Autumn Leaves
Photo by Andi Pearson
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Saturday, Oct. 11th
- All day - 11AM and 1PM Golden Cemetery Tour
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - TriceraTOTs
- All day - 11AM and 1PM Golden Cemetery Tour
- All day - Golden History Tours
- 7:45AM - New and Prospective Member Hike: Apex Trail
- 8AM-12PM - Golden Fire Department Fire Safety Day
- 8AM - Saturday Morning Run and Social Walk
- 9AM - Fall Craft Market
- 9AM-3PM - Fall Splattering
- 10AM-4PM - Art for a Cause
- 10AM-3PM - Brunch at the Rose
- 10AM-1:30PM - Collage Your Own Greeting Cards
- 10AM-3PM - Saturday Train Rides
- 10:15-10:45AM - Family Time - Registration Required
- 11AM-3PM - Hogtoberfest Open House
- 11-11:25AM - Gallery Tour - Jesse Mathes
- 12PM - Golden City Brewery ChiliFest
- 12-12:45PM - Dysbiosis and Digestive Discomfort
- 1-3PM - PAWS for Reading @ the Library
- 5:30-8PM - Goblins & Ghouls! Clay Workshop
- 5:30-8PM - Goblins & Ghouls! Clay Workshop
- 6:30-9:30PM - The Talking Dead - An Interactive Pub Crawl
- 7:30PM - Diva Royale
- 10:30PM - The Rocky Horror Picture Show
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
8AM-12PM Golden Fire Department Fire Safety Day @ Golden Fire Station #21
This free community event is open to everyone and will feature age-appropriate safety topics for kids, teens, and adults. Visitors can enjoy:
- Free fresh-popped popcorn, refreshments, and raffle prizes focused on safety
- Safety displays and demonstrations from dispatch, police, fire, EMS, burn nurses, animal shelter, wildlife officers, and this year’s exciting new addition—the Department of Fire Prevention & Control’s Home Safety Trailer
- Free professional face painting and a bouncy house for kids
This is a great opportunity to meet local first responders and community partners while learning practical tips to stay safe at home and in everyday life.
Bring your family and friends, and join us for a morning of safety, learning, and fun! More information
Location:
Golden Fire Station #21
911 10th Street (Map)
9AM-3PM Fall Splattering @ Foothills Art Center - Creative Campus
Join watercolor artist, Janet Nunn for a watercolor painting workshop focusing on fall colors using the technique of splattering paint. The paint is splattered using a needlepoint screen to create great, changing colors.
This is a great class to have fun painting in watercolors! Register
Location:
Foothills Art Center - Creative Campus
809 15th Street (Map)
10AM-4PM Art for a Cause @ First Presbyterian Church of Golden
Art for A Cause is a unique and high-quality boutique art show that is special in that the participating artists have pledged a percentage of their sales to give back to two important charities, including SparkHopeAutomotive and International Justice Mission. The Presbyterians help support the artists with some advertising cost and by providing a lovely, warm, indoor show space in the church annex. Expect to see fine art paintings and sculpture, as well as fine crafts, including woodworking, weaving, glass, jewelry and pottery. The public is invited to support our local artists and to “buy local” for your holiday needs.
For details contact Tricia Bass @ tbass.art@hotmail.com or 303-808-1770
Location:
First Presbyterian Church of Golden
17707 W. 16th Avenue (Map)
12PM Golden City Brewery ChiliFest @ Golden City Brewery
Help GCB and 12 chili chefs raise money for the local food pantry at Golden Pantry and Thrift! Winner gets beer for a year and bragging rights as best chili chef in Golden! $15 donation to the Pantry and Thrift. More information
Location:
Golden City Brewery
920 12th Street (Map)
2-9PM Harvest Fest @ The Horse Protection League
The Horse Protection League will host the second Fall Harvest Fest at historic Churches Ranch. The festival will feature live music, food and refreshments, a silent auction, plus activities and facepainting for kids.
The event is open to the public. Admission is free. Visitors will be able to tour the ranch built in 1862, which was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998. The HPL cares for 22 rescued horses, many of which are available for adoption.
Facepainting will be available free of charge from 3:30 to 5:30 p.m.
The Horse Protection League is celebrating31 years for the rescue, rehabilitation and re-homing horses, donkeys and mules. The organization is operated by volunteer wranglers, handlers and board members.
