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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Saturday, Dec. 27th
- 10AM and 12PM - The Story of the Nutcracker - MAPAC Children's Theater
- 8AM - Saturday Morning Run and Social Walk
- 10AM-3PM - Brunch at the Rose
- 10AM-5PM - Foothills Art Center - Holiday Art Market
- 10:15-10:45AM - Family Time - Registration Required
- 2PM - Stocking Stuffers
- 5-6:30PM - Golden American Legion Dinner
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
2025 Retrospective: January
- GoldenToday posted a series of online jigsaw puzzles featuring Golden scenes.
- HPB began discussing how to balance historic preservation with property rights.
- EDComm discussed offering grants to businesses not covered by GURA or the DDA.
- The Quilt Museum hosted a program on Reclamation Alchemy, Potential and Beauty in Used Materials.
- Tom Schweich continued his series of weekly articles describing Golden's Open Spaces.
- City Council discussed a proposal by the city's merchants that Visit Golden be spun off into a separate, non-profit entity, run by the merchants.
- The Planning Commission reviewed a site plan for a low-income housing project in north Golden.
- The 34th Annual Colorado Cowboy Gathering took place at the Buffalo Rose.
Pat Klein sent a bunch of aerial photos showing the status of our various construction projects. - Golden Residents Count withdrew their petition that would have required voter approval when incurring major debt for municipal projects. City Council had already approved $52.5 in debt to build a new City Hall.
- The Public Art Commission considered designs for artistic bike racks.
Foothills Art Center offered a gallery tour of the Decomposing/Recomposing exhibition at the Astor House. - The American Legion offered a stir fry dinner.
- The DDA considered granting $950K TIF deal with Habitat for Humanity to build 40 for-purchase housing units at 817 14th Street. They also considered requests by Miners Alley for $275K and Foothills Art Center for $500K. They discussed turning the parking lot by the Astor House into a cultural plaza and/or common consumption area.
- City Council instructed the parking management company to enforce restriction in neighborhood permit zones until 7PM (instead of 5PM). They also added a new permit neighborhood--Parfet Estates.
- UllrGrass opened in Parfet Park.
The Golden Word - 12/27/25
Live Music for Saturday, Dec. 27th
- 4:30-7:30PM Jeff Goodwin @ Buffalo Rose Sky Bar Stage
More Live Music
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
6:30-8:30PM Bunny Blake @ Etta Jeanne
7-10PM Captain Insano DJ Set @ Etta Jeanne
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Let’s Have a Fire Truck
Inspection Day Cart Pull – Golden History Museum collection
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The Colorado Transcript spent years campaigning for the purchase of a fire truck. In the 19-teens, the fire department still used carts that had to be pulled by hand. Not surprisingly, the fire department was having trouble attracting enough volunteers to pull those carts. In 1917, Alderman Dollison urged council to buy a truck to replace the “man-killing cart.”
During the last past seven or eight years Golden has spread her boundaries considerably and it is very likely that these boundaries will extend still further in the next few years. Something must be done to give the people who invest their money in homes in the outlying districts adequate fire protection. It is ridiculous to even think that a number of men could get to a fire at the end of Ford street or say on the hill in time to any effective work with the present fire apparatus. A motor fire truck will give the outlying districts about 50 per cent better fire protection to say nothing of having men on the scene fresh and able to work if called upon.
Colorado Transcript – April 26, 1917
108 Years Ago
The December 27, 1917 Colorado Transcript included an article describing several recent fire alarms. Three had occurred in the previous week. Each paragraph ended with the statement “Let’s Have a Fire Truck.”
The first alarm that week was a 7AM basement fire in the W. S. Staples residence on South Arapahoe Street.
The second was a prairie fire in the vicinity of the School of Mines testing plant. “A large area was burned over, and the alarm was turned in when people near the head of Twelfth street feared the fire might spread to the powder magazine near the foot of the mountains. The fire was finally beaten out by volunteers.”
The third destroyed a barn belonging to Charles Dollison. It was believed that chicken thieves had done it, to cover their tracks. The Fire Department prevented the flames from spreading to the neighboring Rock Mill warehouse.
The campaign continued for another year. In January of 1919, a residential fire at 18th and Ford Street finally turned the tide. The building, furniture, and personal belongings of a family were destroyed, while the family escaped in their nightclothes.
Owing to the cracked fire bell and poor fire fighting equipment, it was at least a half hour before the few citizens who responded to the fire alarm could get a hose cart to the scene and get a stream of water on the blaze. By that time the entire rear of the building was ablaze and the flames were breaking out of the roof. Luckily, there was no wind blowing, and a number of frame houses near-by were saved. With a fire truck, which would have prevented a great delay in getting the fire under control, the house and most of the furniture could have been saved.
Colorado Transcript – January 9, 1919
Another article in the same issue stated that the cracked bell at the central fire station wasn’t the only problem. The bell at the Loveland station (in Goosetown) was in fine shape, but only two men responded. “These two men tried to pull the cart but became disgusted at not securing any help and quit.”
City Council approved the purchase of a fire truck at the January 16, 1919 meeting. They placed the order with the Julius Pearse Fire Dept. Supply Co. in Denver.
