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What's Happening in Golden - Tuesday, Oct. 28th, 2025

News and events in Golden, Colorado. Tuesday, Oct. 28th, 2025

,   and  Barb Warden
13 min read
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Late Fall on the Creek

Photo by Stephen Pollard
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What's happening in Golden today?

Events for Tuesday, Oct. 28th

Golden History Tours
Team Trivia Tuesday
Trivia Tuesdays

For more information, click the item above or visit the Golden Today Calendar

10-11:30AM Community Marketing Board Meeting @ City Hall Council Chambers

The new Community Marketing Board will hear status reports from the two contracted firms (Meadows PR and Blakely & Company). The City was without a marketing manager for more than year, so these two contractors performed that role. During that time, the City won a state-wide tourism award for Goldens in Golden, a single-day event that brings in considerable sales and lodging tax revenue during a down time of the year. The City has now hired Derek Schimmel as the Community Marketing Field Manager.

The agenda lists Jen Thoemke (owner of Cafe 13, Goldmine Cupcakes, Connects Workspace, and Morris & Mae) as the chair, with a co-chair still to be elected.

They will discuss their top priorities, which are Goldens in Golden, a Colorado Tourism Office Mentor Program, a contract with Datafy - p. 45 (which uses consumer data, including cell phone location, to target advertising) and the budget for 2026.

The 2026 budget (p. 42) anticipates $649,110 in vendor fees plus a rollover of $85,798 for a total revenue of $734,908. The big ticket expenses are $198,004 for staff salary and benefits, $144,350 for professional services, $20,100 for travel and special events, $20,000 to support Welcome Center operations, $10,000 to produce a print Visitors Guide, and $316,000 for advertising. The total budgeted expenses are $715,879.

The meeting packet also includes a proposal (p. 68) from an Oregon-based agency to rebuild the Visit Golden website and provide search engine optimization services.

Location:

City Hall Council Chambers
911 10th Street (Map)

5-9PM Apres Inferno: Launch of Winter @ Buffalo Rose

Join Powder7, Icelantic Skis, and FREESKIER for Après Inferno: Launch of Winter! Our annual season-kickoff party is back at the Buffalo Rose in Golden, CO. This year’s theme? DISCO. Come ready to dance and show off your best retro style! – EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC! – More information

  • Music
  • Disco Outfit Contest (Bring your best!)
  • Gear Raffle (Including free skis!)
  • Disco Dance Off
  • Photobooth
  • Food and Drinks

Location:

Buffalo Rose
1119 Washington Avenue   (Map)

6:30PM Deep Time Detour Webinar with Amy Atwater and Keegan Kuhn

Are you ready to see what the Deep Time Detour is all about? This innovative new museum experience located at Entrance One to the iconic Red Rocks Park & Amphitheatre aims to blow the minds of visitors.

Join Dino Ridge Director of Paleontology Amy Atwater and TRX Dinosaurs artist-owner Keegan Kuhn for an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at exhibits in-the-making, and learn about the concept behind this exciting new paleo-project inside the Martin G. Lockley Discovery Center in Colorado!

Bring your curiosity and your questions, and be ready for an opportunity to get involved yourself to bring this visionary project to life!

Register

When:

6:30PM on Tuesday, Oct. 28th

6:30-9PM City Council Regular Business Meeting @ City Hall Council Chambers

Public Comment

The meeting begins with public comment. If you want to address Council, you will have three minutes to speak. Any public comments received by email before 3PM will be posted in the meeting packet after 3 (so check back then!).

Items on the Consent Agenda are considered non-controversial, not needing discussion. Everything in this section will be approved at once, with one vote.

Any councilor wishing to discuss one of the issues can request that it be removed from the consent agenda and discussed and voted on separately.

