4th of July in Golden

The Golden Lions Club is hosting their annual 4th of July Festival in Lions Park on Sunday, July 4th. Gates open at 1 p.m. so get there in time to claim your picnic spot, but leave the picnic basket at home because they will be firing up the grills. There will be plenty of food for purchase for all appetites, and beer provided by Golden City Brewery and Coors to wash it all down. Wine and nonalcohoic drinks will also be available for purchase. Music starts at 3 p.m. and continues until the fireworks show at approximately 9:30 p.m. If you haven’t gotten your raffle tickets yet, don’t worry, you can buy them on the spot. The Lions Club is notorious for the wide assortment of valuable prizes they collect from local businesses to raffle off. All raffle and festival proceeds go to support the work that the Lions Club does in the community throughout the year. Due to public health concerns, there will be NO kiddie rides or bouncy castles this year, but that doesn’t mean there won’t be plenty of fun. Parking near the festival is extremely limited. The 8th, 9th and 10th Street neighborhood will be closed to through traffic and festival parking. Plan to park downtown in the public garages on Jackson Street, at the public lot at 311 10th Street, or ride your bike down. Remember that all fireworks are ILLEGAL in the city limits of Golden, so leave the fireworks to the professionals. You can view the show from anywhere along the creek path, near Lions Park, and the Golden History Park.

For more information, visit www.goldenlionsclub.org/4thofjuly.php.

LIONS CLUB 4TH OF JULY FESTIVAL

Sunday, July 4 • 1 - 10 p.m. Lions Park, 10th and Maple St. Music by: Ryan Chrys & the Rough Cuts and Something Underground

EVEN STATUES NEED MAKEOVERS

You may have noticed some of our iconic downtown statues getting much-needed attention in the last few weeks. Golden’s public art collection is undergoing long overdue cleaning and maintenance by Pacific Coast Conservation, a company that specializes in the care and conservation of art pieces. The statues are continually exposed to elements, emissions, and environmental conditions that can take a toll on their physical structures as well as their surfaces. Careful cleaning will restore the beauty and shine that lies under surface grime and soot, and a routine maintenance schedule will correct any corrosion, cracks, or other forms of environmental or accidental damage. The cost of the maintenance was underwritten by the Public Art Commission (PAC) along with a generous grant from the Golden Civic Foundation. The PAC is incorporating a future maintenance schedule for the collection so that we can be sure that Buffalo Bill doesn’t have to wait so long before his next spa day.