COVID Updates
Appointments to Get the COVID Vaccine (Eligibility)
State of Colorado’s Find Out Where You Can Get Vaccinated page
Safeway | King Soopers | Lutheran Medical Center | JCPH Clinic in Arvada (70+ only)
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: 36,688| Tues: 36,751 (+63)
Deaths in Jeffco – Mon: 746 | Tues: 749 (+3)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Mon: 42| Tues: 39 (-3)
Known Cases in Golden – Thurs: 1478 | Mon: 1488
Recovered – Mon: 35,066 | Tues: 35,169 (+103)
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
Backcountry Film Festival Runs Feb 15-March 1
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
10:15AM Baby Time with the Library
3-5PM Hard Times Writing Workshop
6-7PM Virtual/Call In: Race Relations Book Discussion
6-7PM Virtual: Great Decisions – Persian Gulf Security Issues
6PM Golden Anti-Racism Collective General Meeting
6PM US6 & Heritage Interchange Open House
This is the second open house for the US6 & Heritage Interchange redesign. The virtual meeting will include a presentation describing four alternatives for the interchange with an opportunity to ask questions and provide input. Register in advance! After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
You can learn more about the project at GuidingGolden.com/us-6-and-heritage-interchange-design. If you are unable to attend the meeting live, you’ll be able to watch a video of the meeting, review the design options, and provide feedback at GuidingGolden.com as well.
6PM Community Sustainability Advisory Board
CSAB will discuss the Municipal Fleet Electrification Strategy, Electric Vehicle Infrastructure, Citizen Task Force Recommendations, Energy code discussion with the Planning Commission, and more. See the meeting packet for the details.
7:30-8:30PM Community Conversation on Mental Wellness
“Self-care” gets thrown around a lot, but it’s hard to understand how to effectively take care of ourselves. We’ll take this time to discuss wellness and how to do things that align with our values to find wellness.
About the presenter: Jefferson Center’s Colorado Spirit community-based support program provides free and confidential mental health support during the COVID-19 pandemic. Their trained crisis counselors are here to help community members understand and manage stress, develop coping strategies, and connect them with other resources they might need through individual & group support, referrals, educational content, and other COVID-19 relief services. To learn more please visit cospirit.org or call 720-731-4689.
This is the first in a series of conversations that Golden Community Partners and Golden United will host throughout 2021. Free More information
Golden History Moment
In the early 20th century, the pages of the Transcript were overrun with advertisements for patent medicines. Many promised to cure vague disorders such as “kidney ills,” “liver laziness,” and “impoverished blood.”
In fact, some claimed to fix an impressive variety of ills, including “piles, kidney, bladder diseases, chronic ulcers, skin eruptions” (Therapion); “sour stomach, diarrhea, worms, convulsions, feverishness, and loss of sleep” (Castoria), and “female troubles such as…nervousness, irritability, and general miserableness” (Wine of Cardui).
Many of these panaceas included morphine, opium, and alcohol.
Congress complicated the patent medicine business with the 1906 Food and Drugs Act, which “prohibits interstate commerce in misbranded and adulterated foods, drinks and drugs.” In 1912, the Sherley Amendment prohibited “labeling medicines with false therapeutic claims intended to defraud the purchasers.”
One particularly notorious “medicine” was Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup, which contained morphine and proved fatal to many infants. This concoction was advertised regularly in the Transcript from 1880 – 1914.
Learn more about some of these medicines: Castoria, Wine of Cardui, Carter’s Little Liver Pills, Hood’s Sarsaperilla, Doctor Pierce’s Favorite Prescription, Cascarets, Hamlin’s Wizard Oil, Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, Dr. Kilmer’s Swamp Root, Peruna, Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup
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!
