WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10-10:30AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation (Virtual)
10AM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM and 1PM Wild West Short Tour
3-4:30PM Low-Cost Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
3:30-5PM Free Legal Self-Help Clinic @ Golden Library
4-11PM Cheese Night with Cheese Ranch @ Mountain Toad
5-7:30PM Teen Night @ Golden Community Center
All Golden-area high school students are welcome to attend, and admission is free with a school ID. For more information, contact Pamela Gould at pamelatgould@yahoo.com.
5:30PM Fresh Finances: How to Start 2024 Right (Virtual)
6-7PM Ukulele Thursdays @ Golden Library
6PM Run Club @ Runners Roost
6-9PM Mini Paint Night @ Golden Game Guild
6-10PM Wax N’ Suds @ Columbine Café
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CITY MEETINGS
9AM Public Art Commission Meeting @ City Hall
The Public Art Commission will review three calls for proposals for new public art pieces. They have budgeted $75,000 for each of two neighborhood parks (DeLong Park – map and New Loveland Mine Park – map) and $75,000 for a small parcel of City Land at South Golden Road and East Street (map).
City Council has discussed creating a new board to focus on Arts & Culture. They hired a consulting firm last year to recommend the scope and composition of this new board. The current Public Arts Commission will review a memo that details their counter-proposal. They think the new board should consist of three subcommittees–one for Public Arts, one for Cultural Events, and one for Special Events. Each of these subcommittees would “act autonomously.” They recommend that the Golden Cultural Alliance assume “an advisory role.” The memo suggests that by creating this new Arts & Culture Board, the Golden Community might be in a position to get more funding from the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District.
4:30-6PM REDI Task Force Meeting @ City Hall
6PM Parks & Recreation Board Study Session @ City Hall
The Parks Board will review their accomplishments for 2023 and goals for 2024, including placing art in the parks (see the Arts Commission discussion above).
LIVE MUSIC
5-8PM Josh Blackburn@ Golden Mill
6-9PM Maya Ogea @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6PM Dave A’Bear & Friends @ New Terrain Brewing
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
84 Years Ago
The January 4, 1940 Colorado Transcript included an article about an ongoing legal dispute. The previous September, three high school boys had been hunting rabbits on North Table Mountain. They encountered Calvin Phillips, a local “hermit” (as the Transcript termed him), who shot twice at them and attempted a third shot. One of the boys was shot through the wrist and one received a bullet in the base of his spine. Phillips aimed at the third boy, but his gun failed to fire. He collected the boys’ hunting rifles and left.
Calvin Phillips was a local figure of dread. It was well-known that he had been found guilty of murdering his father-in-law in 1908, and had served time in the penitentiary. Settling afterwards on North Table Mountain, he was famous for threatening to shoot picnickers and rock-hunting geology students.
The boy with the wrist wound ran to 44th Street to flag down help. The unwounded boy carried his unconscious companion down the mountain. A passing motorist drove them to Golden, where a doctor rendered first aid and sent them to St. Anthony’s Hospital.
The Sheriff was called. He determined that the boys had not, and had never been, on Phillips’ property. Phillips was arrested and charged with assault for shooting the boy with the wrist wound. A jury found him guilty and the judge sentenced him to six months in the county jail.
The Sheriff’s Department delayed making charges regarding the boy shot near his spine. The severity of the charges would depend on whether he was permanently injured.
Investigators determined that the same bullet had injured both boys–first passing through a wrist, then lodging in the other boy’s hip. Phillips’ lawyer filed a motion that he could not be charged for the second wound. Since both were caused by the same bullet, and he had already been tried for that shot, he claimed that would be double jeopardy. The court agreed, so Phillips escaped punishment for the more severe crime.
The Transcript had particular interest in this case, because the boy who was shot through the wrist was Fleet Parsons, Jr.–the son of the Editor and step-son of the Publisher/Owner.
Doctors were never able to remove the other boy’s bullet because it was lodged too near his spine. He suffered continual pain. Three years later, while visiting at the Parsons’ house, he killed himself with a bullet through the head. He was buried in Mount Olivet Cemetery. Calvin Phillips, the man who shot him, lived until 1960 and is buried in the Golden Cemetery.
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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