COVID Updates
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
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 Dynamic Circuit
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
10:15AM Spanish Story Time with the Library
11:40AM All Levels Yoga Virtual
2-3PM Active Minds Mondays – Saudi Arabia
4-4:30PM Kids Martial Arts Class
4-5PM Recursos Digitales
5-6PM Young Readers Book Club – Poetry
5-6PM Gardening in Colorado: Growing Flowers & Vegetables in Containers
5:30-7PM Virtual: South County Expansion Community Meeting/ Reunión de la comunidad de expansión del sur del condado
6:30PM Downtown Development Authority Meeting
The Downtown Development Authority will discuss several topics that may affect downtown on a long-term basis. For several years now, staff has been encouraging the DDA to make changes to the downtown “streetscape” (planter boxes, sidewalks, bulb-outs at corners, bike lines, etc.). Tonight, they will begin their discussions.
Staff has been talking to Jeff Speck, author of “Walkable City: How Downtown Can Save America, One Step at a Time.” The memo includes a summary of his recommendations for American cities, which include de-emphasizing cars and parking spaces; encouraging bikes and pedestrians; mixing stores, restaurants, schools, and housing, so everything is walking distance; employing mass transit, etc.
His specific recommendations for Golden are: Make sure you have the appropriate number of vehicle lanes; make sure your lanes are right-sized; Consider the appropriate intersection controls; Upgrade traffic signals to address modern needs and opportunities; and Address the location and design of parking. Staff has started an inventory of all downtown streets with these objectives in mind.
DDA will consider a funding request from the Public Art Commission.
They will also discuss the purchase and provisioning of architectural fencing for use by downtown stores and restaurants. City Council recently passed an ordinance that allows the downtown businesses to use the parking lanes as an extension of their businesses, and this fencing will separate shoppers and diners from motor vehicles. This is not a COVID-related step; it is a permanent change, effective every year from April to November.
Other DDA projects include: installing festive lighting in Miners Alley, to make that a more usable place for public events; making the southeast corner of 11th and Washington DDA-accessible; working with property owners to replace retaining walls in Prospectors Alley; possibly funding some work on the Coors Kinney Run project, to improve downtown, drainage.
Staff will encourage board members to study the proposed plan for remodeling and expansion of the Astor House by Foothills Art Center. This plan will go before the Historic Preservation Board on May 3rd, seeking a Certificate of Appropriateness.
To learn more about any of these issues, see tonight’s meeting packet.
Golden History Moment
Readers were very interested in Saturday’s article about the Coors mansion. Bill Robie worked for Coors and shared some photos of the home that he took in February of 1976, so rejoice, everyone! Here’s the Coors Mansion–Part 2!
The Coors Family Residence
In 1976, as a Coors employee in the Land and Water Department, I had the opportunity to tour and photograph parts of the Coors mansion, also sometimes referred to by family members as the “Big House”. The following is taken from an early 1970s paperback publication titled “The Adolph Coors Story”.
“In the late 1800s, Adolph Coors Sr. built a home on the grounds of the brewery for his wife Louisa and their growing family of six boys. Most of the 22 rooms retain their original design and décor. Books written by German authors fill the shelves in the library. Oriental rugs, handcrafted furniture, and a round table with a concealed radio near Coors’ favorite easy chair are still in place. A large chandelier imported from Copenhagen hangs from a high ceiling, and a Steinway piano waits for players in the music room.”
The entire house was moved east about 300 feet in 1961 to make room for brewery expansion and was also rotated 90 degrees to face Castle Rock rather than the new industrial buildings. The home originally had a bowling alley and later, after the house was moved, a therapy pool was added for use by Mrs. Coors Jr. to help relieve her arthritic pain. The home was little used after Adolph Coors II died in 1970, but Bill and Joe Coors often ate their lunch there in the 1970s.
The mansion remains there today surrounded by pine trees and lawns, much as it was when Coors built it, but almost lost behind the towering structures of the modern brewery complex.
Thanks to Bill Robie for the photos and the comments!
