Hadrosaurs, Still Life, Weed Busters, and the Bachman Property

*Golden Eye Candy – Jen Rutter – Waning Moon Over the Front Range – enlarge*

What’s Happening in Golden Today?

7:30AM Golden Young Professionals Monthly Membership Meeting @ Golden Visitors Center
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10-10:30AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation (Virtual)

10-11:30AM Everything Dinosaur Lecture @ Dinosaur Ridge or Zoom
Lecture #10: Hadrosaurs (in-person or Zoom)

10AM Wild West Walking History Tour
10AM, 1PM, and 4PM Wild West Short Tour
10-10:55AM Chair Yoga (Virtual)

3-6PM Still Life – Oil Painting @ Foothills Art Center

6-9PM Squeakeasy @ Foothills Animal Shelter
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost

*Preliminary Planning & Design: Lena Gulch Project – enlarge*

7PM Parks, Recreation and Museums Advisory Board Meeting @ City Hall
The PRAM board will meet with representatives of the “Weed Busters”–the group of volunteers who worked very hard last summer to weed DeLong Park to make it a pesticide/herbicide-free park. They will consider their naming policy for future parks. They will begin discussing design goals for the Bachman property and its use as future parkland.

Live Music

5-8PM Aimless Wave / Stephen Horvath @ Goosetown Station
5:30-8:30PM Lindsey Giffey @ Over Yonder

6-9PM Johnny O @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6PM Kevin Daniel & The Bottom Line @ New Terrain Brewing
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge

Golden History Moment

*Clear Creek (when it was wider and shallower) and the City’s pumping plant – Dan Abbott Collection – enlarge*

90 Years Ago
The March 16, 1933 Colorado Transcript reported that workmen digging in Clear Creek near the pumping plant had struck gold. The City was digging a sump pit under the Creek to be used for water storage. They had reached a depth of twelve feet when they noticed “sizable” gold nuggets in the gravel they were extracting.

City Marshal Gary Kerr…, a veteran miner, estimates that the gravel will pay more than a dollar a yard in gold….

Old time placer miners declare that, in their belief, the gold placer field in the bed of Clear creek has been merely scratched in the operations of years gone by, and that with depth substantial values may be found. As the new gold strike is on city property and in immediate proximity to the city pumping plant, it is extremely doubtful if any mining rights may be acquired there.

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!