30 years ago – March 21, 1986
By Sandra Williamson: Yes, it is time for the annual Easter Egg Hunt again. Easter is early this year, which means the hunt will take place at 10 a.m. on Saturday, March 29. It will be held in the Opera House Gardens and is open to all Gilpin County children through 10 years of age. The Elks Ladies #557 organize and sponsor the event, but it is financed by contributions from the businesses and residents of the area. If you would like to contribute but haven’t been contacted yet by a committee member, send your contribution to Elks Ladies #557. Every child attending the Easter Egg Hunt will receive eggs, a small basket of candy and a prize. We have increased the number of items to be given out so as not to be caught short this year. We look forward to seeing a lot of smiling faces and express our deepest gratitude to everyone that is making this event possible.
This Saturday and Sunday the interior painting of the rec-center will begin. “It will be a happy looking place when it is finished,” artist Angelo DiBenedetto said Wednesday. He is doing the design for the paint job. “The response has been excellent” from volunteers, he said. Last weekend, around 20 people helped clean the walls of the Clark Gym which houses the rec-center. The cleaning took less than a day, rather than the two days that were scheduled for it. The painting of the rec-center is being done as a ‘thank you’ from the Central City Jazz Society to the RE-1 School District which owns the gym. The gym is used as one of the locations for the annual jazz festival. The painting will take several weekends, according to DiBenedetto. Volunteers and donations of paint are still welcome. The painting will start each weekend day at 9:30 a.m., but latecomers are welcome too.
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