fine Craft Invitational
Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum:  Australia Uncovered through 7/26; New York Beauty Quilts and Quilts of Caohagen Island opens 7/28
Buffalo Bill Museum: From Prairie to Palace
Colorado Railroad Museum: Eating on the Rails, Trains in Politics, Colorado Trains in Building Blocks
CSM Geology Museum:  Rare Earth
Miners Alley Playhouse opens July 15th

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NREL Power Lunch Lecture – The World’s Most Water Repellant Material and Beyond
Golden Community Kayak Rodeo Series – Down River Race
Downton Abbey-inspired long chain necklace
AirBnB Hosting Workshop
7
Clear Creek Jazz Quintet at the Golden Hotel
Leadership Golden Mixer at the Olde Capitol Grill
9
Homesteaders’ Day at the Clear Creek History Park
Celebrate Steam Locomotive No. 346’s birthday at the Railroad Museum
Preschool Nature Nuts: Nature’s Shapes-n-Textures
Magical History Tours: A Tribute to the Beatles at the Golden Gate Grange
“Stay Cool” Summer Foods & Skin Care at Earthsweet Botanicals
10
Ladies Day – Colorado State Patrol Track
Downton Abbey-inspired long chain necklace
Friends of Apex Trail Day
11
MOMS Club of Golden
12
Paint Your Own Growler at Golden City Brewery
Golden Beer Talks – Mosquitoes, Bed Bugs and Other Blood-Sucking Monsters
13
Courthouse Hill Walking Tour
14
Backyard Bluegrass Series at the Columbine Bar
Beer Class at Golden City Brewery
City Council accepts public comment about downtown parking
15
Opening Night for Little Shop of Horrors at Miners Alley
Denver Postcard Show at the Jeffco Fairgrounds (Fri & Sat)
16
Coffee with a Councilor – Casey Brown
Author Tom Brunner will be signing books at the Railroad Museum
Dances with Branches – Recreational Tree Climbing
17
Making Musical Notes with Heather
19
Storytime & Craft at the Railroad Museum
Sustainable Water Resources Roundtable Mtg at NREL
21
Mopar Street Party
City Council study session – the Astor House
22
Summer in Paris at Earthsweet Botanicals
The Skeleton Dolls at Windy Saddle
23
VegFest Colorado at the Jeffco Fairgrounds (23&24th)
Dinosaur Express Train at the Railroad Museum
Art Show at Pangea Coffee Roasters
24
Author Carol Ann Wilson at Windy Saddle
Model trains camp at the Railroad Museum (24th-29th…register by the 18th)
26
Golden Bike Cruise – Star Wars Theme
27
Gold Rush Walking Tour
Golden Foothills Caravan Tour
28
Buffalo Bill Days Chamber Luncheon
Buffalo Bill Days Golf Tournament
Art on Tap at Foothills Art Center
Rocky Mountain Road Exhibit opens at the Quilt Museum
29
Buffalo Bills Days Begins
The Jazz Cats at Windy Saddle
30
Buffalo Bill Days Pancake Breakfast, Parade, Wild West Show
Town Hall Meeting with State Rep Jessie Danielson
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Buffalo Bill Days Community Worship Service, Car Show, Muttin’ Bustin’, Duck Race
RMNW Juror Katherine Chang Liu Lecture and Welcome Reception – Foothills Art Center

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