20 years of doing right by children

Tom Corson remembers years ago when the organization he now directs set out to create a tidal wave in an area where government was only offering a ripple. Corson is executive director of the Kern County Network for Children (KCNC) which was established by the Kern County Board of Supervisors in 1992 and Kern County [...]

CALM’s animal for the ages

Known as a silent flyer, the owl has now become the silent, but impressive, guardian of transportation at the California Living Museum (CALM) in Bakersfield. Approximately 9 feet tall and weighing 3,000 pounds, the metal interpretation of a great horned owl, resting on a pedestal of native stones, resides inside the Central California Children’s Railroad [...]

Life as it was

You may enjoy your cell phone, microwaveable Beef Stroganoff and Xbox, but how would you have done building a log cabin to live in, churning milk all day to make edible by products, or boiling food to preserve it? Welcome to the world of students attending Valley Oaks Charter School. They spent three days, March [...]

37 years they’ve entertained children

When they came rushing out on stage at Valley Baptist Church in Bakersfield on March 22, Greg and Steve got the kind of reception normally reserved for rock superstars. Hundreds of children were screaming, applauding, jumping up and down and shouting out their names. Truth be known, these writers and singers of children’s songs started [...]

Life offers tough learning lessons

If you invite more than 2,000 teenagers to learn about leading, sometimes the lessons offered are tough to hear. But listen they did, when Craig Scott took the podium at the 13th annual Leaders in Life Youth Conference held on March 15 at the Rabobank Convention Center in Bakersfield. The theme of the event was [...]

Seuss’ celebrities excite children about reading

Nothing like singing about fire engines with people dressed in Dr. Seuss hats and firemen helmets to get a child interested in reading and comprehending. And that was the whole point, along with providing a lot of fun, for having the eighth annual Dr. Seuss Read Across America Day at the Claude W. Richardson Child [...]

State organization honors Superintendent Frazier

Kern County Superintendent of Schools Christine Lizardi Frazier was honored (today) March 9 as California Educational Administrator of the Year by the California Association of Educational Office Professionals (CAEOP) during lunchtime ceremonies at the Marriott Bakersfield at the Convention Center. The award was announced during the 62nd Annual CAEOP Conference held this year by the [...]

Engineers encourage high school students

What would bring Kern County’s largest petroleum and energy industries to one site, the campus of California State University, Bakersfield (CSUB), on the same day, recently? A concern that also attracted 500 Kern County high school seniors to the same place at the same time on Feb. 24 – the 12th annual Engineers Day. Sponsored [...]

Reading in unspoken terms

Reading out loud took on a whole different form of expression when students, teachers, parents and friends spent the middle morning hours of Feb. 16 celebrating the 11th annual Kern County Deaf Authors Day. Held on the campus of Actis Jr. High School, the event attracted dozens of students enrolled in deaf and hard of [...]

Never was graduation sweeter

When a graduation ceremony features just five students, one would be inclined to say, “school must be a failure.” On the contrary, Bridges Academy in Bakersfield held its winter high school commencement on Jan. 26, and the five student graduates, teachers, staff, family and friends all agreed it was a total success and a day [...]

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