WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
9-10:30AM Community Marketing Stakeholder Committee Meeting @ Public Works and Planning Building
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10AM-12PM Weedbusters @ DeLong Park (map)
10-10:30AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation (Virtual)
10-10:55AM Chair Yoga (Virtual)
10AM, and 4PM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM, 1PM, and 4PM Wild West Short Tour
10:15-10:45AM Discovery Play @ Golden Library
10:30AM Affordable Housing Committee @ 1445 10th Street
The Affordable Housing Committee will review the 2023 legislative session and finalize their recommendations to City Council. They no longer need to plan around Golden’s 1% growth limit. House Bill 1255–which will ban local growth limits–passed the legislature and is awaiting the governor’s signature.
3PM CSM Graduate Commencement @ Lockridge Arena
5:30PM Brewmaster Dinner Series @ The Eddy
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost
6:15PM Wild Foraged Food Cooking Class @ Earth Sweet Boutique
6:30PM Economic Development Commission Meeting @ City Hall
The Fire Marshal, will present the Community Wildfire Protection Plan. Staff will describe their progress with new software (Qwally). They will report on Economic Development Communications, on which they have spent $3,750 so far this year.
See the complete calendar of events.
DISTRESSING NEWS
The Golden Civic Foundation has learned that Vicki Wagner had a terrible fall and has suffered multiple head injuries. Her daughter, Stacy, let us know that Vicki is in hospice and her outcome does not look good. The family is asking that all her dear friends in Golden send her positive thoughts and prayers. The family is not accepting phone calls at the moment but asked that cards be sent to: Vicki Wagner, P.O. Box 61, Montrose, CO 81402.
JOBS WITH THE CITY
The City has many job openings, including four full time salaried positions:
Parks & Recreation Director: $148,540 – $181,961
Director of Engagement and Communications: $101,455 – $124,282
Principal Planner: $85,594 – $102,712
Affordable Housing Policy Coordinator: $75,000 – $90,000
They also have many seasonal job openings, so if you or someone you know is looking for a summer job, check the possibilities.
LIVE MUSIC
5-8PM Shawn Eckels @ Golden Mill
5PM Jax Jordening @ Mountain Toad
5PM Lindsey Giffey @ Over Yonder
5-9PM Josh Blackburn @ Wrigley’s
5:30-8:30PM Talk Box @ Goosetown Station
6-9PM Carl DiFederico @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6PM Morsel @ New Terrain Brewing
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
I collect old postcards of Golden, and this is my latest acquisition. You know what that means: it’s time for another episode of DATE THAT PHOTO!
The goal of this game is to identify the earliest possible date and the latest possible date that the photo could have been taken.
The goal of this game is to identify landmarks appearing in (or in some cases missing from) the photo and use the known dates of those landmarks to identify the range of dates when that scene was possible. So here we go….
These buildings appear in the photo.
1 Baptist Church (built in 1863)
2 South School (1873)
3 North School (1880)
4 Catholic Church (1899)
5 CSM-RI (1912)
6 GHS/GJH/AMC (1924)
7 Central School (1936)
8 Steinhauer Field House (1937)
The youngest of those buildings was constructed in 1937, so we know the photo was taken in 1937 or later.
Next, we look for landmarks that exist today but don’t appear in the photo. This includes:
9 Highway 58 (built in 1970)
10 City Hall (built in 1962)
11 Water Treatment Plan (built in 1953)
12 Hested’s Department Store (built in 1957)
13 Post Office (1941)
The earliest of the missing landmarks is the downtown post office, which was built in 1941. This means that the photo was taken before the post office was built in 1941.
So I think the photo was taken between 1937 and 1941. If you see anything that narrows the range, let me know!
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!
