30 years ago – November 28, 1986
Street caroling, dramatic readings of holiday stories, and the annual Festival of Lights are three of the featured events planned for this year’s Christmases Remembered festival. The yearly festival, sponsored by the Gilpin County Chamber of Commerce, will begin at 10:00 a.m. today, November 28th, opening with the Victorian shopping bazaar. It will be held in the Central City recreation center on Lawrence Street. Food and fine handmade crafts will be for sale at the bazaar. The Christmases Remembered festival is a three day event, continuing through Sunday, November 30. Other events included are: a Santa Claus house, a daily parade, exhibits of dollhouses and miniatures, and a used book sale as well as many other special events. The Festival of Lights—March of the Singing Children, will begin on Saturday at 6:00 p.m. It will begin at Raynold’s Court on Lawrence Street in Central City. Over 250 luminaries are expected to line the streets and create a path for the singing children. Sam Williams, newly elected State Representative in House District 53, will arrive in Central City at noon on the Central City fire truck, so be on the lookout for him on Friday. At 5:00 p.m. on Saturday, winners of the essay contest for the school children grades one through six will be announced at the recreation center. At 5:30 p.m. winners of the decorating contest will be announced. On Friday and Saturday a short play entitled “The Devil,” a farce, written by Guy Maussant, will be performed in the Eureka Ballroom at the Teller House. The play starts at 8:00 p.m. Following the play, a traditional Victorian holiday party will take place at 8:15 p.m. On Saturday and Sunday Brahms’s songs will be performed at the Golden Rose Hotel. The local performers are Naomi Fellows, Diana Calhoun, and Fran Cook. The performance on Saturday will begin at 1:30 p.m. On Friday the reading will begin at 2:00 p.m. followed by the performance at 2:30 p.m. A concert at St. James Methodist Church will be held at 4:00 p.m. on Sunday.
Letter to the Editor: To Highway 46/ Golden Gate Canyon Commuters, there exists another gravel pit threat. This time it is the existing Jefferson County pit off of Golden Gate Canyon Road near the Golden Gate Grange. The Jeffco commissioners are planning in expanding the existing small operation into a large one involving 200 double-trailer truck trips every working day. The effect on your commute is obvious: more pollution, more danger, destruction of the beauty of the scenery. And once Jeffco starts extensive gravel mining, it can hardly refuse the other interests that have been scheming to gouge gravel from Golden Gate for years. The canyon could be destroyed! Attend the public hearing on Monday, December 1, 1:00 p.m., at the Jeffco Courthouse. Signed, Amy Thomas, Gilpin County resident.
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