COVID Updates
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
Golden Testing Sites
Mines COVID Testing | Jeffco Fairgrounds COVID Testing
Jefferson County Case Summary:
Cases in Jeffco – Weds: 38,292 | Thurs: 38,406 (+114)
Deaths in Jeffco – Weds: 770 | Thurs: 770 (unchanged)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Weds: 34 | Thurs: 29 (-5)
Known Cases in Golden – Mon: 1539 | Thurs: 1547 (+8)
Recovered – Weds: 36,599 | Thurs: 36,701 (+102)
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
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
10:30-11:15AM Play and Learn with the Library
10:30-11AM Mental Fitness Fridays
4-5PM Friday Crafternoons: Leprechaun Traps
6-6:55AM Virtual HIIT
Live Events
3-4:30PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic at Foothills Animal Shelter
6PM Mr. David Booker at Golden Moon Speakeasy
8PM 6 Million Dollar Band @ Buffalo Rose
The Coming Storm
Our special weather correspondent, Greg Poulos, offers the following forecast: 24-32” of snow, mainly falling Friday afternoon through Sunday morning (lighter snow before and after that period of time), fully over Monday by about 10am.
Greg is the Principal Atmospheric Scientist and Chief Executive Officer of Golden-Based ArcVera Renewables. He has a B.S. in Meteorology and M.S. and Ph.D. in Atmospheric Science.
Golden History Moment
1 Year Ago
On March 12, 2020, I was learning about the Coronavirus. I know it had entered Jefferson County and that we were advised to be cautious and stay home. I wrote my daily email, listing the events scheduled for that day (NONE of which were “virtual!”):
March 12, 2020 Events
9:15AM Baby Time at the Library
10AM Ladies Billiards at the Front Porch
10AM Toddler Time at the Library
10:15AM Toddler Time at the Library
11:30AM Wee Create at the Library
1-2:30PM Chronic Pain & Illness Support Group (map)
4PM Family Yoga at the Library
6PM Band Concert at Bell Middle School (map)
6:15PM Overeaters Anonymous at Natural Grocers (map)
6:30PM Overeaters Anonymous at the Methodist Church (map)
6:30PM Trail Stewardship Team Info Night
March 12, 2020 Music:
6PM Colin Patrick at Buffalo Rose
6PM Dave Frisk at Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM The Low Road at New Terrain Brewing Company
6PM Open Pick Night at Over Yonder Brewing
8PM Karaoke at Rock Rest Lodge
9PM Karaoke at Ace-Hi Tavern
I went to Safeway and bought some frozen food and shelf-stable items, but didn’t try to stock up for a long haul. I really couldn’t imagine a virus that would prevent me–let along the entire world–from leaving home for a long period of time.
Nonetheless, Golden people were being asked to stay home for some indefinite time. People were worried about jobs, school, groceries, health, and pretty much everything else. I wondered what I could do to help people get through it. I knew that people enjoyed my occasional forays into Golden History, so I decided to make that an every day feature for the duration of the Stay-at-Home order.
That’s when the Golden History Moment was born. Little did I know that I was committing to researching and writing a Golden history article for 365 days in a row, but as of today, I’ve done it!
For the next week, I plan to reprint some of my favorite articles from the last year. If you recall a favorite that you’d like to see again, let me know. I’ve been trying to keeping a running list, so if you need help recalling a topic you liked, here it is.
For today, I’m “re-running” the very first Golden History Moment from March 12, 2020.
100 Years Ago
The March 11, 1920 Colorado Transcript included a front page article entitled, “Up-to-Date Health Laws Proposed for Golden.” In the wake of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic, there was a new focus on public health measures. Golden’s City Council determined that we would have a board of health, consisting of three aldermen (as councilors were called at the time) and a physician appointed to be the City Health Officer. All physicians in town were to report contagious diseases to the Health Officer, who in turn would notify school authorities. The Health Officer would quarantine homes where such diseases were present, and the schools would make sure the kids didn’t show up in class. The Health Officer kept an eye on all epidemics in the state and reported to City Council when any were near Golden.
The original focus of the job was to contain communicable diseases, but it suffered from extreme scope creep.
Soon after the job was created, the City Health Officer also became responsible for testing the water in our reservoirs to look for signs of contamination. As automobiles became more common, more people were coming close to our mountain water supplies. In 1922, the Health Officer took legal action to prevent someone from building a gas station next to our reservoir on Lookout Mountain.
In 1925, he urged city council to ban those suffering with tuberculosis or other communicable diseases from camping in Golden. In 1926, he was investigating complaints about unsanitary corrals and outhouses in the city. City Council charged him with making an inventory of outhouses within the City limits and sending letters telling homeowners to get rid of them.
In 1927, he placed 100 houses under quarantine during a measles epidemic. In 1930, he ordered that all loose dogs be muzzled, as there were many rabies cases in the state. In 1946, in an effort to fight an impending polio epidemic, he worked with City Council to arrange for regular trash collection (a new concept at the time). The Health Officer also gave annual physical exams to every Golden High School student. For these many and varied duties, from 1920-1950 the City Health Officer was paid $50/year.
In the late 1940s, a Tri-County Health Association was formed. This group focused more on public policy and urging government to impose health laws. (Golden, and all other communities along Clear Creek, still sent their sewage directly into the Creek at this time.) In 1950, the Tri-County Health Association informed all cities with a population under 25,000 that they should dismiss their Public Health Officers in favor of letting Tri-County handle all health issues. Thus, Golden had its last Public Health Officer in 1950.
