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VOLUME 158 | ISSUE 33
As season winds down, tubers note improvements to Golden’s creek corridor
WEEK OF AUGUST 15, 2024
New tools, same mission Golden’s National Night Out highlights public safety agencies’ new resources
BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
BY CORINNE WESTEMAN CWESTEMAN@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
Golden’s tubing season is winding down. The once-rushing Clear Creek is now low and slow, and before too long, the city will be evaluating its changes it made to the Clear Creek corridor before summer to improve user experiences. Ted and Amber Cleveland, who stay at the Clear Creek RV Park every summer, said they noticed the widened sidewalks, new gates and signs, and a few other changes. They also showed off the city’s data-collection tags on their innertubes, which they brought. Overall, they said, the city “did a lot of work.” Going into summer 2024, city staff implemented several improvements for the corridor, which include but weren’t limited to: • Widening the north trail near the Clear Creek RV Park; • Reconfiguring the Clear Creek Whitewater Park’s beach area; • Installing gates to close more than a dozen access points along the creek; • Data-collection measures for people bringing their own tubes; and • Hiring an outside company to manage downtown parking, and increasing the number of code enforcement officers and creek ambassadors along the corridor. Officials will review whether and how these measures worked and begin discussing measures for summer 2025 during a public meeting in October.
While their missions remain the same, the public safety agencies participating in Golden’s annual National Night Out have experienced some changes over the last two years. And when — weather permitting — they reconvene for next year’s event, they will have seen even more changes. While the Aug. 6 event was bookended by thunderstorms, hundreds of people and more than a dozen public safety agencies spent the evening at Parfet Park. As the name suggests, the annual event occurs nationwide on the first Tuesday of August, allowing people to meet their police officers, firefighters and other public safety workers in a relaxed environment, organizers have described.
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An AirLife Denver nurse gives families tours of the helicopter Aug. 6 during Golden’s National Night Out event. Hundreds of people stopped by Parfet Park to meet local PHOTO BY CORINNE WESTEMAN police officers, firefighters and other emergency responders.
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