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Also on today's calendar: Altar de Muertos: String Quartet Masterworks Performance and 9 more events.
Today's riddle: How do billboards talk? 🤔 (Answer below!)
1. SWE Shadows – Colorado School of Mines (swe.org) — High school and transfer students can spend a day shadowing engineering students at Colorado School of Mines in Golden this November, getting a close look at classes, campus life, and the Society of Women Engineers community. Sessions run 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on November 11 and 18, with chances to attend info sessions, lunch, and coffee chats with current students.
2. Denver Rescue Mission partnering with school districts after homeless prevention pilot (denver7.com) — Families in Golden and across Jefferson County are getting new help staying housed through Denver Rescue Mission's school-based homelessness prevention program, piloted with Jeffco Public Schools. By placing caseworkers in schools and offering one-time emergency payments averaging $2,900, the effort has already kept more than 100 Colorado families, including 40 Jeffco families, from losing their homes and is now expanding statewide.
3. Former Golden employee who hung Black doll: 'It was a misunderstanding' (thegoldentranscript.com) — Golden residents are learning more about the internal investigation into a Golden Fire Department employee who hung a Black "Snoop on a Stoop" doll from a rope, an act he calls a misunderstanding. Newly released documents detail staff reactions, the employee's discipline and eventual firing, and how the controversy contributed to the terminations of the city manager and fire chief and a new outside investigation.
4. News About Golden - October 9, 2026 (goldentoday.com) — Golden readers are updated on a new 284-unit Alasso apartment development aimed at easing the city's tight rental market, along with news of a Golden man's arrest in a Jefferson County road-rage shooting. The roundup also links to broader regional coverage, including a Denver arts feature and additional reporting on the shooting investigation.
5. United Sherpa Association of Colorado sends $30k to Nepal for flood relief (rmpbs.org) — From Golden, local Nepali community leaders helped raise more than $30,000 in just two weeks to support flood relief in Nepal after catastrophic glacial flooding. Led by Sherpa House's owner and the United Sherpa Association of Colorado, the campaign drew donations from Golden patrons and across Colorado, highlighting how a small mountain-town community can respond powerfully to distant disasters.
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