WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
10AM Wild West Walking Tour
11AM Wild West Pub Crawl
Open and Closed
Safeway and Natural Grocers will close at 6PM. King Soopers will close at 7PM. All three will be closed tomorrow.
Walgreens will be open till 10PM tonight and will be open from 9AM-6PM tomorrow.
The Community Center is open today from 8AM-4PM.
3 – 8:30PM CHRISTMAS EVE DINING @ BRIDGEWATER GRILL
Three- Course Menu – Adults $49.99
Children’s Menu Available
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View Children’s Christmas Eve Dinner Menu
Reservations Strongly Recommended
303.279.2010
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CHRISTMAS EVE CHURCH SERVICES
CALVARY EPISCOPAL
1320 Arapahoe Street
Great Hall
3PM Christmas Worship with Children’s Nativity
5PM Christmas Worship
Historic Chapel
3PM and 5PM (also livestreamed ) and 7PM – Christmas Worship
9PM Christmas Worship with additional lessons and carols
FAIRMOUNT BIBLE CHURCH
15100 W. 48th Avenue
9:30AM Worship Service
6PM Candlelight Service
FAITH LUTHERAN
17701 West 16th Avenue
4PM (also livestreamed) – Children-led Worship
7PM (also livestreamed) and 9PM – Candlelight Worship
FIRST BAPTIST
1805 Washington Avenue
9:30AM Worship Service
5:30PM Candlelight Service
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
17707 West 16th Avenue
9AM and 7PM
FAIRMOUNT BIBLE CHURCH
15100 W. 48th Avenue
9:30AM Worship Service
6PM Candlelight Service
FAITH LUTHERAN
17701 West 16th Avenue
4PM (also livestreamed) – Children-led Worship
7PM (also livestreamed) and 9PM – Candlelight Worship
FIRST BAPTIST
1805 Washington Avenue
9:30AM Worship Service
5:30PM Candlelight Service
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
17707 West 16th Avenue
9AM and 7PM
FIRST UNITED METHODIST
1500 Ford St
4:30PM Christmas Eve in the Stable (outdoor service of carols, candles, and a story of hope)
7PM Traditional Worship with chancel choir and candlelight
GOLDEN CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
17455 W. 16th Avenue
10:30AM
HILLSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH
103 North Ford Street
4:30PM
JEFFERSON UNITARIAN CHURCH
14350 W. 32nd Avenue
11AM Family Focused service
1PM Family Focused Service
5PM All Ages Contemporary Service
7:30PM Traditional Choir Service
ROCKLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH
17 S. Mt. Vernon Country Club Road
3PM and 4:30PM – Christmas Eve Candlelight Services
SAINT JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH
969 Ulysses Street
4PM and 4:10PM in CC
10PM Christmas Eve Mass
CHRISTMAS DAY CHURCH SERVICES
10AM CALVARY EPISCOPAL – 1320 Arapahoe Street
8AM and 10AM SAINT JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH – 969 Ulysses Street
LIVE MUSIC
11AM-2PM Mad Dog Blues Duo @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
12PM Santas Singing @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
8PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
162 Years Ago
This story comes from the December 28, 1859 Western Mountaineer. In it, George West describes his melancholy Christmas Eve.
He was thinking of the kind of dinner that he hadn’t seen since leaving Boston, nine months earlier–turkey and all the trimmings. He was trying to persuade himself that his recurring dinner of bacon and baked beans would be just as good, and while considering the matter, he fell asleep.
George said he dreamt of his kind neighbor, holding a snowy white cloth full of all the foods he was longing to have. A little angel appeared beside the lady of his dreams and invited him to partake.
The invitation was so exciting that he woke up. Standing beside his bed was “the little angel of our dream, who had taken the form of a little bright-eyed daughter of our friend T.P. Boyd of the Golden City House.” And lo, the angel said, “Pa and ma want to see you.”
George was staying in the Boston Company building, in today’s Parfet Park. The Boyds lived in the Golden City House, where the Golden Hotel stands today.
He hurried over the bridge to the Boyd’s house, “and upon the table of our kind neighbor we found the fulfillment of our dream, and we heartily thank friend Boyd and his estimable lady for their thoughtfulness.”
A few years later, Mr. West married Eliza, the “little bright-eyed daughter” of the Boyd family. Perhaps he associated her with relief from starvation.
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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