COVID Updates
Appointments to Get the COVID Vaccine (Eligibility)
Safeway | King Soopers | Lutheran Medical Center
The state has a new hotline to answer questions, including location of vaccine providers: 1-877-268-2926. This week, the hours are: M-F 9AM-10PM, Sat and Sun 9AM-5PM. Beginning next week, it will be staffed 24 hours a day.
Public Health References
Mines COVID Testing | Jeffco Fairgrounds COVID Testing | School of Mines COVID-19 case page. | Sign up for exposure notifications.
CDC * Colorado * Jefferson County * City of Golden
Jefferson County is at Level Orange, “High Risk.”
Jefferson County Case Summary:
Cases in Jeffco – Tues: 34,050 | Weds: 34,231 (+181)
Deaths in Jeffco – Tues: 708 | Weds: 710 (+2)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Tues: 36| Weds: 37 (+1)
Known Cases in Golden – Thurs: 1268 | Mon: 1292
Recovered – Tues: 32,071 | Weds: 32,195 (+124)
Virtual Golden
10-10:30AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation
10:15-10:45AM Preschool Time with the Library
1:30-2:30PM Chamber’s Lunch and Learn – Jefferson Center for Mental Health
3-5PM Virtual/Call In: Hard Times Writing Workshop
6-7PM QSS Nav: Snowshoeing Basics
6-7PM Virtual: Qs and Brews Trivia
6PM Mobility & Transportation Advisory Board Meeting
MTAB will discuss their ’21-’22 Work Plan Draft, the Ford St. East Downtown path, and a traffic calming ordinance.
6PM Zoning Rewrite Community Meeting
A team of consultants has been reviewing Golden’s zoning code for the past several months. Many citizens have been frustrated at the secrecy surrounding this process, and rumors have abounded regarding the consultants’ fondness for density and distaste for parking.
The big reveal will happen tonight, in an online meeting from 6-8PM. Per the agenda: “The meeting will be streamed live on the City Website Meetings and Agendas page. You must preregister for the event in order to participate by 5:00 PM January 28, 2021 at this link.”
Real World Golden
12-7PM Raise a Pint, Lend a Hand at Holidaily Brewing, benefitting BGoldN
1-5PM Members-Only Opening of the New Exhibits at Foothills Art Center
7PM Virtual Opening of the New Exhibits at Foothills Art Center, hosted via Zoom by Curator Eriq Hochuli
Golden History Moment
67 Years Ago Tonight, Golden mothers went door to door, collecting money to fight polio.
Porchlights to Aid Polio Collections
Turn on your porch light tonight! Mothers of Golden will make their march on polio tonight when the Mother’s March for the March of Dimes will be held from 7 to 8 o’clock. The march will be heralded by the sounding of fire sirens on Golden’s Fire Department trucks which will patrol the streets. If you want to give to the March of Dimes which is a most worthy organization, turn on your porch light so your canvasser will know she may contact you.
Colorado Transcript – January 28, 1954
There was an epidemic of polio beginning in the late 19th century, and thousands of people–mostly children and young adults–were paralyzed. Those anxious mothers, collecting dimes in 1954, could not have known how close they were to ending the scourge.
The first highly effective and widely distributed vaccine came out in 1955, and the incidence of the disease soon plummeted. Polio has been eradicated in the developed world, and the World Health Organization, with support from Rotary International, is chasing down the last cases in the developing world.
Many 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!
