Golden Transcript 123021

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December 30, 2021

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VOLUME 156 | ISSUE 2

Cookie contest brings smiles to young at heart Memory care center hosts sweet holiday event for residents BY BOB WOOLEY BWOOLEY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Barbara Kramer, 82, sat with friends waiting for the Christmas Cookie Challenge and Exchange to begin. With a sly grin, she snuck a quick bite of candy cane shaped cookie, before the official start of the event. In her defense, she said they simply looked too good to wait. Baking holiday cookies has always been a family tradition for Kramer. But this year, she put her family’s snickerdoodle recipe to the test at Willowbrook Place in south Jeffco. Several residents, staff and family members joined in on the fun on Dec. 22, tasting cookies and voting for their favorites. For memory care patients like Kramer, the party is about more than just sweet treats. It’s a chance to share the company of friends, re-engage and connect SEE SMILES, P6

Barbara Kramer, 82, gets ready to taste cookies during Willowbrook Place’s Christmas Cookie Challenge and Exchange in south JefPHOTO BY BOB WOOLEY fco. Kramer submitted her snickerdoodles to the competition.

City of Golden offers free Christmas tree recycling Former feted firs, other trees may live again as garden mulch BY DEBORAH GRIGSBY DGRIGSBY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Almost everyone loves a good Christmas tree — that is until Christmas is over. Then that beloved ole Tannenbaum becomes a post-holiday

clean-up chore. But if you chose a live tree this year, its holiday glory doesn’t have to end curbside on trash day. Instead of tossing it, give it a second life as garden mulch through the City of Golden Forestry Division’s free Christmas tree recycling program, running now through Jan. 24. City of Golden Communications Manager Emily Gedeon said the Christmas tree recycling program, which opened early this year to accommodate tree debris from

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the recent wind storms, has been operating for nearly 25 years. The program close to 1,000 Christmas trees each year repurposed as mulch, according to Gedeon. “The program helps keep wood waste out of landfills and recycles the material back into residential landscapes,” Gedeon said. National Christmas Tree Association Executive Director Tim O’Conner agrees. “Mulching is the most common way we see Christmas trees

recycled,” he explained. “Trees, as a product of nature, are truly biodegradable—and are a far better choice for the environment.” Manufactured from polyvinyl choride—or PVC —most artificial Christmas trees, according to O’Conner, “can sit in a landfill for a thousand years.” Golden residents may drop off live Christmas trees at the former Golden Recycle site, west of the intersection at Highway 93 and SEE TREE DROP, P6

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