CITY COUNCIL ELECTION INFORMATION
This is the most contentious City Council campaign season that I’ve ever observed. Some voters feel that our current Council is too far left. Others feel that Council is treading the path of righteousness, and that anyone who objects to their plans is a right wing nut job.
A lot of people are trying to help you parse through the views and feelings of our candidates. There have been two televised candidate forums and several surveys asking the candidates to describe their views. In addition, most of the candidates have websites, and all are happy to talk to potential constituents.
I’ve put together a page with links to the candidates’ websites, the candidate forums, the election guides, and the Good Government League’s endorsements: CITY COUNCIL ELECTION 2023
WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Let’s Dance @ Golden Library
10AM Wild West Short Tour
10AM Wild West Walking Tour
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
12-1PM Sustainability Town Hall (Virtual)
12-12:30PM Mondays with the Mayor (Virtual)
2-3PM Active Minds Mondays – Opera as Popular Music (Virtual)
4-5PM LEGO Build and Play @ Golden Library
6-7:30PM Book and Media Group – James Baldwin’s The Fire Next Time @ Golden Library
7-8PM Colorado Trivia League @ Morris & Mae
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
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CITY MEETING
6:30PM Downtown Development Authority @ City Hall
The DDA will discuss a request by the owners of 1100 Washington Avenue to extend their TIF agreement. The same developers own the building next door (1106 Washington) and have asked the board to approve a similar agreement for that building.
The Clayworks (CoorsTek) developers are also negotiating a TIF agreement with the DDA.
TRIVIA
7-8PM Colorado Trivia League @ Morris & Mae
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
102 Years Ago
The October 23, 1919 Colorado Transcript told a gruesome tale. Two ranch hands were riding in Coal Creek Canyon when a human skull rolled across the trail in front of them. Looking up, they spotted a headless body seated in a pine tree overhead.
The coroner was summoned. With considerable difficulty, he removed the body from the tree and brought it back to Golden. He concluded that death had been caused by suicide. There was a rope in the tree, and the man had evidently tied one end to a branch and the other around his neck, then jumped to his death. When the head eventually detached, the body dropped and caught in a fork of the tree: that’s how he came to rest in a sitting position.
Based on the state of the teeth and hair, the coroner believed the man to have been 55-60 years old. He was dressed in heavy winter clothing and gloves, so the coroner speculated that he had been in the tree since the previous winter. There was no identification, but the man was carrying a silver watch.
Within a few days, they tracked down the man’s widow in Denver. She identified her husband by his clothing and watch. She said he had been unemployed and “despondent.” He had left home to look for work on the 9th of April and had not returned.
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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