Posts Tagged ‘gaming’

Spike camp for youth

Published: July 8th, 2010

Golden Gate Canyon State Park

In late June Dan Weber, Park Manager of Golden Gate Canyon State Park, led a tour of a “spike camp” built for young adults working on sustainable trails projects in Golden Gate. The projects are viable through the combined …read the rest of this story »

Walkin’ on the wild side of Mount Evans

Published: July 2nd, 2010

Spending a day on a famous “fourteener”

Originally called Mt. Rosa, Mt. Evans was renamed so in 1895 in honor of Colorado’s second Governor of Colorado Territory, John Evans. In 1917 Denver’s Mayor Robert Speer, with the Pike’s Peak road attracting tourists …read the rest of this story »

Volunteers fence Red Men and clean up five cemeteries

Published: July 2nd, 2010

ATV and dirt bike access discouraged

Located front and center among the five cemeteries above Central City, the smallest plot of sacred ground, the Red Men Cemetery, was recently the scene of special preservation efforts by a group of local volunteers. …read the rest of this story »

Puccini’s Madama Butterfly

By: Bob & Anne Hunter
Published: July 2nd, 2010

Central City Opera Review

A very enthusiastic full house was most appreciative of Saturday’s Central City Opera opening night performance of an often performed opera, Giacomo Puccini’s Madama Butterfly. And well the audience should have been …read the rest of this story »

Rock haulers to use back roads for mine reclamation work

Published: July 2nd, 2010

No route through Central City or Black Hawk

Gilpin County Commissioners Buddy Schmalz, Jeanne Nicholson and Forrest Whitman renewed the contract with Jefferson County Public Health, revisited the County’s zoning regulations, reviewed Colorado Department of …read the rest of this story »

Madame Lou Bunch Day in Central City

Published: June 24th, 2010

Brass Bed Racing – one of America’s most unique events!

Some local residents didn’t even bother getting out of bed on Saturday, June 19th. The 36th annual Madame Lou Bunch Day and Brass Bed Race hosted a few bed heads who “hit the sack” and raced, by bed, through the streets …read the rest of this story »

Hidee Gold Mining Company thanks community with annual celebration

Published: June 24th, 2010

Free tours, rides, food, fun

In the archives of this newspaper the July 1, 1904 issue reports values of an ore shipment from the Hidee Mine in Lake Gulch district as 6 ounces gold, 9 ounces silver and 11% copper for a total valuation of $130 per ton. The …read the rest of this story »

Girls, grab those garters!

By: PRESS RELEASE
Published: June 10th, 2010

Madame Lou Bunch Day in Central City, Saturday, June 19

Don’t bother getting out of bed on Saturday, June 19. The 36th annual Madame Lou Bunch Day and Brass Bed Race will host a few bed heads who will “hit the sack” and race, by bed, through the …read the rest of this story »

diBennedetto’s hand-worked copper studio door at GCAA gallery

Published: June 10th, 2010

64th Annual Show opens

The gallery of the Gilpin County Arts Association (GCAA) is once again open for the summer.  Gallery Manager Sandy Early tallied more than a hundred guests at the June 5th opening night celebration. This …read the rest of this story »

Coeur d’Alene shows inner workings of 1885 shaft house

Published: June 3rd, 2010

The grindstone sitting in the corner of the Coeur d’Alene shaft house doesn’t look dangerous, but the pedal operated sandstone wheel, or one like it, could be the implement of explosive destruction in 1940. A miner, …read the rest of this story »

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