Community

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 …

Lake of the Woods home saved from fire

From the July 17, 2020 Edition

By Gary Meyer, TME

Lake of the Woods resident Joan Kotnik was standing on the front deck of her Lowry Lane home, enjoying the Monday morning sun at about 7:30 on July 13, when she …

Plea to supes: ‘Libraries are the lifeblood’

From the July 10, 2020 Edition

At the end of our report last week about Kern County’s grim plan to slash the budget and destroy the library system—including the closing of Frazier Park Library—The Mountain Enterprise promised to verify the volume …