Grant Terry Trail in the Fall
Photo by Chris Davell
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Thursday, Oct. 31st
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden History Tours
- 7AM-5PM - Spooky Good Time at Windy Saddle
- 8AM-4:30PM - NewlyWebs: A Halloween Wedding Event
- 9:15-9:45AM - Baby Time - Registration Required
- 10-10:30AM - Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation
- 10AM-6PM - Harley Halloween Trick-or-Treating
- 10:15-10:45AM - Super Secret Spooky Halloween Pop-Up Story Time Treat
- 10:15-10:45AM - Super Secret Spooky Halloween Pop-Up Story Time Treat
- 11AM-8PM - Golden City Brewery Halloween Bash
- 11-11:59AM - Dirty Dogs Halloween Party
- 3-4:30PM - Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic
- 3-4:30PM - Golden Trick or Treat Street
- 4-5PM - Trick-or-Treat
- 4:30PM - Radium Girls (One Act)
- 5-8PM - Halloween Glow Party @ Pranatonic
- 6PM - Run Club
- 6-10PM - All Hallows' Eve @ New Terrain
- 6-9PM - Halloween Party @ Over Yonder
- 6PM - Halloween DJ Milk & Honey Dance Party
- 6:30-7:45PM - Skills to Unite as Community
- 7PM - Halloween Costume Party @ Buffalo Rose
- 7PM - Halloween Costume Party @ Buffalo Rose
- 7PM - Golden Ghosts & Spirits Haunted Pub Crawl Tour
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
Here’s What’s Happening at Foothills Art Center in the Month of November
Photo by Richard Luckin
Sign up for these November classes and/or events at the Foothills Art Center using the links below.
Adult Classes and Events
Mondays 5:30-7:30PM The Fundamental Principles of Art
Tuesdays 5:30-7:30PM Exploring the Elements of Art
Nov 1 10AM-4PM Watercolor Notecards with Janet Nunn
Nov 2 10AM-4PM Watercolor Notecards with Janet Nunn
Nov 8 5:30-8:30PM Frame Weaving 101
Nov 14 3-4PM Golden StArt with Jesse Crock
Nov 22 12-7PM 2024 Holiday Art Market Member Preview
Nov 23 10AM-5PM Holiday Art Market Public Opening
Youth Art Classes
Nov 5-Dec 17 4-5:30PM Tuesday Afterschool Art Club
Nov 7-Dec 19 10-11:30AM Homeschool Art Class
Nov 7-Dec 19 4-5:30PM Thursday Afterschool Art Club
Foothills Art Center
809 15th Street (map)
(303) 279-3922
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10:15-10:45AM Super Secret Spooky Halloween Pop-Up Story Time Treat @ Golden Library
It’s no trick! Calling all little ghouls, goblins, superheroes, princesses, and pirates! Don your costumes and head to the Golden Library floor for a unique Halloween pop-up experience. Gather around the campfire for a not-so-scary story, and then take home a “spooky” craft as a special treat!
Golden Library
1019 10th St. (map)
11AM-8PM Golden City Brewery Halloween Bash
Help GCB celebrate 31 years on the 31st! Be sure to dress up for our annual costume contest! Drink specials, mulled wine, 93 growlers fills.
Golden City Brewery
920 12th Street (map)
3-4:30PM Golden Trick or Treat Street - Historic Downtown Golden
On Halloween, Oct. 31 from 3 to 4:30 p.m., downtown Washington Ave. will be closed to cars and filled instead with tiny zombies, super-heroes and other masked little ones, all ready to fill their trick-or-treat bags in a safe atmosphere with candy provided by local Golden merchants.
Bring your little ones for some sugar-saturated, non-spooky fun!
4-5PM Trick-or-Treat @ Golden Pond Retirement Community
The residents of Golden Pond Retirement Community are ready to welcome your little ones! Come Trick-or-Treat with them.
Golden Pond Retirement Community
1270 N. Ford Street (map)
7PM Halloween Costume Party @ Buffalo Rose
Get your costumes ready, 'cause we're throwing a spooktacular party at Buffalo Rose Sky Bar!
Costume Contest with prizes for the Top 3 looks!
Drink Specials all night long!Whether you're rocking fangs, fairy wings, or full-on zombie glam, grab your crew and party with us!
4PM-Midnight Grand Opening of Alchemy
Alchemy is Golden’s newest cocktail bar with a unique apothecary twist!
