Red Wheel, Red Barn in the History Park
Photo by Richard Luckin
What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Thursday, May. 9th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden History Tours
- All day - Spring Yard Waste Collection
- 9-10:30AM - Community Marketing Stakeholder Committee
- 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
- 11:30AM-12:30PM - Rental Registry Listening Session
- 3PM - Colorado School of Mines 2024 Graduate Spring Commencement
- 3-4:30PM - Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic
- 5:30PM - Brewmaster Dinner Series at The Eddy
- 6PM - Run Club
- 6-7:30PM - State 38 Floral Workshop
- 6-9PM - Golden Game Guild Mini Paint Night
- 6:30PM - Economic Development Commission (EdComm) Meeting
- 7:30PM - The Full Monty
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
9-10:30AM Community Marketing Stakeholders Committee
The City's Marketing Manager recently left. In light of that departure, the Marketing Stakeholders Committee will be discussing how they want to handle the marketing program in the future. The program is funded by businesses who collect sales tax in the City. The Committee will take a step back to discuss whether they directly benefit from the current program, and if not, what changes they might make to make it more effective.
The meeting takes place in City Council chambers and will be broadcast live and recorded for later viewing.
City Hall Council Chambers
911 10th Street (map)
6:30PM Economic Development Commission
The Commission will discuss providing $250 to support Bike to Work Day, which will take place on June 26th. They will also discuss a possible survey of local businesses & non-profits, designed to determine the needs of local organizations. See the meeting packet to learn more.
They have commissioned a economic contribution study, to determine how much various business segments contribute to the Golden economy. They should receive the results in mid-summer.
The meeting takes place in City Council chambers and will be broadcast live and recorded for later viewing.
City Hall Council Chambers
911 10th Street (map)
11:30AM-12:30 PM Rental Registry Listening Session
This is the last of three Rental Registry Listening Sessions being held at the Golden Community Center.
The purpose of a rental registry is to create and maintain a comprehensive list of long-term rental properties and relevant contact information of landlords, tenants, and property managers. This information would enable swift and effective communication from city staff in emergencies or for official city matters related to rental properties, and help the City gain valuable insight into the long-term rental properties, including aspects of health and safety, transit, and affordability.
Each listening session provides an opportunity for community members particularly tenants, landlords, and property managers, to learn more about and provide feedback on implementing a rental registry in Golden. More information
Golden Community Center
1470 10th Street (map)
6PM Protect Our Winters Summer Kickoff Party @ Golden Mill
Join the Protect Our Winters (POW) team for a summer kickoff featuring live music and an opportunity to hear from POW's CEO Erin Sprague about POW's plans in this important year for climate. We hope to see you there.
Golden Mill
1012 Ford Street (map)
Live Music for Thursday, May. 9th
- 7PM: Family Recipe @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
- 5-8PM: Josh Blackburn @ Golden Mill
- More Live Music
5-9PM Loose Canyon @ Wrigley’s
6PM Grind 5280 @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6-9PM Shawn Nelson Band @ Goosetown Station
6PM Jay Roemer Band @ New Terrain Brewing
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Wheeling and Dealing with the CCC
Early postcard showing Chief Hosa Lodge (map)
89 Years Ago
The May 9, 1935 Colorado Transcript proclaimed "No Work, No Water." The previous week, two representatives from the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) visited City Council to ask Golden to provide water for a new CCC camp going in at the base of Genesee Mountain.
Council responded that it was a pity that no Jefferson County men had been employed at the previous camp, at Hosa Lodge. The CCC took the hint and employed more Jefferson County men in their later projects. Golden provided water.
The CCC was–and remains–one of the most popular Roosevelt-era programs. It was designed to provide jobs for young men during a time of very high unemployment. The men were provided with food, clothing, shelter, schooling, job training, and $30/month. They were required to send $22 of that wage home to their families. The CCC left many lasting monuments throughout America.
Chief Hosa was the first camp in this area, but it was later joined by camps in Morrison, Mount Vernon Canyon, and on Lookout Mountain. The “boys” provided many valuable services: they fought fires and built roads and bridges. They laid pipe for Golden’s reservoir on Lookout Mountain and built curbs and gutters in our residential neighborhoods. They planted over a million trees in Colorado during a single year, and worked on eradicating pine beetles and grasshoppers during major infestations. They filled sandbags during floods and helped repair damage afterwards. One of their most spectacular accomplishments was building Red Rocks Amphitheater.
In 1939, the Transcript‘s George Kimball wrote the following:
While many of the Roosevelt administration’s innovations have been severely criticized…it’s mighty seldom that any partisan has the nerve to publicly find fault with the workings of the Civilian Conservation Corps. In reality, the CCC is one of the grandest things ever conceived for the good of humanity and the rising generation, as well as bringing lasting benefit to the general public. Hundreds of thousands of young men between eighteen and twenty-three years of age who might be loafing about the streets, pool rooms, accumulating wrong slants on life and drifting into mischief and petty crime, have been salvaged and are being taught how to become useful, respected citizens.
Colorado Transcript – June 8, 1939
The CCC was shut down when the United States entered World War II, as the young men were needed in the military.
This interesting website includes articles about several of the projects in this area:
Genessee Park
Colorado New Deal Sites Named National Historic Landmarks
Little Park Shelter House – Morrison CO
Bear Creek Canyon Scenic Mountain Drive – Morrison CO
To Stand for Centuries
Want to learn more about Golden's exciting history? Join us on Saturday morning for a Wagon Ride Through Golden History!
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: A slight chance of rain showers. Mostly cloudy. Low around 36, with temperatures rising to around 39 overnight. West northwest wind around 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Thursday: A chance of rain and snow showers before noon, then showers and thunderstorms likely. Cloudy, with a high near 49. North wind 0 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 18 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch possible.
Thursday Night: Showers and thunderstorms likely. Cloudy, with a low around 39. North wind 3 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
Thursday Night: Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, 39°F
Friday: Chance Rain Showers, 53°F
Friday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 41°F
Saturday: Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 63°F
Saturday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 45°F
Sunday: Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, 65°F
Sunday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 45°F
Monday: Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 70°F
Monday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 49°F
Tuesday: Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 71°F
Tuesday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 49°F
Wednesday: Slight Chance Rain Showers then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 67°F
News Relating to Golden - May 9, 2024
Coming Attractions: Miners Alley Shows ‘The Full Monty’
By Clarke Reader
Golden Transcript
Hearing the name “The Full Monty” probably conjures up a very specific set of images for most people. Namely, six men whom you wouldn’t think of as strippers doing just that. And to be honest, it’s not like the story isn’t about that... Read more...
Golden baseball wraps up 4th straight 4A Jeffco League title
By Dennis Pleuss
Colorado Preps
GOLDEN — It has become an annual tradition lately for Golden to be awarded the Class 4A Jeffco League baseball title.
The Demons officially clinched their fourth straight league title Tuesday with a 15-0 victory over Pomona in the last regular-season home game for Golden... Read more...
City of Golden Weekly Digest
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