6-7:30PM Tonight’s lecture at the History Museum sounds interesting: A Golden Crusade: How Colorado Launched a CIA Propaganda Campaign and Helped Eisenhower Win the White House. Denver provided the launching pad for two historic developments in the 1950s. The city hosted the 1952 campaign headquarters of Dwight D. Eisenhower, paving the way for the first Republican to occupy the White House in two decades. Denver also provided the launching pad for the CIA’s Crusade for Freedom, a twenty-year advertising campaign to “sell” the Cold War by, remarkably enough, promoting the overthrow of foreign governments in Eastern Europe. Learn more and get tickets here….
6:30PM The Downtown Development Authority meetings tonight in City Council Chambers. They will consider a grant request of $2383 by the Golden Civic Foundation. The money would be used to purchase downtown banners celebrating the Civic Foundation’s contributions to Golden over the past 50 years. They will appoint representatives to work with GURA in deciding how to spend the $1.8 million Legacy Fund left from GURA’s work in the downtown area. They will approve their IGA with the City, which outlines that the DDA will pay $77,500 for City staff time, plus 0.5% of annual tax revenues received by the DDA. They will then discuss infrastructure projects that the DDA may want to fund this year. The West Downtown Plan shows a number of changes that the DDA could fund, and the Heart of Golden meetings to discuss the Clear Creek Corridor is sure to result in more. The holiday lights contract will go out for bid this year, and the DDA will be asked to nominate someone to review proposals and interview candidates.
More Monday Events:
9AM Skill Builders Meetup at the Library
10:15AM Toddler Time at the Library
11:15AM Let’s Dance at the Library
12:15PM Preschool Time at the Library
2PM Buying & Selling Online: eBay and Craigslist (waitlist)
6PM Make It Count MAGIC Monday at the Buffalo Rose
6PM Social Media: Basics at the Library
6PM Golden High School Demons Dance Team Nationals Send Off
7:30PM Nar-Anon Family Group at Calvary Episcopal (map)
Tuesday Preview:
7:30AM Golden Chamber Coffee Connections at Tributary Food Hall & Drinkery
9:15AM Baby Time at the Library
10AM Everything Dinosaur Talk: Theropods
10:15AM Toddler Time at the Library
11:15AM Toddler Time at the Library
12:30PM ED Talks: Colorado Establishes A Mining Industry
1:30PM Just Being Neighborly and Annual Chili Warm-Up
4PM Play & Build at the Library
6PM French Conversation Group at Goozell Yogurt (map)
6PM Mobility & Transportation Advisory Board Meeting
6:30PM Bingo at the VFW (map)
6:30PM The Front Porch Book Club: Endurance by Scott Kelly (map)
7PM Geeks Who Drink Trivia in the Stateroom
7PM “Dark Waters” Movie Screening at the School of Mines
