COVID Updates
Everyone 16 OR OLDER is eligible to get the vaccine.
Appointments to Get the COVID Vaccine
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 – Mon: 43,243 | Tues: 43,365 (+122)
Deaths in Jeffco – Mon: 789 | Tues: 790 (+1)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Mon: 38 | Tues: 34 (-4)
Recovered – Mon: 40,689 | Tues: 40,894 (+205)
Known Cases in Golden – Thurs: 1758 | Mon: 1789
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
7:30AM Citizen Budget Advisory Committee Meeting
CBAC will hear a 1st Quarter Financial Report, review the City’s Debt Management and Long-Range Budgetary Policies, learn about the CIP Process, and hear a Public Works Update
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life
10-10:30AM TriceraTOTs – Fizzy Eggs
10:15AM Baby Time with the Library
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop
5:30-7PM Virtual: South County Expansion Community Meeting/ Reunión de la comunidad de expansión del sur del condado
6-7:30PM GYP Book Club
6-7:30PM Conversations: Mirrors and Windows – How to Talk with Kids about Identity
6-7PM Mines Community Meeting
Mines will update the community on the following projects: Mines Park Expansion/Renovation Planning, Daycare Center Status (new location feasibility) , Labriola Innovation Complex (final design), Beck Venture Center Design Presentation 1
Link for Zoom meeting
Community meeting schedule and past presentations
6-7:30PM Golden History Museum – What are we really arguing about? Environmentalism in the 21st Century
6:30-7:30PM Golden Women in Business Table Talks
6:30PM Planning Commission Study Session
The Planning Commission will discuss Principles for Moving Forward on Net Zero Buildings and Historic Preservation. This is a study session, so no public comment will be accepted. See the meeting packet for more information.
7:30-8:30PM Cool Down Corners
Housebound kids? Remote learning? COVID worries? Do you need some ideas on handling your child’s emotions and what to do when he/she is having a meltdown? Learn more….
7:30PM Quarantine Cafe – Sarah Rex
Real Life Events
LIVE MUSIC:
4PM Chrispy at Mountain Toad Brewing
Golden History Moment
100 Years Ago
The April 21, 1921 Colorado Transcript announced that Golden post office employees were soon to be armed.
…with a view to protecting the mail against robbery. A supply of revolvers holsters, belts and ammunition has been sent to the office, and probably will be received this week. The mail messenger will also be armed. Government employees will not be required to secure state, county or municipal permits to carry firearms while on duty. The action of the post office department is taken in view of the frequent mail robberies, and is designed to protect the mails and safeguard lives of postal employees.
This was such an unexpected story that I tried researching why the need had arisen. Deep in the heart of the U. S. postal service website, I found a list of “On This Day in Postal History” events. It said
April 9, 1921: Postmaster General Will Hays issued Order No. 5668, which armed “all essential postal employees” to combat a rash of mail robberies. Fifty thousand guns and two million rounds of ammunition were issued to railway mail clerks and other employees who handled valuable mail.
Further research showed that there was a nationwide rash of robberies underway at the time. Postal employees on trains were sometimes armed, but most robberies took place in local post offices–which is why the Postmaster General thought the clerks should be armed.
The Golden Transcript (originally called the Colorado Transcript) has been publishing since 1866. The Golden History Museum has been working on digitizing the historic issues. You’ll find old Transcripts online at coloradohistoricnewspapers.org.
