11:30-12:30 ED Talks: Pikes Peak Minerals: Beyond Amazonite & Smoky Quartz -Part 1. Note–this has been moved from the Geology Museum to the Boettcher Room in the Arthur Lakes Library (map)
12-1PM Power Lunch Lecture – What’s Happening at NREL? From Institutional Memory to Institutional Planning. Registration is required. Call 303-384-6565 or e-mail education.center@nrel.gov
2:30PM Local Licensing Authority Meeting
3-6PM Under the M Farm Stand open
6-8:30PM The Shenanigans of First Ascents w/ La Sportiva’s Ben Rueck at the Mountaineering Center
6PM Mobility & Transportation Advisory Board Meeting
The Local Licensing Authority meets today at 2:30 in City Council Chambers. This is always a good place to get a sneak peak of upcoming business changes and additions. The Tributary Food Hall (map), which plans to open in early August, is applying for a liquor license. Light Rail Wine and Ale (map) is applying for a “Tastings” permit. Dirty Dogs Roadhouse (map) is requesting permission to serve alcohol in their parking lots for two “large concert events” on September 21st and September 28th. Basic Kneads Pizza (map) is moving into the former Halu Sushi building, and they have applied to transfer the liquor license from Halu Sushi to the new pizza restaurant. Louis Cafe (map) is applying for a new liquor license. Goosetown Station (map) has applied for a Tavern Liquor License. Natural Grocers (map) is applying for a Fermented Malt Beverage license. Learn more….
The Mobility and Transportation Advisory Board will meet at 6PM in City Council Chambers. They will discuss updates to their Crosswalk Manual and the new Boards and Commissions Manual. 8th Street will be redesigned to accommodate the increased traffic from the 72 apartments and 48 room hotel going in on the former Briarwood site. The board will discuss the preliminary design. They will also discuss a new crosswalk going in on Jackson Street (I’m not sure where on Jackson). See the agenda….
Follow-Up on Yesterday’s Trash Talk:
Some of my readers wondered why the city would have placed the town dump in such unarguably residential areas as 11th Street or 10th Street. The theory was that people would only bring “sanitary” waste to the dump. That meant things that weren’t going to decompose, attract rats, and produce undesirable odors. For our first 100 years, almost every house, business, and institutional building would have been burning either wood or coal all winter. Every building would have had an ash pit, where the ashes and cinders from the furnace/stove were stored until they could be hauled off to the dump. The cinders, along with branches, leftover construction materials, and other reasonably “hard” things were considered a good way to create landfill.
The creek bed used to be much wider than it is now. The ground holding the Clear Creek History Park is all landfill, as is some of the land supporting City Hall. When the City wanted to move the dump to 11th Street, it’s because they wanted to extend the high bank and make 11th Street wider.
The members of the council had considerable discussion regarding a suitable dumping ground. Previous to a decision made several weeks ago to use Eleventh Street, between Arapahoe and Cheyenne Streets as a dumping place, everything was piled east of Parfet Park. Very strenuous objection, however, on the part of the Eleventh Street residents against using their street as a general dump makes it necessary that a new location must be sought where ashes and perishables may be deposited. Dirt, cinders and clean debris will be permitted to be dumped on Eleventh street to widen out the street.
Colorado Transcript, October 10, 1929
Once again, thanks to the Golden History Museum for putting the historic Transcripts online, and thanks to the Golden Transcript for documenting life in Golden since 1866!
Wednesday Preview:
6PM Hike to Happy Hour with the Colorado Mtn Club and Mountainside Gear Rental
6PM Sustainability Board
Music at Dirty Dogs Roadhouse, Miners Saloon, Over Yonder Brewing Company, and Rock Rest Lodge