The Horse Protection League
17999 W. 60th (map)
5:30-8PM Goblins & Ghouls! Clay Workshop @ Foothills Art Center - Creative Campus
Get into the spooky Halloween spirit by getting creative in our ceramics studio! Students will be provided with a wet thrown pot, and instructor Peri Charlifu will guide the class on how to transform it into a monstrous ghoulie. We’ll talk about form and function, proportion, symmetry, asymmetry and construction. Students will make their ghouls the evening of October 11th and will decorate them the evening of October 25th, just in time for Halloween! Register
Location:
Foothills Art Center - Creative Campus
809 15th Street (Map)
The Golden Word - 10/11/25
Live Music for Saturday, Oct. 11th
5:30-8:30PM Derek Hall @ The Golden Outpost
5:30-8:30PM John McKay @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
- More Live Music
1PM Hillbilly Demons @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
4-8PM Gone2Long @ Wrigley’s
5-8PM Live Music @ Eddy Taproom
6PM K Dog and the Howlers @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
8-11PM Captain Insano DJ Patio Party @ Etta Jeanne
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: 11AM and 1PM Golden Cemetery Tours
Learn about Golden's cemetery and some of its inhabitants while enjoying spectacular fall foliage.
This is my fifth year of giving the annual cemetery tours, and as always, it's a fund-raiser for the Golden History Museum.
Golden Cemetery
755 Ulysses St (map)
Golden History: Habeus Corpus
Jefferson County Courthouse – formerly located at 15th and Washington (across from Foothills Art Center)
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On September 10, 1879, two men approached Reuben Hayward at his ranch west of Golden. They asked him to drive them to the Rooney valley. Hayward obliged, hitching his team of mules to his wagon. Sometime during that drive, Mr. Hayward disappeared. His family reported his absence and the state's newspapers tracked the case with increasing concern.
At first, they said Mr. Hayward was "missing" before moving on to "probably murdered." Still, several weeks went by with no sign of a body. The October 11, 1879 Golden Weekly Globe reported that Mr. Hayward had at last been found.
There can be no doubt of the body being that of R. B. Hayward and the way it was discovered by Jackson was accidental. He was walking to Denver and came to a little stream. He stooped down to the water to bathe his head, having the headache, when his attention was attracted by a human hand he saw sticking up under the culvert upon which the road crossed the ditch. He examined it more closely and found it to be a human being lying all cramped up and covered with mud.
Golden Weekly Globe - October 11, 1879
Mr. Hayward was last seen, along with the two men, at the Mt. Vernon toll gate (near today’s Buffalo Overlook). It was later determined that the men had killed Mr. Hayward somewhere between that point and Golden. They stuffed his body in a culvert, then stole his wagon and team.
Detectives were dispatched to track down the two suspects. The governor offered a $1,000 reward for their capture. They were found, brought to Golden, and jailed in the basement of the Jefferson County courthouse.
To be continued....
Weather
Overnight: A slight chance of rain showers before 5am. Mostly cloudy. Low around 56, with temperatures rising to around 58 overnight. West wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Saturday: A chance of rain showers before 3pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly cloudy. High near 73, with temperatures falling to around 70 in the afternoon. South wind around 6 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Saturday Night: A slight chance of rain showers before midnight. Partly cloudy. Low around 54, with temperatures rising to around 56 overnight. West southwest wind 5 to 9 mph, with gusts as high as 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Saturday Night: Slight Chance Rain Showers then Partly Cloudy, 54°F
Sunday: Sunny, 73°F
Sunday Night: Partly Cloudy, 43°F
Columbus Day: Mostly Sunny, 62°F
Monday Night: Slight Chance Rain Showers then Partly Cloudy, 45°F
Tuesday: Mostly Sunny, 69°F
Tuesday Night: Mostly Clear, 49°F
Wednesday: Sunny, 72°F
Wednesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 49°F
Thursday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Rain Showers, 71°F
Thursday Night: Partly Cloudy, 47°F
Friday: Sunny, 68°F
News About Golden - October 11, 2025
Jeff Daniels sends best wishes to Golden’s ‘Diva Royale’
By John Moore
Denver Gazette
Award-winning actor Jeff Daniels is best known for his roles in the Colorado-made film Dumb and Dumber and the lauded HBO series The Newsroom, but he has carved out an additional, full life as the founder of the non-profit Purple Rose Theatre Company in his home state of Michigan... Read more...
VEHICLE REGISTRATION ORDINANCE UPDATE
City of Golden Police Department
The City of Golden has adopted a new ordinance addressing vehicle registration violations. While these violations were previously handled at the county level, several area police agencies – including Golden – have now implemented local ordinances to manage these cases directly... Read more...
Kyle Leach named American Physical Society Fellow
By Erich Kirshner
Colorado School of Mines Newsroom
Kyle Leach, professor of physics at Colorado School of Mines, has been elected a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS). APS, the world’s second-largest organization of physicists, limits the number of newly elected Fellows each year to no more than one-half percent of its current non-student membership. Leach was recommended for the honor by his peers in the APS Division of Nuclear Physics... Read more...
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