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Watercolor Class, GURA Goals, and a Lucky Accident

Golden Eye Candy – Richard Luckin – Winter on the Creek – click to enlarge

Virtual Events

Zoom into Watercolor with Janet Nunn starts today


6-6:55AM Virtual Dynamic Circuit
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
11-11:55AM Find Your Balance
1-3PM Zoom into Watercolor with Janet Nunn
5:30-6:30PM Step Circuit

6:30PM GURA Board Meeting @ City Hall

At their November meeting, the GURA board went through an exercise to help them define their “Values/Goals/Perspectives” so they could use them as a basis for decision making. Tonight’s meeting packet includes the notes from the November meeting.

As you might expect, their plans include some difficult-to-reconcile goals.

They want to make Golden more desirable but they don’t want gentrification or less affordable housing.

They want to eliminate blight, but they don’t want to mistake poverty for blight.

They want to make decisions based on community input, but they don’t plan to reach out to community members. As they discussed during the November meeting, some people have never been allowed to live in Golden. GURA needs to make decisions based on the needs of the people who were never able to live here.

You can review their goals by reading the meeting packet, beginning on page 8.


Real World Events

6-9PM Golden Game Guild Meet-Up Mondays @ Golden Game Guild
7-8:30PM Golden Concert Choir Rehearsals Begin @ Calvary Episcopal Church


Golden History Moment

Twice before, I’ve written about serious accidents involving Colorado & Southern trains–one in 1905 and one in 1906. In both cases, the Colorado Transcript marveled that the accidents weren’t even worse. The paper ascribed the could-have-been-worse results to “the legendary luck” of the Colorado & Southern railroad.

Colorado and Southern passenger train, 1904 – Golden History Museum collection – click to enlarge

115 Years Ago
The January 10, 1907 Colorado Transcript describes another legendarily lucky accident. The passenger shuttle train to Golden left Denver at 10AM. It was a foggy morning and the train was running at about 16 MPH when it collided head-on with a freight engine that was sitting on the track.

The article details the injuries. The most serious was Mrs. Osborne, Golden resident, who was hurled into a hot stove and may have incurred internal injuries. The conductor’s head went through a window and he was badly cut. Other passengers incurred sprains, “bad bruises,” and “severe cuts.”

The railroad attributed the accident to the heavy fog. They said it was impossible for the engineer to see more than a short distance. They were curiously silent as to why there was a freight engine sitting on the track when a passenger train was scheduled to come through.

The shuttle trains between this city and Denver always make a good time, making the run in thirty minutes. The train was going about sixteen miles an hour when the crash came, and it is the proverbial luck of this division of the Colorado & Southern that more people were not injured.


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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