Virtual Events
6-6:55AM Cycling
10AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation
10-10:55AM Awareness Through Movement
11-11:55AM HIIT & Sculpt
Real World Events
7:30AM Golden Young Professionals Monthly Membership Meeting @ Golden Visitors Center
8-10AM Weeding Event @ DeLong Park (map)
Golden Parks and Recreation is using DeLong Park as a pilot project for the City’s first organic park location. This means that they will be using only natural, organic products for all plants and grasses. No synthetic chemicals will be used in our maintenance practices. A group of weed-busting volunteers meets weekly at DeLong Park on Thursday mornings from 8 to 10 a.m. to weed out invasive species. Interested community members can join the group on Thursday mornings.
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
11AM-12:30PM Golden Community Table @ First United Methodist Church
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost
6-9PM Mini Paint Night @ Golden Game Guild
7PM Parks, Recreation and Museums Advisory Board Meeting @ City Hall
Steve Glueck has been making the rounds of boards, commissions, and other stakeholder groups to discuss how the city should support its cultural organizations, using part of the new lodging tax. The Parks board will give their views on the topic tonight. A brief discussion last month indicated that they wanted to be sure the history museum, which is within their purview, would be eligible for the new funds even though it is already funded by the city. They also expressed concern about centralizing the funding decision for culturals. They wanted the funding to be accessible to various groups.
The City is starting the budget process for 2023/2024 and they are asking the boards to make their budget requests. This board is likely to request funding to continue work on the Golden Open Space master plan and continued ethnographic studies by the history museum. Staff would like to start planning the Bachman property, but it is currently part of a drainage study, and they need to see how that resolves before designing a park there. The Rooney Road soccer fields need some very expensive work, but the land belongs to the County and we’re not sure that the county will extend the lease.
Live Music
5-7PM Kory Montgomery @ Golden Mill
5-8PM Ryan Flores @ Goosetown Station
5PM Bruce Cole @ Wrigley’s
6-9PM Jon “Blackdog” Ridnell @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6-9PM The Jauntee @ New Terrain Brewing
6:30-8:30PM Derek Dames Oil @ Tributary Food Hall
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
Golden History Moment
153 Years Ago
In the June 16, 1869 Colorado Transcript, editor George West cited June 16, 1859 as the date of Golden’s founding.
On the 16th of June, just ten years ago today, the first meeting was held to organize a town company; it was attended by some half-a-dozen, who saw the advantages of the location, its vast water-power, and its proximity to the timber and to the mines being among its chief recommendations.
West and his party had arrived here four days earlier, and this is what he saw:
…the only signs of permanent settlement were a little patch of ground which had been plowed by Mr. D. K. Wall, and planted with vegetables, and the commencement of a rude bridge across the swollen stream, by Mr. J. M. Ferrell. The whole valley was dotted with the tents and wagons of the gold-hunters, many of whom had gone to the newly discovered “Gregory Diggings,” leaving their wagons in charge of a portion of their party. All was then uncertainty regarding the richness of the mines, many fearing they might turn out as had those upon Cherry Creek, for which we had all crossed those weary plains. No house had as yet been commenced or thought of, but two or three had made claims to the land along the creek…. Many commenced at once to get out logs in readiness for building, so soon as the survey should have been made, there then being no saw-mills erected in this vicinity.
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!
