Golden Beer Talks happens tonight at Windy Saddle Cafe. This monthly lecture series has covered a huge range of topics, including the use of science in murder investigations, maps, political responses to drought, African Archaeology, caves, wildland fires, lasers, soul food, growing hops, how to spot fake news, injecting microbots for removing blood clots, blood-sucking insects, the Theory of Relativity, bacteria, locusts, the space program, soul food, bees, microbes, and many other obscure and interesting topics. Tonight, Frank Blaha will tell us about the 1918 Influenza Pandemic. The lecture starts at about 6:35, but people begin arriving at about 6PM to stake out a table. Almost all of the past Beer Talks have been recorded and are available on the site or as a podcast.
The Economic Development Commission (EDComm) meets tonight at 6:30 at the Public Works building, 1445 10th Street. The Golden Chamber, which is currently between presidents, is short of funding for the Olde Golden Christmas festivities. Visit Golden is going to pay for the brochures and advertising in the Golden Transcript. The City will rent extra porta-potties for the Candlelight walk. The Chamber will request that EDComm pay $1,500 for the horse-drawn carriages, which will be in the 3 Saturday morning parades and will offer free carriage rides on Saturdays and Sundays (December 1st, 2nd, 8th, 9th, 15th, and 16th). They will also discuss their recent request for proposals to replace the Golden Business News campaign with a Local Awareness Campaign, which would focus less on stores and restaurants and more (75%) on service businesses. They received only one proposal (from Goldentoday.com) and will discuss whether to accept that one or re-issue the RFP. They will also discuss their 2019 Work Plan, which will focus on Entrepreneurship and Innovation. To learn more about any of these topics, see the meeting packet….
The Parks, Recreation & Museums Board will also meet tonight, at 7PM at the Community Center. They will discuss Clear Creek Usage in the City. Topics may include use of the trail along the creek, impact to the surrounding neighborhoods, in-creek uses, the creek bank, communicating to the users, economic impacts, managing parking, and safety and law enforcement. They will also review the project descriptions that Parks has contributed to the Golden Investment Forum: Bachman Park ($3,000,000), a new history museum ($11,029,000), expanding the aquatics section in the community center ($5,500,000), improvements to Grampsas Park ($10,400,000), Lions Park improvements ($4,309,000), expanding Splash ($1,725,000), and developing DeLong Park ($780,000). See the meeting packet….
