Community

VFW Bonanza of Prizes Grows for Bingo Food Drive

From the April 11, 2008 Edition

By Dolores "Dee" Bumgardner, VFW Auxiliary

The VFW Post 9791 Bingo Night food cupboard drive has been kicked up a few more notches. A bonanza of great prizes has been donated by our local merchants. …

Groups Work to Keep Kids In School

From the April 11, 2008 Edition

The Kern County Sheriff’s Frazier Park substation, working with the El Tejon Unified School District, Juvenile Probation Department, Child Protective Services, the Mountain Community Family Resource Center, Clinica Sierra Vista and parent volunteers make up …

Wild Flowers

From the April 11, 2008 Edition

The mail box is full of letters about wildflowers. Here is a sampling of readers’ thoughts about this flower season. We’ll have some more next week. —Editor.

Ridge Route Communities Museum Historian Bonnie Kane …

UFW Celebrates Cesar Chavez Day

From the April 11, 2008 Edition

Story and Photos by Donato Ventura

Maria and Donato Ventura of Lake of the Woods, both educators, have worked with farm laborers since 1959.

About 800 people gathered Sunday, March 30 at a park in …

Enterprise on the Road: Steve Jay and Barbara Bouman Jay

From the April 11, 2008 Edition

Composer and musician Steve Jay and artist Barbara Bouman Jay, of MUSE Ranch in Cuddy Valley, recently returned from a creatively inspiring New York City vacation, missing the mountain snowstorms of late January.

While in …

Quick Help for Crash

From the April 11, 2008 Edition

By Patric Hedlund

Emergency vehicles, flashing lights and official personnel filled the parking lot of the Frazier Park Post Office Saturday, April 5, at about 7:10 p.m. Sarkis Carboyan, 14 was injured while riding his …

Chase Rivers Progress Report

From the April 11, 2008 Edition

By Laura Raymond and Jenifer Abell of Pinon Pines

Many people from our community have come into The Flower Pot asking about the progress of Chase Rivers, 8 who was badly burned in a dune …

District 4 Supervisor Will Be Elected June 3

From the April 11, 2008 Edition

‘Meet the Candidate’ event with Cliff Thompson April 2.

By Patric Hedlund

Election day to choose the Mountain Communities’ next representative to the Kern County Board of supervisors will be June 3.

A group of …

Voltage Back Home

From the April 11, 2008 Edition

April 4, 2008 Dear Editor:

We want to tell you how delighted we were with your coverage of "Voltage" the Cat’s rescue from the electric pole in Frazier Park in the April 4 issue …

National Town Hall on Kids And Drugs Here Monday

From the April 11, 2008 Edition

By Kim Volkmar

Free pizza, films and the most important issues facing today’s kids are on the agenda Monday, April 14.

The organization now known as McCASA (Mountain Communities Coalition Against Substance Abuse), is holding …