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10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
10AM and 1PM Wild West Short Tour
10:15AM Family Time @ Golden Library
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Holiday Hours
Christmas Eve
Safeway open 6AM to 7:30PM
King Soopers open 6AM to 7:30PM
Natural Grocers 8:30AM to 6:06PM
Walgreens 8AM-10PM
Christmas Day
The grocery stores are all closed
Walgreens will be open 9AM-6PM
Christmas Church Services
CALVARY EPISCOPAL
1320 Arapahoe Street
Christmas Eve
3:00pm – Christmas Worship with Children’s Nativity
3:00, 5:00 (also livestreamed) and 7:00pm – Christmas Worship
9:00pm – Christmas Worship with additional lessons and carols
11:00pm – Christmas Worship with additional lessons, carols and incense
Christmas Day
10:00 am – Christmas Day Worship – Historic Chapel
FAIRMOUNT BIBLE CHURCH
15100 W. 48th Avenue
303-279-4491
Christmas Eve – 6:00 p.m.
Christmas Day – none
FAITH LUTHERAN
17701 West 16th Avenue
Christmas Eve
4:00pm (also livestreamed)– Family Service led by the children
7:00pm (also livestreamed) and 9:00pm – All services with organ, handbells and band with communion and candlelight
Christmas Day – none
FIRST BAPTIST
1805 Washington Avenue
Christmas Eve –
5:30pm – Candlelight Service
Christmas Day – 9:30am
FIRST PRESBYTERIAN
17707 West 16th Avenue
Christmas Eve – 7:00pm
Christmas Day – 9:00am
FIRST UNITED METHODIST
1500 Ford St
Christmas Eve
4:30pm – Family Christmas Eve with interactive story, carols, and candles
7:00pm – Traditional Worship with chancel choir and candlelight
Christmas Day – 10:00am
GOLDEN CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE
17455 W. 16th Avenue
Christmas Eve – 6:00 p.m.
Christmas Day – none
HILLSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH
103 North Ford Street
Christmas Eve – 4:30pm
Christmas Day – none
JEFFERSON UNITARIAN CHURCH
14350 W. 32nd Avenue
Christmas Eve
3:00 & 4:00pm – Family Focused Service
6:00 pm – All Ages Contemporary Service
8:00 pm – All Ages Choir Service
Christmas Day – online
ROCKLAND COMMUNITY CHURCH
17 S. Mt. Vernon Country Club Road
Christmas Eve
3:00, 4:30 & 6:00 & 8:00pm– Christmas Eve Candlelight Services (nursery up to age 3 provided at 3:00 and 4:30 pm)
Christmas Day – none
SAINT JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCH
969 Ulysses Street
Christmas Eve
4:00, 4:10 in CC, and 10:00pm – Christmas Eve Mass
Christmas Day – 8:00 & 10:00am
Golden History Moment
100 Years Ago
Golden had its first community Christmas tree 100 years ago, on Christmas Eve, 1922. The event was organized by the Kiwanis club, the Chamber of Commerce, and the Fire Department. The tree was cut on Genessee mountain, on land belonging to one of the Kiwanis club members. They placed it at 13th and Washington, on “the Tramway grass plot, and lighted with colored lights loaned by the School of Mines.”
The community gathering began at 8:30PM, after the Christmas programs at the various churches. Carols were sung, accompanied by members of the Schools of Mines band. Santa Claus made an appearance, distributing fruit and candy to the children. Afterwards, the Kiwanis club visited the homes of “shut ins,” to sing carols to them.
After the program, the Fire Department brought their own brand of excitement to the evening with an “illuminated fire run.” They arranged to have a big bonfire lit at 9th and Washington and raced their newly-purchased fire engine through downtown, demonstrating their speed and skill by dousing the fire in record time.
The event was made more dramatic because the street lights and store lights had been turned off. The fire engine was decorated with tinsel and red, white, and blue electric lights.
In order to ensure an unobstructed path down Washington Avenue, the fire fighters had removed cars parked on the main street, pushing them off to the side streets. “Several owners of machines were surprised on coming out of the stores where they were shopping that their machines were not where they had left them.”
After the demonstration, the truck and crew returned to the Central Station (on 12th Street, next to the Astor House). There, they held an open house for members of the Chamber of Commerce and the Kiwanis Club. The assemblage consumed more than 500 donuts and 25 gallons of coffee.
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!
