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COVID News
I provided a bad link on yesterday’s JCPH mask announcement, so here it is again:
7/29/2021
Guidelines, JCPH Strongly Encourages Residents to Wear a Mask in Indoor Public Settings Regardless of COVID-19 Vaccination Status
Jefferson County, Colo. — On July 27, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued new guidance recommending mask wearing for the general public, including those who are fully vaccinated, in areas where there is substantial COVID-19 transmission (defined by 50-99.99 new cases per 100,000 people in the past 7 days). Based on current COVID-19 incidence rates in Jefferson County (77.2 per 100,000 people as of July 28, 2021), Jefferson County is in the substantial transmission category. For this reason, Jefferson County Public Health (JCPH) strongly recommends that all residents ages 2 and older, regardless of vaccination status, return to wearing a mask in indoor public spaces to minimize risk and maximize protection from COVID-19, including the highly infectious Delta variant.
Read the rest of the news release….
7/30/2021
Jefferson County Public Health Offers Guidance for Schools, Families Ahead of Back-to-School
Jefferson County, Colo. — As Jefferson County students soon return to in-person learning, and on the heels of the release of back-to-school guidelines from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Jefferson County Public Health (JCPH) is releasing its own guidelines for a healthy, safe return to in-person learning.
JCPH’s guidelines for schools and childcares in the county align with the CDC’s, and the scientific consensus across trusted health sources including CDC, the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (CDPHE) and the American Academy of Pediatrics, is clear: a layered mitigation approach is most effective in school settings among school-aged children. Specifically, JCPH’s guidelines recommend promoting COVID-19 vaccination to all eligible youth and adults and masking for all individuals in the school setting regardless of vaccination status, as well as implementing a testing and isolation/quarantine protocol. CDC recently released a Science Brief on COVID-19 and schools, which includes more than 100 scientific sources, supporting this approach.
Read the rest of the news release….
7/31/2021
FREE COVID VACCINATION CLINIC TODAY @ Ulysses Park (map)
Real World Events
8AM-1PM Golden Farmers Market@ Golden Library west parking lot
8AM-3PM FREE COVID VACCINATION CLINIC @ Ulysses Park (map)
8:30AM Elks Soccer Shoot @ Denver Kickers Sport Club
9AM-4PM SLASH Collection @ Golden Gate Grange (map)
10AM-12PM Wild West History Tour
10AM-3PM Saturday Train Rides@ Colorado Railroad Museum
10AM-2PM Homestead Open House @ Golden History Park
10AM-2PM Knife Sharpening @ Meyer Hardware
10AM-3PM Brunch at the Rose @ Buffalo Rose
1-4PM Wild West Pub Crawl
7:30PM The Treasurer @ Miners Alley Playhouse
Live Music
11AM Chris Child @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage – outdoor patio)
12PM 3 Shots Band @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
2PM Goodsmiles @ Cannonball Creek
2PM Laurie Dameron @ Golden Mill
4PM Live Music @ Wrigley’s
5PM Dirty Side Down @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse
6PM Lee & Co. on the Patio @ Ace Hi Tavern
7PM Jonathan Browning Acoustix @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage – outdoor patio)
8PM El Loco Fandango @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern
Golden History Moment
102 Years Ago
The July 31, 1919 Colorado Transcript reported that “BUILDING BOOM IS NECESSARY IF CITY IS TO ACCOMMODATE THOSE DESIRING TO LOCATE HERE.”
The article told the sad story of a Nebraska man who needed a furnished house for the balance of the summer.
The Nebraska man who wanted to live in Golden was keenly disappointed that his wants could not be supplied. He stated that he preferred to live here to other places he had seen in the state on account of the beauty of Golden, the excellent pure water we have and the mountains. “You people can’t realize,” he went on, “what the mountains mean to us Nebraska folks…”.
It is a well known fact that Golden is decidedly shy on furnished houses for rent this summer. For that matter desirable residences have not gone begging for several years, either summer or winter. There was a time when a stranger in town was almost a curiosity. Now there are hundreds here. Our transient population is increasing fast.
This was not a unique situation, nor an unusual Transcript article. People have been pushing for more housing in Golden since the town’s creation.
Colorado Transcript, April 3, 1901
As before stated in these columns our greatest present need is a good number of small modern dwelling houses for rent, and we still hope that all of our citizens who have the means will see the necessity of helping out along this line.