Weather
Overnight: Partly cloudy. Low around 41, with temperatures rising to around 45 overnight. South southwest wind around 9 mph.
Saturday: A slight chance of rain and snow after 5pm. Mostly sunny. High near 57, with temperatures falling to around 50 in the afternoon. West southwest wind 7 to 12 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Saturday Night: Rain and snow. Mostly cloudy. Low around 21, with temperatures rising to around 27 overnight. Northwest wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible.
Saturday Night: Rain And Snow, 21°F
Sunday: Light Snow, 30°F
Sunday Night: Partly Cloudy, 18°F
Monday: Sunny, 43°F
Monday Night: Mostly Clear, 25°F
Tuesday: Sunny, 51°F
Tuesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 31°F
Wednesday: Mostly Sunny, 56°F
Wednesday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 32°F
New Year's Day: Mostly Cloudy, 52°F
Thursday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 35°F
Friday: Partly Sunny, 55°F
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Buffalo Rose, Buglet Solar, Foothills Art Center, Golden Cultural Alliance, Miners Alley Performing Arts Center, The Golden Mill, Golden Chamber of Commerce, Golden History Tours, Miners Saloon, Golden Hayride Outpost, Unite Fitness, Clothilde Elingbow, Michael Mason, Goosetown Station, and Earth Sweet Boutique
Friends:
($50-99.99/month or $550/yr)
Tall Pines Painting, Baby Doe’s Clothing, Goozell Yogurt & Coffee Paul Haseman, Donna Anderson, Carol & Doug Harwood, Stephanie Painter, Greg Poulos, Ann Norton & Jonathan Storer, Mary & Don Parker, Saré Merrigan, The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, and Vic DeMaria
Supporters:
($25-49.99/month or $250/yr)
Laura King and Scott Wilson, Bobby German and Alison McNally, Forrest Jones, Barry & Liz Bettis, Cheryl & Tom Schweich, Marjorie Sloan, Chris and Joyce Davell, Rick Flint, Forrest Jones, Cynthia Merrill Tamny, Stephen Pero, Meg Van Ness & Steve Kalasz, Steve & Karla Schaefer, Bud Rockhill, Steve Enger, Kristie Brice & Mike Schwartz, The Golden Hotel, Kurt & Janet Siegfried, Ella Lyons & Jeanne Fritch, Robert Thresher, Tonie Mattox, Centennial State Wealth Advisors, and Steve & M.L. Richardson
Members:
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Brad Miller & Julie Bartos, Holly Thomas, Jim and LouAnne Dale, Ann Pattison, Thomas Hoffman, Carol Abel, Brian Quarnstrom, Sandra Curran, Bobby German and Alison McNally, Kathy Smith, Karen Smith, Carlos & Nancy Bernal, Robert Storrs, Michele Sannes, Elaine Marolla, Dixie Termin & Ron Miller, E Tom Hughes, Crystal M Culbert, Patrick A. Madison, Alice Madison & Jim Kalivas, Deb Goeldner, Christopher Ball, 6th Chair Home Services, Dot & Eric Brownson, Rosemary Coffman, Emeline Paulson, Sandy Schneider, Mark and Cathy Pattridge, Cheryl G Leidich, Jen Rutter, Frani R Bickart, Jennings and Litz, Bill Sedgeley, Nancy Hughes, Justin L Wade, Kathi Eggers, Traci Case, Donna Owen, Leslie D Lutz, Karen Oxman, Catherine Skokan, Ross Fraser & KC Gilliland, Lynne Haigh, Elizabeth Hilliard, Frank Young & Terre Deegan-Young, Kathy Hirons & Jack Markin, Jess & Anthony Monasterio, Heather Duncan, Lee Ann & Pete Horneck, Carol Cameron, Cheryl Williamson, San Daugherty, Jim Garner, John and Carol McEncroe, the Golden Welcome Center, the Golden Transcript, Koshare Eagle, Ken and Colleen Krantz, Traci Neuman Lacey, Jo Barber, Jamie Cookinham, Kermit Shields, Meridee Cecil, Vicki Olson, Colleen & Michael Ramey, Nancy & Pete Torpey, Jax Baker, Simon Maybury, Rose McLaughlin, Cameron Chambers, Joyce Gravina, Patrick Klein, Barb Robie, Richard Caldwell, Janice Waring, Sam & Marilyn Baron, Carmen Johnson, Mary Eiberger, Kevin Nichols, Ed & Carol Freza, Laura and Curtis Moore, Ruth Hund, Shelley & Jerry Devitt, Eileen Masterson, Kate Olivier, Amy Korengut, Pam Logan, Clare Shier, and Wendy Weiman
Followers:
($5-9.99/month)
Golden Community Garden, Lora Haimes, Mariane Erickson, J.J. Fraser, Mel Perkins, Bob Hamilton, Steve Stevens, Vicki Olson, Emily Kurzinski, Nanette Johnson, Peyton Gibson, Sally Berger, Kristen Morgan, Joyce Sutton, Mary Rains, Craig Champlin, Stan Swisher, Bill Way
