Clear Creek Canyon Park
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What's happening in Golden today?
Events for Tuesday, Sep. 10th
- 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
- 9:15-9:45AM - Baby Time
- 10:15-10:45AM - Preschool Time
- 10:30AM - Front Porch Friends Meeting
- 3-6PM - Mines Take-Out Tuesdays
- 4:30-5:30PM - Teen Advisory Board - Golden Library
- 5-7PM - VIBE@Five
- 5-5:30PM - Ribbon Cutting - Astro Coffee Van
- 5-9PM - City Council Study Session and Regular Business Meeting
- 5:45-7PM - Golden High School PTA 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
5PM City Council Study Session @ City Hall
- Meeting Agenda
- Watch the meeting streaming live starting at 5PM
- 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
- In-person comment is not accepted during study sessions, but you can speak when the business meeting starts at 7PM.
Staff will provide Council with an overview of their ongoing project to rewrite the zoning code. They discussed the proposed changes last week with the Planning Commission and were going to make some changes based on their comments.
There was some discussion about Group Homes at the Planning Commission meeting. Staff is suggesting that they be approved by staff, because state statute requires that they be allowed in all residential neighborhoods. Although the document does not list PUDs as one of the areas where Group Homes would be allowed, if they are residential, PUDs are also subject to staff approving a Group Home in their midst.
Staff also suggested adding factors that would make Group Homes particularly appropriate, including proximity to public transportation and the presence of a grocery store. This makes the neighborhoods along the 16 bus line and near Safeway, Natural Grocer, and King Soopers particularly vulnerable.
Downtown Right of Way Projects
Staff will also update Council on several projects downtown. They are considering replacing all parking spaces along Washington Avenue with dining corrals (pp. 2-4 of the meeting memo). Where businesses have not requested the space, the city will make it available for seating by the general public. They are also considering putting dining enclosures in the surface parking lots for the general public (p. 5).
Changes are coming to North Ford Street. Several years ago, Washington Avenue north of town was converted into a "Complete Street" (bike lane, fewer traffic lanes, and medians in some spots). Since then traffic has increased on Ford Street, which runs parallel to Washington. Now they plan to make Complete Street changes to Ford and the nearby Tucker and Cressman Gulches (p. 7).
They are also looking for alternatives for the traffic coming out of Clear Creek Canyon and the Peaks to Plains Trail. Right now it competes with pedestrians, including those carrying tubes, for the sidewalk along the Creek. They are considering several alternatives, including routing them to 8th Street, sending them along the Church Ditch, putting them on 10th Street, or sending them to the sidewalk on the south side of the Creek. (See the map on p. 15.)
7PM City Council Business Meeting @ City Hall
- Meeting Agenda
- Watch the meeting streaming live starting at 7PM
- 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 (limited to 3 minutes) during the meeting, at 7PM.
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 is one public hearing tonight. If you want to comment on any other topic you must do it by email (PublicComment@cityofgolden.net) or at the beginning of the meeting.
Consent Matters
- They will approve a resolution to create an IGA (intergovernmental agreement) with CDOT (Colorado Dept. of Transportation) to make complete street changes to North Ford St., Cressman Gulch, and Tucker Gulch.
- They will assign $1 million in bonding capacity to Foothills Regional Housing Authority, to be used on affordable housing projects in Wheat Ridge.
- They will appoint Tim Gerhold to a vacancy on the Economic Development Commission.
Proclamations
Public Hearing: operational restrictions on Marijuana Licensing
They will hold a public hearing (public comment allowed) about amending the Marijuana Licensing operational restrictions to clarify the existing regulations regarding advertising and signage for retail marijuana operations.
5PM VIBE @ 5 @ The Golden Welcome Center
VIBE@FIVE is Golden's Happy Hour! Come join other members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce for this "Very Important Business Event" - VIBE!
This event is for members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce and their guests as well as for members of the Golden Young Professionals.
Become a member
Stop in for a quick hello and a refreshment right after work and a chance to get to know fellow members of the Golden Chamber of Commerce and Golden Young Professionals. This is a great networking and socializing event.
The month we'll be at the Golden Welcome Center.
Golden Welcome Center Patio
1010 Washington Avenue (map)
As an added attraction, we're going to hold a ribbon-cutting for Astro Coffee Van with complimentary coffee!
What’s Blooming Along Golden’s Trails? Broom Snakeweed!
Figure 1. Left: Broom Snakeweed — Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britton & Rusby — in the field. Top right: Flowers of Broom Snakeweed (©Max Lichter CC BY-SA). Bottom right: Dried herbarium specimen of Broom Snakeweed, showing the broom-like character.
By Tom Schweich
Broom Snakeweed — Gutierrezia sarothrae (Pursh) Britton & Rusby — is common in Golden and has been found in all our open spaces. A small, unassuming shrub, it may often be overlooked, in part because it does not bloom until August or September.
The common name “snakeweed” refers to its medicinal use to treat snakebites and the “broom” refers to its use to make brooms. Our plant has also been called “matchweed” because of the similar appearance of the stems and flower heads to matches. It has also been called “turpentine weed” due to its odor. The recent ethnographic study of Golden (O’Meara, 2022) shows that local tribes were aware of Broom Snakeweed, but there is no information about how they used it.
Mostly collected just along the high plains in Jefferson County, our plant is found in almost every county of Colorado. It is ubiquitous across the North American Cordillera from central Kansas west to the eastern Sierra Nevada of California and from Manitoba in the north to central Mexico in the south.
