What’s Happening in Golden Today?
6-6:55AM Cardio Lift Interval (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
10AM-5PM Holiday Art Market @ Foothills Art Center
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop (Virtual)
The Trees are Here!
The Golden Optimists and Boy Scout Troop 329 have just received their 2022 shipment of fresh Christmas Trees from Michigan and the lot is set up in the US Bank parking lot at the corner of 19th and Jackson. Sales will begin today and tomorrow (Weds) from noon to 7 p.m., then the weekend after Thanksgiving from 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. From that point the schedule will be M-F 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., and Sat – Sun 10:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. until the trees run out.
The Optimists have been doing this fund-raiser for nearly 70 years! The November 18, 1954 Colorado Transcript reported that “The Golden Optimist Club has taken on a big project to help Santa Claus along this year. Members of the Club will select, chop and haul trees, and then sell them in down-town Golden.”
Live Music
6-9PM The Great Salmon Famine@ New Terrain Brewing
6:30PM Open Jam/Mic at Over Yonder Brewing
Golden History Moment
4 Years Ago
In November of 2018, the Golden History Museum hosted a huge crowd who watched as they opened the time capsule buried in 1968. This repeated a gathering of 50 years earlier, when a 1968 Golden crowd opened the 1918 time capsule. That one was created to celebrate the end of World War I.
The Railroad Museum hosted a Rails and Cocktails program about train wrecks.
The Golden Library held their popular STEM Girls program, and well as Extreme Science: Buzzing with Energy. The Jeffco Schools got out early one day, so the library hosted Freaky Friday, with games, crafts, and Legos. The Teens After Dark program held a Teen Video Game Night.
Frank Blaha was the Golden Beer Talks speaker, telling us about the 1918 Influenza Epidemic.
Mines Little Theater presented Neil Simon’s Rumors and She Kills Monsters by Qui Nguyen. Golden High School performed student-directed one-act plays. Miners Alley produced still another variation of A Christmas Carol.
Foothills Art Center offered a class by Jane Christie: Success with Pastels.
The Golden Urban Renewal Authority met with the Confluence Company, which proposed to build 72 apartments and a 48 room hotel on 8th Street, where the Briarwood Inn formerly stood. The GURA board explored ways to incent the developer to make some of the apartments affordable.
The Mines Symphony Orchestra and Mines Jazz Band performed in the old Golden Ford building at 19th St. and 6th Avenue.
The Great Turkey Chase took place on Thanksgiving Day. Kids doing the race chased a guy in a turkey suit. They tried to grab tail feathers in exchange for prizes.
Safeway approached the Local Licensing Authority with a request to modify their premises. Full-strength beer had been legalized for sale in grocery stores, and Safeway planned to permanently expand their “fermented malt beverage” area.
The Golden Investment Task Forum was sorting through the long list of “wants” defined in our various master plans. It was trying to prioritize them and see whether we needed an additional revenue source (in fact, a lodging tax) to satisfy our desires.
The Candlelight Walk was early that year—November 30th.
City Council held an executive session to discuss buying property “East of Ford near 10th Street” (the Coors office building and parking lots).
