What’s Happening in Golden Today?
6-6:55AM Cardio Lift Interval (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
10AM and 1PM Wild West Walking History Tour
10AMand 1PM Wild West Short Tour
10AM-4PM Embroidery Stitches by Hand @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
12-1PM Lunch ‘n Learn – Centura Health @ On Tap Credit Union
Is that motivation you had to get healthy on January first waning? Join our Lunch and Learn and get inspired to stay healthy all year long. Dr. Daniel Yee from Centura Health will be our guest speaker, offering his knowledge of prevention and general health. Visit our website to register.
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop (Virtual)
6PM Community Sustainability Advisory Board @ City Hall
The City has ambitious sustainability goals, including:
Renewables
To achieve 100% renewable energy for electricity by 2030 and 100% renewable for heating by 2050.
To align Greenhouse Gas Emission reductions with the Paris Accord by 2050.
Efficiency
To reduce consumption of electricity by 15% by 2030 and reduce consumption of natural gas by 15% by 2030.
To ensure that we meet these goals, the Sustainability Board and Planning Commission have been working on changes to the City’s building codes. The Board is inviting public comment on these changes during tonight’s meeting. Learn more….
6:30-7:30PM Golden Anti-Racism Collective General Meeting
7:30PM PREVIEW PERFORMANCE of The Great American Trailer Park Musical @ Miners Alley Playhouse
You can attend a preview performance tonight or tomorrow night for only $22!
Live Music
6-9PM CW Wooten @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
4-8PM Chrispy @ Mountain Toad
Golden History Moment
The January 25, 1983 Golden Transcript described an unusual discovery made by Golden police. Foss Drug had been concerned that their nighttime janitorial staff might be stealing merchandise, so they asked the police to keep an eye on the staff as they left the store. Police noticed an employee walking out carrying a paper sack. They followed him for a few blocks before stopping him on Jackson Street, near the post office. They asked to see the contents of the bag and he refused, but they looked anyway.
The bag did not contain stolen merchandise. It contained a homemade pipe bomb, “capable of ‘doing extensive structural damage.'”
Terry Evans was a 1977 graduate of the School of Mines. He had been working for a mining firm, but when the minerals market collapsed, he took a job cleaning for the drugstore. Evans said that building bombs was his hobby, and he enjoyed exploding them in remote areas. He said he had been engaged in pyrotechnics since 1965, “when he first learned that he could order explosive chemicals from Popular Science magazine.”
After discovering the bomb, police searched his apartment and found “a small arsenal of handguns, explosives and ‘how-to’ bomb books.”
Many of the items were confiscated for evidence. But Evans said they left enough black powder to allow him to build other bombs.
“They are ignorant,” he noted. “They obvious didn’t know what they were looking for.”
Evans was free on $2,000 bond, but faced up to four years in jail. I was unable to discover the results of his trial.
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!
