The dance is less than a week away on September 28th! The theme is “We’re Still Dancing!” and it’s a combo celebration and fundraiser. There are several ways to get tickets: Prices are per person and include food and refreshments! We encourage you to purchase tickets ahead so we know how much food to provide! Why a dance? We’re celebrating …
Gilpin Astronomy Day is happening Saturday, August 10th at the Gilpin County Community Center, followed by stargazing that night at Golden Gate Canyon State Park! It’s FREE to Attend! Want to know more about the stars, planets, and galaxies? Interested in checking out some sunspots? Well, Gilpin AstroDay is your chance to get all your questions answered about the cosmos. …
The Gilpin County Fair is coming up starting July 19th! Several of our FGCCC members are on the fair committee and/or are volunteering to help make it the best one ever. The Fair still needs volunteers to help with various tasks, so if you can give a little of your time, there’s going to be a fair volunteer “meet and …
Register Now! We’re proud to sponsor Water Safety Day on June 21st! Here’s more information!
Thanks to Cleanup Crews! Thanks to everyone who came to the Cleanup Day at the Community Center campus yesterday! Special shoutout to the Girl Scout Troopers, local and county officials Sandy Hollingsworth, Marie Mornis, Jeremy Peter Fey, and all the families who joined our members in this activity. Everyone gave several hours of their time to keep our gem sparkling! …
Antarctica is Earth’s southernmost continent, containing the geographic South Pole. It is situated in the Antarctic region of the Southern Hemisphere, almost entirely south of the Antarctic Circle, and is surrounded by the Southern Ocean. At 14,000,000 square kilometres, it is the fifth-largest continent in area after Asia, Africa, North America, and South America. For comparison, Antarctica is nearly twice …
Zebras are several species of African equids united by their distinctive black and white striped coats. Their stripes come in different patterns, unique to each individual. They are generally social animals that live in small harems to large herds. Unlike their closest relatives the horses and donkeys, zebras have never been truly domesticated. There are three species of zebras: the …
A monk is a person who practices religious asceticism, living either alone or with any number of other monks. A monk may be a person who decided to dedicate his life to serving all other living beings, or to be an ascetic who voluntarily chooses to leave mainstream society and live his life in prayer and contemplation. The concept is …
Birds are a group of endothermic vertebrates, characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a lightweight but strong skeleton. Birds live worldwide and range in size from the 5 cm bee hummingbird to the 2.75 m ostrich. They rank as the class of tetrapods with the most living …
Three quarters of the planet Earth is covered by water. A majority of the planet’s solid surface is abyssal plain, at depths between 4,000 and 5,500 metres (13,100 and 18,000 ft) below the surface of the oceans. The solid surface location on the planet closest to the centre of the orb is the Challenger Deep, located in the Mariana Trench …