These are the items on the Consent Agenda:

  • Intergovernmental Agreement (IGA) with the Jefferson County Emergency Communications Authority to share use of fiber optics cable that runs the length of Heritage Road. More.
  • Vacating a sewer easement for the Clayworks development. More.
  • Amendment to the contract with Stadium Medical (which provides us with ambulance services). The City plans to re-bid this contract, but is extending the current contract to August 31, to allow time for the RFP and negotiations. More.
  • Amendment to the contract with Arborist Prime LLC, which provides fuel reduction services. This firm is helping the City with wildfire risk mitigation. More.
  • They will accept an easment for pubic utilities from Catholic Health Initiatives at Hwy 6 and Heritage Road. More.
  • Approve a $1,010,696.25 contract to build a sidewalk at the east end of Lions Park. More.

Proclamations:

Public Hearing:

They will discuss, take public comment, and vote on an ordinance which makes several changes to the municipal code. The changes include

  • allowing chain link fence to serve as construction barricades
  • changing the time periods when construction noise is allowed
  • adding time restrictions when delivery vehicles are allowed to idle
  • Requiring No Parking signs in Right of Way permits to be placed at least 24 hours in advance. Allowing the City to tow vehicles that are parked in such zones
  • Requiring contractors to provide Traffic Control Plans that include information about construction parking
  • Requiring contractors to post contact information at the site of demolition projects, construction projects, and site improvement projects
  • Requiring shielding for temporary or construction lighting

Executive Session:

They will go into executive session (no public, no cameras, no microphones) to discuss buying property "east of Ford Street near 10th Avenue within city limits."

Location:

City Hall Council Chambers
911 10th Street   (Map)

When:

6:30-9PM on Tuesday, Oct. 28th

Golden History: The Castle

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By Vic DeMaria
Golden High School Class of 1963 | Colorado School of Mines Class of 1968

Hey, we’re going to live in a castle, my dad said, trying to convince 10-year old me and my sister that moving to Golden was a good idea. We were skeptical, but when my family arrived in Golden in 1956 we in fact did live in a castle, complete with tower and dungeon – my home until I was 19 and a Mines undergraduate.

The Armory Building in 1954 – Golden History Museum collection – enlarge

In the 1950’s what is known today as the commercial Armory Building was still serving its original purpose as the State Armory, home to the local National Guard unit. With the exception of a doctor’s office and a small shop in the first floor fronting 13th Street it was dedicated to its military function, headquarters for and supporting the monthly drill sessions of the Guard Unit. There was one full-time Guard officer on-site, responsible for the Unit records, equipment, and management of the building. That was my dad.

A perk of his job was the small 4-room living quarters on the east side of the 2nd floor, where we lived. His office was in the northeast corner overlooking Foss, commuting about 100 feet from the living quarters. The Unit CO used the opposite, northwest corner office during the monthly “drill” weekends, when there were 150-200 weekend warriors and numerous military vehicles surrounding us – training, drilling, and eating, all at a high decibel level. The rest of the time we were quite alone, lost in the cavernous space which featured long, dark hallways, cobblestone walls and periodic clangy sounds (which my folks insisted were caused by the steam radiators, but I was skeptical).

Vic’s parents – enlarge

Like a 10-year old would, I reacted to my new environment in two ways: on the one hand, it was spooky and threatening – on the other, spooky and inviting. Kind of like Halloween year-round. At the beginning, I carefully avoided some of the more questionable dark corners in my explorations; as time went along my comfort level increased and no place was off limits – it was my personal playground, even if it had its spooky moments. When I was old enough to stay by myself and my sister was off at college, my folks would leave me alone if I wasn’t interested in an overnight trip, and then I might get an uneasy feeling or two late at night but hey, it was just the radiators, right? One major compensation became apparent once I was of driving age – the Unit’s vehicles were sometimes stored temporarily on-site, and as the jeeps required no ignition key, is it possible observant citizens may have wondered what a high school kid was doing driving a military jeep around downtown? Just asking.

