7:30AM – Downtown Merchants Meeting at Connects Workspace .
10AM – Director’s Storytime and Craft at the Colorado Railroad Museum. Join fellow young train enthusiasts, in collaboration with the Golden Public Library, for a morning of rail stories and make-and-take crafts. Recommended ages 4-6 years old. Free for Museum Members and $2 for nonmembers with general admission. The Museum’s Executive Director, Donald Tallman, will be retiring at the end of this month. Their new Executive Director (Paul Hammond) has already started, so if you’re lucky, you’ll get to see them both today! This month’s book is that perennial favorite, Thomas the Tank Engine, by Reverend W. Awdry.
12PM – Power Lunch Lecture at NREL: Can solar power, agriculture, and beehives coexist? By Jordan Macknick, NREL Lead Energy-Water-Land Analyst
Declines in honeybee populations and an increase in the use of agricultural land for solar have led to concerns about the future of farming. Learn how a local NREL project is helping farming, raising bees, and producing solar power coexist.
Because NREL is a National Lab, you must register in advance to gain admission to the campus. You can do so with this form.
3-6PM – Under the M Farm Stand will be open. Visit their website to see what they’re offering today.
6PM – Golden Library Tuesday Night Book Group: An American Marriage by Tayari Jones
7PM – The Parks, Recreation, and Museums Advisory Board will meet tonight in City Council Chambers. They will discuss the planning process for the new DeLong Park on 23rd Street, and will consider dates for a public input meeting. They will also look for dates for a tour of Golden’s Open Space parcels. The Parks Director, Rod Tarullo, will give a report on the various projects currently underway in his department.
Wednesday Preview
7:30AM – Citizens Budget Advisory Committee
5:30PM – Chamber Ribbon Cutting – Epoque Luxury Senior Apartments
6PM – Land Stewardship Series at Jeffco Open Space – Forest Pests
6PM – The Planetary Diet at Natural Grocers
7PM – Planning Commission Meeting and Study Session
Interesting Project This Weekend
This Sunday, GoFarm will be hosting a Greenhouse Raiser on a vacant lot in the Goosetown neighborhood. They are looking for volunteers to work 3-hour shifts. They will be constructing a prefabricated geodesic dome greenhouse, in collaboration with Growing Spaces. It sounds interesting! Learn more and sign up here….
