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COVID Updates
Appointments to Get the COVID Vaccine (Eligibility)
Safeway | King Soopers | Lutheran Medical Center
The state has a new hotline to answer questions, including location of vaccine providers: 1-877-268-2926. This week, the hours are: M-F 9AM-10PM, Sat and Sun 9AM-5PM. Beginning next week, it will be staffed 24 hours a day.
Public Health References
Mines COVID Testing | Jeffco Fairgrounds COVID Testing | School of Mines COVID-19 case page. | Sign up for exposure notifications.
CDC * Colorado * Jefferson County * City of Golden
Jefferson County is at Level Orange, “High Risk.”
Jefferson County Case Summary:
NO UPDATE AVAILABLE FOR FRIDAY 1/29
Virtual Golden
Once again, both of today’s library D&D sessions are wait-listed:
1-2:30PM Virtual: Dungeons & Dragons for Beginners
3:30-5PM Virtual: Dungeons & Dragons for Advanced Players
7:30PM Quarantine Cabaret with Miners Alley Playhouse
David Nehls – Tribute to Mary Chapin Carpenter
David Nehls is a composer/lyricist, musical director and actor. As a composer/lyricist, David has supplied music and lyrics for the following: The Great American Trailer Park Musical, Killer Wigs from Outer Space, the new musical Mommie Dearest and many more. As a Musical Director, David has conducted and Music Directed 50 productions at the Arvada Center for The Arts and Humanities in Colorado, winning 9 Henry Awards, 4 for Musical Direction, and 5 for Best Musical Production of the year. He has also worked regionally as Music Director at such theaters as Denver Center, The Aurora Fox Theatre-Denver, and Theatre Aspen. Download the program. Purchase tickets.
Real World Golden
11AM-2PM Brunch at the Rose
2PM Wild West Walking History Tour
Golden History Moment
63 Years Ago
The January 30, 1958 Colorado Transcript announced that the first building had been completed at the planned Magic Mountain amusement park. The public was invited to a dedication and flag raising ceremony. The Westernaires Cavalry team was on hand to participate in the celebration.
The log-type building is the Cavalry Post and Stockade. It will be formally dedicated in memory of the U. S. Cavalry, credited historically with making the old west safe for settlement and development by the pioneers.
Magic Mountain was an ambitious plan to build a Disneyland-like amusement park here in Golden. The developers failed to find enough investors and the park quickly went bankrupt. The site reopened in the early 1970s under new ownership and operated for several decades under the name of Heritage Square.
The stockade was located just south of the entrance to the park, and it lasted well into the Heritage Square era.
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!
