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COVID Updates
Everyone 16 OR OLDER is eligible to get the vaccine.
Appointments to Get the COVID Vaccine
State of Colorado’s Find Out Where You Can Get Vaccinated page | Lutheran Medical Center | JCPH Clinic in Arvada (70+ only) | www.vaccinespotter.org/CO/
Jefferson County Public Health’s COVID-19 Vaccine Call Center: 303-239-7000 | State Hotline to answer questions, including location of vaccine providers: 1-877-268-2926. It is staffed 24 hours a day
Golden Testing Sites
Mines COVID Testing | Jeffco Fairgrounds COVID Testing
Jefferson County Case Summary:
Cases in Jeffco – Tues: 44,631 | Weds: 44,804 (+173)
Deaths in Jeffco – Tues: 794 | Weds: 794 (unchanged)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Tues: 53 | Weds: 41 (-12)
Recovered – Tues: 42,033 | Weds: 42,211 (+178)
Known Cases in Golden – Thurs: 1832 | Mon: 1870 (+38)
More Public Health References
School of Mines COVID-19 case page. | Sign up for exposure notifications | CDC | Colorado | Jefferson County | City of Golden
Virtual Events
8:45AM Silver Sneakers Classic
10-10:30AM Mid-Morning Meditation
10-11:30AM Google Docs with the Library
10:15-10:30AM Preschool Time with the Library
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop
6-7PM Qs and Brews Trivia
7-9PM Beauty and the Beast @ Golden High School
According to the High School’s home page, “Tickets for the livestream will go on sale no sooner than two hours before the event.”
Real Life Events
10AM-2PM Rail Days at the Railroad Museum
LIVE MUSIC:
5PM Last Men on Earth at Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Mike Heuer at Golden Moon Speakeasy
6PM Open Pick Night at Over Yonder Brewing
8PM Karaoke at Rock Rest Lodge
This Week, Monday-Friday
If you’re on the City’s trash collection program, remember that they’re doing yard waste collection this week, on your regular trash day. Learn more….
Golden History Moment
84 Years Ago
The April 29, 1937 Colorado Transcript shows how much Golden was benefiting from the federal government’s Works Progress Administration.
The new WPA field house was under construction on the School of Mines campus. As described by the Transcript, “Not only the athletic department will profit by this building, but other departments of the school as well. The Reserve Officers Training Corps, and splendid band, will be able, under the spacious roof of this building, to pass in review and stand at attention in full formation for inspection by officers of the regular U. S. army, when, as happened Friday due to inclement weather, if it impossible to parade at Brooks field. At no time during the winter need the young officers in training have to miss scheduled drills, when the field house with its 120 by 290 feet of open floor space has been completed.”
The Central School (another WPA project) had recently opened on 12th Street, so the North School was ready to be either sold or demolished. The Junior Chamber of Commerce and Parent Teachers Association were circulating a petition asking the City to purchase the building, to be used “for community purposes.”
In the end, the County bought it for use as a Courthouse Annex. Part of the building was dedicated for use as a Jefferson County Museum. The museum was another WPA project. It survives to this day as the Golden History Museum.
The third WPA project featured in the paper was a new Washington Avenue bridge. The crew was hurrying to finish the bridge before spring run-off made the water level rise. Many Transcript articles of that era spent a paragraph or two reassuring readers that WPA workers were not “worthless loafers.” This article praises the hard-working crew and quotes the project foreman as saying “I’ll put this crew up against any ‘hire and fire’ outfit in the country.”
The Golden Transcript (originally called the Colorado Transcript) has been publishing since 1866. The Golden History Museum has been working on digitizing the historic issues. You’ll find old Transcripts online at coloradohistoricnewspapers.org.
