What’s Happening in Golden Today?
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
10AM-5PM Holiday Art Market @ Foothills Art Center
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
3-4PM Building Buildings – Historic Structures of the World @ Golden Library
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop (Virtual)
Live Music
6:30PM Open Jam/Mic at Over Yonder Brewing
Weekend Plans
Friday December 30th – 7PM Soul X Dance All Night @ The Buffalo Rose
Soul X is an 8 to 11 piece variety band that has a rare combination of talent, expertise, versatility, showmanship, and fun! Our interactive high energy performance style and exceptional vocals are backed by authentic musicianship. Whether it’s current top 40, Motown, blues, 80’s country, funk, and more, Soul-X impresses with every genre. The band performs an average of over 100 events a year in Denver, across the US, and internationally, leaving audiences across the globe begging for more.
Saturday December 31st – 8PM New Year’s Eve @ Morris and Mae
Christmas is done, it’s time for NYE plans! Join us at Morris and Mae for your celebrations! Not only are we offering bottomless champagne, appetizers, DJs RYLHGHNSS and Movesayer, and balloon drop, but with ticket purchase, you receive $99 room rates at Origins Red Rocks Hotel for the night! (Normally $209)
Saturday December 31st – 6PM New Year’s Eve @ The Golden Mill
Get your party on early. Dj Drake will be here spinning the music of the decades. We will be watching the ball drop in New York City. There will be complimentary hot chocolate for the kids and champagne for the adults when the ball drops.
Golden History Moment
52 Years Ago
The December 28, 1970 Golden Transcript mentioned that the pond in “Kiwanis Park” was frozen enough to allow ice skating. “The ice is lumpy but thick, except for one end of the pond that the city has cordoned off.”
“Kiwanis Park” was later officially named “Lions Park.”
The pond was created during the winter of 1952/1953. A citizen decided that the kids needed a skating pond, so he used his tractor and dug a shallow pond in the city-owned land at the end of 10th Street. The ice skating was a hit with all ages. The following spring, people decided that the new skating pond could double as a fishing pond. Every year, the state came and stocked the pond with thousands of fish, so kids could catch them.
The pond was a pretty and popular feature of the park, but it was overrun with geese and their droppings made the park unwalkable. The pond itself was full of e-coli. In 2012, City Council reluctantly voted to fill in the skating pond.
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!
