Virtual Events
6-6:55AM Cycling
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic
10:15-10:45AM Virtual: Baby and Toddler Time
11-11:55AM HIIT & Sculpt
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga Virtual
Real World Events
8-9AM What’s Brewing Golden @ Golden Hotel
9-10:00AM Women’s Exercise and Bible Study @ First United Methodist Church
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10-11AM Story Time and Craft @ Colorado Railroad Museum
10:15-10:45AM Preschool Time @ Golden Library – WAITLIST
11AM-12:30PM Golden Community Table @ First United Methodist Church
12-2PM Planning Department Drop-In Office Hours to Discuss the CoorsTek Zoning and Redevelopment Proposal @ Public Works Building (map)
The City of Golden’s Planning Commission continued the hearing about CoorsTek’s rezoning proposal on February 23 to April 6 in order to hold additional community meetings about the specifics of the proposal. There are many ways to get involved throughout the month of March to learn more about this important project in Golden. The City’s Traffic Engineering Consultant will be available today.
1-3PM Crazy Quilt Sisters @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum
6:30-8PM 6-8th Grade Band Concert @ Bell Middle School
6:30PM City Council Regular Business Meeting @ City Hall
Tonight’s consent agenda includes an agreement with Arvada, Blackhawk, Westminster, Empire, Gilpin County, Clear Creek County, and Climax Molybdenum Company establishing the Clear Creek Watershed & Forest Health Partnership For The Collaboration And Coordination In Wildfire Risk Mitigation And Forest Health Projects Within The Clear Creek Watershed. The consent agenda also includes an agreement to pay $291,725.88 annually for custodial services in ten city buildings. Carley Lorentz will be serving as the Acting City Manager until Council hires a new Manager, so they plan to pay her an extra $2750/month while she fills in.
They will hold a series of public hearings concerning the proposed annexation of the Bobcat of the Rockies property at 501 McIntyre St (map).
Steve Glueck (the retired Planning Director) will present policies outlining how we might handle retail marijuana. Council will consider locations where the shops might be allowed. The proposed locations are concentrated in the south part of town. They will also discuss giving preference to “Social Equity Licensees,” which are people who have low incomes, have lived in a low income neighborhood, or have been arrested for marijuana offenses.
Trivia Night
6-8PM Toad Trivia Tuesdays @ Mountain Toad Brewing
6:30-8:30PM Team Trivia Tuesdays @ Buffalo Rose
6:30-8:30PM Trivia Tuesdays @ Golden Mill
7PM Trivia Night @ the Ace
7-9PM Team Trivia Night @ Tributary Food Hal
Golden History Moment
I’m celebrating 2 years of Golden History Moments by rerunning some of my favorite articles. This piece covered an era when Golden’s postal employees were packing heat.
The April 21, 1921 Colorado Transcript announced that Golden post office employees were soon to be armed.
…with a view to protecting the mail against robbery. A supply of revolvers holsters, belts and ammunition has been sent to the office, and probably will be received this week. The mail messenger will also be armed. Government employees will not be required to secure state, county or municipal permits to carry firearms while on duty. The action of the post office department is taken in view of the frequent mail robberies, and is designed to protect the mails and safeguard lives of postal employees.
This was such an unexpected story that I tried researching why the need had arisen. Deep in the heart of the U. S. postal service website, I found a list of “On This Day in Postal History” events. It said
April 9, 1921: Postmaster General Will Hays issued Order No. 5668, which armed “all essential postal employees” to combat a rash of mail robberies. Fifty thousand guns and two million rounds of ammunition were issued to railway mail clerks and other employees who handled valuable mail.
Further research showed that there was a nationwide rash of robberies underway at the time. Postal employees on trains were sometimes armed, but most robberies took place in local post offices–which is why the Postmaster General thought the clerks should be armed.
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!
