Mt. Zion in Fall
Photo by Chris Davell
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Thursday, Oct. 29th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden Sports
- All day - Golden History Tours
- 9:15-9:45AM - Baby Time - Registration Required
- 10-10:30AM - Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation
- 11AM-12PM - Library for All: Interactive Program for Adults with Disabilities
- 1:30-3PM - Everyday Artificial Intelligence
- 2:30-4:30PM - Candy Crawl and Scavenger Hunt
- 3-4:30PM - Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic
- 4-6PM - Weekly Demonstration - What do you stand for?
- 5-8PM - Tunes 'n Brews
- 5-8PM - Nightmare on Greek Street - Colorado School of Mines
- 6PM - Run Club
- 6PM - Trivia Night @ Launch
- 6-8:15PM - Quick Make Herbal Fruit Jams & Jelly with Superfoods and No Canning
- 6-8PM - Thrifted, Haunted & Hand-Painted
- 6:30-7:30PM - Trivia Night @ Scully's Cafe
- 7PM - Murder, Mayhem and Madness Tour
- 7:30PM - Good Night, Oscar
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
1:30-3PM Everyday Artificial Intelligence @ Golden Library
Curious about artificial intelligence? Learn more about this emerging technology, its limitations, and its uses with hands-on experience! Personal devices are not required. More information
Location:
Golden Library
1019 10th Street (Map)
2:30-4:30PM Candy Crawl and Scavenger Hunt @ the Courthouse
Photo by Linda Cobb
Bring your costumes and join us for some Halloween fun as the Administration and Courts Facility (100 Jefferson County Parkway in Golden) will be hosting a trick-or-treating scavenger hunt from 2:30 to 4:30 p.m.
Start with Human Resources and Wellness in the atrium, trick-or-treat through participating offices, collect one letter on each floor, solve the Candy Crawl Code Word and finish at the Haunted Bookmobile for a prize. More information
Location:
Jefferson County Administration and Court Facility
100 Jefferson County Parkway (map)
Upcoming Classes @ Earth Sweet Boutique
Tonight's Herbal Fruit Jams and Jellies class at Earth Sweet Boutique was very popular, and it is sold out. Don't miss your chance to sign up for the upcoming classes:
- Nov 5th - Custom Lip Balm Formulating
- Nov 12th - Holiday Cocktails & Mocktails with Herbal Bitters
- Online/Anytime! - Healthy Vegan & Herbal Chocolate Making Class
Location:
Earth Sweet Boutique
1224 Arapahoe St. (map)
5-8PM Nightmare on Greek Street
Colorado School of Mines Fraternity and Sorority life, Panhel and IFC, will be hosting their annual Nightmare on Greek Street on West Campus Road. All of Mines and the Golden community are invited so that family and friends have a fun and safe place to celebrate Halloween!
Location:
Colorado School of Mines
1850 West Campus Road (map)
Going, Going...
Photos by Patrick Klein - Watch the demolition proceed at https://vimeo.com/1240518347
Pat Klein got some interesting photos of the former Liquors store and Xicamiti restaurant being demolished yesterday. Watch the video here.
50 Years Ago
That building was constructed in 1976, to serve as a 7-Eleven convenience store. The address, appropriately enough, was "711 Washington Avenue."
The property will be part of the new Clayworks development.
The Golden Word - 10/29/26
Live Music for Thursday, Oct. 29th
- 5-8PM Kory Montgomery @ Golden Mill
- More Live Music
5-9PM Live Music @ Wrigley’s
6PM Alex Theole, Ettore Buzzing, and Scott Kwiatek @ New Terrain Brewing
6:30-9:30PM Violet Breeze @ Goosetown Station
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Elections and Halloween, 1936
The Transcript showing its Democratic leanings in 1936
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For as long as the Colorado Transcript remained in family hands (which was nearly 100 years), it was a Democratic newspaper. That sentiment was particularly strong in the October 29, 1936 edition. Franklin D. Roosevelt was running for his second term, and the paper’s editorial column took some strong potshots at the opposition:
There are going to be many voters, who have been publicly advocating Republicanism, when alone in the voting booth will recall Hoover’s “bread line,” “Brother can you spare a dime,” “The firing of the veterans’ camp at Washington,” “Mines closed,” “Farmers losing their farms by foreclosure,” “Industry stagnate,” “Millions out of work.” With American good sense they will vote the Democratic ticket so that these things may not occur again.”
They had some choice words about Charles Armstrong (Republican candidate for governor) too:
If Armstrong thinks the Armstrong method of using Armstrong tactics on election day, the employment of smashers and bruisers at the polls, will win him the respect of respectable voters–he has another think coming.
