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Campus, Clay, Comedy, and Robberies

Golden Eye Candy – Richard Luckin – Washington Avenue Before Dawn – enlarge

What’s Happening in Golden Today?

9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10-11:30AM Everything Dinosaur (on the Rocks) Lecture Series – Paleontology 101
10-10:30AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation (Virtual)
11:30AM-1PM Library for All @ Golden Library
2-9PM Raise a Pint, Lend a Hand: The Crisis Center @ Holidaily Brewing Company
5-7PM Hunger Free Golden Community Conversation @ Golden Community Center

6-7PM Mines Community Meeting
Agenda

  1. Update on Campus Projects
  2. Updates on Campus Operations 
  3. Update on Temporary Parking at Maple Street Tennis Courts
  4. Questions/discussion

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Meeting ID: 929 3683 8986 

6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost


6PM Virtual Community Meeting – Rezoning for Mining Operations
A mining company is proposing to reopen and dramatically expand the clay mine on Golden’s northern edge. This would require rezoning, which the company is currently seeking from Jefferson County.

There will be an online public meeting about this proposed project TONIGHT. The Protect the Hogback organization hopes you will attend. For more information:

Visit ProtectTheHogback.com
Download the case documents
Download the event flyer
Plan to attend the meeting

7:30PM Preview Show: The Great American Trailer Park Musical @ Miners Alley Playhouse
You can attend a preview performance tonight or tomorrow night for only $22!

8-9PM Immoral Mic with Chet – Live Comedy @ Morris & Mae
Free Comedy Showcase!
Disclaimer: Mature material.

Produced and Hosted By: Chet Comedy

Headliner: Darius Dinkins
Featuring: Evan Davis
Josh Beaver
Terrance Dobbs
Ashley Sinclair
Austin Langley
Quentin Johnson
+ Special Guests


Live Music

5-8PM Josh Blackburn @ Golden Mill
5-8PM Teague Starbuck @ Mountain Toad

6-9PM Kevin Austin @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6PM High Country Hustle @ New Terrain Brewing
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge


Golden History Moment

Meyer Hardware on Washington Avenue, 1958 – enlarge


73 Years Ago
The January 26, 1950 Colorado Transcript described an attempted robbery at Meyer Hardware. Joe Meyer was working late one evening when he heard a knock at the back door. He assumed it was his wife, coming down from their apartment on the second floor of the building.

Joe and Ruby Meyer in 1952


He opened the door and saw two masked gunmen, who demanded that he let them in. Meyer dodged behind the paint counter, then ran to the phone and called the sheriff. The Sheriff called the Golden police, and within minutes, officers from both agencies converged on the store. The would-be robbers–two boys, aged 16 and 14–squealed away in a pickup truck. Police officers and sheriff’s deputies all over the county were alerted, and within an hour, the boys were in custody.

Downtown Golden in the mid-1940s – enlarge


It was Golden’s third robbery attempt within the past three weeks. Both Foss Drug and Kellogg Hardware had been robbed, but in both cases the criminals were quickly found and jailed.


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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