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 – Fri: 7073 | Mon: 7357 (+284)
Deaths in Jeffco – Fri: 299 | Mon: 299 (+2)
Ever Hospitalized in Jeffco – Fri: 629 | Mon: 634 (currently 37) (+5)
Recovered – Fri: 5868 | Mon: 6052 (+184)
Known Cases in Golden – Fri: 252 | Mon: 252 (no change)
School of Mines COVID-19 case page. | Masks are required. | City and County fire restrictions are in place. | Clear Creek is now open.
Virtual Golden
7:30AM Downtown Merchants Association Meeting
10:15AM Baby & Toddler Time with the Library
2:30PM Local Licensing Authority Meeting
L’il Ricci’s needs to renew their “Retail Liquor or Fermented Malt Beverage License.” The Eddy Hotel (the new hotel at the end of 8th Street, where the Briarwood used to be) is requesting a “New Hotel and Restaurant Liquor License.” The Golden Mill (new food hall in the same location as the old feed store) has also applied for a “New Hotel and Restaurant Liquor License.”
7PM Parks, Recreation and Museums Advisory Board Regular Meeting
The Deputy City Manager will discuss the Heart of Golden project with the Parks, Recreation, & Museum Board this evening.
They will review the public responses regarding the Lubahn Trail on South Table Mountain. This is a problematic trail, in that it’s extremely popular, it’s not designed for the heavy traffic it receives, and it leads up to Castle Rock, which is private property and not open to the public. Any attempt to close the trail would likely not stop people from walking that way and continuing to trespass. It would also likely elicit howls of outrage from the hoards of people who use it regularly. See the meeting packet to review the public responses to the survey about Lubahn Trail.
The former Director of Planning & Community Development (Steve Glueck) will discuss the Bachman property. The meeting packet contains a fairly complicated memo on that subject. As part of the Jeffco Open Space Heritage Square/Quarry land swap, Golden expects to receive several more acres of Bachman property (located at Heritage Rd and Colfax). If I’m reading the memo correctly, the City wants to use some of the Bachman property for flood mitigation. I think this would involve a retention pond. Jeffco Open Space points out that this would not constitute using the property as “open space.” If we did this, the property would revert to Jeffco Open Space ownership. I think the City is proposing a way to allow us to proceed with our flood mitigation plans by swapping the “reverter” clause to apply to some land we own across the street, instead. As I said–it’s complicated. If you’re interested in this land swap and future uses, definitely read the meeting packet yourself.
Steve Glueck will also discuss Public Art plans with the Parks board.
7PM Votes for Women: How Colorado Led the Way
Gain greater understanding into the decades-long struggle by women to gain the right to participate in American democracy. Led by JCHC member Bonnie Scudder, retired teacher and administrator in the Denver Public Schools, author, and volunteer historian for Staunton State Park, this program traces the progress of women’s suffrage in America beginning in the 1800s. In 1893, Colorado became the first state to allow women to vote, attained by popular referendum rather than legislative action. Bonnie will feature some of the women who helped bring this crusade to success, both in Colorado and nationwide. Jefferson County women were also involved, and 62% of the (male) voters in Jeffco supported suffrage in Colorado. You can access the program via You Tube. More information
Real World Golden
10AM Storytime and Craft at the Railroad Museum
Golden History Moment
This photo was taken in the Golden Cemetery on May 19, 1935. The newly-completed stone warming house appears in the background. While working on the self-guided cemetery tour yesterday, I looked for the markers shown in that photo.
I found the markers–and what a difference 85 years makes! The warming house (now the cemetery office) is still there, but it’s hidden behind a splendid blue spruce tree.
Until the mid-1930s, the Golden Cemetery lacked an irrigation system–which meant no trees. Despite the on-going Depression, then-Mayor A. E. Jones made cemetery improvements his personal mission. He asked the public for donations of pipe and cobbled together an irrigation system. Then he encouraged people to donate trees from their own yards. More trees were added in the 1950s, when the City transplanted dozens of evergreens from the Beaver Brook property.
Several particularly fine specimens are now labeled, and the cemetery is beginning to serve a dual purpose as an arboretum.
