Grateful to be in Golden
Photo by Joyce Davell
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Thursday, Nov. 28th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Thanksgiving Day Dining Specials
- 8:30AM - The Great Turkey Chase
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
Thanksgiving Treat: A Puzzle
If you're reading this as part of your morning newsletter, go to the website to work the puzzle: www.goldentoday.com/thanksgiving-treat-a-puzzle.
Pro Tips!
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Make the puzzle bigger (and easier to see as you work) by clicking the "Full Screen" button.
Happy Thanksgiving! What did you forget?
Today's Grocery Store Hours:
Safeway | 1701 Jackson Street | 303-278-1861 | Map | 6AM-6PM
King Soopers | 17171 S. Golden Road | 303-279-5458 | Map | 6AM-4PM
Natural Grocers | 2401 East St. | 303-279-2500 | map | CLOSED
Walgreens | 17222 S. Golden Rd. | 303-457-5823 | Map | CLOSED
Leadership Golden Ornaments
Leadership Golden Ornaments, 1987-2024 - enlarge
38 Years Ago
The November 25, 1986 Golden Transcript announced that the Leadership Golden Alumni Association had just released a Christmas ornament, featuring a drawing of Castle Rock by acclaimed Golden artist Hal Shelton. Sales of the ornaments helped fund the following year’s Leadership Golden class.
The fund-raiser was successful enough that they repeated it the following year–and every year since. Leadership Golden is tuition free, run entirely with volunteer labor and funded entirely by Christmas tree ornaments!
The earliest ornaments are scarcer than hen’s teeth, but you can start your collection now by purchasing the 2024 ornament (and some of the earlier ornaments) at the Golden Welcome Center, Red Wagon Gift Shop (map), or from any current class member.
10AM-2PM BGOLDN Feed Those In Need Thanksgiving Feast @ The Golden Mill
This Thanksgiving, we are creating a sense of community for everyone to enjoy great food, drinks, and football, and you're all invited!
Chef Jesus Silva is creating a Mexican feast with a unique Thanksgiving twist, featuring turkey and ham tacos del guisados, delicious sides, fresh tortillas, and more! The event is open to everyone in the community, and guests can enjoy a delicious meal for free or pay what they can. All donations and a percentage of the proceeds from alcoholic beverage sales will benefit BGOLDN, a local organization dedicated to helping those in need.
We will be open from 10am - 2pm. Feel free to come by anytime during those hours, RSVP's are not time specific.
In order to make sure we have enough for everybody, we'd love for you to RSVP and let us know if you're coming. Reservations certainly aren't necessary, but RSVP's are appreciated.
Happy Thanksgiving, and we hope to see you at The Golden Mill!
8:30AM Great American Turkey Chase @ Parfet Park
Parfet Park Photo by Richard Luckin
Join Runners Roost on Thanksgiving morning in Golden for the 11th Annual Great Turkey Chase. This turkey day fun run is a 3-mile out and back heading West along the along the Clear Creek Trail. This year, all participants will receive Golden-themed running socks from Sock Guy.
Golden History: Revisiting 2022
- The first snow of the season arrived on November 3rd.
- Council approved a new Golden Open Space Master Plan, Phase 1.
- Jefferson County Planning and Zoning held a virtual meeting to discuss the planned expansion of the clay mine at the north end of town.
- The Lions Club held a Chili Fest at Barrels & Bottles.
- CoorsTek requested a Certificate of Appropriateness describing what they planned to preserve on their Clayworks site.
- There was a lunar eclipse on November 9th.
- The Planning Department was conducting a parking study to “help the City manage its parking resources more efficiently.”
- The Mines Little Theater group presented Too Fabulous to Fail. Miners Alley Playhouse opened A Christmas Story. Their Children's Theater presented The Story of the Nutcracker.
- The Quilt Museum hosted a lecture about their current show, Stonescapes.
- The Library hosted a lecture about hydroponic gardening.
- Foothills Art Center opened their 47th Annual Holiday Art Market.
- The DDA gave an external improvement grant to Red Silo Coffee Roasters, which was moving into the former Starbucks at 13th and Washington.
- The Golden Optimists and Boy Scout Trip 329 received their shipment of Christmas trees and began their annual tree sale.
- Runners Roost hosted the 9th Annual Great Turkey Chase.
- The VFW offered a free Thanksgiving dinner for all.
- The Golden Transcript reporter held an open house, Coffee with a Reporter.
- Golden Senior Santa posted holiday gift tags so people could buy presents for area seniors.
Golden History: Full of Thanks, but Lacking in Food
Grocery shopping at the Boston Company – Advertisement from the December 21, 1859 Western Mountaineer
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According to the National Archives, Abraham Lincoln (in 1863) was the president who established the final Thursday of November to be Thanksgiving Day. The holiday had existed since George Washington’s presidency, but prior to 1863, the president was left to choose the date. Perhaps that date flexibility explains why, in 1859, Territorial Governor Steel proclaimed December 29, 1859 to be A Day of Thanksgiving.
It certainly wasn’t destined to be a foodie holiday. That was the settlers’ first winter in the area, and the diet was still heavily tilted to dried and preserved foods.
To the Governor’s proclamation, the December 21, 1859 Western Mountaineer replied
We are certainly very grateful to His Excellency for appointing Thanksgiving day, but the questions will keep forcing themselves upon us in our bachelor apartments. Where are we to get a turkey? Where the plum pudding and pumpkin pies? and O, where the cranberry sauce ? Echo answers, mockingly, cranberry sauce….
Thank you to Wendy Weiman for sponsoring Golden History Moments for the month of November.
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear. Low around 19, with temperatures rising to around 21 overnight. West wind around 8 mph.
Thanksgiving Day: Sunny. High near 39, with temperatures falling to around 32 in the afternoon. South southeast wind 5 to 8 mph.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 23. West southwest wind 5 to 9 mph.
Thursday Night: Mostly Clear, 23°F
Friday: Sunny, 47°F
Friday Night: Mostly Clear, 26°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny, 48°F
Saturday Night: Partly Cloudy, 29°F
Sunday: Sunny, 50°F
Sunday Night: Mostly Clear, 33°F
Monday: Sunny, 53°F
Monday Night: Mostly Clear, 34°F
Tuesday: Sunny, 58°F
Tuesday Night: Mostly Clear, 35°F
Wednesday: Sunny, 58°F
News About Golden - November 28, 2024
City of Golden Weekly Digest
Golden railroad museum, eyeing changes, makes second real estate buy of year
By Matthew Geiger
Denver Post
The Colorado Railroad Museum in Golden is chugging along, closing on its second real estate purchase of the year earlier this month.
The 65-year-old organization bought a single-family home on a roughly half-acre lot at 16887 W. 44th Ave., right next door to the existing museum, for $740,000, records show... Read more...
At least 7 young people in Colorado detention facilities have been hospitalized this year after overdose-related calls
By Sam Tabachnik
Denver Post
At least seven young people in Colorado youth detention centers were hospitalized following overdose-related emergency calls this year, including three teens who required life-saving naloxone at a Colorado Springs facility on the same day over the summer... Read more...
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