Moonrise Over Golden
Photo by Patrick Klein
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Monday, Jul. 22nd
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - National Arts and Health Day
- 7-9AM - Clear Creek Corridor Cleanup
- 9AM-12:30PM - Mobile Earth & Space Observatory
- 10:15-10:45AM - Let's Dance
- 12-12:30PM - Mondays with the Mayor
- 3-4:30PM - Golden StArt with Bonnie Campbell
- 4-6:30PM - Historic Preservation Board Open House
- 6-9PM - Teach Me to Play! Mondays
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
What’s Blooming Along Golden’s Trails (and Sidewalks)? Morning Glories!
Figure 1. Left: “Field Bindweed” — Convolvulus arvensis L. in a lawn on 5th Street. Right: “Shaggy Dwarf Morning Glory” — Evolvulus nuttallianus Roem. & Schult. — on the Welch Ditch; Inset: Flower of E. nuttallianus, scale in millimeters.
By Tom Schweich
There are some pretty, white flowers blooming along Golden’s trails right now … and along Golden’s sidewalks … and in Golden’s lawns.
It is “Field Bindweed” — Convolvulus arvensis L. — a ubiquitous weed in the Morning Glory family that Linnaeus (1753) said was found in European fields. Spreading rapidly with European culture, by 1794 it was reported in New York, and it was in Colorado when our first Flora (book of plants) was published in 1874. Today, it is found nearly world-wide, except in the very far north, such as Greenland.
Field bindweed is a terribly frustrating weed for gardeners, popping up in places where it has never been seen from a very robust root system. It has been declared a Noxious Weed by the Colorado Department of Agriculture. Our county has an information sheet on management and control at: https://www.jeffco.us/DocumentCenter/View/1305/Information-Sheet-on-Field-Bindweed-PDF
There is a bright side, though, to morning glories in Golden. We have a native morning glory called “Shaggy Dwarf Morning Glory” — Evolvulus nuttallianus Roem. & Schult. — seen occasionally in drier areas, such as along the Welch Ditch, in the Survey Field, and on South Table Mountain and Schweich Hill. It is probably also on North Table Mountain; I just have not seen it there. Look in areas of nearly bare soil for a low-growing salad plate-size silvery-hairy plant with ½-inch flowers that are light blue to purple.
Like a lot of our Colorado flora, our plant was first reported by Thomas Nuttall in 1811 on the banks of the Missouri River. Its first name was E. argenteus (meaning “silvery”), published by Frederick Pursh (1814) in his North American Flora. However, the name was previously used for a different plant and therefore an invalid name. Roemer & Schultes (1820) rectified this when they published the 16th edition of Linnaeus' Systema Vegetabilium, publishing a new name of E. nuttalianus after, of course, the name of the original collector, Thomas Nuttall.
4-6:30PM Historic Preservation Policy Study Open House #1 @ Golden Community Center
12th Street Historic District - Photo by Richard Luckin
Join City Staff and our preservation consultant at the Golden Community Center from 4pm-6:30pm to provide initial feedback regarding the future of the City's preservation policy.
The purpose of the Historic Preservation Engagement Study is to help the community define goals around preservation and identify the tools needed to accomplish those intended outcomes.
Engagement Study Goals
- Eliminate uncertainty or confusion about the purpose of historic preservation goals
- Improve meaning and content of the existing preservation ordinance
- Propose changes that clarify how preservation is best accomplished in Golden.
The City will be working with an experienced preservation consultant, Logan Simpson, to gather feedback from the community to help guide the policy study.
Upcoming Events
Save the Date!
Meetings will be held at the Golden Community Center at 1470 10th St. in Golden.
- Monday, July 22 | 4 - 6:30 p.m. -- Initial Feedback and Education Open House
- Monday, September 23 | 4 - 6:30 p.m. – Policy Alternatives Open House
Read more about the Open House
Golden Community Center
1470 10th Street (map)
3-4:30PM Golden StArt with Foothills Art Center @ The Eddy
Clear Creek by Bonnie Campbell
Golden StArt is a joint one-hour meetup program designed to bring artists in the area together with the Golden community to meet and talk about art. Come and join us for drinks and apps with artist, Bonnie Campbell.
