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.

CAG Food Pantry and Thrift Store had a great year. Thanks to our community members, local clubs, organizations, churches and businesses we were able to provide and serve our community with healthy and nutritious food. We would like to thank those who make our mission possible year after year.

• Golden Civic Foundation

• Golden Lions Club

• Golden Optimist

• Golden Elks Club

• Boy Scouts

• Faith Lutheran Church

• St. Joseph’s Catholic Church

• First United Methodist Church

• Coors Tek

• 100% Chiropractic

• Safeway

• Miners Saloon

• Windy Saddle

• Golden Mill

• Golden City Brewery

• Golden Goods progressively deteriorated over the last four decades and is currently extremely unsafe,” Salas wrote in an email. “Denver Water has installed fencing to deter the public from trying to enter the unsafe structure while we go through the process of determining its future.”

And many many Golden Community members and businesses who donated their time, talent, treasures. You all are greatly appreciated. With gratitude Kelly Ivan, CAG Executive Director.

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

He said Denver Water understood the site’s historic signi cance and wanted to work with other groups to determine potentially viable options, and no decisions have been made.

Hotel history e community of South Platte was at the con uence of the North Fork of the South Platte River. According to Preservation Colorado, the hotel originally was constructed in 1887 by Charles Walbrecht and his wife Millie, an example of a workingclass resort hotel. In its day, the hotel o ered 14 rooms to stagecoach passengers and train passengers on the Denver, South Park and Paci c Railroad narrow-gauge line. e hotel also operated a post ofce, and by 1900 the town, population 40, included the hotel, railroadrelated businesses and a general merchandise store. Five years later the Walbrechts expanded the hotel to include a saloon.

Steinle said many communities sprang up in the late 1800s along the railroad, especially between Bu alo Creek and Pine Grove, a reminder of how intense railroading was in Colorado and how important the railroads were to the state’s economy.

According to legend, the hotel was set on re and burned to the ground in 1912. It was replaced with the structure that is still standing today, according to Preservation Colorado.

Student involvement

It’s not just area historical societies who are interested in preserving the South Platte Hotel. In the 2012-13 school year, West Je erson Middle School English teacher Frank Reetz and a team of students embarked on a project to restore the Billy Westall Monument near the South Platte community. is project was successfully completed in 2014 and recognized by the Jefferson County Historical Commission.

With that success, Reetz and his students began studying the South Platte Hotel, and students wrote essays on what should be done with the building, especially given its neglected state, that were published in 2018 in the periodical “Historically Colorado.”

While a few students said the building was too expensive to renovate and preserve, some suggested restoring it to a functioning hotel, preserving part of the building, or creating a park on the property as a way to preserve its history.

As one student put it: “We must protect this historic space from the forces of nature. We cannot let the destruction of this area. It is spiritual and special to the community.”