In case readers failed to read the editorials, the paper also had front page articles about two new buildings being funded by Roosevelt’s Works Progress Administration–the new Central School on 12th Street and the planned field house on the Mines campus.
In other news, the Maroon & White column (news from Golden High School) advised readers to expect the usual Halloween “capers and jokes…the soaping of windows, the knocking over of cornstalks, the moving of wagons and small buildings, gates, fences and what not.”
The Golden Gem Theater had a special late show planned for Saturday night (Halloween). They were showing Boris Karloff in Frankenstein, Bela Lugosi in Dracula, and both Karloff and Lugosi in Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven.
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear, with a low around 41. West wind around 5 mph.
Thursday: Sunny. High near 63, with temperatures falling to around 60 in the afternoon. Southeast wind around 6 mph.
Thursday Night: Partly cloudy. Low around 45, with temperatures rising to around 47 overnight. West wind 2 to 6 mph.
Thursday Night: Partly Cloudy, 45°F
Friday: Mostly Cloudy, 65°F
Friday Night: Partly Cloudy, 45°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny, 63°F
Saturday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 45°F
Sunday: Partly Sunny then Chance Rain Showers, 62°F
Sunday Night: Rain Showers Likely, 46°F
Monday: Rain Showers Likely, 54°F
Monday Night: Rain Showers Likely, 42°F
Tuesday: Slight Chance Rain Showers then Mostly Sunny, 54°F
Tuesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 40°F
Wednesday: Mostly Sunny, 56°F
News About Golden - October 29, 2026
The Golden Roundup
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Supporters
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Sponsors:
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Buffalo Rose, Buglet Battery, Foothills Art Center, Golden Cultural Alliance, Miners Alley Performing Arts Center, The Golden Mill, Golden Chamber of Commerce, Golden History Tours, Miners Saloon, Clothilde Elingbow, Michael Mason, Earth Sweet Boutique, and Colorado Railroad Museum
Friends:
($50-99.99/month or $575/yr)
Tall Pines Painting, Baby Doe’s Clothing, Paul Haseman, Donna Anderson, Carol & Doug Harwood, Stephanie Painter, Greg Poulos, Ann Norton & Jonathan Storer, Mary & Don Parker, The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, Vic DeMaria, Unite Fitness, and Joy Brandt
Supporters:
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Laura King and Scott Wilson, Bobby German and Alison McNally, Forrest Jones, Barry & Liz Bettis, Cheryl & Tom Schweich, in memory of Marjorie Sloan, Chris and Joyce Davell, 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, Robert Thresher, Tonie Mattox, Steve & M.L. Richardson, Jeremy & Stephanie Keller, AC Development, Golden PT & Pilates, Frank Young & Terre Deegan-Young, Mary Eiberger, and Jonathan Landman & Bonnie Vangilder
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, Karen Oxman, Catherine Skokan, Ross Fraser & KC Gilliland, Lynne Haigh, Elizabeth Hilliard, Kathy Hirons & Jack Markin, Jess & Anthony Monasterio, Heather Duncan, Lee Ann & Pete Horneck, Carol Cameron, Cheryl Williamson, San Daugherty, 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, Colleen & Michael Ramey, Nancy & Pete Torpey, Jax Baker, Simon Maybury, Rose McLaughlin, Cameron Chambers, Joyce Gravina, Patrick Klein, Barb Robie, Richard Caldwell, Sam & Marilyn Baron, Carmen Johnson, Kevin Nichols, Ed & Carol Freza, Laura and Curtis Moore, Ruth Hund, Shelley & Jerry Devitt, Eileen Masterson, Kate Olivier, Amy Korengut, Pam Logan, Clare Shier, Wendy Weiman, Marge Frueh, Edgar Walker, Bivy Beer Bar, Nancy Cooper, Jane & Mike Templeton, Vicki Greivel, Kim McDonough, Carie Chimbel, Peggy Brochtrup, Cindy & Matt Finley, Kelly Fry, Esther Kettering, Tom & Susan Roberts, Vicki Greivel, GoGood Golden, Sandra Dallas, Nanette Johnson, and Ella Lyons & Jeanne Fritch
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Golden Community Garden, Lora Haimes, Mariane Erickson, J.J. Fraser, Steve Stevens, Vicki Olson, Emily Kurzinski, Peyton Gibson, Sally Berger, Kristen Morgan, Joyce Sutton, Mary Rains, Craig Champlin, Stan Swisher, Bill Way, Chris Toney, Alicia Zimmerman, Tamara Feucht, Golden Brokers, Diane Tiberi, Cathy Larocca, Dave Cole, and Rachael Kenney-Reid