More information
The Eddy Taproom & Hotel
1640 8th Street (map)
9AM-12:30PM Mobile Earth & Space Observatory @ The Library
Experience what it means to be a scientist! MESO, the Mobile Earth + Space Observatory, is a “science center on wheels” designed to engage you with authentic science first-hand. With sunny weather, guests to the Mobile Observatory will see the sun through solar telescopes, discover the makeup of the sun through solar spectrometry and track the sun's movements using sophisticated Sungazers.
Guests will also have a chance to explore the Mobile Observatory's on-board science activities, learn about the surface of Mars and human exploration and explore the unique vehicle's history and construction. Finally, guests can enter the Mobile Observatory's outdoor classroom to learn about Einstein's theory of general relativity and how astronomers use light to learn about distant objects by exploring hands-on science learning tools such as a gravity well, infrared camera and spectroscopy gas tubes.
6:30PM Political March for Kamala Harris @ Lions Park
Note: GoldenToday will publicize gatherings in Golden for any political party. Send the calendar info to tracy@goldentoday.com.
Let's kick off election season with a march to support Kamala Harris! Bring a sign (and an extra, if you can) and join us in Lions Park (near the rec center) at 6:30. Please invite others & help spread the word through email & social media.
Let us know if will march with us!
Lions Park
1300 10th Street (map)
Golden History: Nighthorse on the Mesa
Golden Transcript - July 22, 1982
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42 Years Ago
The July 22, 1982 Golden Transcript featured this photo of Ben Nighthorse. They were promoting a show at the Denver Museum of Natural History (now the Denver Museum of Nature and Science) called “Indian Images ’82: The Tribes of the Plains.” The Museum planned demonstrations by “Native American craftspeople [who] make flutes, do ledger drawings, carve pipes, make drums and war bonnets…beadworking and jewelry-making.”
The Golden Transcript didn’t usually promote events in Denver, so perhaps by way of excusing the exotic, far-away location, they added this: (Editor’s note: Two hundred sixteen Golden residents are members of the Denver Museum of Natural History.)
Ben Nighthorse himself came to Golden twenty-one years later, when the Golden Civic Foundation commissioned Nighthorse on the Mesa–the bronze sculpture at the intersection of South Golden and Johnson Roads. Ben Nighthorse Campbell’s face was used as the basis for that piece. By that time, he had served in the U.S. Congress for six years and in the senate for ten years.
The statue’s unveiling didn’t work out quite as anticipated. The Civic Foundation had made arrangements for Senator Nighthorse Campbell and other dignitaries to be at the site of the statue’s new home on a certain day, at a certain time. When the day arrived, the artist said the piece wasn’t quite finished. The Foundation asked him to bring it to the ceremony anyway. The dignitaries waited a couple of hours in the Taco Bell parking lot, but eventually the artist arrived, with his not-quite-finished bronze on a flatbed trailer.
The unveiling took place, speeches were made, hands were shaken, then the artist drove the piece back to his studio in Wyoming. A few weeks later, the piece was installed in the roundabout at Johnson and South Golden Roads.
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!
Weather
Overnight: Areas of smoke. Mostly clear. Low around 58, with temperatures rising to around 60 overnight. West wind around 6 mph.
Monday: Areas of smoke before 2pm, then areas of smoke and a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Sunny. High near 81, with temperatures falling to around 79 in the afternoon. North northeast wind 2 to 6 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Monday Night: Areas of smoke before midnight. Mostly clear. Low around 60, with temperatures rising to around 62 overnight. Northwest wind around 6 mph.
Monday Night: Areas Of Smoke then Mostly Clear, 60°F
Tuesday: Sunny, 87°F
Tuesday Night: Areas Of Smoke then Mostly Clear, 64°F
Wednesday: Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 91°F
Wednesday Night: Mostly Clear, 65°F
Thursday: Sunny, 93°F
Thursday Night: Partly Cloudy, 68°F
Friday: Partly Sunny then Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, 93°F
Friday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 67°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny then Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, 89°F
Saturday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 66°F
Sunday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 90°F
News Relating to Golden - July 22, 2024
Butte 100 mountain bike race sees redemption, hometown heroes, landmark achievements
By DJ Bauer
SWIX Local Sports
BUTTE, Mont. -- There's nothing quite like the Butte 100.
As the name implies, the Butte 100 is a hundred miles aboard a bicycle through some of Southwest Montana's trickiest terrain, often labeled as the single most difficult mountain bike race in the country... Read more...
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