WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
9-10AM Keg Conditioning @ The Golden Mill
9AM-4PM Art, Artifact & Mineral Sale @ Mines Museum
10AM, 1PM, and 4PM Wild West Short Tour
9:30-11:30AM Full Walking Tour @ Dinosaur Ridge
10AM-12PM Breakfast Burritos @ The Golden Mill
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
10AM-3PM Touring the Rails (and Rides) Sunday @ CO Railroad Museum
11AM Pilates Discovery Class (free) @ Connect Physical Therapy and Pilates
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
GET A NEW JOB
The Golden Civic Foundation is looking for a new Executive Director. Salary: $50,000-$70,000
The open position has been posted on the organization’s website at www.GoldenCivicFoundation.org/Careers/. Applicants can view the job description and instructions for applying. Learn more….
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The City has the following full-time, salaried positions available:
Fire Marshal: $111,600.00 – $136,710.00
Planning Supervisor – Current Planning: $95,000.00 – $119,831.00
Fire Apparatus Engineer: $75,774.40 – $103,272.00
Police Officer – Lateral or Certified by DOH: $73,424.00 – $100,068.80
The City is hoping to put all employees on a 4 day/32 hour week work schedule, with no reduction in pay.
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Three City Council positions will appear on the ballot this fall: Mayor, District One, and District Two. Nomination petitions will be available from the City Clear beginning this Tuesday, August 8th. The petitions must be returned by 5PM on August 28th. Learn more about running for City Council.
City Councilors are paid $1,000/month and the Mayor is paid $1,500/month.
If you’ve ever grumbled about the decisions that City Council or City Staff make, this is your golden opportunity to show how you would do it!
LIVE MUSIC
11AM-2PM Haven Slay @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
2PM Maynard Mills @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
3PM Justin Bradford @ Over Yonder
3-7PM Midnight Vinyl @ Wrigley’s
4-7PM Luke Amelang @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
8PM Jason Eady @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
Today, August 6th, is the 78th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. I wondered what the Colorado Transcript had to say about that momentous event. It was probably hard to know what to say: the Manhattan Project had been conducted in such secrecy that Americans hadn’t even known we were making such a weapon.
The Transcript decided to interview Melville Coolbaugh, who was then-President of the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Coolbaugh was “convinced that these atomic bombs will not only bring a speedy termination to World War II but that these forces will prove of inestimable value to the whole human race.”
The article included a photo of Coors Porcelain Plant, which they said had been involved in the project, as well as a picture of “H. W. Ryland – Scientist, Engineer, and Manager of the Coors Porcelain Plant at Golden, manufacturing porcelain ware for scientific and commercial uses.”
The article states that “The complete story will not be released until Japan has folded up, a reign of peace has been established, and these forces shall have been converted to peaceful pursuits.”
Much of the rest of the paper focused on the upcoming “Golden Days” festival. Many of the display ads indicated wartime concerns, such as a tin can drive, a wastepaper drive, and the lack of new cars.
The tone was less tentative in the next issue of the Transcript. President Truman had dropped the second bomb on Nagasaki, the Japanese had surrendered, and the War was over. People still didn’t know much about the bomb or its long-term implications, but they knew that our troops would be coming home and that was the most important thing for the time being.
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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