Not surprisingly for such a widely distributed plant, it was found by several early explorers and given multiple names by various botanists of the early 19th century, reflecting both the American and the Spanish heritage of the western United States. The first recorded scientific collection was made by the Lewis & Clark expedition (1804) along Big Bend of the Missouri River (South Dakota). Lewis & Clark’s collection was described as Solidago sarothrae, i.e., a type of Goldenrod, by Frederich Pursh (1814) in his Flora of North America. The species name “sarothrae,” is from the Greek “sarum” which means “broom” referring to the broom-like appearance of the stems.
The Spanish botanist Mariano Lagasca y Segura (1816), Director of the Real Jardin Botanico (Madrid), proposed the genus name Gutierrezia for the same plant found in “Nova Hispania.” That was probably Mexico but could include Texas, New Mexico, and California. Lagasca named the genus Gutierrezia for Pedro Gutierrez de Salceda, a 19th century Spanish nobleman, botanist, and apothecary, also at the Real Jardin Botanico.
Other 19th Century botanists we have previously met, such as Thomas Nuttall, and John Torrey and Asa Gray, proposed various other names for our plant, but it was quite some time later that Britton & Rusby (1887) correctly put Gutierrezia and sarothrae together and published the current name, Gutierrezia sarothrae. They did so in a scientific paper titled, “A list of plants collected by Miss Mary B. Croft, 1884-'85, at San Diego, Texas, near the Headwaters of the Rio Dulce.” San Diego, Texas, is in southern Texas, about mid-way between Corpus Cristi and Laredo.
References:
Britton, Nathaniel Lord, and H. H. Rusby. 1887. A list of plants collected by Miss Mary B. Croft, 1884-'85, at San Diego, Texas, near the Headwaters of the Rio Dulce. Transactions of the New York Academy of Sciences. 7: 7-14.
O'Meara, Sean. 2022. Indigenous Connections: Native American Ethnographic Study of Golden, Colorado and the Clear Creek Valley. Tucson, AZ: Anthropological Research, LLC, May 30, 2022.
Live Music for Tuesday, Sep. 10th
6PM Karaoke with Linda @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Open Bluegrass Pick Night @ Over Yonder Brewing
7PM Curly Taylor & Zydeco @ Goosetown Station
For more information, visit the Golden Today Calendar
Golden History: Loving Our Liquor
L.O. Place at the corner of 11th and Ford - Golden History Museum Collection
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116 Years Ago
The September 10, 1908 Colorado Transcript shows a lively saloon scene, with many of our local businesses advertising their "Fine Wines, Liquors, and Cigars," "Choice Wines, Liquors and Cigars," and "Finest and Largest Stock of Tobaccos and Candies."
110 Years Ago
Six years later, the temperance movement was gaining steam. While the goal was to establish a nation-wide ban on alcohol, one of the movement's tactics was to push bans in individual states or counties or municipalities. The September 17, 1914 Colorado Transcript includes an opinion piece by a Senator-elect from Alabama:
Opposes State Wide Prohibition
The liquor question is one for settlement by each individual community according to the wishes of that community. It is undemocratic and wrong from one community to attempt to be the keeper and disciplinarian of another.
The same issue of the paper included an article entitled:
President Wilson Favors State-Wide Prohibition
Colorado was experiencing labor unrest at that time, and the President had ordered that all saloons in the strike districts be closed. Wilson's stance wasn't as clear-cut as the article title implied. What it actually said was,
Major Simmons, who has charge of the federal troops in the northern coal fields, went so far as to request and urge Governor Ammons to close all of the saloons in the entire state, including Denver and Pueblo, this with with the sanction of the president. Is there any doubt that the closing of the saloons by sanction of President Wilson has been a good thing for Colorado . Why not Keep them closed everywhere?
Both of the articles were paid advertisements, funded by lobbying groups. History tells us that Wilson opposed Prohibition, considering alcohol consumption to be a personal decision.
The region-by-region approach to banning alcohol worked. Prohibition went into effect in Colorado on January 1, 1916. The nationwide ban became effective on January 17, 1920.
Weather
Overnight: Mostly clear. Low around 63, with temperatures rising to around 65 overnight. West wind around 9 mph.
Tuesday: Areas of smoke between 11am and noon, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny. High near 86, with temperatures falling to around 83 in the afternoon. West wind 3 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%. New rainfall amounts less than a tenth of an inch possible.
Tuesday Night: A slight chance of showers and thunderstorms before midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 62. West southwest wind around 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Tuesday Night: Slight Chance Showers And Thunderstorms then Mostly Cloudy, 62°F
Wednesday: Partly Sunny then Chance Showers And Thunderstorms, 83°F
Wednesday Night: Partly Cloudy, 59°F
Thursday: Sunny, 88°F
Thursday Night: Mostly Clear, 60°F
Friday: Sunny, 82°F
Friday Night: Mostly Clear, 56°F
Saturday: Sunny, 82°F
Saturday Night: Mostly Clear, 58°F
Sunday: Mostly Sunny, 82°F
Sunday Night: Partly Cloudy, 58°F
Monday: Sunny, 83°F
News About Golden - September 10, 2024
Won't You Be My Neighbor? NREL's Community Open House Returns
NREL
Driven by curiosity, networking opportunities, and a desire to learn, nearly 300 visitors braved the heat to attend NREL’s Community Open House event on July 24. The annual event offers NREL’s South Table Mountain Campus neighbors a glimpse into what and who is in their own backyard and allows NREL staff to shed light on the great things happening on our campus and in our laboratories... Read more... Download PDF below.
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