Weekly COVID Update
The Pfizer COVID vaccine now has FULL FDA APPROVAL.
Safeway (map) is accepting walk-ins to administer these free vaccines. Walgreens (map) takes walk-ins from 9:30AM to 1PM and 2-8PM Monday – Friday. Appointments are not necessary, but they are available.
Jeffco Public Health will hold two vaccine clinics in Golden tomorrow (Wednesday). They’ll be at Golden Heights Park, 2nd Place and Quaker Street (map) from 8AM-2PM. They will be at the Jeffco Fairgrounds, 15200 West Sixth Avenue (map) from 9AM-3PM. The vaccines are free and no appointment or ID is necessary.
Jefferson County Case Summary:
Cases in Jeffco – Aug 16th: 51,754 | Aug 23rd: 52,702 (+948)
Deaths in Jeffco – Aug 16th: 874 | Aug 23rd: 881 (+7)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Aug 16th: 39 | Aug 23rd: 36 (-3)
Recovered – Aug 16th: 49,874 | Aug 23rd: 50,507 (+633)
Known Cases in Golden – Aug 9th: 2079 | Not Updated
COVID Vaccine Appointments
State of Colorado: Where You Can Get Vaccinated
Jeffco Public Health Vaccine Call Center: 303-239-7000
State Vaccine Hotline: 1-877-268-2926.
Golden Testing Sites
Mines COVID Testing | Jeffco Fairgrounds COVID Testing
More Public Health References
Sign up for exposure notifications | CDC | Colorado | Jefferson County | City of Golden
Clear Creek Survey
The City recently published a report assessing the steps they were taking to manage the crowds along Clear Creek this summer. Now they want to know what you think about the new safety measures, traffic patterns, sanitation standards, etc. Please click here to take the survey.
Virtual Events
6-6:55AM Cardio Lift Interval
9-9:55AM Silver Sneakers Classic
9-11:30AM Accelerate Your Career – LinkedIn: A Great Job Search Tool
5:30-6:25PM HIIT & Sculpt
6:30-7:30PM Golden Anti-Racism Collective General Meeting (Zoom)
Real World Events
8-9AM Coffee Connections
1:30PM Triad – Senior Safety@ Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office
4-10PM Prime Tuesdays at the Buffalo Rose
Prime Rib: Who can resist 10 oz. of Angus beef cooked to perfection and served with gouda mashed potatoes, savory green beans, and all the accompaniments?
Dogs: On Tuesdays only, you and your Doggo and all of your friends can hang out on ANY of our three patios, including the positively perfect back patio. Come enjoy our Tuesday Specials with your Best Dog Ever.
Locals are Golden: A “periodic” visit will earn our Golden locals, students and service industry folks a 79 cent Coors Light or Coors Banquet on Tuesdays.
5-7PM Golden Living Magazine Community Happy Hour @ Buffalo Rose
6:30PM City Council Regular Business Meeting @ City Hall
Tonight’s consent agenda (no discussion unless a councilor requests it) includes a resolution to “assign our bonding capacity” of $1 million to an affordable housing project in Wheat Ridge; a resolution to retain the services of water attorneys Bushong & Holleman; a resolution to retain the services of water attorney Glenn Porzak; awarding a $446K contract to replace a water pipeline at the Vidler Tunnel; and awarding a $30,000 contract to create an Open Space Master Plan.
There will be two proclamations. The first will celebrate Women’s Equality Day, which recognizes the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote. The second will commemorate the 20th anniversary of the September 11th attack on the U.S.
Resolution No. 2806 will name the City Open Space “discovered” by esteemed community member Tom Schweich as “Schweich Hill.”
There will be a public hearing regarding the plan to change the hours for the Lubahn Trail from 24 hours/day to dawn-to-dusk. This aligns with Jeffco Open Space hours.
They will consider allowing City Council members to attend meetings virtually when they cannot attend in person.
They will discuss the possibility of posting all emails sent to councilcomments@cityofgolden.net online, so that residents can see the issues that are being discussed.
The business meeting will be followed by a study session. IT Director Jiles McCoy will discuss the possibility of providing citywide broadband service. The Planning Manager will discuss the possibility of allowing restaurants to cook in the rights of way (sidewalks and parking spaces) downtown.
The study session will be followed by an executive session (no public; no camera) to provide the City Manager with his Bi-Annual review.
Golden History Moment
151 Years Ago
The August 24, 1870 Colorado Transcript reported on the status of the Colorado Central Railroad. Col. T. J. Carter, the railroad’s president, had just returned from a trip east, and he assured the Transcript that he had purchased everything needed to complete the railroad, including “two locomotives, passenger, mail, baggage, freight and coal cars, hand cars, scales, trucks, etc.”
He had twenty-eight car loads of rails and other materials needed to lay the track from Denver to Golden, and had crews lined up to do the work.
He had also made arrangements with railroads “back in the states” (we weren’t a state yet) to sell tickets to Golden. In fact, easterners would be able to pay for a freight shipment all the way to Black Hawk, Central City, Idaho Springs, or Georgetown. The freight would go by rail as far as Golden, and be taken by stage into the mountains. The same was true for passengers: a person in Iowa could pay the fare all the way to Georgetown. They would ride the railroad to Golden and a stagecoach the rest of the way.
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!
