What’s Happening in Golden Today?
6:30-7:15AM Dynamic Circuit (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9-11AM Community Noise Roundtable Monthly Meeting (Virtual)
10 AM and 1PM Wild West Short Tour
10 AM and 1PM Wild West Walking Tour
10:15-10:45AM Let’s Dance @ Golden Library
12-12:30PM Mondays with Mayor Weinberg (Virtual)
2-3PM Active Minds Mondays (Virtual)
3-5PM Discussion of How to Disperse the $500,000 Thriving Community Fund @ the Public Works Building (map)
In previous years, a subset of the Citizens Budget Advisory Committee has been tasked with distributing $65,000 to worthy causes such as food pantries and low income rent support. This year, they have been asked to allocate $500,000. Their recommendations will go to the City Manager and he will make the final decision. The applications are not available to the public and today’s meeting has not been posted on the City website.
4-4:30PM Kids Martial Arts Class (Virtual)
6:30PM GURA Board Meeting @ City Hall
The Golden Urban Renewal Authority will discuss their 2022 and 2023 work plans. Staff will update them on several infrastructure projects. Last year they discussed installing a crosswalk at Johnson Road and US 6. Tonight’s meeting memo says staff is suggesting that the engineering hold off “to see if this project is a priority in the GURA work program.” The Planning Department has received a resubmitted site plan for 17200 W. Colfax (map). The 17270 W. Colfax (map) project has requested rezoning from C-1 to PUD so they can reduce the required amount of commercial use. They hope to build a boarding house, multi-family residential, and a restaurant on that property.
6:30PM Golden Anti-Racism Collective Policy & Policing (Virtual)
7-9PM Golden Concert Choir Spring Rehearsals Begin @ Calvary Episcopal Church (map)
Come sing with us! Golden Concert Choir holds its first rehearsal for the Spring concert on January 9, 2023, at 7 pm, at the Calvary Episcopal Church in Golden,1320 Arapahoe Street, entrance on 14th Street. We will rehearse each Monday from 7-9 pm until the spring concert on the first Saturday in May. New singers are very welcome; please arrive at 6:30 pm to allow time for a brief voice placement with the director.
Golden History Moment
86 Years Ago
The January 9, 1936 Colorado Transcript announced that the Colorado National Guard planned to label towns so that aviators could identify them from the air. The display was also supposed to include an arrow, pointing to the nearest landing field. Mayor Jones speculated that the word “GOLDEN” would be painted on the roof of the Armory, the Opera House, or on one of the buildings on the Mines campus. Evidently the Opera House was chosen.
The Transcript‘s “Avenue Flashes” October 15, 1936 column stated that “Historic old opera house in Golden now does duty as a guide to flyers—on the roof is painted in large letters the word G O L D E N with a directing arrow.” The arrow isn’t visible in the photo above, so perhaps it appeared on the west slope of the roof.
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!
