What’s Happening in Golden Today?
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
10AM Coffee with Councilors @ Golden Community Center Bear Creek South Room
Join your neighbors for Coffee with Councilors the first Saturday of the month at 10:00 a.m. at the Golden Community Center Front Porch. You can also join the meeting virtually: learn more.
Each month this year, various strategies and actions from the Strategic Action Plan, which can be found at www.guidinggolden.com/strategic-action-plan, will be covered. For January’s discussion, you’ll hear an overview of the Strategic Action Plan, including how it was developed, how it gets updated annually, and how Council and residents can use it to track the progress of different projects and initiatives. Special guest Deputy City Manager Carly Lorentz will be at the meet up.
10AM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM and 1PM Wild West Short Tour
10:15AM Family Time @ Golden Library
12-12:45PM Maintaining Muscle Mass @ Natural Grocers
1PM Wild West Pub Crawl
1-2:30PM Dungeons & Dragons for Beginners (Virtual)
1-3PM PAWS for Reading @ Golden Library
3:30-5PM Dungeons & Dragons for Advanced Players (Virtual)
5PM CSM Womens Basketball vs. New Mexico Highlands @ Lockridge Arena
7PM CSM Mens Basketball vs. New Mexico Highlands @ Lockridge Arena
Live Music
11AM-2PM Southside Mike @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
12PM Sea Stallings @ Tributary Food Hall
2PM Asha @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
5-8PM Tyler Ballantyne & Steven Huntley @ Over Yonder
7-10PM Mad Dog Blues Duo @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
7PM Dance Machine @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
7-10PM Jesh Yancey @ Morris & Mae
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Golden History Moment
80 Years Ago
The January 7, 1943 Colorado Transcript announced that Calvary Church would hold a special service the following Tuesday. John C. Vivian, native son of Golden and life-long member of Calvary Church, was being inaugurated that day as Governor of Colorado. Immediately after the church service, the Governor-elect would drive to the capitol for the inauguration ceremony.
John C. Vivian and his father, John F. Vivian, were staunch Republicans. John F. had been running the County’s Republican party for decades. John C. was born in Golden in 1889. He graduated from Golden High School in 1905 before earning a bachelor’s degree at CU Boulder and a law degree from Denver University. He served as the Golden City Attorney from 1914-1917 and the Jefferson County Attorney from 1922-1932. He was the Lieutenant Governor under Ralph Carr from 1939-1943 before his own election to Governor.
John C. and his wife lived in the Wide Acres neighborhood (near Colorado Mills Mall). There was no Governor’s Mansion at that time, so he commuted every day from Golden to his office in Denver. The State of Colorado archives say he “drove himself around in an older high mileage state-owned vehicle.” The Jefferson County archives say he commuted on the interurban street car.
The Transcript clearly had mixed feelings about Governor Vivian. On one hand they were filled with hometown pride over having a Golden-based Governor. On the other–well, he was a Republican, and they were a fiercely Democratic newspaper. Tough position!
Both Vivians are buried in the Golden Cemetery.
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!