Colorado Transcript, October 19, 1916
Here we are, a town fitted by nature and climate for a great school center, a locality where the most romantic homes by the hundreds should be built and would be built by Denver business men…. Such homes should abound in Golden.
Colorado Transcript, February 12, 1920
It seems one of the greatest needs for Golden today is new homes.
Colorado Transcript, Number 23, April 11, 1935
There has been a shortage of houses in Golden for the last eight or ten years. At present this shortage is being acutely felt.
Colorado Transcript, Number 44, September 3, 1936
Everything is full. This is a distressing situation when scores of families, who are anxious to make their home in Golden, are looking for houses in which to live…. Thousands of dollars worth of business is being lost by Golden merchants every month because scores of families can’t find a place to live in Golden.
Colorado Transcript, Number 44, September 3, 1936
During the last few years thousands of beautiful and expensive new homes have been built between Golden and Denver, making of that area almost one continuous city with Denver. During all those years, Golden has sat smugly by, afraid someone might intrude and upset the old traditions of this community. It’s time to wake up and become a part of this growing, teeming life that is going on around us.
Colorado Transcript, Number 6, December 10, 1936
Here in Golden we have a house shortage that is acute. For more than a year families who would like to live in Golden have had to go elsewhere, because there were no suitable houses here for them to buy or rent. There has been a large number of houses and apartments built, but these have been snapped up before they were completed. It is time that persons with capital, interested in the future of Golden, should assist in relieving this situation. It is a good business proposition.
Colorado Transcript, Number 10, January 8, 1942
Some where in the vicinity of Denver and Golden hundreds of new homes must be constructed.
Colorado Transcript, Number 21, March 25, 1943
At least 200 homes could be rented or sold in Golden as fast as they could be made livable.
Colorado Transcript, Number 20, March 15, 1945
Never, under any condition, discourage anyone from building a new home or homes in Golden. Two hundred new homes here could be sold or rented in a couple of weeks–and if it were generally known in Denver that homes were available here, 1,000 houses would not supply the demand.
Colorado Transcript, Number 30, May 24, 1945
The Secretary of the Golden Chamber of Commerce, Bob K. Jennings, says he is tired and discouraged answering letters from World War II veterans wanting to come to Golden…and asking about living quarters for themselves and their small families. “No houses and none contemplated,” he must answer.
Colorado Transcript, Number 31, May 31, 1945
Besides the demand for houses for School of Mines students, there is a large number of persons who come to Golden every day to work, and any number of defense workers would gladly come to Golden if they could find a place to live.
Colorado Transcript, Number 41, August 7, 1947
Give us more good homes–Denver is crying for 15,000 new homes–Golden could use at least a thousand.
Colorado Transcript, Volume 99, Number 10, December 10, 1964
Many who work in Golden wish to live here but are turned back time and time again because of failure to find medium priced housing…. Many would prefer to live here because of the sense of belonging to a real community instead of living in a cow-pasture suburban sprawl without definition or identity…. It would seem an ideal time for the city, the Chamber of Commerce and others interested in Golden’s future to bend every effort towards stimulating major subdivision developers in the Lookout land for the construction of medium-priced housing in Golden.
Colorado Transcript, Volume 102, Number 30, March 10, 1968
One thousand families are ready to move into Golden tomorrow…. Golden has the people knocking at her doors trying to get in but there isn’t enough suitable housing for them.
Golden Transcript, Volume 104, Number 122, June 9, 1971
The easiest thing to say about housing in Golden now is that there is not enough for all the people who need and want it.
Golden Transcript, Volume 111, Number 84, April 18, 1977
The Jeffco Housing Department has verified what most Golden residents have known for a long time. Finding a house or apartment for rent in the area is about as easy to find as a 10 cent cup of coffee.
Golden Transcript, Volume 114, Number 58, August 5, 1980
Finding an apartment to rent in Golden for less than $300 a month may be difficult, according to a survey recently conducted by the Jefferson County Housing Authority.
Golden Transcript, Volume 116, Number 47, June 15, 1982
Golden may have the highest vacancy rate of any of the municipalities polled in a recent Jefferson County Housing Authority survey, but apartment lookers should not get their hopes up.
Many thanks to the Golden History Museum for providing the online cache of historic Transcripts, and many thanks to the Golden Transcript for documenting our history since 1866!
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