What’s Happening in Golden Today?
TriceraTOTs (Virtual)
9-10AM Women’s Exercise and Bible Study @ First United Methodist Church
9:15-9:45AM Baby Time @ Golden Library
10AM-5PM Holiday Art Market @ Foothills Art Center
10AM-2PM Demo Day @ Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum (map)
Learn how to make a mini drawstring bag. Drop by anytime between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. More information.
10AM and 1PM Wild West Walking Tour
10:15-10:45AM Preschool Time @ Golden Library
10AM, 1PM and 3:30PM Wild West Short Tour
4:30-5:30PM Teen Advisory Board @ Golden Library
5PM VIBE@Five @ Origin Hotel Red Rocks (map)
VIBE@FIVE is Golden’s Happy Hour! Come join other members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce for this “Very Important Business Event” – VIBE! This month’s VIBE@Five will be hosted at: Origin Hotel Red Rocks.
Help us fill the shelves at BGOLDN – Bring non-perishable food items and be entered to win a prize from the Golden Chamber of Commerce.
Wear your very best (or ugly) lookin’ holiday sweater – to celebrate the holiday season! This event is for members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce and their guests – as well as for members of the Golden Young Professionals.Stop in for a quick hello and a refreshment right after work and a chance to get to know fellow members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce and Golden Young Professionals. This is a great networking and socializing event!
6:30-7:30PM 6th Grade Band and Orchestra Winter Concert @ Bell Middle School
6:30-8:30PM Bar Bingo Night @ VFW Post 4171
7:30PM A Christmas Story @ Miners Alley Playhouse
6:30PM City Council Regular Business Meeting @ City Hall
Tonight is the last City Council meeting of the year. It’s a dense agenda, with many policy decisions. If you see a topic that might be of interest or concern to you, click through to that topic in the meeting packet.
The consent agenda includes a new agreement between the City and GURA. Robin Fleischmann will serve as GURA’s Executive Director with assistance from the Planning staff. The Finance department will continue to manage their money. The fee for these services will be a lump sum of $60,000. There is a similar agreement between the City and the DDA. In their case, Steve Glueck will serve as the Executive Director with assistance from the Planning and Finance departments. The fee for that arrangement will be $74,000. The City is hiring a law firm to register the City logo as a trademark. They are hiring a different law firm to work on telecommunications matters.
They will consider an amendment to Golden’s IGA with the Mile High Flood District for work on Lena Gulch. There will also be a proposed amendment to the IGA with the Flood District regarding work on Kenney’s Run (also called Kinney Run) from 14th Street to 16th Street. This would extend the new Coors channel south, past the Methodist Church.
They will consider a resolution that defines their 2023 Legislative Policy Statement. It includes support for adding more affordable housing and stabilizing rent; doing more economic development work to expand our employment base; decreasing our reliance on fossil fuels and reducing waste, and increasing recycling; improving equity for historically marginalized groups; cooperating with other branches of government; ensuring that city government is efficient and transparent; maintaining our home rule; control local growth and land use; maintaining and expanding our parks; funding measures that promote public health, supporting public safety including police, fire, and courts; providing services to allow seniors to remain in the community; resisting unfunded mandates; supporting legislation that would reduce the effects of TABOR; extend or broadband services; continue building streets to accommodate bikes & pedestrians as well as cars; maintain our water rights, support water quality regulations, and improve our drainage. There’s much more detail in the meeting packet.
Adopt a Public Art Framework Plan.
Adopt a fee schedule for City services.
Amend the funding arrangements with Jefferson Center, which provides drug and alcohol detox services for several cities.
Finally, they will hold a public hearing on a ordinance which would give the City Manager authority to change the City’s bonding requirements for City officers and employees.
Live Music
6PM Karaoke with Linda @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Open Pick Night @ Over Yonder Brewing
Trivia
6PM Trivia Tuesdays @ Golden Mill
6:30-8:30PM Team Trivia Tuesdays @ Buffalo Rose
Golden History Moment
51 Years ago
The December 13, 1971 Golden Transcript gave an update on one of Golden’s oldest businesses–the Golden Mill. The article reminded readers that the place had been an actual, water-powered grain mill until about 20 years earlier.
The mill once ground its own flour and feeds with power supplied by the waters of Clear Creek. The water left the creek in a ditch near the present city complex, bubbled through Parfet Park, and turned the wheels that ground the grain that fed the people–and animals–in the area.
The feed is still there, in an almost bewildering variety. So are the staples of the feed industry, hay and alfalfa.
With suburbia spreading over former pasture land, horse owners were increasingly dependent on hay and grain from the feed store–which was good news for the Golden Mill. The owners had recently built a new storage shed to store the sacks and bales of feed.
The emphasis on horses is apparent. The walls are hung with quirts and blankets. The shelves held foal-worming medicines and cans of pine tar for packing horses’ hooves. A complete line of shiny horseshoes occupies one wall.
One thing the Mill no longer carried was explosives.
Dynamite used to be a regular item on the inventory list too, but the mixing of explosives with politics changed all that. When blasting was an everyday occurrence to blow out a stump, carve a road across the face of a hill or push a mine shaft a few feet closer to riches, you could get a box at the mill over the counter. That changed a few years ago.
The Golden Mill’s last day as a feed store was March 31, 2018. After that, it began the transition to its third major incarnation. It’s now a wildly popular food hall, with a tap wall and a rooftop deck.
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!
