Change in Status, Effective Today
Jefferson County Public Health has issued a new public health order. Frankly, it’s a bit confusing, so I’ll let you read it yourself. Here are two excerpts:
Recently, Jefferson County has seen increases in its COVID-19 seven-day case incidence rate and test positivity rate. During April 5-11, there were 891 cases of COVID-19 (152.8 per 100,000) in Jefferson County, and the test positivity rate during the same time period was 5.0%. The Colorado School of Public Health Modeling Team advising the Governor has concluded that delaying policy changes in Colorado until mid-May will prevent large numbers of deaths and hospitalizations.
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Phase 1 – Moving Toward a Full Reopening (April 16-May 15): Businesses and individuals can operate under Dial 3.0’s Level Blue capacity limits and simplified mitigation requirements for 30 days. There will be no movement during this 30-day period. Review the order for specific mitigation requirements and capacity limits for businesses and activities.
Read the full Public Health Order.
COVID Updates
FREE VACCINE CLINIC THIS WEEKEND
Friday, April 16, and Saturday, April 17, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park (Lot H), 6000 Victory Way, Commerce City, CO 80022 (off of Quebec on 60th Ave). REGISTER here. For more INFORMATION on the vaccine, visit here.
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
As of last Monday (April 5th), Jeffco Health moved to relax mask standards. Learn more….
Jefferson County Case Summary:
Cases in Jeffco – Weds: 42,413 | Thurs: 42,669 (+256)
Deaths in Jeffco – Weds: 785 | Thurs: 786 (+1)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Weds: 36 | Thurs: 35 (-1)
Recovered – Weds: 40,114 | Thurs: 40,264 (+150)
Known Cases in Golden – Mon: 1726 | Thurs: 1758 (+32)
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 – Music and Movement
10:30-11AM Mental Fitness Fridays – Reading
11:40AM All Levels Yoga Virtual
4-5PM Friday Crafternoons – Walking Ant Puppets
Real Life Events
10AM-7PM Career Fair – Eddy Taproom & Hotel
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
LIVE MUSIC:
5PM Casey James Prestwood at Golden Mill
5PM DaMN GINA at Goosetown Station
6PM The Wrecklunds at Golden Moon Speakeasy
E-Days: Save the CitE-Days 2021
Notice from the School of Mines:
Mines is excited to be able to host a partially in-person Engineering Days (better known as E-Days) again this year after holding the festivities remotely last year. We’re in the final stages of planning for this year’s event, set to get underway April 15-18, and we wanted to share some information with you about the health and safety protocols in place.
The Mines Activities Council is working closely with university leadership, Jefferson County and the City of Golden to ensure all E-Days events adhere to the very latest COVID-19 guidance and restrictions. Mines is not relaxing its event guidelines to allow E-Days to proceed. E-Days is typically an event where we welcome the larger Golden community to celebrate our Mines traditions. However, this year we’re limiting all events to Mines students only in order to protect the health of our greater community. That includes the popular cardboard boat races on Clear Creek.
We do encourage the Golden community to join us to watch the fireworks on Saturday, April 17 from the comfort of your home. It will be an all-aerial show, so you should be able to see the show from many different areas of Golden. We look forward to welcoming you all back to share in our campus traditions in 2022!
E-Days COVID-19 Regulations
- All events are for Mines students only. No outside guests or community members are allowed.
- All attendees must have proof of a negative COVID-19 test taken April 11 or later
- Masks must be worn at all times unless actively eating or drinking, including outdoors
- All food from food trucks will be pre-packaged and individually wrapped.
- All beverages will be served in single-serve bottles. No reusable cups.
- Games and activities will be sanitized between uses.
- Security will be monitoring events for safety and precaution measures, and to ensure masks are being worn at all times.
Learn more about this year’s E-Days celebration
Golden History Moment
96 Years Ago
The April 16, 1925 Colorado Transcript featured an article by Richard Broad, marking the demolition of “Golden’s Oldest Building.” He referred to the Boston Company building, which stood at 10th and Washington. The Kiwanis Club was building Parfet Park at that time, and they wanted to include that land in the park.
The log building was constructed in the summer of 1859. The Boston Company, led by George West, arrived with a wagon train of goods. As many gold-seekers were stopping at this point before making the final climb into the mountains, the Boston group decided this would be a good site for a town. They began constructing their building and hired a surveyor to lay out a town site.
When Broad wrote the article in 1925, he was witnessing the removal of many later additions to the building, including clapboard siding, so he was able to see the original log structure. Some of his observations:
Those who have seen it in process of demolition know that it was a simple two story log building, constructed of timbers brought from the mountains above. It was about 26 feet long by 19 feet wide, with floor joists and probably floors constructed of logs and hewn timbers. No sawed timber was used, as there were no saw mills in this region until later years…. It is doubtful also if there was any glass in the windows, for window glass was a later luxury. And yet, it was no common log building as any one who watched its tearing down can testify. The axeman who hewed the timbers was an expert, the joiner who fitted them together knew his business, while in the construction of the second story, the mortise and tenon work is equal to that of an experienced shipwright. When it was completed it was so solid as to defy the hardest west winds of the succeeding 66 years.
Broad concluded the article by suggesting that, in default of preservation, “some enduring tablet be placed on its site, which shall briefly record its history, and help preserve for posterity the names of the founders of this community.” The Daughters of the American Revolution agreed, and provided a commemorative boulder that is still in Parfet Park. The brass plaque says
ON THIS SPOT
STOOD THE FIRST BUILDING
IN GOLDEN
A TRADING POST BUILT IN
1859
MARKED BY
MOUNT LOOKOUT CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1927
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.
