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    Golden Eye Candy – Frank Hanou – Sparkling Clear Creek – enlarge

    WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?

    Spring Break Begins – see our Camps and Classes page
    8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
    10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
    10:15-10:45AM Let’s Dance @ Golden Library
    12-12:30PM Mondays with Mayor Weinberg (Virtual)
    3-5PM Tween Gaming Guild: No Thank You, Evil! ™ @ Golden Library
    6-9PM Teach Me to Play @ Golden Game Guild
    6-8PM Sunflower Painting @ Over Yonder Brewing

    SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.

    TRIVIA


    7-8PM Colorado Trivia League @ Morris & Mae

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    CITY MEETINGS


    6:30PM Downtown Development Authority Meeting @ City Hall
    Jackson Street
    They will review the City’s plans to remodel Jackson Street and other parts of east downtown. The City has scheduled an open house for the community on March 25th.

    Money
    The DDA has had a 10-year tax-sharing agreement with the City that will end in December of this year. The amount they have accued has increased each year: in 2015, DDA’s share was $68,147; in 2023, their share was $494,747.

    They plan to ask the City to extend tax-sharing beyond this year, at a lower level–ideally, enough to fund the holiday lights, power washing the sidewalks, maintenance work, and grant requests–about $125K/year.

    In the meantime, they’re sitting on a lot of money. Tonight, they will discuss how to spend it. The biggest pots are:

    DDA Capital funds – $110,000
    The funds could be used for a DDA capital project, or re-allocated if other opportunities arise (or carried over to next year).

    Contribution to City Capital Projects – $400,000
    Heart of Golden (parks upgrades and the former Coors property). $85,000 of this has been committed to the Jackson Street project and refacing the Welcome Arch, but $315,000 has not been allocated.

    Contingency – $400,000
    They have earmarked $375K to contribute to the Visitors Center’s planned remodel, but that project may not start this year.

    GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT


    A collection of confiscated stills, next to the County jail – Golden History Museum Collection

    Jefferson County was rife with illegal stills during the Prohibition years. The March 18, 1920 Jefferson County Republican featured an article entitled “AT LAST! GOLDEN IS JUST LIKE OTHER PLACES; HAS STILL.”

    Through the efforts of Sheriff Burt Jones and Deputy Gary Kerr Golden can now take place of honor with other cities about the state that can point proudly to the fact that they have men, within their corporate limits that are brave enough to defy the laws of the land as regards what a man shall or shall not make in the way of a thirst quencher.


    The still was on Eleventh Street, behind the Hotel Bella Vista.


    Monday night the two officers raided the W.S. Seeley home, just around the corner from the Bella Vista Hotel, on Eleventh street. The raid did not result in any large capture of bug juice but the works were all there and the number of callers at the place while it had been under observation attested to the fact that a good trade had been enjoyed. About a pint of the home brew was found. A quantity of mash and the coils and other things that go to make up a still were found and Seeley confessed that he had been in the business a little. The outfit was taken in tow by the officers and the facts in the case turned over to the district attorney who has not yet decided just what to do. In the mean time Seeley is allowed his freedom.

    Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!

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