Golden Transcript 0422

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April 22, 2021

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JEFFERSON COUNTY, COLORADO

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VOLUME 155 | ISSUE 19

Golden event organizers taking waitand-see approach Planners say that while event chances look better than last year, uncertainty remains BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

result of many challenges, including a large number of residents who lack health insurance and thus experience with the medical system. The area also has a high number of residents who don’t speak English. “There’s also lots of language barriers which come into play because a lot of the information that has been put out about the vaccine is going out in English,” said Nielsen. “And so what a lot of folks have access to is what they are seeing on social media, which creates hesitancy.” Few people know more about the reality of those challenges and what it takes to break through them than Sandie Weathers, who

While spring is nice, fall’s quite pleasant and most everyone enjoy throwing on their Viking horns for Ullrgrass in January, every longtime Golden resident knows that summertime is when the city really comes alive —- thanks in no small part to the many community events that takeover the city each weekend. But after a quiet year that came and went without fireworks, fried treats or much in the way of carefree frivolity, many Goldenites are likely eyeing this summer with a mix of cautious optimism and wariness, wondering if the next few months will be a welcome return to fun and freedom or another bummer of a summer. Already word has come that Buffalo Bill Days will not happen in 2021. But while Buffalo Bill won’t ride in 2021, will Golden’s roster of other blockbuster summer events stay away with him? Lora Knowlton, an event planner in charge of managing the Golden Fine Arts Festival, the fall beer tasting and chili cook-off and other

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A nurse holds syringes filled with vaccine before distributing them to stations at the clinic.

PHOTO BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO

For county and state, clinics key tool in fight for vaccine equity in Jeffco

Polis promises Jeffco will see more events like one that delivered 1,000 doses at Lakewood shopping center BY PAUL ALBANI-BURGIO PALBANIBURGIO@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

As a member of the public health staff team working to ensure the distribution of vaccines is as equitable as possible in Jeffco, part of Marius Nielsen’s job is to hone in on the county communities where people are being vaccinated at lower rates.

NEED HELP GETTING A VACCINE? Call Jefferson County’s COVID Vax Information Center at 303-239-7000. Por Espanol, 303-330-2766. “We’re trying to see who is being left behind,” Nielsen said. “And then we work with organizations to say “in your community where’s the best location and how do we reach people and what is the best approach to distributing the vaccine here?” At this point in the vaccination effort, no Jeffco community has bee left behind more than the Sheridan Boulevard corridor in Lakewood, which Nielsen said has some of the lowest vaccination rates not only in Jeffco but nationwide. Nielsen said that statistic is the

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BACK TO SUMMER Jeffco ski resort closes for season

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