Upcoming & Ongoing

Ongoing through November

  • Get a free listing for your business in the December ‘Shop the Mountain’ issue of The New Mountain Pioneer. Submit the form on pg. 7 or use the online form at www.MountainEnterprise.com (in Community FYI, right column) by November 19.
  • Work of HeART Gallery features Peter Gullerud as Artist of the Month in November.
  • Bandit plays live at La Sierra 6-8 p.m. Tuesdays through Nov. 30 (3500 Mt. Pinos Way).
  • Sign up for FMHS Ski Club Feb. 2011 trip through Nov. 30 (FMHSSkiClub@aol.com, 242-3340)
  • SBDC’s ‘Living Local’ survey invites you to tell local businesses how to better serve your needs. Participants will be entered into a raffle for prizes. See www.MountainEnterprise.com Community FYI and turn in your survey before December 10.

Thursday, November 18

  • El Tejon School PTSO meeting 3:15 p.m. in Room 9
  • Kern Community Foundation’s Women’s and Girls’ Fund grant applications due by 5 p.m. (3300 Truxtun Ave., Bakersfield, CA 93301, fax 661-325-5358, www.kernfoundation.org).
  • Frazier Mountain High School Fall Sports Awards Banquet is 6 p.m. in the Cafetorium
  • James Goldman’s acclaimed ‘Lion in Winter’ in a dinner theater performance. All are welcome: Dinner at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. in the Pine Mountain Club Condor Room. Call 242-3788 for tickets ($25 dinner and show; $15 show and dessert; see ad pg. 6).
  • Business Readiness free workshop by the Mountain Communities Small Business Development Center is from 6:30-7:30 p.m. at Cuddy Hall (335 Lakewood Place, Lake of the Woods). This is an information session designed to evaluate readiness for the 2011 Self- Employment Training course. Sign up by calling 805-667-8004

Friday, November 19

  • Deadline for “Shop the Mountain” free listing submissions for December edition of The New Mountain Pioneer.
  • GEMCare Medicare Plus HMO special meeting for Medicare beneficiaries is 11 a.m. at La Sierra Restaurant (3500 Mt. Pinos Way). Learn more about the Medicare Advantage Prescription Drug Plan. RSVP to 661-716-8800 or 877-697-2464.
  • Seventeenth Annual Regional Award of Merit Program nominations due by 5 p.m. at Kern Council of Gov. (1401 19th St. Bakersfield, CA 93301, kerncog.org, 661-861-2191)
  • Compassion Film Night presents What the Bleep Do We Know?! at 7 p.m. Jizo Peace Center (2012 Pioneer Way, Pine Mountain, 242-6569).
  • James Goldman’s acclaimed ‘Lion in Winter’ in a dinner theater performance. All are welcome: Dinner at 6:30 p.m., show at 8 p.m. in the Pine Mountain Club Condor Room. Call 242-3788 for tickets ($25 dinner and show; $15 show and dessert).

Saturday, November 20

  • Dragonfly’s Garden, a new Frazier Park florist, will have their grand opening at 12 noon. (3121 Mt. Pinos Way, behind Big John’s, 245-1895).
  • Michi’s Magic Bookshelf Story Time and Craft Club will be 2-4 p.m. at the Ridge Route Communities Museum (3515 East End, Frazier Park)
  • * Bunky Sperling plays live 7-11 p.m. in the Pine Mountain Clubhouse Condor Lounge
  • Midnight Ride plays live 9 p.m. at Sue’s Tavern (3440 Mt. Pinos Way, 245-1100)

Monday, November 22

Wednesday, November 24

  • Thanksgiving holiday begins for ETUSD, classes resume Monday, Nov. 29
  • Open Door ~ A Progressive Christian Community invites everyone to Thanksgiving Eve Worship 7 p.m. at the Work of Heart Gallery (Behind the Coffee Cantina, 3011 Mt. Pinos Way). The evening message is ‘Giving Thanks in Hard Times.’ Pie and beverages will be served. Non-perishable food donations for the Food Pantry accepted. Contact Pastor Christine Buma 661-242-1267.

Thursday, Nov. 25 — Happy Thanksgiving!

  • The Mountain Enterprise will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday. Business hours resume Friday 8:30 a.m. with advertising deadline for Dec. 3 at 2 p.m.
  • Girl Scout Troop 134 hosts a Community Thanksgiving Dinner from 1-4 p.m. in Cuddy Hall (335 Lakewood Place). All ages, limited space, RSVP 245-1477.

Friday, November 26

  • * Pine Mountain Club Community Tree Lighting will be 6 p.m. at the Clubhouse. Hot chocolate, cookies and carols sung by the Pine Mountain Community Church Children’s Christmas Choir (242-3788)
  • Blues and Jazz Club Jack Stone Revue performance is sold out.

Saturday, November 27

  • PMCPOA’s annual Holiday Craft Fair is 9 a.m.-3 p.m. at the Pine Mountain Clubhouse.
  • * Madd Dogs play live 7-11 p.m. in the Pine Mountain Clubhouse Condor Lounge

Monday, November 29

Tuesday, November 30

  • Oak Tree Ordinance workshop proposal to Kern County Board of Supervisors by planning department, supported by the Mountain Communities, at 2 p.m. 1115 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield; public comment welcome.

Thursday, December 2

  • AARP Christmas potluck meeting 12 noon at Frazier Mountain Park Comm. Center

Saturday, December 4

  • Mountain Communities SPCA will be giving away dog and cat food to families in need from 10 a.m.-12 noon in the parking lot behind Frazier Park Post Office (245-3035)
  • Holiday Faire and Fantasy of Lights ‘It’s a Cartoon Christmas’ Parade is 12-6 p.m. in downtown Frazier Park. Vendors open all afternoon, photo ops with special holiday guests, caroling and live music, parade on Mt. Pinos Way at dusk.
  • Welcome reception for local artists Roberta Jean Owen, Eda Jensen Martinek and JoAnn Koch held during the Holiday Faire at Arts for Earth Foundation gallery. Refreshments, music and raffle to support the 2011 children’s Arts In Nature Club (3408 Mt. Pinos Way, 245-1534)
  • * Annual Holiday Tea at the Pine Mountain Clubhouse is 12-3 p.m. $20/person (242-3788)
  • * Whiskey Man Band 6 plays live 7-11 p.m. in the Pine Mtn. Clubhouse Condor Lounge

Thursday, December 9

  • El Tejon School PTSO meeting 3:15 p.m. in Room 9
  • Pine Mountain Village Merchants Association Mixer with the Mountain Communities Chamber of Commerce with be 6 p.m. at the Old Bear Bed & Breakfast in Pine Mountain.

Friday, December 10

  • * The Pine Mountain Town Hall meeting is dark in December for the holidays.
  • Open-Mic Poetry at the Coffee Cantina 7-8:30 p.m. All ages/genres welcome. Sign ups 6:30 p.m. Free, hosted by Do We Dare literary ‘zine (3011 Mt. Pinos Way, 245-3166.

 

This is part of the November 19, 2010 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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