Lenticular Clouds Over North Table Mountain
Photo by Nancy Torpey
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Tuesday, Mar. 18th
- All day - CURRENT EXHIBITS AT THE MUSEUMS
- All day - Live Workouts with Community Center Pros
- All day - Golden History Tours
- 8-9AM - What's Brewing Golden @ The Golden Outpost
- 9-10AM - Women's Exercise and Bible Study
- 9AM - Golden Seniors - Coffee Klatch
- 9:15-9:45AM - Baby Time - Registration Required
- 10-11AM - Story Time and Craft @ The Railroad Museum
- 10:15-10:45AM - Preschool Time - Registration Required
- 1-3PM - Hand Embroidery Stitchers
- 2:30PM - Local Licensing Authority Meeting
- 3-4PM - Golden StArt with Sebnem Düzgün
- 5:30-7:30PM - Exploring the Elements of Art
- 6-7:45PM - Golden Beer Talks
- 6:30-8PM - Financial Education Event, But First Chocolate
- 6:30-8:30PM - Team Trivia Tuesday
- 6:30-8:30PM - Trivia Tuesdays
- 6:30-8:30PM - Toad Trivia
- 6:30-8:30PM - Bar Bingo Night
- 7PM - Pub Trivia
For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar
8-9AM What's Brewing Golden @ The Golden Outpost
This monthly meeting will be on the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 8:00 to 9:00 a.m., hosted by the The Golden Outpost. Each month you will hear an update from City Council, DDA, City of Golden Police, and the Chamber, along with a business spotlight. We hope to see you there!
This meeting is open to all businesses within the Golden area but with a focus on small businesses and restaurants within the City limits of Golden. This meeting is provided as a service by the Golden Chamber of Commerce. Chamber membership is highly encouraged but is not required to attend. Guests are welcome.
More information
Location:
Golden Hotel
800 11th Street (Map)
When:
8-9AM on Tuesday, Mar. 18th
9AM Golden Seniors - Coffee Klatch @ Golden Welcome Center
Hey, Golden Seniors! Join your friends at the Visitors Center for coffee! We will meet in the GWC Heritage Community Boardroom Sponsored by Golden Pond Retirement Community and Golden Visitors & Information Center
Location:
Golden Welcome Center
1010 Washington Avenue (Map)
When:
9AM on Tuesday, Mar. 18th
3-4PM Golden StArt with Sebnem Düzgün @ Foothills Art Center - Creative Campus
Golden StArt is a joint one-hour coffee meetup program designed to bring artists in the area together with the Golden community to meet and talk about art. Come and join us for an afternoon chat with artist Holly Nordeck.
More information
Location:
Foothills Art Center - Creative Campus
809 15th Street (Map)
When:
3-4PM on Tuesday, Mar. 18th
6-7:45PM Golden Beer Talks @ Buffalo Rose
Topic: Golden Open Space
Speaker: Tom Schweich & Ann Norton
Brewery: Mad Macks Brewing
Many are familiar with Jefferson County Open Space and its popular parks around Golden, like North and South Table Mountain, Mount Galbraith, and Apex Park. The city-owned open space in Golden is much smaller and often overlooked, spanning just 375 acres across 15 parcels.
Join Ann Norton and Tom Schweich from Stewards of Golden Open Space as they guide us through these lesser-known city-owned spaces, sharing their locations, unique features, and the natural beauty they preserve. They’ll also dive into the city’s current project to prepare an Open Space Master Plan, which will not only define these areas as true “Open Space” (with a capital O and S) but will also set the policies for preservation, maintenance, and restoration that will shape Golden’s natural landscape for years to come.
An evening hosted by Golden Beer Talks centers around a brief, informative and entertaining presentation by an expert on an irresistibly enticing topic. Each event features beer for sale from one of our local breweries, along with a variety of delicious food and drink offerings from the Buffalo Rose kitchen and bar.
It's Golden's own grassroots version of TED talks for the benefit of our own local community--and just for the fun of it. Golden Beer Talks is a nonprofit venture focused on three favorite local things--Golden and Beer and Talking!
Learn more at www.goldenbeertalks.org.
Location:
Buffalo Rose
1119 Washington Avenue (Map)
When:
6-7:45PM on Tuesday, Mar. 18th
Live Music for Tuesday, Mar. 18th
- 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: In Preparation for Arbor Day
Excerpt from the 1882 Birdseye View Map of Golden Colorado. Washington Avenue, marked from the railroad to the courthouse with a green line
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140 Years Ago
The March 18, 1885 Colorado Transcript included an article about Arbor Day. The author praises the work done on the previous Arbor Day to plant hundreds of trees in city park (“where scarce a tree that was planted has died”). The general plan for 1885 was to continue the work of planting in the park.
This article had a different suggestion. He thought the townsfolk should focus on our principal streets
…so that the town may be embowered with trees, contributing a refreshing green and a cool shade for the summer months. Washington Avenue, our most prominent street, is singularly the one with fewest trees on it. Picture to yourself what it would look like if from the railroad to the courthouse it was lined with a real avenue of trees.
