Last Night's Rainbow
Photo by Randy Duncan
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Tuesday, Jul. 16th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Tubular Tuesdays
- 8-10AM - DeLong Park Weedbusters
- 8-9AM - What's Brewing Golden
- 9-10AM - Women's Exercise and Bible Study
- 9AM - Golden Seniors - Coffee Klatch
- 9:15-9:45AM - Baby Time
- 10-11AM - Story Time and Craft
- 10:15-10:45AM - Preschool Time
- 11:30AM - Lunch Bunch for the 50+ Crowd
- 1-3PM - Hand Embroidery Stitchers
- 2:30PM - Local Licensing Authority Meeting
- 5-8PM - USWNT Send-Off Match vs. Costa Rica Watch Party
- 6-7PM - Golden Library Discussion Book Group
- 6-7:45PM - Golden Beer Talks
- 6:30-8:30PM - Team Trivia Tuesday
- 6:30-8:30PM - Toad Trivia
- 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
CoorsTek Demolition Status - June 2024
CoorsTek Demolition - June, 2024 - Photos by Patrick Klein
Patrick Klein's latest photos of the CoorsTek site show an impressive lack of buildings.
The northeast corner or the property is nearly clear, with only the two historic walls that they plan to retain.
The big remaining question is, what will happen to the five-story building? Their historic preservation plan showed tentative plans to demolish it. But there it stands--distinctly un-demolished.
I asked Dan Cohen, President of AC Development Company, what their plans were for the building. He reported that they are "currently studying whether or not to adaptively reuse the building and so it is not being demolished at this time. If we keep it, it would be completely rehabilitated, inside and out." He added that "we are very close to finishing demolition and now are processing the materials – we are diverting as much as we can from landfills by either processing materials so they can be reused on site for construction or recycling them for reuse by others."
6-7:45PM Golden Beer Talks - Marv Kay and Three Golden Heroes - Dr. Dendy Sloan @ The Buffalo Rose
Waiting for a Golden Beer Talk to start @ the Buffalo Rose Events Center
Featured Brewery: AC Golden
Introduction by: Former Mayor Marjorie Sloan
Dr. Sloan—author of a recently published book focused on the accomplishments of Colorado School of Mines football coach and Golden Mayor Marv Kay—will highlight the last 50 years of change in Mines and the City of Golden using the vehicle of Kay, who described the university and the city as “two gloves on the same body.”
During his lifetime, Kay facilitated major Golden changes through his dedication, altruism and empathy—exemplified by three local heroes: Glenn Porzak, Nils Christiansen and Terre Deegan-Young.
Speaker Bio:
Dr. Sloan, Mines University Professor Emeritus, has earned many awards over his long and respected career. He also is a well-published author, with his ninth book entitled Marv Kay: The Coach, The School and The City released in February of this year.
Golden Beer Talks is honored to welcome Dendy back for his third appearance. Previously he has regaled our audience on the topics of Three Minds and Memory and Bias in the Brains of Good People: Where Neuroscience Meets Social Science.
Learn more about Golden Beer Talks.
Buffalo Rose
1119 Washington Avenue (map)
Early History of the Colorado School of Mines - Part 2
Loveland, Berthoud, and West Portraits from the Golden History Museum – Click to enlarge
by Guest Historian Paul Haseman
(see part 1)
The initial staff of Mines included William Loveland, President of the Board of Trustees and Edward Berthoud, Registrar. On the faculty, the “Professor in Charge” was E. J. Mallett, while George West taught Military Tactics and Edward Berthoud taught Civil Engineering and Geology. Rev. Bellam was the principal of Jarvis Hall and faculty Professor of English.
A lesser known faculty member was Rev. Arthur Lakes, who taught Hand Drawing and Drafting. Lakes later became renown as a geologist and in 1880, with Berthoud’s sponsorship, became head of the CSM Geology Department. His initial geology collection in 1872 in Jarvis Hall became the heart of the now Mines Museum. Mines’ library, Arthur Lakes Library, is named in his honor.
