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 – Fri: 38,524 | Tues: 38,768 (+244)
Deaths in Jeffco – Fri: 770 | Tues: 773 (+3)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Fri: 30 | Tues: 35 (+5)
Known Cases in Golden – Thurs: 1547 | Tues: 1559 (+12)
Recovered – Fri: 36,802 | Tues: 37,128 (+326)
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
10:15AM Baby Time with the Library
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop
7:30AM Citizen Budget Advisory Committee Meeting
8:30-9:30AM Golden Women in Business Book Club
10AM TriceraTOTs – Dino in a Jar
6-7PM Great Decisions – China’s Role in Africa
6-7PM Call In: COVID-19 Vaccine Q&A
6-7:30PM Let’s Talk About PYD
6-7PM “We Just Did It”: Colorado Women in World War II
6PM Golden United’s Form Based Zoning Training
6:30PM Planning Commission Study Session
Commission will receive a presentation from the City Attorney with regard to Planning Commission’s quasi-judicial role in the land use hearing process, and have an opportunity to ask questions and get clarifications on associated roles and responsibilities.
7:30PM Miners Alley Playhouse Quarantine Cabaret
Banthom House, based in Boulder, Colorado, is a traditional Irish music band that also plays a mix of bluegrass and folk tunes. Formed in the summer of 2020, the band features Allegra Ludwig on fiddle and vocals, David Otto on mandolin and vocals, and Aaron Vega on guitar, cajon, and vocals.
The trio of actor-musicians met while performing as cast members in Miners Alley Playhouse’s critically acclaimed production of Once. In the wake of the recent pandemic and shuttered venues around the country, Banthom House was created to bring back and expand upon the exhilarating Irish music that thrilled audiences back in 2019.
They have been seen performing live on Pearl Street, in a series of outdoor pop-up concerts throughout the Boulder area, and are taking their music to new audiences across Colorado.
Golden History Moment
Greatest Hits Week: To celebrate a full year of writing Golden History Moments, I’m re-running some of my favorite articles. This article about life on the homefront during World War II originally ran on April 5, 2020.
Patriotism in the Paper
World War II was a part of every aspect of life…school, work, play, eating. The newspaper articles of the time reported on which local boys had been wounded overseas and which had died. The community worked on clothing drives, food drives, and war bond drives. Many things were rationed, including food, gasoline, and rubber. The grocery stores detailed the points needed as well as the cost of foodstuffs.
Uncle Sam was everywhere…promoting war bonds on one page and encouraging everyone to buy chicks from the Golden Mill in the next.
The Colorado Central Electric company cheerfully speculated as to whether Hitler would be electrocuted at the end of the war, then went on to say that if he was, the electricity used would be CHEAP, because electrical power is CHEAP.
My favorite ads were a long-running series called “The Old Judge Says….” The Judge was always having folksy conversations with his fellow townsfolk, explaining the fine points of government policy. Curiously, his conversations always revolved around what a dumb idea prohibition had been. Here’s an example:
Judge, would you mind tellin’ Charlie here what you told me the other night walkin’ home from lodge. I can’t word it just the way you did.
Sure thing, Tim. Here’s what I told him, Charlie. There’s no such thing as votin’ a nation, a state, a county, or even a community dry. We had proof enough of that during our 13 years of prohibition. What you really vote for is whether liquor is going to be produced legally or illegally…whether the community is going to get needed taxes for schools, hospitals, and the like, or whether this money is going to go to gangsters and bootleggers. That’s the answer, boys…simple as A-B-C.
In other conversations, he concluded that
It all goes to prove what I’ve said time and time again, Chet…prohibition does not prohibit. Same thing happens every time…as soon as legal liquor is voted out, bootleg liquor with its crime and corruption moves right in.
and
It’s not hard to figure out. As soon as the distillers stopped making whiskey and devoted their entire facilities to the production of industrial alcohol for the Government…the racketeers muscled in again.
Careful scrutiny of the tiny message printed beneath each cartoon revealed that the series was sponsored by the Conference of Alcoholic Beverage Industries, Inc. I guess they were worried that Prohibition might make a comeback.
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!
