Virtual Events
12PM Green Bag Lunch & Learn: Our Shared Water Future
Water Connects Coloradans across the Continental Divide, from the headwaters of the Colorado River, to metro Denver and beyond. Projects to move water from one river basin to another have enabled Colorado cities, industry and economic development, but not without impacts. This panel will explore transbasin diversions and collaborative work in headwaters regions to mitigate impacts and restore natural ecological functions, while also looking at what cities like Denver are doing to make imported water go further through water recycling and reuse and a “One Water” model. It will also feature the results of decades of work on the urban South Platte to renew the river as a natural amenity with recreational, environmental and economic benefits. *CEFF encourages watching the Film Collection related to the Green Bag Lunch & Learn either before or after the lunch session, but it is not required to participate.
RSVP – Sponsored by the Colorado Environmental Film Festival
10-11:30AM Virtual: Google Docs
10AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation
10AM Everything Dinosaur Talks – Hadrosaurs
10-10:55AM Awareness Through Movement
11-11:55AM HIIT & Sculpt
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop
6PM Neighborhood Meeting – Beverly Heights
Three or more members of the City of Golden City Council may be attending a virtual neighborhood meeting hosted by the Golden Police Department for neighbors in the Beverly Heights neighborhood to discuss concerns about gunshots being heard on Lookout Mountain. Council is not meeting in a formal role and no action will be taken. The agenda does not include directions for joining the meeting.
Real World Events
9AM Public Art Commission Meeting @ City Hall
The Public Art Commission will hear from a Dinosaur Ridge representative. They plan to paint dinosaurs on the wooden shed at the trailhead for the Triceratops Trail. This should attract more attention to this (really cool) trail, since it will be visible from Highway 6. The mural will be funded by a private donor. They plan to fund a film about three public art pieces at a cost of $11,500. They also plan a set of 14 temporary “tiny art” projects at a budget of $500 each. Half will be on the Clear Creek Trail and half will be in the 1100 block of Washington Avenue.
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library – WAITLIST
11AM-12:30PM Golden Community Table @ First United Methodist Church
5PM Cheese Night with Cheese Ranch @ Mountain Toad
6-7PM Ukulele Thursdays @ Golden Library
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost
6-9PM Mini Paint Night @ Golden Game Guild
7:30PM Moon Over Buffalo @ Miners Alley Playhouse
This is Industry Night. All seats are $25 or less!
Live Music
5-8PM Josh Blackburn @ Golden Mill
5-8PM Shawn Nelson @ Goosetown Station
6-9PM Deer Creek Sharpshooters @ New Terrain Brewing
6PM Open Pick Night @ Over Yonder Brewing
7PM Ryan Hutchens @ Golden Moon Speakeasy
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
Marshall Fire Fund Raiser on Sunday 3/6
On Sunday, March 6th, with help of KDVR Fox31, The Buffalo Rose will host a fundraising concert featuring five incredible Colorado bands. This benefit will raise funds for the Marshall Fire Victims of Dec 30, 2021. All proceeds from the event will go to Community Foundation Boulder County for the Marshall Fire.
Doors open at 5pm and the event will be hosted by Ashley Ryan of FOX31 News. There will be music, a raffle, sponsors and all manner of libations and entertainment. The music schedule is as follows:
5pm – Doors Open
6pm – FACE Vocal Band
7pm – The Jerseys, A Tribute to Frankie Valli & The Fours Seasons
8pm – Forever In Blue Jeans, A Tribute to Neal Diamond
9pm – The Long Run, A Tribute to The Eagles
10pm – Soul X
Golden History Moment
84 Years Ago
The Loveland Hose Company’s annual Penny Nite, which has become one of the big attractions in this section, will be held as usual at the Loveland Fire Station, Saturday night, March 5.
Colorado Transcript – March 3, 1938
For many years, the Golden Fire Department was not only staffed entirely by volunteers, they also had to raise funds to buy their firefighting equipment. Generally they did this by selling tickets to dances hosted by the firefighters.
During the Depression, the Loveland Hose Company (one of three firefighting companies) came up with the perfect fund-raiser for the times: Penny Night. At this event, everything cost 1 cent: admission, the games, sandwiches, coffee, and dances. This was an event that most community members could afford.
Merchants donated prizes, and there were so many that in 1933 they gave away a prize a minute for the duration of the event. The grand prize was a big ham.
The first Penny Night took place in 1933. It attracted approximately 500 people, and 75 couples stayed for the dance. The event was so successful that they repeated it in 1934, ’35, ’36, ’38, ’40, ’41, and ’42. Most years, the newspaper did not report on the amount collected, but the 1935 Night cleared 7500 pennies ($75).
Penny Night was so popular that they always exceeded the capacity of the Loveland Fire House (apparently they didn’t have fire codes at the time). In 1940 and again in 1941, they moved the event to the Golden Plunge Recreation Center (now the Buffalo Rose), but the prices had gone up by then. Admission to attend the dance was 11 cents for ladies and 41 cents for gentlemen.
The final Penny Night was held on April 25, 1942. They moved back to the Loveland Station that year. World War II had started by then, and the Transcript commented that pennies were now being used to buy defense stamps and war bonds, but if you have a few strays, bring them to Penny Night.
The Transcript doesn’t explain why Penny Night ended, but I would speculate that the fire department just didn’t have the manpower to run it. Many of the firefighters were probably fighting overseas. In any case, it was the perfect fund-raiser for the Depression years–a great way to raise both money and spirits in the community.
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!
