Coronavirus/COVID-19
Public Health References
CDC * Colorado * Jefferson County * City of Golden
JCPHD updates these numbers Monday through Friday at about 3 PM. Here’s the most recent Coronavirus report from Jeffco Public Health’s Case Summary Page:
Cases in Jeffco – Weds: 10,472 | Thurs: 10,875 (+403)
Deaths in Jeffco – Weds: 338 | Thurs: 340 (+2)
Ever Hospitalized in Jeffco – Weds: 794 | Thurs: 818 (currently 97) (+24)
Recovered – Weds: 7,810 | Thurs: 8,126 (+316)
Known Cases in Golden – Weds: 339 | (not updated)
Note: Based on the rate at which Jefferson County cases have been climbing, next Monday (November 9th) our status will change from “Level Yellow: Safer at Home Concern” to “Level Orange: Safer at Home High Risk.” See Public Health Order 20-36 for the definitions for those levels.
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Virtual Golden
6-6:55AM Virtual HIIT
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
Real World Golden
8AM CANCELLED – Morning Start
Due to impending restrictions and concerns surrounding COVID we have made the decision to postpone our Morning Start event scheduled for 8am, Friday morning at Foothills Art Center. Going forward we are going to look at ways to keep this event going so that we don’t miss another one heading into the future and we’ll have Karen Armon back again very soon!
1-2PM Friday Tour at the Railroad Museum – Highlights
1PM John Tracy Memorial Dedication at the Visitors Center
5:15PM Ribbon Cutting – Rise Yoga and Wellness
Live Music:
4PM Dr. Ross Henderson on the patio at Buffalo Rose
8PM John Adam Smith at Golden Moon Speakeasy
Saturday Preview
10AM Coffee with Councilors
10AM-3PM Zoom into Watercolor – November Notecards
Golden History Moment
September of this year marked the 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Colorado Central Railroad. Golden people were filled with anticipation as they waited for it. The town, which had been declining in population and economic base for years, was suddenly growing again. I wrote about it several times during September (scroll down to the history section in each post):
9/21 – 150 Years Ago – The Impending Railroad
9/22 – Waiting for the Train – Part 2
9/26 – A Glorious Day for the Railroad
Last night, I was wondering how the town was doing several weeks later, so I checked the November 2, 1870 Colorado Transcript.
George West (owner of the Transcript) had just returned from a trip to “the United States” (we were a territory at the time). He was gloating over the speed and ease of the journey.
In ’68, the date of our last trip, we swore to never again cross the plains until we could do so upon a railroad, and how faithfully we kept the pledge our readers can judge when we say that on the 28th of September we took the cars of the Colorado Central Company at Golden City for a continuous trip across the plains…. The trip across the plains in one of Pullman’s elegant Palace Sleeping Cars is an agreeable change from the tedious and soul-harrowing one of former years….
After a glowing description of the journey, he went on to praise Golden’s growth over the four weeks he had been away. He detailed each of the new buildings being constructed. I tried to map them out on the 1878 Willits Map of Golden. It was tricky, because his descriptions were pretty general “on ford street,” and “on the same street”). Anyway, the map above shows my approximations of the buildings springing up in early November, 1870.
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!
