WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9:15-9:45AM Let’s Dance @ Golden Library
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
12-12:30PM Mondays with the Mayor (Virtual)
1PM Wild West Short Tour
2-3PM Active Minds Mondays (Virtual)
4-5PM How to Solve a Crime @ Golden Library
Calling all future detectives! Explore how crimes are solved using forensic tests like DNA, fingerprinting and more. Registration required
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
CITY MEETING
5:30PM Downtown Development Authority Meeting @ City Hall (NEW MEETING TIME)
The DDA will review a list of road, sidewalk, curb, and parking changes that the City plans to make downtown. These include widening sidewalks, replacing parking spaces with bike racks, adding some four-way stops, hiring a consultant to define the streetscape standards on Jackson Street, adding angled, back-in parking to Jackson Street. They plan to use some of the diagonal parking space on Arapahoe Street to add curb bulb-outs. The list proposed changes appears on p. 10 of the meeting packet.
They will consider a grant request from Visit Golden to contribute $9,150 to the holiday expenses. This would cover $2,500 to Stone Strategy to design new banners for the light posts and arch, $1,950 to Direct Edge to print and hang them, and $4,700 for Minx Show (Carrie Preis) to organize the Candlelight Walk and holiday parade.
In 2023, the DDA paid the $300 applications fees and $1100 installation fees to allow downtown restaurants to set up outdoor seating. The fees went to the City. The board will discuss whether to cover the fees in 2024.
They will discuss the 2024 budget. Staff is recommending that they include $400,000 to contribute to planning work for the Heart of Golden project.
They will review a TIF (Tax Incentive Financing) proposal from the new owner of the building at 11th and Washington (SE corner). According to a recent article in the Denver Business Journal, the owner is the same company that is working on the former mortuary and the former antiques store/florist shop on the other side of the street. They plan to demolish the existing single story building and replace it with a two story mixed use building–retail below and residential above.
TRIVIA
7-8PM Colorado Trivia League @ Morris & Mae
GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
156 Years Ago
The September 18, 1867 Colorado Transcript announced that on the following day (the 19th) the cornerstone would laid for the new Episcopal Church. Bishop Randall “and several clergymen of his diocease” would be there, as well as ministers of other denominations. The public was invited.
I checked the following week’s paper to see how the ceremony went and learned that it had been rescheduled to September 26th, due to inclement weather.
The October 2nd Transcript reported that the weather had been beautiful, the Bishop and all attendants happy. A “voluntary choir” of locals sang, which “not only added a charm to the exercises, but showed that we have talent that must be cultivated and encouraged.”
The church will be completed as rapidly as possible. It will be of the Gothic style, and will seat about two hundred people. We congratulate the Bishop upon the progress his is making in his good work, and shall be more than happy to chronicle the completion and dedication of the church.
It was completed a year later. Bishop Randall led the service when the church was consecrated on September 23, 1968.
Wouldn’t those parishioners be happy to know that the church not only stands, but thrives 156 years later?
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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