The railroad crossed Washington Avenue at 8th Street and the courthouse topped the hill at 15th and Washington, so the author was envisioning seven blocks of trees. He suggested that the city install a ditch running down from the courthouse to keep the trees watered.
Washington Avenue certainly has more trees now than it did in 1885, with Parfet Park providing a particularly welcome oasis at 10th Street. It will probably never be the overarching canopy that the author envisioned. The commercial buildings in the 11th-14th Streets span are too close to the street to allow for big trees through that section. Besides–the merchants want their stores to be clearly visible from the street, not obscured by trees.
The article is signed “A. L.”–no full name given. The final paragraph provides some good clues.
We often wish we could restore to Golden the foliage sealed up in stone on Table Mountains where we find in a fossil state the leaves of a rich tropical vegetation ages ago passed away, such as the feathery palm trees… If we could call a resurrection of all these that would be an arbor day that would astonish our Goldenites. You can see these leaves in stone at any time at the School of Mines Museum.
My guess would be that “A. L.” was Arthur Lakes, pioneering archaeologist, professor of geology, and keeper of the School of Mines Museum at that time!
Golden will celebrate Arbor Day on April 26th (11AM-1PM) by planting trees and giving away seedlings at the Golden Cemetery.
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear. Low around 39, with temperatures rising to around 44 overnight. West southwest wind around 16 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph.
Tuesday: A chance of rain between 10am and 3pm, then a chance of rain and snow between 3pm and 5pm, then a chance of rain and snow. Partly sunny. High near 58, with temperatures falling to around 50 in the afternoon. West wind 18 to 29 mph, with gusts as high as 44 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night: A chance of snow. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 27. Northwest wind 10 to 29 mph, with gusts as high as 44 mph. Chance of precipitation is 50%. New snow accumulation of less than half an inch possible.
Tuesday Night: Chance Light Snow, 27°F
Wednesday: Partly Sunny then Chance Light Snow, 43°F
Wednesday Night: Mostly Clear, 27°F
Thursday: Partly Sunny, 55°F
Thursday Night: Chance Rain And Snow, 31°F
Friday: Slight Chance Light Snow then Mostly Sunny, 49°F
Friday Night: Partly Cloudy, 32°F
Saturday: Mostly Sunny then Chance Rain And Snow, 58°F
Saturday Night: Chance Rain And Snow, 33°F
Sunday: Slight Chance Light Snow, 52°F
Sunday Night: Partly Cloudy, 36°F
Monday: Partly Sunny, 62°F
Supporters
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Sponsors:
($100/month and up)
Buffalo Rose, Buglet Solar, Foothills Art Center, Golden City Brewery, Golden Cultural Alliance, Miners Alley Performing Arts Center, The Golden Mill, Golden Chamber of Commerce, Golden History Tours, Miners Saloon, Golden Hayride Outpost, Unite Fitness, Joy Brandt, Tom Reiley, and Michael Mason
Friends:
($50-99.99/month or $550/yr)
Tall Pines Painting, Baby Doe’s Clothing, Goozell Yogurt & Coffee Paul Haseman, Donna Anderson, Carol & Doug Harwood, Beth Bidwell, Stephanie Painter, Greg Poulos, Ann Norton & Jonathan Storer, Mary & Don Parker, Saré Merrigan, The Rocky Mountain Quilt Museum, and Vic DeMaria
Supporters:
($25-49.99/month or $250/yr)
Laura King and Scott Wilson, Bobby German and Alison McNally, Forrest Jones, Barry & Liz Bettis, Cheryl & Tom Schweich, Marjorie Sloan, Chris and Joyce Davell, Rick Flint, Forrest Jones, AC Development, Cynthia Merrill Tamny, Stephen Pero, Meg Van Ness & Steve Kalasz, Steve & Karla Schaefer, Bud Rockhill, Steve Enger, Kristie Brice & Mike Schwartz, and The Golden Hotel
Members:
($10-24.99/month or $110/yr)
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, Leslie D Lutz, Karen Oxman, Catherine Skokan, Ross Fraser & KC Gilliland, Lynne Haigh, Elizabeth Hilliard, Frank Young & Terre Deegan-Young, Kathy Hirons & Jack Markin, Jess & Anthony Monasterio, Ella Lyons & Jeanne Fritch, Heather Duncan, Lee Ann & Pete Horneck, Carol Cameron, Cheryl Williamson, San Daugherty, Jim Garner, 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, Vicki Olson, Colleen & Michael Ramey, Nancy & Pete Torpey, Jax Baker, Simon Maybury, Rose McLaughlin, Cameron Chambers, Joyce Gravina, Patrick Klein, and Barb Robie
Followers:
($5-9.99/month)
Golden Community Garden, Lora Haimes, Mariane Erickson, J.J. Fraser, Mel Perkins, Bob Hamilton
