WHAT’S HAPPENING IN GOLDEN TODAY?
6-6:55AM Cardio Lift Interval (Virtual)
8-8:55AM Tai Chi (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life @ Golden Library
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
1PM Wild West Walking Tour
1PM Wild West Short Tour
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop (Virtual)
5-6PM Bell Middle School PTA Meeting @ Bell Middle School
6-8PM Fireside Chat: Arthur Lakes Letters to O.C. Marsh @ Dino Ridge Discovery Center
6-7:30PM Bingo Night @ American Legion Post 21
SEE THE COMPLETE CALENDAR OF EVENTS.
CITY COUNCIL ELECTION
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CITY MEETING
6-8:30PM Community Sustainability Advisory Board @ City Hall
Tonight’s agenda includes the following topics.
Sustainability Rebate Program: The Board will consider several items related to financial incentives to the community, including a review of 2023 rebates, potential incentives for 2024, and two grant requests for funding of local energy efficiency projects.
Energy Conservation and Renewable Energy Metrics: Staff will work with Board members to identify relevant metrics to show progress toward the City’s sustainability goals which will be added to the City website this fall.
Draft Community Electric Vehicle Roadmap and policy recommendation regarding fees for
public EV charging: The Board will review a second draft of a Community EV Roadmap and provide input before the item is scheduled for a final review and adoption at an upcoming City Council meeting. The Board will also review staff research about a policy proposal to begin charging fees for city-owned public electric vehicle charging stations.
LIVE MUSIC
4-8PM Chrispy @ Mountain Toad
5PM Southbound String Band @ Over Yonder
6-9PM CW Wooten @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
6-9PM Derek Hall @ Miners Saloon
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GOLDEN HISTORY MOMENT
163 Years Ago
George West, who founded the Colorado Transcript in 1866, also published an earlier newspaper. The Western Mountaineer ran from December 1859 – December 1860. Fortunately, every issue is available online. The Mountaineer provides some interesting insights into life in Golden in its earliest days. The October 25, 1860 issue is a great example.
West’s friend William Byers (editor of the Rocky Mountain News) had recently lost his house in a fire. This caused West to think about Golden’s vulnerability. He wrote an article pointing out that we had no fire-fighting equipment and no water supply system. He wrote that the town needed to organize a bucket brigade to draw water from Clear Creek.
A “bucket company” can and should be formed, and the expense to each man would be trifling. Nothing would be needed save that each member come to the scene of the conflagration provided with one or more buckets for passing water from the stream to the fire….
It would be well, too, to form a “hook and ladder” company, and provide it with proper means for tearing down buildings contiguous to those in flames, and which might be the means of aiding the progress of the devouring element.
Fires will occur, and no one knows how soon Golden City may be doomed to suffer from a conflagration. When it does occur we may be favored by fortune as was Denver the other evening, and lose only a single house, or we may be doomed to see half our city in ashes. Let us take the proper precaution, and when a fire does occur, confine it to as narrow limits as possible.
Speaking of West’s relationship with Byers: the two of them often addressed quips to each other in the columns of their newspapers. Much of the time, I don’t know what they’re talking about, but I found this one funny:
APOLOGETIC.–The Daily News takes exceptions to our remark last week, that nearly all the disturbance in the late Convention was caused “by about half a dozen of the Denver delegation.” We will retract, and put it four or five of that delegation. There, BYER, that lets you out.
Western Mountaineer – October 25, 1860
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
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