The building for the Mines School was not auspicious and early in 1878, Mines moved its lecture hall and laboratory to the upper floor of the Loveland Building at 12th and Washington Street, owned by William Loveland, the President of the Mines Board of Trustees (Transcript 20 Feb 1878). The remainder of Mines activity followed shortly thereafter necessitated by fires of suspicious origin, which destroyed the adjacent Jarvis Hall and Matthews Hall on 4 and 6 April 1878, respectively. (Golden Weekly Globe, 31 December 1881). As such, Mines’ dependency on Jarvis Hall as its room and board facility was gone, making the old building untenable.
Mines appealed to the Legislature and money was appropriated to construct the Mines School in downtown Golden on a small plot of land (150’ x 150’) donated by Golden citizens. The new building opened on 13 October 1880 at the southwest corner of 15th and Arapahoe. This original campus building was twice expanded and renamed the Chemistry Bldg. It was later razed and replaced by newer Hill Hall.
The original Mines building at the south end of Ford Road was then re-designated in 1881 as the State Industrial School for Boys for rehabilitation of “incorrigible young men between the ages of 7 and 16.” (Golden HPB 2003). The school is now titled Lookout Mountain Youth Services Center.
Paul Haseman and Donna Anderson are co-authors of a book called “Golden Rocks! The Geology and Mining History of Golden, Colorado,” which is available as a free download, courtesy of the authors and the Colorado School of Mines Library.
Live Music for Tuesday, Jul. 16th
6PM Karaoke with Linda @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Open Bluegrass Pick Night @ Over Yonder Brewing
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Weather
Overnight: Partly cloudy, with a low around 60. West wind around 6 mph.
Tuesday: Showers and thunderstorms likely after noon. Partly sunny. High near 87, with temperatures falling to around 82 in the afternoon. North wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night: A chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Mostly cloudy. Low around 63, with temperatures rising to around 65 overnight. West northwest wind around 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Tuesday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 63°F
Wednesday: Mostly Sunny then Showers And Thunderstorms Likely, 83°F
Wednesday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 62°F
Thursday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 88°F
Thursday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 65°F
Friday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 88°F
Friday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 63°F
Saturday: Slight Chance Rain Showers then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 84°F
Saturday Night: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 60°F
Sunday: Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 79°F
Sunday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Partly Cloudy, 58°F
Monday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 80°F
News Relating to Golden - July 16, 2024
Summer 2024 Discover Magazine
By Doug Skiba
Golden History Museum & Park
The current issue of Discover magazine features an update on two exciting new exhibitions which will open in August. The Clear Creek Room is the museum’s newest exhibition and program space that explores the unique history of Golden’s defining waterway. We Are Still Here: The Endurance of Native Jewels is our first co-curated exhibition with our Native American Advisory Board members and features historic and contemporary Native fashions that utilize two powerful Native jewels—elk ivories and dentalium shells... Read more...
The 38 Stars: Golden museum shows historic American flag for local DAR chapter
By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript
Walking into the main room at the Golden History Museum July 11, the red, white and blue of the large American flag was eye-catching.
But, looking at it more closely, years of stories were clearly captured in the fabric... Read more...
Colorado Summit closes out regular season with home win
By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript
Against the LA Aviators on July 12, the Colorado Summit was a lot like this weekend’s heat wave — immediate, relentless and dangerous... Read more...
Golden is spending big bucks to build up its art and theater scenes
By John Wenzel
Denver Post
As Colorado’s oldest standing hotel, the Astor House in Golden has racked up 157 years of stories, including a tale of exploding windows from a Colorado School of Mines detonation across the street — the dynamite was intentional, the broken glass was not — and a man plunging from a second-story doorway onto the ground below... Read more...
High 5 Plumbing, Heating & Cooling surpasses $100,000 in donations
High 5 Plumbing
DENVER – July 15, 2024 – High 5 Plumbing, Heating & Cooling, a family-owned and operated home service company serving residents in the greater Denver metropolitan area, announced today that they have surpassed $100,000 in donations through their High 5 Cares program... Download press release below.
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