What’s Happening in Golden Today?
6-6:55AM Dynamic Circuit (Virtual)
8:30-9:30AM Power Training (Virtual)
10-10:55AM All Levels Yoga (Virtual)
10:15-10:45AM Let’s Dance @ Golden Library
11AM-8PM GOLDEN CITY BREWERY BIRTHDAY BASH
Over Rice Thai food truck at 2PM. Costume contest!
12-12:30PM Mondays with Mayor Weinberg (Virtual)
3-4:30PM Trick or Treat Street @ Downtown Golden
Calling all ghouls and ghosts! Put on your Halloween costume and come on down to downtown Golden for the annual Trick or Treat Street!
The City of Golden, in conjunction with the downtown merchants, invites all Golden school-aged kiddos to show off their costumes and collect some candy! There might even be a few fun surprises!
Brought to you by the City of Golden and the generous businesses of downtown Golden.
4-4:30PM Kids Martial Arts Class (Virtual)
4-8PM Trick or Treat so Golden Can Eat
Colorado School of Mines students will be collecting canned goods from the community for donations to those in need. Simply leave your items outside your home during this time frame! Click HERE to learn more.
News from the Newsroom
I just returned from the Independent News Sustainability Summit in Austin. It was exciting to be around other people in the local news business—to learn what problems they’re trying to solve and see how they’re solving them. Some of the attendees were local journalists who took over when their hometown newspapers expired. Others were representing groups that they felt were under-served by local news outlets. Some focus exclusively on politics and public policy at the state or local level.
I describe my mission as “telling my audience what City Council and the boards and commissions will be discussing, so the public can weigh in before the decisions are made. I also provide a list of events happening in town every day.”
The conference was sponsored by the Knight Foundation, the Lenfest Institute, and the Google News Initiative. I was able to attend thanks to a grant from the Local Independent Online News Publishers.
The attendees were all at different points along their growth path: some had full-time business development staff while others (like me) were wondering how long they could keep this up. The objective of the conference was to help us reach a point where our news operations were “sustainable—” where they didn’t depend on a single person working every day forever.
I would like to expand the scope of what I cover. I would like to hire some other writers. I would like to upgrade my technology and my placement in the search engines. I would like GoldenToday to be able to keep going, with or without me.
All of this leads me to my monthly appeal:
Many thanks to the people who sponsored this email for the month of October. If you enjoy the Eye Candy, the events, the previews of city meetings, and Golden History Moments, please consider sponsoring us for November. Click here to find out how.
Thanks,
Barb Warden
goldentoday.com
303-278-2701
Golden History Moment
Golden hosts an amazing Halloween celebration in the historic downtown. It all started when the children from Mitchell Elementary (which used to be located downtown) began an annual tradition of parading along Washington Avenue, so they could show off their Halloween costumes. I wondered how long this had been going on, so I did some research. This was the first reference I could find:
51 Years Ago
HERE’S SOMETHING SPECIAL for the Avenue–the boys and girls of Mitchell Elementary School will parade along the Avenue in their Hallowe’en costumes Friday–tomorrow–between one and two o’clock. Won’t that be a sight? You know how great it is for children to dress up–and then to have the opportunity to show off those costumes in a parade. Come on down if you want to see this something special.…
October 28, 1971 Golden Transcript
From that humble beginning, the event grew and grew and grew. At some point, the other Golden elementary schools were invited.
I’ve been attending and photographing the event since the 1990s, and in that time, I’ve seen the addition of the Mines Band, a cappella groups, and flash mob dances. The City now (very wisely) closes the street for the ninety minute event.
With so many thousands of trick-or-treaters, Halloween has become quite expensive for the downtown merchants, but it is wildly cute. Thanks, merchants!
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!
