the bakersfield voice may 3, 2009
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Winningmoment!
Another chapter for theSPCA’s book sale Pg. 2How to honor mom Pg. 3Light the way for cowplop fundraiser! Pg. 5
See ‘Spring into Action’contest results, pgs. 6-7
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EDITORIALOlivia Garcia VViiccee PPrreessiiddeenntt //CCoonntteenntt
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StaffCOURTESY OF CAL STATE BAKERSFIELD
t’s time for California State University, Bakers-field’s Party in the Park. Grab a wine glass andbeer mug … wait, beer mug? That’s right, inaddition to top California wineries, this year,attendees can sample unique micro-brews while
raising thousands of dollars for student scholarships.Join the festivities on Friday, May 8, at 5:30 p.m. inCSUB’s Alumni Park.
“We are expanding Party in the Park to accommo-date all tastes,” said David Perkins, event chair andmember of the CSUB Alumni Association board.“The wineries are stellar, and the micro-brews add anew dimension to the event. But most importantly,we’re raising funds to support student scholarships.”
Wineries include: Bighorn Cellars, MacRostie Win-ery and Vineyards, Clos du Bois, Renwood Winery,Croad Vineyards, Arroyo Robles Winery, ChumeiaVineyards, and Souza Family Vineyard. Micro-brewsavailable include: Lengthwise Brewery, Kern RiverBrewery and select brands from Advance Beverage.
Party in the Park precedes the annual BakersfieldJazz Festival. Cost for the tasting is $40 in advance or$50 the day of the event, if tickets are available.
Available for pre-purchase only is a weekend pack-age that includes both Party in the Park and the Bak-ersfield Jazz Festival. The package price for Friday’sevents is $70, or enjoy the entire weekend for $90.
For tickets or more information, please contact theAlumni Relations office at 654-3211.
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Brewing up a great time!
COURTESY OF THE SPCA
he Bakersfield SPCA book sale is now untilMay 23 at the old Michael’s store, 3501 MallView Road, Suite 109, (Near East HillsMall).
This is the Bakersfield SPCA’s largestfundraiser of the year. Your support aids the Bakers-field SPCA in continuing to care for abandoned andunwanted pets until they find new homes.
Hours are Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.; Sun-day, noon to 6 p.m. For more information:
www.bakersfieldspca.org.
TBuy a book, save a pet during month of May
BY CHRISTINE GRONTKOWSKICommunity contributor
he National Multiple Sclerosis Society ishosting a bilingual Family Day at CaliforniaLiving Museum, 10500 Alfred Harrell Hwy.from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, May 9.
Adults can ask questions about multiplesclerosis (MS), while kids will learn about
the disease through interactive activities and a spe-cial presentation where they can meet the museum’sanimals. The English/Spanish program is a greatopportunity to learn about MS, while enjoying thecompany of others who understand what it’s like tolive with the disease. The cost is $10 per family(which includes lunch). To register, call 321-9512.
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MS society hosts bilingual family day at CALM
Let the fun begin! Here are just three of last year’s 600attendees from last year’s Party in the Park event. Thisyear, the event will offer samples of micro-brews, too.
CASEY CHRISTIE / THE CALIFORNIAN
Meet the animals at CALM and learn about MS on May 9.
The SPCA book sale helps fund pet rescue work.
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Our “Spring into Action” contest winner (see pages6-7 for runners-up, too) captured a church missiontrip where a youth group on Spring Break truly actedin a charitable way. They built three houses for theneedy in Tijuana, Mexico.
Your photo couldbe on our next cov-er! Photos and storiesfor the May 24 is-sue must be post-ed by Wednesday,May 13 at 5 p.m.
About the cover
4 Hooray for these hoopsters!Local youth basketball team does Bakersfield
proud at a recent tournament in Orange County.
4 Our April Athlete of the Month This month’s winner isn’t afraid to try a new
sport in addition to keeping up straight A’s in school.
6 Spring snapshots We asked you to “Spring into Action” with
your photos and stories of Spring Break, see the results.
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Post Mother’s Day greetings!ello everyone:
Mother’s Day is lessthan two weeks away andyou probably haven’t got-ten her a card yet. So, do
the next best thing. Post a shortstory and photo on The BakersfieldVoice Web site and tell our onlinecommunity why you think your
mom is so special.And if you do it by Monday, May
3, it could appear in the printededition of The Bakersfield Voice.
