Wildlife and the City
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Tuesday, Aug. 27th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Tubular Tuesdays
- 8-10AM - DeLong Park Weedbusters
- 9-10AM - Women's Exercise and Bible Study
- 9AM - Golden Seniors - Coffee Klatch
- 9:15-9:45AM - Baby Time
- 10:15-10:45AM - Preschool Time
- 12-1PM - Golden Women in Business Book Club*
- 1:30PM - Triad - Senior Safety
- 5:30-9PM - The Golden Bicycle Cruise
- 6:30PM - City Council Regular Business Meeting
- 6:30-8:30PM - Team Trivia Tuesday
- 6:30-8:30PM - Trivia Tuesdays
- 6:30-8:30PM - Bar Bingo Night
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
12-1PM Golden Women in Business Book Club @ The Golden Mill
As vacation time ends and we start thinking seriously about the back-to-school season, here's something to get our minds going again at Book Club. As always, you don't need to have read the book to attend; you just need to be interested in discussing its themes.
In The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, author Stephen R. Covey presents a holistic, integrated, principle-centered approach for solving personal and professional problems. With penetrating insights and pointed anecdotes, Covey reveals a step-by-step pathway for living with fairness, integrity, service, and human dignity--principles that give us the security to adapt to change and the wisdom and power to take advantage of the opportunities that change creates.
*GWiB’s Book Club is open to all GWiB Members. We want potential new members to check out our events before committing, so we invite you to attend two events (Book Club, Happy Hour or Table Talks) free of charge. After that, please become a member or pay the small drop in fee of $10/event.
5:30 Golden Bike Cruise
The Golden Bike Cruise is a family friendly event featuring pedal bikes, beers and bands on the last Tuesday of the month - May through September. Tonight's (optional) costume theme is Barbie & Ken.
Hey Barbie! Get those Barbie/Ken vibes going! You know the drill - dress in costume, come hang out and drink some beer from New Terrain. Bob's Atomic will be back slinging the burgers. We know it's a school night but take a few hours off to come to one of Golden's best, most-loved family events!
We start at 5:30pm and will most likely wrap by 8:30pm due to the school thing. Our musical guest for the night is Dollhouse Thieves - back for a return engagement! Non-profit partner is BGOLDN - a great, Golden-based non-profit feeding kids and families. Grab your pink and c'mon out!
Beer - New Terrain Brewing
Burgers - Bob's Atomic
Band - Dollhouse Thieves
6:30PM City Council Meeting @ City Hall
- Meeting Agenda
- Watch the meeting streaming live starting at 6:30PM
- Attend the meeting @ City Hall Council Chambers - 911 10th Street - (map)
- Send comments on any of the following topics to PublicComment@cityofgolden.net BEFORE 3PM, or
- Provide in-person comment during the meeting, at 6:30PM.
Most of tonight's business appears on the "Consent Agenda," which means the topics will not be discussed unless one or more of the Councilors requests discussion.
Public Comment
There are no public hearings tonight, so if you want to contribute any comments you must do it by email (PublicComment@cityofgolden.net) or at the beginning of the meeting.
Consent Matters
- Adopt the Jefferson County Affordable Housing Blueprint
This document describes how the various jurisdictions within Jefferson County will partner to build more affordable housing. Their goals are to influence regional, state, and federal policy; maximize land use, housing, and transportation resources to add more housing, and facilitate partnerships among the jurisdictions to build more affordable housing.
Council received an overview of this plan at their last study session (start at 1 hr - 15 minutes). The presenter described the need to balance local control with regional needs. He remarked that this new framework will give a voice to the people who don't live here but want to. - Approve a construction contract for $121,850
This will improve the sidewalk drainage on Rimrock Drive.
- Approve parking permits for Parfet Estates Drive
This street is right across Highway 6 from the School of Mines campus. CSM students as well as construction workers from the CSM housing projects have been parking on the street. The meeting memo states that eliminating these non-resident parkers would improve safety for the residents. - Approve a contract to replace equipment at Splash
This contract allows up to $165,823 to replace the boiler on the lap pool at the City's water park. - First reading of an Ordinance regarding signage for marijuana stores
This ordinance clarifies how marijuana stores are allowed to advertise on their own buildings versus how they are allowed to advertise off-site, online, or through direct mail. They will hold a public hearing and vote on this issue at their September 10th meeting.
