WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
6-6:55AM Cardio Lift Interval (Virtual)
7:30AM Citizens Budget Advisory Committee Meeting @ City Hall
CBAC will review debt management and long-range budgetary policies. These are important topics: the City is considering some very expensive projects (including a new City Hall) which would be funded with debt. Staff will update the committee on the City’s plans to build affordable housing and assist the unhoused population.
8:00-8:55AM Tai Chi (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
10AM and 1PM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM and 1PM Wild West Short Tour
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
11:15-11:45AM Family Time @ Golden Library
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop (Virtual)
4-5PM Grow With Kindness @ Golden Library
Help the Library’s garden grow with kindness all summer long and explore the world of gardening through hands-on gardening, fun workshops and crafts! Learn all about soil preparation, water conservation, pollination, native species and…
6-7:30PM Land Stewardship Series – Wildfire Preparedness and Mitigation @ Jeffco Open Space – CANCELED
6-7:30PM Homesteading in the West @ Golden History Museum
Lavinia Morgan Anderson is a composite character of a pioneer woman living on a ranch in Colorado in the late 1880s as she remembers how she emigrated west in a covered wagon in the 1860s as a child and grew up in Kansas before settling in Colorado with her husband after staking a claim under the Homestead Act. While Lavinia did not actually exist, her life did exist as well as that of thousands of other women who made similar journeys. This story is drawn from snippets of many diaries the women kept telling of their challenges, privations, fears and triumphs. They record the woman’s side of pioneer life. Come and learn about these adventures and more through this thrilling living history program.
6:30PM Planning Commission Meeting @ City Hall
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LIVE MUSIC
6-9PM Chris Koltak @ Miners Saloon
6-9PM Howard Dlugasch @ The Buffalo Rose
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
35 Years Ago
The April 19, 1988 Golden Transcript reported that a developer wanted to build a retail center and a Burger King at 16th and Jackson. At the time, the property included two houses and many “30- to 100-year old trees.” The property was zoned residential and required rezoning to allow commercial construction.
Residents of the neighborhood were strongly opposed, citing “traffic, commercial encroachment into their residential area, noise and air quality.” Safeway had been built eight years earlier on the adjacent property, and it had faced the same objections. This time, developers were able to point to Safeway to prove that the area was already commercial.
The Planning Commission recommended against the project. City Council approved it. Residents continued to fight, proposing that the area be turned into a park, then proposing that the City Councilors be recalled. Neither happened, and Burger King opened in November of 1988. The retail building in the same area opened the following spring, with Golden Video as its first tenant.
The fears about air quality were not unfounded. The May 9, 1989 Golden Transcript reported that “For the second time since it opened last winter. Burger King has come under fire for blowing smoke.” District 1 Councilor Matt Faykosh reported that “smoke was covering the streets around the restaurant Wednesday and Thursday of last week.” A Burger King representative responded that they were “addressing the problem by using low-fat oil and better filters.”
CORRECTION: Yesterday’s Golden History Moment, which described the conditions and mindset in Golden during World War I, contained a typo. As several of you informed me, Europe was not suffering from “family” at that time; it was suffering from “famine.”
WANTED: An editor willing to work from 2:30-3AM, seven nights a week.
NOTICE: Just kidding. You’ll have to live with my occasional typos.
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!
