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May Appeal

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Virtual Events

6-6:55AM Virtual HIIT
8:30-9:30AM Virtual Power Training
9-9:55AM Strength and Cardio
11AM-12PM Kimodo for Balance
6:30-8PM World Reborn with Jeff VanderMeer and Special Host Ean Tafoya


Real World Events

10:15-10:45AM Toddler Time @ Golden Library
1-2PM The Friday Tour – Railroad Etiquette @ Colorado Railroad Museum
3PM Vaccine, License & Microchip Clinic @ Foothills Animal Shelter
7PM The Importance of Being Earnest @ Golden High School
7:30PM Blue Ridge @ Miners Alley Playhouse


Live Music

5-8PM Abby Brown @ Golden Mill
5-8PM Slide Bayou @ Goosetown Station
5PM Jesh Yancey @ Over Yonder
6PM Dave Frisk @ Dirty Dogs Roadhouse

7-10PM Will Whalen @ Buffalo Rose (Sky Bar Stage)

7-11PM Forever Man Tribute to Eric Clapton with Special Guest Radio Free Denver @ Buffalo Rose (main venue)
7-11PM Karaoke @ Wrigley’s
9PM Karaoke @ Ace Hi Tavern


COVID Update

83.2%

of residents 5+ have received at least one shot (+0.01% since 4/15/22)

78.2%

of residents 5+ have received at least two shots (+0.1% since 4/15/22)

46.9%

of residents 5+ have received 3 shots (+0.7% since 4/15/22) – source

Jefferson County Case Summary:
Cases in Jeffco
– April 22nd: 124,590 | April 29th: 125,343 (+753)
Deaths in Jeffco – April 22nd: 1,424 | April 29th: 1,420 (-4) (death was reclassified as something other than COVID)
Recovered – April 22nd: 122,677 | April 29th: 123,246 (+567)
Currently Hospitalized – April 22nd: 6 | April 29th: 9 (+3)
Known Cases in Golden – April 22nd: 5,025 | 29th: 5,068 (+43)

Golden Testing Site: Mines COVID Testing

More Public Health References
Sign up for exposure notifications | CDC | Colorado | Jefferson County | City of Golden

Where to get vaccinatedJefferson County


Golden History Moment

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The April 29, 1909 Colorado Transcript included an interview with George Turner, who came here from his native Iowa in 1860. He was immediately hired as a driver for the Central Overland Colorado, driving a stage line from Denver to Golden and thence to Central City. He had an interesting recollection about Sloan’s Lake.

Sloan’s Lake from Google Satellite Imagesenlarge

The reason I’m telling you about this is to explain what I know about Sloan’s lake. The stage line was from Denver to Golden and Central City. The road was the southern route to Golden and we crossed the Platte river where Larimer street crosses it now, and the road went on out over the hills and into that wide sag, or swale, where Sloan’s lake is now. The road was good right down through the middle of what would now be the bed of the lake.

In June, 1861, when I went down into Kansas territory to keep a stage station, there wasn’t any lake there. When I came back in the early part of 1863, less than two years later, there was the lake just as it is now, and it never has changed a bit that ever I could see. There was some talk years afterward about a man having dug a well there and it overflowed, forming the lake, but I was along there about as much as anybody and I never saw any well. However, it may have started from a well. All I know is that it came there in a good deal less than two years, to my certain knowledge. When I came back from the lower country, the road I used to travel was changed. The lake had covered up the old right of way.

He went on to describe racing against the coaches from competing companies. He recalled one particular time when he made the drive between Denver and Golden in 55 minutes, pulling thirteen people and “a whole lot of freight.”

Downtown Golden, circa 1865: notice the 6-horse hitch in the middle of the street – enlarge

Another time, he raced a rival driver down from Guy Hill to Golden. The road was narrow, and he kept trying to pass the other rig on the right, “as was the custom,” but couldn’t get by. Eventually he surprised the other driver by passing on the left.

He wasn’t looking for this, and gee, but he got hot when I sailed by him with my passengers guying him. Well, sir, I just took a chance and actually sent those six horses down the hill on the run. I made those last two miles in a little more than no time, and clattered into Golden fully two minutes in the lead.


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!

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