Coronavirus/COVID-19
Public Health References
CDC * Colorado * Jefferson County * City of Golden
Jefferson County is at Level Red, “Severe Risk.” Here’s the most recent Coronavirus report from Jeffco Public Health’s Case Summary Page:
Cases in Jeffco – Tues: 27,928 | Tues: 28,176 (+248)
Deaths in Jeffco – Tues: 598 | Tues: 607 (+9)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Tues: 179 | Tues: 171 (-8)
Known Cases in Golden – Mon: 1038 *
Recovered – 25,298
* Golden cases will be updated on Monday and Thursday. The other stats will be updated Monday through Friday.
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Virtual Golden
10:15AM Preschool Time with the Library
Real World Golden
10AM-2PM Holiday Art Market (note the early closure)
Grocery Store Hours
Safeway and King Soopers both close at 7PM tonight and will be closed all day tomorrow. According to their website, Walgreens is open till midnight, and they have some foodstuffs.
Christmas Church Services
Calvary Episcopal Church
Online Worship available after 3PM today
Christmas at Home
Are you going to be at home by yourself this Christmas? Calvary is hosting an online gathering for you, Christmas Day at 2pm via Zoom. Follow this link: calvarygolden.net/athome. Linda Smith will host. If you run into a problem, contact her at (720) 621-3142 or director.linda@gmail.com.
Faith Lutheran Church
4PM: Family service online – different families will be leading us creatively through the Christmas story. Click HERE to join.
6PM: Home Church worship online – Live streaming worship family style around the fireplace and tree with guitar and violin. Click HERE to join.
8:30PM: Outdoor in-person worship experience at FAITH’s lower parking lot (by the preschool) – join us for carol singing a capella, real candles and yes, Silent Night! Remember to bring a chair and a flashlight to see by as it will truly be a candle lit service. Sign in required upon arrival. Parking available in the lowest lot and the upper lot.
First United Methodist Church
5 PM Christmas Eve on the Lawn
Dress warmly and wear your mask and join us on the lawn for a short, fun interactive service with story, carols and candlelight. We will end the service with candles and silent night.
7 PM Christmas Eve on Facebook Live
Starting with Kevin’s beautiful music at 6:45 we will stream a Candlelight Christmas Eve service. Make sure to join by 7 PM as we will begin promptly by singing Joy to the World. Have a candle ready to we can share the light of Christ together at the end of the service. There is special music and all your favorite Christmas Hymns. I will be sharing a message on Wonder. https://www.facebook.com/First-United-Methodist-Church-of-Golden-168922623153185
First Presbyterian Church
6PM Outdoor Christmas Eve Service
Join us for caroling, scripture and candlelight
Hillside Community Church
4:30-5PM Outdoor Christmas Eve Service – please reserve your spot
Jefferson Unitarian Church
10AM (Christmas Day) Christmas in Colorado Service
Rockland Community Church
3, 4:30, 6, and 7:30PM – In-person services
Golden History Moment
Transcript founder George liked the occasional drink; in fact, he wrote with enthusiasm about the saloons in town. For that reason, I enjoyed these prim remarks about how people in Denver celebrated Christmas.
Christmas, as you well know, is a gala day in Denver. You also know that notwithstanding the moral depravity of the place, its observance of the “outer rites” are noticeable in the extreme.
Our churches in the morning were duly crowded and the Lord’s services went forward with commendable zeal, yet it is my duty to record that the devil was served with equal zeal…there were not less than two thousand men drunk in Denver that night.
Colorado Transcript
January 9, 1867
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!
