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 – Tues: 36,195| Weds: 36,282 (+187)
Deaths in Jeffco – Tues: 736 | Weds: 738 (+2)
Currently Hospitalized in Jeffco – Tues: 31| Weds: 37 (+6)
Known Cases in Golden – Thurs: 1459 | Tues: 1478
Recovered – Tues: 34,444 | Weds: 34,534 (+90)
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
7:30AM Golden Young Professionals Monthly Membership Meeting
10-10:30AM Call In: Mid-Morning Meditation
10AM Everything Dinosaur Talks | Now Online!
10-11AM Great Decisions – Global Supply Chains and National Security
10:15-10:45AM Preschool Time with the Library
3-5PM Virtual/Call In: Hard Times Writing Workshop
6-7PM Virtual: Qs and Brews Trivia
6PM Golden United Housing Task Force Training on Providing Input to Golden Zoning Code Rewrite
Golden’s character is one of the many things that makes it special. It’s also one of the topics that people care about most when it comes to zoning and housing. Learn how zoning affects Golden’s character, affordability, and density, and find out how to weigh in on zoning changes during a special zoning training with the Golden United Housing Task Force.
Confused about Golden’s Zoning Code Update? Join Golden United to walk through some of the information; bring your questions and discussion topics. The meeting will be hosted on the Zoom platform. Register in advance or you may also call in at 312-626-6799 or 929-205-6099. Meeting ID: 880 4886 2546 Register here!
7PM Parks, Recreation and Museum Advisory Board
The PRAM board will discuss their work plan for this year and review the final design for DeLong Park. See the meeting packet for more details….
Colorado Environmental Film Festival Feb 12-21
Backcountry Film Festival Runs Feb 15-March 1
Golden History Moment
The Mines Museum of Earth Science began as a teaching tool for the school’s mining and geology students. From its beginning in the 1870s, the school maintained an extensive collection of mineral and fossil specimens so students could practice identifying and evaluating the rocks they would later encounter in the field.
J. Harlan Johnson, the museum’s curator in the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, recounted the museum’s history in the December 11, 1956 issue of The Oredigger. He credited Arthur Lakes with collecting and documenting the school’s original collection. Lakes was keenly interested in paleontology and collected many fossils on the school’s behalf. Lakes was followed by a Professor Patton, who was not interested in fossils. Johnson said that Patton “threw out much of material that had been collected by Lakes and started a collection of minerals.” Patton “brought in specimens by the wagonload, using the specimens not merely for classroom purposes, but to build up a museum.”
The museum’s first home was a room on the ground floor of the old chemistry building. When Guggenheim Hall was built in 1904, the Geology Department and its museum moved there. The museum originally had its own room in Guggenheim, but by the 1920s, the growing Geology Department moved the display cases into the basement hallways. There they remained until Berthoud Hall was built in 1938.
Even in Berthoud, the museum had to fight for space. The first floor and basement of the west wing were originally designated for the museum, but during World War II, the basement was claimed as storage for other departments. It took more than a decade for the museum to recover its basement display area.
The museum moved to its current glamorous digs at 1310 Maple Street (map) in 2003. Displays now include more than 15,000 square feet of rocks, gems, minerals, and fossils from all over the world–and beyond (they have moon rocks!). Their “cave” on the lower level showcases phosphorescent minerals.
The museum has been closed for the past year, due to Covid, but will re-open to the public on Saturday, February 27th. They will be using a reservation system in order to control the number of people in the museum at any given time, but tickets are free. Get yours here….
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!