Tony DeMaria outside the Armory – Calvary Church in the background – enlarge

The 1st floor or basement level contained a large storage area for weapons and heavy equipment in the southeast quadrant, a mess hall in the southwest, and a sub-basement which had been the coal-bin in older days but was now a perfect dungeon, complete with large centipedes, other creepy-crawlies and a suspicious odor. This was an area I never got comfortable with. The sub-basement entry was adjacent to the back, or east door of the first floor which was where trash cans were kept. The area was dark, dank, and as designated trash-taker-outer the long trip down long dark hallways, basement stairs, more long hallways to this spot always ended up with a mad dash back home, never looking back. On special occasions, with a friend, I could force myself to actually go down the ladder into this dungeon, an uncomfortable face-your-demons moment.

School-aged Vic – enlarge

The 2nd floor contained, in addition to our living quarters, classrooms on the west side, offices, a large supply room and a large “latrine” with showers and the usual amenities required for 150 (male) soldiers across the hall from our front door. As I got older I gravitated to the latrine for my showers and such since my sister monopolized the one at “home”. I made extensive use of the classrooms with their blackboards, usually doing my homework there or in my dad’s office, where I taught myself to two-finger type on some pretty old machines. That was also a quiet place where I could use the Unit’s phone without the family noise and ears around. The supply room was a never-ending delight, with no end of cool and weird stuff stored there for me to investigate.

The 3rd floor was a full-width rifle range/drill floor that doubled as a basketball court, albeit one with restricted overhead due to the girders supporting the roof. If you spent much time on that court, as my friends and I did, you developed a curious “flat” jump shot that people would laugh at on a normal court. The target end of the firing range, backed by steel plates, was at the north end overlooking 13th St. We periodically collected the lead that accumulated there, compensation for having to listen to the shooting and marching directly over our heads. At the other end was the NCO Club, another quiet spot I relished due, I confess, to the large inventory of Playboy magazines, poker tables and the player piano. The liquor supply was usually, and fortunately, locked up securely.

END OF PART 1

Weather

Overnight's Weather

Overnight: Mostly clear, with a low around 32. Northwest wind around 12 mph, with gusts as high as 21 mph.

Tuesday's Weather

Tuesday: Sunny. High near 49, with temperatures falling to around 46 in the afternoon. Northwest wind 6 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 26 mph.

Tuesday Night's Weather

Tuesday Night: Mostly clear. Low around 26, with temperatures rising to around 28 overnight. Northwest wind around 7 mph, with gusts as high as 16 mph.

Tuesday Night: Mostly Clear, 26°F

Wednesday: Sunny, 58°F

Wednesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 38°F

Thursday: Sunny, 58°F

Thursday Night: Partly Cloudy, 37°F

Friday: Mostly Sunny, 58°F

Friday Night: Partly Cloudy, 41°F

Saturday: Mostly Sunny, 66°F

Saturday Night: Partly Cloudy, 49°F

Sunday: Mostly Sunny, 72°F

Sunday Night: Partly Cloudy, 41°F

Monday: Mostly Sunny, 59°F

News About Golden - October 28, 2025

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Families discover fossils, robots and more at Mines Museum’s Spooktacular

By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript

At the Mines Museum of Earth Science, Halloween is less about ghosts and goblins, and more about dinosaurs and robots.

Hundreds of costumed youngsters and their families stopped by the museum Oct. 25 for the fifth annual Spooktacular, a candy-free event that emphasizes STEM-based activities and goodies... Read more...

Golden volunteers replace hundreds of smoke detectors

Fox 31

The Golden Fire Department handed out hundreds of free smoke detectors alongside volunteers as part of a community safety effort aimed at helping residents prepare for disasters. Anna Coon spoke with experts on why smoke alarms are so much more than the little thing that occasionally beeps... View video...

Golden Mill Offers Discount to Federal Employees

By Ashley Geisheker
Feed Media

With the government shutdown on its 27th day, most agree that it has gone on longer than anyone anticipated... Read more... Download PDF below.

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Mines women’s cross country team wins first RMAC title

By Corinne Westeman
Golden Transcript

Over the weekend, the Colorado School of Mines women’s cross-country team reached the top of the Rockies, proverbially speaking.

Along with an avalanche of individual accolades, the Mines women won their first-ever RMAC title at the Oct. 25 championship meet in Colorado Springs... Read more...

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