Applications Due Today to Serve on City Boards and Commissions
The City needs applicants to serve on the various boards and commissions. Applications are due today Friday, March 4th, by 5PM. The number of vacancies on each board are as follows:
5 – Community Sustainability Advisory Board
1 – Downtown Development Authority
1 – Economic Development Commission
2 – Golden Urban Renewal Authority
4 – Historic Preservation Board
4 – Mobility and Transportation Board
4 – Planning Commission
1 – Visit Golden Marketing Stakeholder Committee
2 – Investment Advisory Committee
If you want to help set City policy, this is your chance to do so. Decisions are made by those who show up! Learn more….
Virtual Events
6-6:55AM Virtual HIIT
8-9AM Morning Start: An Artist Coffee Meetup with Gabe Rovick
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
9-9:55AM Strength and Cardio
11AM-12PM Kimodo for Balance
Real World Events
10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
1-2PM The Friday Tour (Highlights) @ Colorado Railroad Museum
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
7:30PM Moon Over Buffalo @ Miners Alley Playhouse (through March 18)
Live Music
8PM Forever in Blue Jeans @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
5-8PM Marty Nightengale @ Golden Mill
5-7PM Alibi @ Goosetown Station
5-8PM Meat and Potatoes Jazz Orchestra @ Over Yonder
7-10PM Kyle O’Brien @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)
7-11PM Karaoke @ Wrigley’s
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
COVID Update
82.8%
of residents 5+ have received at least one shot (+0.1% since 2/24/22)
77.6%
of residents 5+ have received at least two shots (+0.1% since 2/24/22)
45.0%
of residents 5+ have received 3 shots (+0.3% since 2/24/22) – source
Jefferson County Case Summary:
Cases in Jeffco – February 24th: 117,925 | March 3rd: 118,565 (+640)
Deaths in Jeffco – March 3rd: 1,391
Recovered – February 24th: 115,815 | March 3rd: 116,643 (+828)
Currently Hospitalized – February 24th: 25 | March 3rd: 20 (-5)
Known Cases in Golden – February 24th: 4,692 | March 3rd: 4,724 (+36)
COVID Vaccine Appointments
State of Colorado: Where You Can Get Vaccinated
Jeffco Public Health Vaccine Call Center: 303-239-7000
State Vaccine Hotline: 1-877-268-2926.
Golden Testing Sites
Mines COVID Testing | Jeffco Fairgrounds COVID Testing
More Public Health References
Sign up for exposure notifications | CDC | Colorado | Jefferson County | City of Golden
Where to get vaccinated
The retail outlets have long wait times right now, but it’s fairly easy to get an appointment with Jefferson County Public Health.
Golden History Moment
113 Years Ago
The March 4, 1909 Colorado Transcript covered the opening salvo of a local prohibition campaign. The local chapter of the Anti-Saloon League had sponsored a lecture at the Golden Opera House. It was well-attended, with both “drys” and “wets” in the audience.
A few in the rear seats, who were down down on the program, thought they were part of the show for a time. But good humor prevailed on the platform and everybody was eager to hear the message from the invited speaker.
The campaign heated up over the next several weeks, with the Anti-Saloon League crowd claiming that alcohol created a wild, lawless environment. The ministers of several churches wrote a letter to the Transcript saying it was “never wholly safe for a young woman to cross the principal thoroughfare of the town after nightfall on the way to or from church or her work because of the drunken loungers furnished by the saloons.”
The Golden businessmen were offended by such statements, saying that Golden was absolutely nothing like that. Richard Broad, owner of the dry good store and the Golden Savings Bank, told the Transcript that he’d been in business on Washington Avenue for over twenty years and the city had only grown more peaceful and orderly as the years went by. He added that in twenty-one years he had “never heard of one single case of insult to a woman on our streets.”
The “wets” won their point at the April 5, 1909 vote. The anti-saloon option garnered 322 votes while the pro-saloon faction gathered 704 votes. The wetness didn’t last for long. In 1914, the “drys” brought an anti-saloon amendment to a statewide vote. Golden still voted against Prohibition, but the state approved it. Prohibition went into effect in Colorado on January 1, 1916–four years ahead of National Prohibition.
Alcohol for non-medicinal purposes remained illegal in Colorado until April 7, 1933.
Thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
