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 – Weds: 41,396 | Thurs: 41,590 (+194)
Deaths in Jeffco – Weds: 780 | Thurs: 781 (+1)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Weds: 29 | Thurs: 24 (-5)
Recovered – Weds: 39,296 | Thurs: 39,426 (+130)
Known Cases in Golden – Mon: 1689 | Thurs: 1726 (+37)
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
6-6:55AM Virtual HIIT
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
10:30-11:15AM Play and Learn with the Library
10:30-11AM Mental Fitness Fridays
11:40AM All Levels Yoga Virtual
4-5PM Friday Crafternoons – Weather in a Jar
Zen and the Art of Profit (On Demand from MAP) Begins
Golden’s cultural organizations have done a lot of interesting new things in response to COVID: online lectures and classes, putting more of their collections online…. Tonight, Miners Alley is releasing a brand-new play, recorded a few days ago at the theater.
Recorded before a live audience, and presented on demand. ZEN AND THE ART OF PROFIT features two knockout performances from Bill Hahn and Heather Lacy. Local playwright, Luke Sorge’s new play explores the question at the very heart of capitalism. Do the ends justify the means? This new play explores the line between new age philosophy, meditation, and capitalism. SPEED THE PLOW meets THE DALI LAMA in this edge of your seat, and quick-witted comedy/drama. Buy a ticket and you can watch it as many times as you’d like until April 25th.
Real Life Events
11AM-5PM Hexie Pillow Class @ Golden Quilt Company
10AM-7PM Career Fair – Eddy Taproom & Hotel
3-4:30PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
Grand Opening of the Golden Mill Food Hall
LIVE MUSIC:
5PM The Reckless Folk at Goosetown Station
6PM Cody Carbone & Ryan Eigsti at Golden Mill
6PM Mr. David Booker at Golden Moon Speakeasy
Golden History Moment
As you may know, Golden used to have two funicular railroads. The first was built in 1912 on Lookout Mountain. The second was built in 1913 on South Table Mountain. Learn more about them….
Here’s something you don’t normally see in Golden History Moments: pictures of other places. I had an email yesterday from a reader who was confused by a sentence she found online about the Castle Rock Railway: The funicular railway had two railcars, one on each side of the mountain.
She didn’t think the “one on each side of the mountain” sounded right (and she was right). So I sent some pictures of Golden’s funiculars and some modern-day funiculars–see the photos above.
Funiculars (also called inclined railways) come in pairs. One car goes up as the other goes down. Some are set up with a pair of rails used by both cars, with a passing area in the middle. The Castle Rock Funicular was built that way. The Lookout Mountain Funicular had three rails, so each car had one of its own and they shared the one in the middle–again, with a passing area in the middle.
There are still a few funiculars left in the U.S. Of those, the ones in Los Angeles, Dubuque, Chattanooga, and Altoona are set up with passing lanes. The Pittsburgh railways were designed so the “going up” car and the “going down” car–each has its own pair of rails–no passing area required.
Why do I have all this arcane knowledge? I wrote a book about Golden’s funiculars* several years ago, then started traveling the country and visiting the ones that still remain.
* Funiculars of Golden Colorado is available at the Railroad Museum and the Golden History Museum.
