The Last Snowfall, Fire Safety and a Hand-Crank Related Accident

*Golden Eye Candy – Frank Hanou – The Last Snowfall (?) – click to enlarge*

COVID Updates

% of Jeffco residents (16+) who have received either one or both shots–source

Everyone 16 OR OLDER is eligible to get the vaccine.

Appointments to Get the COVID Vaccine
DICK’S SPORTING GOODS PARK AND THE BALL ARENA BOTH HAVE DRIVE-THROUGH/WALK-UP CLINICS WITH NO APPOINTMENTS NEEDED. Learn more…. See other upcoming walk-up clinics…. 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

Jefferson County Case Summary:
Cases in Jeffco – Mon: 46,482 | Tues: 46,581 (+99)
Deaths in Jeffco – Mon: 808 | Tues: 809 (+1)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Mon: 69 | Tues: 79 (+10)
Recovered – Mon: 44,245 Tues: 44,402 (+157)
Known Cases in Golden – Thurs: 1942 | Mon: 1951

Golden Testing Sites
Mines COVID Testing | Jeffco Fairgrounds COVID Testing

Virtual Events

8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
9-11:30AM Accelerate Your Career – Dynamic Cover Letters
9AM Golden Walks – Wednesday Morning Celebrating Life
10:15AM Baby Time with the Library
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop
6-8PM Golden Safety Academy – Fire Safety
6PM Golden Anti-Racism Collective General Meeting – register here

Real World Events

LIVE MUSIC:
4PM Chrispy at Mountain Toad Brewing
5PM Jazz Over Easy at Golden Mill

Golden History Moment

*Early photo of Golden showing the gulch created by Kinney Run – Dan Abbott collection – click to enlarge*

We’ve done a lot of grading over the past 150 years in Golden. In reading very old Transcripts, I often come across references to bridges that we no longer need to cross dips and gulches that we have since bulldozed away. Kinney Run used to create a significant gulch just east of East Street. The terrain has been planed down over time, and more importantly, the waterway itself was “undergrounded” (put in a buried culvert) in 1959.

100 Years Ago
The May 12, 1921 Colorado Transcript gives prominent placement to the article, “Baptist Minister Seriously Hurt by Runaway Auto – Rev. Kelly is Caught on the Bumper of Big Car Which Runs Wild–Narrowly Escapes Death.” The pastor of the Baptist church was getting ready to leave his house on 13th Street and was positioned in front of the Overland brand automobile, getting ready to crank the engine to start it.

*Clink the photo above to watch the process of starting an old car with a front crank!*

Unfortunately, the car had been left in gear, and as soon as the engine started, the car leaped forward. The parson was caught by the bumper and dragged eastbound on 13th Street. The road sloped down towards Kinney run, but fortunately(?) the car hit a tree before it reached the gulch. “Had the runaway machine gone twenty feet further down the road it would have plunged into Kinney gulch, and Rev. Kelly could not have escaped being crushed.” As it was, he broke a shoulder and a rib and had severe cuts and bruises on his head, face, and limbs. “He is now resting fairly easy, and will recover unless complications set in.”

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