The Valdez family is opening a new cocktail bar in the former Golden Moon Speakeasy. Much of the Speakeasy staff is staying with the business, so if you loved their cocktails, you'll be happy to see them back in action.
Join them this evening for their grand opening!
Alchemy
1111 Miners Alley (map)
Live Music for Thursday, Oct. 31st
- 5-8PM Kory Montgomery @ Golden Mill
Golden Mill - More Live Music
5-8PM Teague Starbuck @ Mountain Toad
6PM Hillbilly Demons @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Dollhouse Thieves @ New Terrain Brewing
8PM Karaoke @ Rock Rest Lodge
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Seasonal History: Mischief in the Cemetery
The November 13, 1978 Golden Transcript featured an interview with Arthur Meinecke, who had been serving as sexton (caretaker) of the Golden Cemetery for 26 years. He was responsible for selling plots, digging and refilling graves, setting up for funerals, maintaining the landscaping in summer and plowing the roads in winter.
That summer, he had experienced a cement shortage. At one point he had 12 headstones to set and no concrete to set them in. Shortly after he solved the cement problem, vandals struck the cemetery. Two local kids tipped over 14 headstones. Mr. Meinecke had just set up chairs for a funeral and the youths threw the chairs into the open grave. Fortunately, a visitor to the cemetery spotted the vandals and alerted the sexton. He called the police, who arrived quickly and caught them in the act. In November, they were still making restitution payments.
As of 46 years ago, there were about 5,000 people buried in the cemetery and there was room for about 11,300 more. There were four sections in the cemetery. The county owned a “pauper section,” where destitute people were buried without charge. There was also a veterans section, an Oddfellows section, and a section that had originally belonged to the Masons but which had been turned over to the city.
The city had purchased a backhoe for digging graves in 1957. Prior to that, Meinecke had dug them by hand. When the ground was frozen or the clay soil was particularly hard, he had sometimes used as many as a dozen sticks of dynamite to loosen the soil prior to digging.
The costs in 1978 were as follows:
Grave space: $275
Perpetual care: $75
Grave opening and closing: $100
Today’s costs (according to the City's cemetery page) are:
Grave space: $1980 (resident) – $2640 (non-resident)
Perpetual care: $595 (resident) – $800 (non-resident)
Adult grave opening and closing: $1780 (resident) – $1780 (non-resident)
Many thanks to an anonymous donor for sponsoring Golden History Moments for the month of October.
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear, with a low around 25. Southwest wind around 6 mph.
Thursday: Sunny. High near 55, with temperatures falling to around 53 in the afternoon. South wind 5 to 8 mph.
Thursday Night: Mostly clear. Low around 35, with temperatures rising to around 37 overnight. West northwest wind 5 to 9 mph.
Thursday Night: Mostly Clear, 35°F
Friday: Sunny, 58°F
Friday Night: Mostly Clear, 36°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny, 59°F
Saturday Night: Partly Cloudy, 38°F
Sunday: Chance Light Rain, 59°F
Sunday Night: Chance Light Rain then Chance Rain And Snow, 36°F
Monday: Chance Rain And Snow, 42°F
Monday Night: Chance Rain And Snow, 28°F
Tuesday: Slight Chance Light Snow then Mostly Sunny, 46°F
Tuesday Night: Chance Light Snow, 32°F
Wednesday: Chance Light Snow, 42°F
News About Golden - October 31, 2024
Conservation vision aims to address overcrowding in Colorado’s Front Range public spaces
By Andrew Haubner
KJCT News 8
GOLDEN, Colo. (KCNC) - It’s a beautiful day in Golden. The trees are the color of the namesake of the city, bikers are breezing by on paths next to Clear Creek, and plenty of people are out walking with their dogs and children.
But how long will it stay this way? Read more...
City of Golden Weekly Digest
In this issue... Download PDF below.
Avenue Flashes: What’s really frightening is when you don’t vote
By John Akal
Golden Transcript
Looking ahead a bit to the first week in November, that’s usually kind of a slow week of events. It follows Halloween and people are recovering from that, but it’s not quite time to start preparing for Thanksgiving yet. But this year there’s an event that kind of upstages almost all events on the 2024 calendar... Read more...
Teaching, training and research Edgar Mine opens to the public for ‘Friends and Family’ day in Idaho Springs
By Chris Koeberl
Clear Creek Courant
...The Colorado School of Mines in Golden acquired the Edgar in 1921 and now owns and operates it as a cutting-edge research facility in fields from chemical, electrical and petroleum engineering to mining technology and explosives, according to Mines... Read more...
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