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Smokey Bear sculpture dedicated at Chuchupate Ranger Station

From the August 14, 2020 Edition

By Gary Meyer, TME

It’s been a long ride to completion for the new Smokey Bear sculpture at the Chuchupate Mt. Pinos District Ranger Station in Lockwood Valley.

Local sculptor Stan McCuen told The Mountain …

Dial-A-Ride is now 6 days a week

From the August 7, 2020 Edition

Starting Friday, Aug. 7, Kern Transit’s Dial-A-Ride will schedule transportation six days a week, from Monday through Saturday, 7:15 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. for all riders. Fares are $2, reduced to $1 for students and …

Food Program Contacts

From the July 31, 2020 Edition

Frazier Mountain Family Resource Center—Food Bank, available to all those who need it; sign-up data is not given to any other party; call for appointment: 661.245.4303, Monday–Thursday 8:30 a.m.–12 p.m. and 1–4 p.m.

Commodities—Salvation Army …

As food insecurity rises, volunteers step up

From the July 31, 2020 Edition

By Mel Weinstein, PMC with Patric Hedlund, TME

Laborers of the Harvest in Taft is the food bank that has been providing almost all the food to the Mountain Communities Family Resource Center (MCFRC) food …

Progress UPDATE: ‘Radio Bill’ Hopper is improving

From the July 24, 2020 Edition

By Judy and Cliff Brunk, PMC

“Radio Bill” Hopper was diagnosed with covid-19. Veterans Administration physician Dr. Al, contacted us to say Bill is making slow progress (but progress).

He was intubated on July 10 …

Neighborhood Watch: What it is and what it really isn’t

From the July 24, 2020 Edition

By Patric Hedlund, TME

Ian Sawrey organized a meeting of over 250 Pine Mountain Club residents on June 15, 2019. The issue was Neighborhood Watch. In those pre-covid days they squeezed together into the activities …

Frazier Mountain Park playground gets TLC

From the July 17, 2020 Edition

By Marcy Axness, TME

“I never thought they would ever do that canopy,” said Kimberlee Goddard Hoven, co-founder of Friends of Frazier Mountain Park (FFMP). Hoven and her colleagues worked tirelessly back in 2015-16 to …

Aftermath of LOW house explosion

From the July 17, 2020 Edition

By Gary Meyer, TME

Gilbert Willette, who was injured in the house explosion in Lake of the Woods July 3, remained under the care of doctors at Memorial Hospital’s Grossman Burn Center in Bakersfield on …