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VOLUME 155 | ISSUE 37

Golden’s four city council seats not competitive Former mayoral candidate Don Cameron joins three incumbents this fall BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

The School of Mines marching band performs at the Celebration of Golden.

PHOTO BY RYAN DUNN

Tooting their own horn Vendors, artisans and citizen groups come together for community celebration at School of Mines BY RYAN DUNN RDUNN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Several community organizations partnered with the city of Golden to host the first-ever Celebration of Golden: Commemoration of Our Resilience at the Colorado School of Mines Quad on Aug. 28. Golden United, School of Mines,

Act Locally Golden and Home in Golden worked with the city to throw the event, which featuring food, music and booths hosted by local groups. Golden Mayor Laura Weinberg, Councilmember Bill Fisher and other community leaders gave speeches to kick off the celebration, followed by musical performances from Mines’ marching band and local folk band Alibi. Golden eateries Bob’s Burgers, Basic Kneads Pizza, Golden Poulty and Meats and Eddy Hotel provided food for those in attendance. Event Volunteer Joy Bauman said the Celebration of Golden was meant to provide an in-person community gathering after over a

There will be no competitive city council races for Golden voters to decide this fall. The deadline for submitting candidate nominating petitions passed on Aug. 23 with just one candidate running for each of the four seats. Those candidates are incumbent Rob Reed for the ward 1 seat, incumbent Paul Haseman for the ward 2 seat, Don Cameron for the ward 3 seat and William “Bill” Fisher for the ward 4 seat.

year of Coronavirus-induced social distancing measures. “We came together to have a celebration of COVID being over and being out again,” said Bauman. “We also wanted to celebrate the medical workers, people who died and anyone affected by COVID.” One of the community groups in attendance was the Golden Community Garden, whose representative, Michelle Herd, said she was hoping to raise awareness of ways that folks in the community can get involved with the garden. “The garden is for the community, not just the gardeners that have plots there,” said Herd. “There are

Ward 1 After initially announcing that he was not planning to seek re-election, Rob Reed announced on May 13 that he had changed his mind and would do so. “After a lot of soul-searching, conversations with my wife, and receiving encouragement from friends, neighbors, constituents and colleagues, I have decided to seek reelection to Golden city council,” he wrote in an email to the Golden Transcript. “While I initially thought 2022 would be a good year to pass the baton to a new councilor for Ward 1, I now feel that my work is not yet done.”

SEE CELEBRATION, P20

SEE COUNCIL, P2

INSIDE: VOICES: PAGE 12 | LIFE: PAGE 14 | CALENDAR: PAGE 17 | SPORTS: PAGE 18

PAGING READERS Book clubs a fine way to get literary

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