CAG Thrift Shop & Food Pantry

Tax deductible monetary and gently used clothes/household items, NEW socks/underwear donations are appreciated.

Food Pantry in need of tomato products, coffee, canned meat/tuna, jelly, spam, water, shampoo, body wash, and tooth paste.

Our Goals:

• To provide support and empathy in an inclusive environment.

• To provide help for those in need in our community.

• To operate a food pantry in the Golden area for the benefit of local families and individuals.

• To provide short-term financial assistance to those experiencing crisis or sudden hardship

• To provide consultation and advice regarding additional support services in the vicinity.

WEDNESDAYS AND FRIDAYS 10AM - 3PM

You never know what treasure you will find in our thrift shop!!

Accepting Visa/Mastercard - $10.00 minimum light-duty cars a year.

Colorado had 719 DC fast chargers in place by the end of 2022, and 3,750 Level 2 chargers, the report said. Adding thousands of ports with federal and state money in coming years includes targeting both business and tourism corridors. Colorado has $56.5 million to build DC fast chargers along federally designated interstates and other major roads, and also plans to increase the number of “electrified byways” on state Scenic & Historic Byways to 23 by 2025 from three in 2020 .

The effort for an “electric future,” as the Colorado Department of Transportation describes it, is led by CDOT, the Colorado Energy Office and the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.

“We’re awarding grants to help build fast-charging stations across the state and to fund EV repair technician training,” CDOT Executive Director Shoshana Lew said. The 2023 plan looks backward and forward. “This plan moves us closer to our EV adoption goals and closer to the low emissions future we all want,” Lew said.

Colorado, federal agencies and utilities are all boosting their tax credits and rebates for buying light-duty EVs, which include passenger cars, SUVs, minivans and most pickups. With the lucrative rebates and a rapidly expanding menus of EVs in varying sizes from popular manufacturers, light-duty sales are on track.

To spread electrification into all modes of transportation, Colorado should facilitate electric bike rebates for 10,000 low- and moderate-income residents by 2025, the report said. Denver’s city-funded program for e-bike discount vouchers has helped more than 5,000 people buy bikes, city officials said this month.

A next major challenge is swapping out diesel-burning mediumand heavy-duty trucks for electric or hydrogen fuel cell drive trains. The new plan sets goals of 30% zero-emission truck sales by 2030, with 35,000 on the road by then — from virtually none now. The Air Quality Control Commission in April will hold hearings and vote on adopting California’s existing Advanced Clean Trucks standard for medium- and heavy-duty sales in Colorado, with required levels of new sales that ramp up beginning with the 2027 model year.

Trucking industry officials say Colorado’s goals will be a steep challenge, as there are few alternative-drive heavy trucks on the market. Colorado’s cold weather and steep terrain will also sap the available life from heavy truck batteries, and battery packages that can weigh 8,000 pounds replace money-making payloads for larger trucks, they say.

If electric or hydrogen-drive trucks are not widely available for the next few years, the new EV plan commits Colorado to work on programs or rebates to replace older, high-emissions trucks with newer fossil fuel models. The trucking industry says the newest vehicles emit 90% less nitrogen oxide, a key element in Colorado’s ozone violations, than current standards.

The state EV plan also sets goals of converting the entire public transit fleet to zero-emission vehicles no later than 2050, and retirement of all diesel or gas school buses by 2035.

This story is from The Colorado Sun, a journalist-owned news outlet based in Denver and covering the state. For more, and to support The Colorado Sun, visit coloradosun.com. The Colorado Sun is a partner in the Colorado News Conservancy, owner of Colorado Community Media.