WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
The Library is closed today.
10:30AM The Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum
12-12:55PM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
1-1:45PM Silver Sneakers Yoga (Virtual)
1:30PM The Friday Tour @ Colorado Railroad Museum – SOLD OUT
4PM Optimist Club Christmas Tree Sale Begins @ US Bank Parking Lot
The Golden Optimist Club is back to selling Christmas trees this year. They will begin selling Friday, November 24 and every day thereafter until they are gone. The Optimists will again be helped by Boy Scout Troop 329. Proceeds support community projects of the Optimists as well as the scout troop. Weekday hours 4-7PM, Saturday and Sunday 10AM-7PM.
7:30PM A Christmas Story – OPENS @ Miners Alley Playhouse
All the elements from the beloved motion picture are here, including the family’s temperamental exploding furnace; Scut Farkas, the school bully; the boys’ experiment with a wet tongue on a cold lamppost; the Little Orphan Annie decoder pin; Ralphie’s father winning a lamp shaped like a woman’s leg in a net stocking; Ralphie’s fantasy scenarios and more. A Christmas Story is destined to become a theatrical holiday perennial.
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THEATER MANIA!
Our friends at the Miners Alley Performing Arts Center are exploding with energy and creativity this season! I know we’ve all been wondering when the new theater (in the former Meyer Hardware building) would open. The answer is: NEXT WEEKEND.
For the remainder of the year, they have possession of both the old and the new theaters, so they will be presenting THREE plays! A Christmas Story and the children’s production, The Story of the Nutcracker, will be showing at the current theater (13th Street & Miners Alley). The Great American Trailer Park Christmas Musical opens next weekend in the new theater.
LIVE MUSIC
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
7PM Amanda V’s Material Girl & Princess and the Evolution @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
7-10PM Jon Eric Farmer @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
The Genesis of Golden’s Police Force
Golden was settled in 1859, but wasn’t incorporated until January of 1871. The governing body of the nascent town was called the Board of Trustees (rather than City Council) and the leader of that Board was the President (rather than Mayor).
The first Ordinance that this new Board approved (in January of 1871) concerned liquor licenses. A liquor license cost $50 and was good for three months. A beer license cost $25 and was likewise good for 3 months at a time.
The second Ordinance concerned loose livestock: “all hogs, shoats and pigs running at large within the Town of Golden are hereby severally declared to be nuisances, and any person being the owner of any such animals, who shall suffer the same to run or be at large or to be found at large, shall, be deemed the author of a nuisance and shall on conviction, be fined in a sum not less than two nor more than twenty dollars in each case.”
Now here’s where Golden’s law enforcement agency is created: “It is hereby made the duty of the Town Constable to take up and confine in a secure pen, pound, or other place to be by him provided for that purpose every hog, shoat or pig found running at large within said Town of Golden.” The Constable was assigned to keep the animals confined until the owner claimed them and paid a fine. If no owner claimed an animal, the Constable was to sell it and provide the money to the Town.
The Town’s third ordinance called for the Constable to arrest anyone in a state of public intoxication.
That early Board of Trustees gave much more attention to loose “hogs, shoats and pigs” than it gave to drunkenness or other crimes. We must have had quite an infestation of livestock.
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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