Ground Blizzard, Leadership Golden, Vegetables, Spirits, Talking Heads (sort of) and an Even Better Map

*Golden Eye Candy – Richard Luckin – Return of the Cutthroat by Pat Madison – click to enlarge*

Local News

*There was a ground blizzard yesterday at the Visitors Center (it’s cottonwood season). Photo by Frank Hanou – click to enlarge*

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The Coors building is nearly 2-dimensional. Aerial photo by Patrick Klein – click to enlarge

Virtual Events

8:30-9:25AM Silver Sneakers Classic
10AM Mid-Morning Meditation
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga
10:15AM Preschool Time with the Library
11-11:55AM Silver Sneakers Circuit
3PM Hard Times Writing Workshop
6-7PM Qs and Brews Trivia
6-7:30PM Book Bingo – An Author Adventure
7:30AM Golden Young Professionals Monthly Membership Meeting @ Golden Visitors Center
8:30-9:30AM Golden Women in Business Book Club
11:30AM-12:30PM Golden Women in Business – Return on Membership (ROM)

Real World Events

5-6:30PM Leadership Golden Meet & Greet @ Café 13
If you want to become more involved in the Golden Community, want to help guide its future, want to contribute to the work being done by its cultural institutions, you should apply to take part in this fall’s Leadership Golden class. There’s a great opportunity this evening to talk to alumni and the current board. Stop by their meet n’ greet any time between 5 and 6:30 at Cafe 13. (A tip from a proud alumna, class of ’96.)

6PM Garden Talk @ Golden Community Garden – 7 vegetables, 6 ways to prepare and preserve them
Whether you grew it yourself, or picked up a bumper crop of your favorite summer vegetable at the farmers market or farm-share, join us for an evening of discovering new ways to prepare old favorites. Fresh from the garden zucchini salad, garlic dip, pesto cubes, dried peaches and more. For anyone looking for easy ways to spice up their summer harvest. Location – Park in the Community Center overflow lot just north of Public Works building. Lower gate to garden at west end of parking lot. Walk up the small hill and there you are! Golden Community Garden

6PM Fun Run @ Runners High
6-9PM Mini Paint Night @ Golden Game Guild

7-9PM ARTSWEEK: Artist Networking Night at the Eddy Hotel & Taproom
See the new Open Studio exhibit at the brand new Eddy Hotel & Taproom while networking with fellow artists.

7:30 Spirits with Cocktails @ Windy Saddle Cafe
We invite you to join us every Thursday evening to mix magical potions and raise some of Golden’s most notorious characters! Experience real Golden history with stories filled with wild west escapades told by the Ghosts who LIVED them! The portal between worlds is opened every Thursday evening at 7:30 PM, beginning July 1st through August 26th at The Windy Saddle Café on Washington Ave, in spooky downtown Golden, CO! Tickets are $45 and includes 2 SPIRITED Magical Potions guaranteed to raise your psychic abilities and see ghosts, face to face! 21+ Tickets On Sale Now At: www.goldenghosttour.com.

7PM Parks, Recreation and Museums Advisory Board Meeting @ City Hall
The Parks Board will hear about CoorsTek’s planned changes for their industrial buildings at 9th and Washington. They will discuss Clear Creek safety, trash management, and crowd control. They will consider the suggestion by three City Councilors that the unnamed open space at the north end of Washington Avenue be named after Tom Schweich, who pretty much discovered the place and has produced exhaustive plant catalogs of the flora therein. They will also discuss what to do with the Bachman property. Some people want extensive development, while others think it should remain open space/elk habitat.

LIVE MUSIC:
5PM Van Cru’len Bike Night @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
5PM Josh Blackburn @ Wrigley’s
5PM Bill & Jilian Nershi & Island Ohana w/Coral Creek String Band @ Goosetown Station (SOLD OUT!)
6PM Jon Ridnell @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage – outdoor patio)
6PM Mike Heuer at Golden Moon Speakeasy
6PM High Road Home @ New Terrain Brewing
6PM Open Pick Night @ Over Yonder Brewing
7PM The Wrecklunds @ Columbine Cafe
8PM HeartByrne @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge

Golden History Moment

*Yesterday’s map, showing annexations prior to 1980, and the map showing annexations through 2016, courtesy City of Golden – click to enlarge*

Yesterday, I wrote about the proliferation of parks starting in the 1980s. To illustrate the growth of the town after World War II, I provided an annexation map that showed land added through the 1970s. There was so much interest in that map that I decided to provide the rest of the story: what we added after 1980.

The big additions in the 1980s were the Mesa Meadows and Tripp Ranch neighborhoods.

In the 1990s, we annexed several business and light industry areas, including the King Soopers Shopping Center and the Coors Technology Center. The big residential district added during that decade was Canyon Point. Golden’s citizens became irritated with their government during the ’90s, and voted in two notable changes. One was a restriction on tax incentive deals, as a result of the agreement made over the King Soopers area. The other was the 1% residential growth limit. People were displeased when formerly open land was built over with houses. They thought Golden was allowing too much growth, to the detriment of our small town way of life, and they voted to limit growth to our historic rate of 1% per year.

The biggest addition in the 2000s was the City Shops/Brickyard area. The business and light industry areas at the south end of town also grew, and the Bachman property near Heritage Road was annexed.

I created these images from an annexation map that former Planning Director Steve Glueck gave me in 2016. I’m not aware of any recent annexations, but if there have been any in the last five years, they don’t appear on this map.