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
LAST CHANCE! Today is your last chance to see Miners Alley’s play, Zen and the Art of Profit. The in-person performances sold out, but you can watch it online. Learn more….
Online Worship:
Calvary Episcopal Church | Faith Lutheran Church | First United Methodist Church | First Presbyterian Church | Flatirons Community Church | Golden Church of Christ | Golden Presbyterian Church | Hillside Community Church | Jefferson Unitarian Church | Rockland Community Church | St. Joseph Catholic Church
Earth Link Clean-Ups
8:30-11:30AM Earth Day Community Clean-Up
Barrels and Bottles Brewery at Camp George West (map)
Walkers and RUNNERS welcome! Runners: New this year….PLOGGING! Running and picking up trash. We have a special course just for runners who want to workout AND clean up! Meet at our new location (Barrels & Bottles at Camp George West) in Pleasant View off South Golden Road (1055 Orchard St. Golden) at 8:30 a.m., Sunday, April 25th. We all know Colorado weather; be prepared for both cold and warmth. Please bring gloves that you don’t care if they get dirty. We will provide trash bags and have limited latex gloves. Free light fare of snacks and drinks will be available. Earth day is the yearly occasion celebrated worldwide on 22nd April. Help us celebrate our beautiful earth and community! Face masks are required when social distancing is not capable. Please adhere to Jefferson County Health Department rules during this event.
2-5PM Golden Earth Week 2021 Clean-Up
Join us in commemorating Earth Day’s 51st year presented by Green Team Academy, Golden Real Estate, EcoCycle, Golden Sustainability and The EDDY Hotel and Taproom. Clear Creek Trail, Meeting Point: Near Tucker Gulch Trail (Under the Highway 58 Flyover)
We will collect trash along the bike path that runs east and west along Highway 58, from Ford Street in Golden to McIntyre Street. After the event, we will have an optional celebration. Feel free to bring your own drinks and snacks if you want to participate. More information
Real Life Events
10AM and 1PM Wild West Walking Tour
10AM-5PM Spring Gear Sale and Swap at Golden River Sports
11AM-2PM Brunch at the Rose
LIVE MUSIC:
11AM Colorado Wounded Warriors Band of Brothers at Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
2-5PM Jack Hadley @ Buffalo Rose (restaurant)
1PM Jewel and the Rough at Wrigley’s
This Week, Monday-Friday
If you’re on the City’s trash collection program, be aware that they’ll be doing yard waste collection this week, on your regular trash day. Learn more….
Golden History Moment
144 Years Ago
The April 25, 1877 Colorado Transcript reports on the recent Board of Trustees (city council) meeting. Their ongoing campaign to round up stray animals was being expanded to include loose horses. The town constable was to add them to his collection of cows and pigs.
They discussed the recently-completed Ford Street bridge over Clear Creek. The superintendent in charge of construction had been expected at the meeting, but instead he had left town. The board delayed acceptance of the bridge until the next meeting, so they would have a chance to inspect it themselves.
The editor of the Transcript had already approved it, as shown in his article about “The New Bridge.” He described it as a credit to our town and added that he believed it to be the only iron wagon bridge in the state. “It is a three-arch bridge, the two road-ways being floored with 4-inch plank, laid diagonally and on each side a foot-walk protected by iron railings.” The bridge rested on stone abutments. Local man Gus Haas was completing “the approaches at either end of the bridge.”
They reviewed bids for constructing a bridge on Platte Street (now 10th) over Tucker Gulch. They accepted the low bid, submitted by Gustave Haas, for $450. “It is to have stone abutments and wing walls, the superstructure to be of wood with hand rails at each end.”
The Golden Transcript (originally called the Colorado Transcript) has been publishing since 1866. The Golden History Museum has been working on digitizing the historic issues. You’ll find old Transcripts online at coloradohistoricnewspapers.org.