Proclamations
National Preparedness Month- September 2024
National Suicide Prevention Month - September 2024
Resolution to Support RTD Ballot Measure
This ballot measure would allow RTD to retain and spend all revenues without TABOR restrictions.
Live Music for Tuesday, Aug. 27th
- More Live Music
6PM Karaoke with Linda @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Open Bluegrass Pick Night @ Over Yonder Brewing
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Lime, Mortar, and the Cambria Kiln
Restored Cambria Lime Kiln along Kinney Run Gulch – Photo by D. Anderson
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By Paul Haseman and Donna Anderson
Formed in 1879 by John Hodges, the Cambria Brick and Tile Company was located at 12th and East St, now covered by south end of the Coors Brewery and parking lot. The Cambria company promptly “leased fire-clay and lime seams near Hoyt’s ranch,” located at the south end of today’s Illinois Street [Transcript 16 June 1879].
Golden businessman, Charles Welch, a Cambria investor, became the company Superintendent. Welch also conveniently co-owned the “lime seams” leased to Cambria and was the President of the Golden & South Platte RR. The G&SP began laying rail in 1879 from the Colorado Central Railyard, across Clear Creek on a former East St bridge, past Cambria’s new brick plant and then across Ford to now Jackson St. The curve in the current road linking Ford to Jackson is the original rail route to Jackson St (then Miners St). The route proceeded to today’s Golden High School, where a half-right turn took the rails southeast parallel to Kinney Run. A spur of the G&SP continued up Kinney Run to the new lime kiln.
The Cambria kiln was built in 1879 with sandstone of the Lyons Formation from the cliff behind the kiln and along Kinney Run. The kiln was conveniently located near the “lime seams” in the Glennon limestone (i.e. the “bastard” limestone descibed by geologist F.V. Hayden). Quarried in linear trenches along today’s Somerset Drive and across the Mines survey field, limestone was heated to high temperature in the Cambria kiln forming calcium oxide, or quicklime, which was then combined with water to make mortar. G&SP rail cars transported the quicklime to Hodges’ and Welch’s brickyard. An early brickyard customer in January 1880 was the School of Mines, which purchased 75,000 bricks to construct Mines’ first campus building.
The Cambria kiln operated 13 years until 1892, when the local lime seams were exhausted and cheaper and better Portland cement sidetracked the lime/mortar business in Golden.
In 2005 a City Council Resolution recognized “the unique geologic areas in the Eagle Ridge area (including the Dakota hog back, Cambria Lime Kiln, Kinney Run Trail, and riparian areas)” and designated them “as a geologic and environmental education park.” In 2009 the City and the Golden Civic Foundation restored the base of the kiln and placed interpretive signs. It is the only remaining lime kiln in Jeffco and a reminder of Golden’s mining history.
Donna Anderson and Paul Haseman published a book called Golden Rocks! about the geology and mining history of Golden. You can read it for free online!
Many thanks to Esther Kettering for sponsoring Golden History Moments for the month of August.
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear, with a low around 60. Northwest wind around 6 mph.
Tuesday: Sunny, with a high near 83. East wind 3 to 9 mph.
Tuesday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 62. South southwest wind around 8 mph.
Tuesday Night: Mostly Clear, 62°F
Wednesday: Sunny, 88°F
Wednesday Night: Mostly Cloudy, 64°F
Thursday: Sunny, 82°F
Thursday Night: Mostly Clear, 58°F
Friday: Sunny, 86°F
Friday Night: Mostly Clear, 61°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny, 86°F
Saturday Night: Partly Cloudy, 61°F
Sunday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 82°F
Sunday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 59°F
Labor Day: Mostly Sunny then Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 83°F
News About Golden - August 27, 2024
Subscribers are lifeline for local theater companies — and not just the DCPA
By Lisa Kennedy
Denver Post
There are some tried and true ways to deepen a relationship to a theater. The simplest is to become a subscriber, the equivalent of being a season ticket holder in sports... Read more...
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