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8AM Clear Creek Corridor Clean-Up – Meet @ Golden History Museum
You are invited to help City staff clean up the Creek corridor.
NEW! Due to increased use of the creek and the unfortunate amount of trash users are leaving behind, the City is now asking for volunteers on both Monday and Thursday mornings.
We will meet at 8 a.m. on the creekside patio of the Golden History Museum. Volunteers should check in at the table on the patio to sign in and receive any necessary gear and instructions for the activity. We will begin around 8:00 a.m., and volunteers may help for as long as their schedule allows.
Volunteers should wear appropriate clothing, which may include long pants, long-sleeved shirts, hats, and sturdy, closed-toe shoes. Don’t forget sunscreen, insect repellent, and a water bottle! Volunteers may bring their own work gloves and trash collection bags if they’d like. Safety vests, gloves, bags/buckets, and other needed tools will be provided.
IMPORTANT: All volunteers will be required to sign a participation waiver to join us to clean up. This is an independent volunteer activity so children must be under the direct supervision of a parent or adult guardian at all times.
If you would like to volunteer for creek clean-up on a different day or time, please email Rheana Rogers at rrogers@cityofgolden.net to coordinate. Sign up today.
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10AM-2PM Thrilling Thursdays (with Train Rides) @ CO RR Museum
10-10:30AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation (Virtual)
10-12PM DeLong Park Weed Busters @ DeLong Park
10AM and 1PM Wild West Short Tour
4PM Wild West Walking Tour
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost
6:30PM Everything Dinosaur Lecture (Virtual)
7:30PM Avenue Q: The Musical @ Miners Alley Playhouse
This laugh-out-loud musical tells the timeless story of a recent college grad named Princeton, who moves into a shabby New York apartment all the way out on Avenue Q. He soon discovers that, although the residents seem nice, it’s clear that this is not your ordinary neighborhood. More….
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
CITY MEETINGS
9-10:30AM Community Marketing Stakeholder Committee Meeting @ Public Works Building
The City’s marketing consultant will report on the winter advertising campaign and present the planned fall campaign. The Marketing Manager will report on the ongoing Tourism Economic Impact Study. This study uses cell phone data to track how much visitors spend, with particular emphasis on people who stay in Golden hotels.
6:30PM Economic Development Commission Meeting @ City Hall
EDComm staff will report on the progress of the two software packages they’re having customized. They are developing a ‘Go Bag’ for businesses in the event of a natural disaster such as a wildfire. They will report on recent retention visits, and business inquiries. They are inquiring with the School of Mines to see whether Golden employers could share a single table at the School’s upcoming career fair, to save on the cost of reserving a table.
LIVE MUSIC
5-8PM Howard Duglasch @ Golden Mill
5-9PM Bruce Cole @ Wrigley’s
5:30-8:30PM Damn Gina! @ Goosetown Station
5:30-8:30PM Teague Starbuck @ Mountain Toad
6PM Super Magick @ New Terrain Brewing
7-10PM Jake Leg @ Columbine Cafe
7PM Drums and Space (Grateful Dead and Kings of Prussia (Phish Tribute) @ Buffalo Rose
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
FRIDAY PREVIEW
My daughter and I will be giving one of our Wagon Rides through Golden History tomorrow night, starting at 6:30. We hope you can join us! Tickets are available here.
Email me if you have any questions.
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
I often use excerpts from the 1882 Birdseye Map of Golden (the brown one) to show buildings from our early days. This one is even earlier–1873!
The railroad was here by then, but you’ll notice that the School of Mines isn’t there yet. The large building on the Mines campus was the new Golden School–elementary through grade 12, all in the same building. A few years later a second school was built on the north side of the Creek, and after that they were called North School and South School. Both the North and South Schools were demolished in 1965.
Several of the buildings on the west side of Washington Avenue were there already–the Loveland Building (Old Capitol Grill), the former mortuary at 11th & Washington, the Everett Building (now Goozell Yogurt), the Harrison Block (Creekside Jewelers). The Astor House appears on this map, as does Calvary Church and the Presbyterian Church (now Foothills Art Center).
Notice the mill race running parallel to the Creek on the north side. It powered two flour mills and a paper mill. The creekbed was much wider in the 1870s. Since that time, we’ve made the channel deeper and built up the land on both sides through downtown.
Enjoy the map!
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!
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