Virtual Events
6-6:55AM Cardio Lift Interval
8-8:55AM Tai Chi
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
11-11:55AM Find Your Balance
5:30-6:30PM Step Circuit
5:30-7PM Golden Orators Toastmasters
Real World Events
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
9:15-9:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10:15-10:45AM Preschool Time @ Golden Library
11:30AM-1PM Golden Chamber’s Community Development Committee @ Golden Visitors Center
Join us this month to hear from VP of Communications at Lutheran Medical Center, Gregg Moss. This presentation will include information and an update on the changes happening at Lutheran Medical Center as their new campus is under construction at Clear Creek Crossing (near I-70 and Highway 58) and what will be in store for their legacy campus in Wheat Ridge.
You don’t want to miss this opportunity to hear from Lutheran Medical Center and the exciting changes coming to our community! This is a hybrid event, you must register in advance to receive the link if you intend to participate via Zoom. It is also offered in person at the Golden Visitors Center. Please register in advance regardless of how you plan to attend.
4-5PM Right Size Crafts @ Golden Library
6-9PM Avalanche Awareness @ Bent Gate Mountaineering
6PM Pong Night @ Coda Brewing
6:30PM Planning Commission Meeting @ City Hall
The Planning Commission will hold a public hearing at a meeting to review the sustainability standards, guidelines and menu points as a part of an application for a site development plan review for a personal warehouse complex for the property located near 1370 Catamount Drive.
Afterwards, they will have a study session to discuss a possible new licensing system for businesses that host food trucks in the City right of way. This issue came up for discussion when the City received a complaint about food trucks parked in the street across from Goosetown Station. The City then began looking at Golden City Brewery’s parking and food truck area. The proposed licensing requirement may or may not apply to GCB. The brewery owners say the area next to the brewery is their home’s parking area and has been since 1879. The City claims that the land is part of the public right of way. If the property owners are right, their food trucks are not in the public right of way, and thus are not subject to the proposed licensing requirement.
Live Music
6PM Live Music @ Miners Saloon
6:30PM Open Jam/Mic at Over Yonder Brewing
Golden History Moment
I first “met” Mayor Bert Jones in May of 2020, when I was researching the history of Golden’s cemetery. A 1939 article said that if you were looking for the Mayor, you should check the cemetery, because he was usually to be found there, working on the vast backlog of deferred maintenance. Golden had been wringing its collective hands over the unkempt state of the cemetery for half a century, when Mayor Jones decided that the best way to fix the problems would be to work on them himself. I admired his hands-on approach to civic problems.
Jones served as Golden’s Mayor from 1925-1928 and again from 1931-1939. Through most of that time he wrote a weekly column for the Transcript, detailing his thoughts about life in Golden and how it could be improved. His topics ranged from filling potholes to suggestions that laundry not be kept hanging overnight, because it might be stolen by hoboes.
94 Years Ago
“The Mayor’s Own column” of January 5, 1928 mentioned a new ordinance requiring that dogs be fenced in or tied up. He said that Golden’s police officers were “having to put up with a considerable amount of abuse from certain persons” because some residents considered the law to be an overreach of government authority.
The new law was put in place because of a recent rabies epidemic. The previous month, an 11-year-old girl had been bitten while playing with her pet dog, who turned out to have rabies. The girl eventually died from complications of the disease.
The Mayor’s response to citizens’ objections was that they’d get used to it. To illustrate that fact, he told this story:
Not so many years ago our cows roamed the streets. I can remember when a certain cow made her daily trips through our main streets, and one of her favorite pastimes was to slip the most of her front through the side door of one of our grocery stores and help herself…. I could cite you many things such as [that] that nowadays are as foreign as can be from our daily lives.
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!
