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Appointments to Get the COVID Vaccine (Eligibility)
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
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Mines COVID Testing | Jeffco Fairgrounds COVID Testing
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Real World Events
11AM and 2PM Wild West Walking Tour
11AM-8PM 1 Year Anniversary at Roaming Buffalo BBQ
11AM-2PM Brunch at the Rose
FULL MOON TONIGHT
Live Music:
12PM The Long Run at Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
1-4PM Lucas Wolf on the Patio at the Buffalo Rose
2PM Jewel and the Rough at Wrigley’s
4PM Rick Lewis Project at Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
Golden History Moment
81 Years Ago
The March 28, 1940 Colorado Transcript described the death of George W. Parfet. Mr. Parfet was the head of the family clay concern, and had received a rush order for white clay. The company’s vein of white clay had recently been exhausted, so they needed to open a new one.
Parfet’s usual “powder man” was confined to a hospital at the time, as a result of an accident in the mine several weeks previous, so Parfet decided to do the blasting himself.
From the Transcript article:
He unlocked a small metal powder house, removed a box of dynamite, opened it and took out four sticks. With the powder under his arm and caps and fuse in the other hand, he started south from the magazine in an effort to get a safe distance from the other explosives before preparing the powder for blasting. He had gone only eight paces from the magazine when the explosion occurred.
The blast shook houses in the adjoining neighborhood…. David Coolbaugh and Prof. J. C. Fitterer say that they saw a huge cloud of dust and a body hurled high into the air.
Parfet was rushed to St. Anthony’s with both legs blown off. He died three hours later.
George Parfet’s father (also named George Parfet) had died in 1924. Parfet Park was named in his honor. The George W. Parfet described in this article had recently been elected as a Jefferson County Commissioner. His son Bill was a senior in college, studying geological engineering, at the time of the accident. He graduated and then came home to take over the family business.
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!
