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VOLUME 156 | ISSUE 19
Row, row, row your boat
CoorsTek picks up public support, but another continuance Planning commission continues to lumber through project details BY DEBORAH GRIGSBY DGRIGSBY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Engineering students celebrate as they navigate a 300-yard water obstacle in a boat built from cardboard. The annual event is a part of Engineering Days (E-Days), a School of Mines tradition since 1934.
Cardboard regatta highlights Oredigger E-Days BY DEBORAH GRIGSBY DGRIGSBY@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Since 1934, Colorado School of Mines students have welcomed spring — and blown off some serious steam — with Engineering Days, or E-Days, as it’s known ’round these parts. The three-day school festival features a drilling competition, engineering games, live entertainment, a fireworks show, and an exciting cardboard boat regatta. The race draws hundreds of spectators to Golden’s Clear Creek to cheer on classmates paddling through a 300-yard obstacle course
Colorado School of Mines students breathe a sigh of relief as their pizza box boat makes it over the first riffle April 23 as the school’s annual cardboard boat race drew hundreds of spectators to the banks of Clear Creek. Students are permitted to use only cardboard, duct tape, glue, and Liquid Nails®, a heavy-duty construction adhesive.
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PHOTOS BY DEBORAH GRIGSBY
Welcome back. The saga continues in downtown Golden as the city planning commission issued yet another continuance for the beleaguered CoorsTek 9th Street Redevelopment project. This is the historic Colorado company’s fourth continuance since submitting its voluminous development plan to the city more than a year ago. While questions surrounding parking, increased downtown traffic and affordable housing still linger, close to 20 individuals came forward at the five-hour April 18 meeting to support the Coors family and the proposed five-block mixed-use commercial district. “I’m relatively new to the Golden community, but the Coors family is not,” said Virginia Ortiz, Golden-based Go Farm executive director. “This is a Golden family doing right by Golden. These are not folks that are wanting to seek a variance on any of these SEE SUPPORT, P7
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