![Burgers, franks and petitions were served up recently outside Frazier Park Market as Ray Akari asked the public to tell Kern County that they do not want a Dollar General store in Frazier Park. The county planning department is holding a hearing in Bakersfield on the subject on November 19. [photo by Maryann Ryan]](https://mountainenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_8335-2-324x216.jpg)
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Burgers, franks and petitions were served up recently outside Frazier Park Market as Ray Akari asked the public to tell Kern County that they do not want a Dollar General store in Frazier Park. The county planning department is holding a hearing in Bakersfield on the subject on November 19. [photo by Maryann Ryan]![Burgers, franks and petitions were served up recently outside Frazier Park Market as Ray Akari asked the public to tell Kern County that they do not want a Dollar General store in Frazier Park. The county planning department is holding a hearing in Bakersfield on the subject on November 19. [photo by Maryann Ryan]](https://mountainenterprise.com/wp-content/uploads/IMG_8359b-324x239.jpg)
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Burgers, franks and petitions were served up recently outside Frazier Park Market as Ray Akari asked the public to tell Kern County that they do not want a Dollar General store in Frazier Park. The county planning department is holding a hearing in Bakersfield on the subject on November 19. [photo by Maryann Ryan]
UPDATE • FRAZIER PARK, CA (Friday, Nov. 6, 2015 at 6 a.m.)—Hundreds of copies of The Mountain Enterprise have been bought up by employees of Frazier Park Market and Ray Akari, the market’s manager. Akari was either unhappy or very proud of an article in Thursday morning’s paper about Frazier Park Market’s “Customer Appreciation Day” that was held October 23, where free hot dogs and hamburgers were given to visitors who were asked to sign a petition protesting a proposed new Dollar General store. The discount store is considering coming to Frazier Park at the location of the former Alpine Lumber.
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The entire edition of the November 6 Mountain Enterprise is available for everyone to read at this link FOR FREE. Click here to read it. This electronic edition includes all pages of the newspaper and advertisements exactly as they appear in the printed edition.
See below to read the story about Frazier Park Market’s October 23 barbecue/petition event, which was published in the November 5 edition of The Mountain Enterprise.
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Petition circulated to prevent new store from coming to town
Employees of Frazier Park Market were in the parking lot serving up free burgers and petitions on October 23. Some market employees told diners if they did not sign petitions against a Dollar General store coming to Frazier Park, they (market workers) would lose their jobs.
One claimed ISIS terrorists owned Dollar General, Richard Shelton of Lebec said. He said he laid down his sandwich and left. Others signed and enjoyed the lunch.
On November 19 in Bakersfield the county planning department is holding a hearing on the subject of parking spaces available at the proposed location. The public is invited to attend. —PH
This is part of the October 30, 2015 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.
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