COVID Updates
Everyone 16 OR OLDER is eligible to get the vaccine.
Appointments to Get the COVID Vaccine
DICK’S SPORTING GOODS PARK AND THE BALL ARENA BOTH HAVE DRIVE-THROUGH/WALK-UP CLINICS WITH NO APPOINTMENTS NEEDED. Learn more…. See other upcoming walk-up clinics…. 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
More Public Health References
School of Mines COVID-19 case page. | Sign up for exposure notifications | CDC | Colorado | Jefferson County | City of Golden
Golden Community Food Drive
In the past, the National Post Masters hosted the National Postal Food Drive each May. An event that usually generates approximately 25,000 LBS of non-perishable food for the Golden Community! Due to COVID-19, however, this event has been cancelled for the second year in a row. This year, CAG teamed up with Calvary Food Shelf Pantry and BGoldN Fresh Food Pantry to host the Golden Community Food Drive. We’d appreciate your support to make this event a success!
Drop off food donations
Please drop off food donations at the CAG Food Pantry & Thrift Store at 1401 Ford Street (map). Food will be distributed among the three pantries.
• Monday to Friday, Week of May 10th to 14th as well as 17th to 21st: 10am to 4pm
• Saturday, May 22nd: 10am to 4pm
Items most requested:
• Canned tomato products
• Canned beans: refried beans, baked beans, pinto beans, kidney beans, etc.
• Canned vegetables: corn, peas, green beans, potato, carrots, etc.
• Canned fruit: peaches, pears, mixed, pineapple, oranges, etc.
• Canned meats: tuna, chicken, spam, etc.
• Pasta & Pasta sauce
• Mac and Cheese
• Soups & Condensed soups
• Instant potato
• Rice
• Cereal
• Oatmeal
• Crackers
• Additional items: condiments, chips, water, granola bars, snack packs
Virtual Events
6-6:55AM Virtual Dynamic Circuit
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
10AM – Foss Market @ 13th and Arapahoe
10:15AM Spanish Story Time with the Library
11:40AM-12:30PM All Levels Yoga Virtual
2-3PM Active Minds Mondays – Princess Diana
4-4:30PM Kids Martial Arts Class
4-5PM Recursos Digitales
5-6PM Young Readers Book Club – Fairy Tales/Folk Tales
6:30PM GURA Board Meeting
Tonight, GURA will discuss funding a pedestrian ramp at the southeast corner of 24th and Jackson and a raised crosswalk at the high school entrance. They hope to share the cost with the City and the school district. GURA’s contribution is estimated at $50,000.
One of GURA’s goals is to make DeLong Park more accessible to residents west of the park. They had hoped to build a sidewalk along 24th Street and install stairs at the southwest corner of the park. That proved complicated, so their new plan is to install a sidewalk along Ford, between 24th and 23rd, along the side of the old Golden Motel. This would still leave people walking in the street for two blocks up 23rd Street, but that is a fairly low-traffic street, so they are unlikely to be run over.
They received an interesting public comment from the Co-Chairs of the Golden United Housing Task Force. They (Don Cameron and Kathy Smith) pointed out that the proposed change to Golden’s zoning code does not seem appropriate in two of the GURA or GURA-adjacent areas. In the Central Urban Renewal Area, the current commercial property (donut shop, Domino’s, Natural Grocers, etc.) will be zoned “Strip.” They feel that zone type does not describe our current business district, and may eventually result in more residential and less business. In the Colfax URA, much of the area that is (or has the potential to become) affordable housing is exempted from the zoning code rewrite. They think it should be included “and set up for the right form types going forward.”
They received a second public comment from the Golden Optimists Bicycle Recycle Program concerning a bike trail that the Optimists have adopted for litter removal. They are losing enthusiasm for that job because the trail has so much dog waste. They asked the City to install pet waste receptacles and a trash can. The City responded that they are “investigating all the elements of this trail location regarding ongoing maintenance.”
For more information on any of these topics, see tonight’s meeting packet….
Golden History Moment
139 Years Ago
The May 10, 1882 Colorado Transcript provided this cautionary tale:
Last Wednesday night Mr. and Mrs. Watt. Cunningham, who reside in North Golden, in the vicinity of the Omaha House, were awakened from their slumbers by a noise that very greatly indicated the close proximity of an intruder upon their domestic seclusion. Mrs. Cunningham first heard the noise and aroused her husband with an emphatic shake and the dreadful information that a man was concealed under the bed.
Mr. Cunningham is a practical sort of a man and was at first inclined to discredit his wife’s statement, but a few moments careful listening brought to his ears the unmistakable heavy breathing of some one directly beneath them. He was in a dilemma. To jump out and face the intruder with his battery of small arms seemed to him sheer madness, while to remain in bed was to leave the bold bad burglar master of the situation.
While thoughtfully debating his precarious location his wife raised the siege by leaping out of bed and rushing into an adjoining room. Procuring a hatchet and a gun, and finding her husband already engaged in a scuffle with the burglar she entered into combat with a spirit and bravery of a modern Joan of Arc. The intruder was soon overpowered, secured and his life probably saved by Mr. Cunningham, who, with great difficulty, restrained Mrs. Cunningham from dispatching him then and there.
The article goes on to say that they contacted the town’s night watchman, who put him in jail, where he would remain until the next session of the district court. “In the mean time he will reflect upon his misconduct from the other side of the bars of Jefferson’s tomb of justice.”
The Transcript opined that he was probably part of a gang that had recently burgled the hardware store and flour mill.
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
