Castle Rock and Peak Tulip Time
Photo by Richard Luckin
What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Thursday, May. 2nd
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden History Tours
- 9AM - Public Art Commission Meeting
- 9:15-9:45AM - Baby Time
- 10AM-12PM - DeLong Park Weedbusters
- 10-10:30AM - Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation
- 10AM - Everything Dinosaur (on the Rocks) Lecture Series
- 3-4:30PM - Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic
- 4-5PM - May the Fourth (But on the Second)
- 4-11PM - Cheese Night with Cheese Ranch!
- 4:30-6PM - REDI Task Force Meeting
- 5-7:30PM - Teen Night
- 5-8PM - Yappy Hour
- 6PM - Run Club
- 6PM - Parks, Recreation and Museums Advisory Board - Workshop
- 6-7PM - Ukulele Thursdays
- 6-9PM - Golden Game Guild Mini Paint Night
- 7:30PM - The Full Monty
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
5-7:30PM Teen Night @ The Community Center
Golden Teen Nights is a program designed and operated by a group of Golden High School students with Golden Rotarians serving as helpers/advisors. Teen Nights is designed to give students an opportunity to interact with their peers in a setting outside of school. It is held the first Thursday of each month (excluding June and July), 5:00 to 7:30 pm at the Golden Community Center. Attractions include board games, swimming, pool, soft drinks, pizza, snacks, and just hanging out. Other organizations are often invited to attend and make presentations to the teens. The program is funded by a Thriving Community grant from the City of Golden. For more information, contact Tom Hughes at eth5530@cs.com.
Golden Community Center
1470 10th Street (map)
6PM Parks, Recreation, and Museums Advisory Board
The Parks board will have an off-site meeting, visiting Tony Grampsas park.
Tony Grampsas Sports Complex
4101 Salvia St (map)
4:30-6PM REDI Task Force @ Public Works Building
The Race, Ethnicity, Diversity, Inclusion Task Force will discuss "participation commitments," "Best and Brightest Intern," and the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge.
Planning and Public Works Book
1445 10th St (map)
9AM Public Art Commission
Cameron's Dragon in Parfet Park
The Public Art Commission has proposals for art installations in DeLong and New Loveland Mine Parks and the Clear Creek trail. Staff reviewed them, then passed them to the Commission members. They are not included in the meeting packet. The Commission will cull the options down to a smaller list, which will be passed on a selection committee.
The board received three letters from neighbors living near DeLong Park, asking that the neighborhood be allowed to weigh in on the piece selected. PAC members decided to ask City Council to appoint two neighbors to the selection committee, which will also include two reps from the Parks board and three reps from the Public Arts Commission.
The Commission will be working with Colorado Community Media (owners of the Golden Transcript) on a new project to make art prints available throughout the community. More info to come, but it sounds like a cool project.
Live Music for Thursday, May. 2nd
- 8PM: Asha Blaine: New Music Premier @ Buffalo Rose @ Buffalo Rose
Buffalo Rose (main venue)
- 5-8PM: Kory Montgomery @ Golden Mill @ Golden Mill
Golden Mill - More Live Music
5:30-8:30PM Teague Starbuck @ Mountain Toad
6PM Project X @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6-9PM Matthew Aitch @ Goosetown Station
6PM Bear Hat @ New Terrain Brewing
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Zeolites, Tombstones, and Paving Stones on North Table Mountain
by Donna Anderson
The top of North Table Mountain, now the North Table Mountain Open Space Park, is the site of two basalt quarries, one of which is the oldest quarry on both North and South Table Mountains.
In 1874 Arthur Lakes started collecting minerals and fossils to establish a geology museum at the Territorial School of Mines, which became Colorado School of Mines in 1876. One of his favorite places to collect minerals was on the south side of North Table Mountain, where natural holes in the lava flows, called vugs, held prized specimens of zeolite-family minerals such as analcime. He and his students opened a small quarry on the south side of North Table Mountain to collect zeolite minerals, becoming the first quarry on North Table Mountain.
In 1901, the mineral-collecting quarry became the site of one of the Whenestone/Blake quarries on North Table Mountain, operated by F.O. Blake, owner of Blake Asphalt and Paving Company. The massive basalt cliffs forming the rimrock were quarried for “monument” stones (tombstones), paving stones, and crushed rock. The biggest customer was the Denver City Tramway Company (later the Denver Tramway Co.), which had a substantial program of building roads and maintaining electrified interurban (streetcar) rail lines in the Denver-Golden area.
The Denver Tramway Company (DTC) took over operations of the south (aka Tramway) quarry in 1905. One of the difficulties of quarrying 700 feet above the Clear Creek Valley was getting the quarried stone down the hill. After some near-miss disasters with runaway wagons, the DTC installed an inclined tram in 1907 to transport rock more safely and quickly to a crushing facility in Clear Creek Valley, along the DTC 83-line that ran subparallel to 44th St. Worked on-and-off, the quarry was rejuvenated to pave West Colfax and South Golden Road in 1917. But, by 1923, the crusher and inclined tram had been abandoned, and the quarry lay dormant for decades. Fast-forwarding to 1973, a proposal to re-open the quarry tram-route fell on the deaf ears of the citizens of Jefferson County. Today, the old quarry is a site for mineral collectors (by permit from Jefferson County) and a great place to encounter rattlesnakes.
Sources:
Colorado Transcript, issues between 1901 and 1930.
Cross and Hillebrand, 1882, Zeolites in the basalt of Table Mountain, near Golden, Colorado: American Journal of Science: Article LII, v. 23, p. 452-458.
Robertson and Kenton, 2010, Denver’s street railways, volume 3, The Interurbans: Colorado Railroad Museum, 373 p.
VanderKwaak and others, Historic streetcar systems of Colorado: Report CDOT-2020-11, 440 p. https://www.codot.gov/programs/research/pdfs/2020-research-reports/historic-streetcar-systems-of-colorado-1/cdot-2020-11.pdf
Donna Anderson and Paul Haseman are still working on the book: Golden Rocks: The geology and mining history of Golden, CO. Delayed by the pandemic, it will be finished in 2021.
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear, with a low around 37. West southwest wind around 6 mph.
Thursday: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Sunny, with a high near 60. South southwest wind 5 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph.
Thursday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before 9pm. Partly cloudy. Low around 41, with temperatures rising to around 43 overnight. West southwest wind 5 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph.
Thursday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 41°F
Friday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 64°F
Friday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 39°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 64°F
Saturday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 46°F
Sunday: Partly Sunny, 75°F
Sunday Night: Slight Chance Rain Showers, 48°F
Monday: Slight Chance Rain Showers, 61°F
Monday Night: Partly Cloudy, 45°F
Tuesday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 64°F
Tuesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 42°F
Wednesday: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 63°F
News Relating to Golden - May 2, 2024
Honey bees and their habits
By Doug Skiba
Golden History Museum & Park
Observing honey bee activity at Golden History Park can be a rewarding and enriching experience when done from a respectful distance. Consider using binoculars to get an intimate and detailed perspective on bee life... Read more...
City of Golden Weekly Digest
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