It’s easy to do. Just go to:www.bakersfieldvoice.com, createa FREE profile, and hit the links topost your story, add your photo andeveryone can see what a consider-ate daughter or son you really are!
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BY TRACY HUNTERCommunity contributor
ouchin Blood Bank presents— “BLING FOR BLOOD”— a Mother’s Day Promo-tion! Beginning Monday,May 4 through Saturday,
May 9, donors may enter a drawingfor a chance to win a pair of diamond
earrings. Sponsored by Don HallJewelers, the earrings are valued at$1,500. Operating hours at 5901Truxtun Ave. are: Monday, Tuesday,Wednesday and Friday, 9 a.m. to 6p.m.; Thursday, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. andSaturday, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Operating Hours at 2600 G St.are: Monday, Wednesday and Fri-day, 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
H11th annual Mother’s Day CraftShow at Rosedale Wal-MartBY CINDY WILKINCommunity contributor
osedale Wal-Mart, 8400Rosedale Hwy., will host its11th annual Mother’s Daycraft show benefiting Chil-dren’s Miracle Network on
Friday, May 8 to Sunday, May 10. Awide variety of handmade crafts willbe available for your Mother’s Dayand graduation shopping needs: Jew-
elry, yard art, woodworking, homedecor, quilts, candles and many moreunique items will be for sale. Localfood vendors will be participating aswell.
Hours are Friday and Saturday, 9 a.m. to 7 p.m.; and Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
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All-Star team takes 3rdBY CJNORMANCommunity contributor
he Bakersfield West NJB All-Star Team took third place inthe NJB National All-StarTournament held April 17-19in Orange County.
The team was directed by HeadCoach Keith McCants and assistantsJosh Thompson and Randy Nielson.Bakersfield West finished with a 4-1record in the tournament. The team aspictured: (Front row) Alexander Nor-man, Jonathan Moore, Caleb Thomp-son, Daniel Galvez, and Tyson Nielson.(Back row) Assistant Coach Randy
Nielson, Keith McCants, Isaac Esper-icueta, Stephen Campbell, TannerCompton, Head Coach Keith McCants,Sr., Assistant Coach Josh Thompson.
TThe Bakersfield West NJB All-Star team.
The Bakersfield Voice’s star athleteof the month for April is NathanSoland. Nathan is an active andadventurous 11-year-old whoattends Downtown Elementary andis a straight-A student.
Nathan’s name was picked fromamong the other Star Athlete ofthe Week nominees for April. Hewill receive a $50 gift card forsporting equipment, complimentsof Sports Authority.
Athlete of the Month: Nathan Soland
Star Athlete of the Week: Hadley deQuillettes
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Nominated by Jaime deQuillettes When 11-year-old Hadley deQuillettes is not
pitching for the Fresno Bulldogs in the BASAGirls Softball League, she is playing shortstop.Softball is a sport she has been participating insince she was 4. Hadley has gone from wonder-ing where in the heck home plate was to slidinginto it all on her own.
Hadley is also on the Kern River Volleyballteam.Though Hadley has a busy practice andgame schedule to contend with, it doesn’t get inthe way of her grades. She has maintained herhonor roll status during her entire tenure atCentennial Elementary School. Beyond all that,she is an amazing big sister and a great kid! Welove her and are extremely proud of our “star!”
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Cow Plop for stadium lights!COURTESY OF INDEPENDENCE HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB
ndependence High School Athlet-ic Booster Club presents CowPlop for the Stadium Lights!, Sat-urday, May 9. Social hour will befrom 5 to 6 p.m., dinner from 6 to
7 p.m. Cow plop, live & silent auctionsand dancing will be from 7 to 11 p.m.Presenters will mark a field off withsquares, release a cow into the fieldand wait for the cow to “PLOP.” If he“PLOPS” in your square, you win$1,000! A $50 ticket includes onesquare for the cow plop, two New
York steak dinners and dancing underthe stars. The Cow Plop will be locat-ed at 8310 Emmers Way, off GosfordRoad, about a mile south of HoughtonRoad.
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IFinally, cow plops that are a good thing!
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Our ‘Spring IntoAction’ contestwinner is ...
e wanted to thank ouronline communitymembers who enteredour “Spring Into
Action” contest. We had somegreat entries detailing what folksdid during Spring Break.
Bakersfield High School stu-dent Lewis M. Rogers is our win-ner of six tickets to the MontereyBay Aquarium. Lewis chronicled
his church youth group’s travelsto Tijuana, Mexico over SpringBreak, and how they built housesfor the needy! We found it to be anoble effort and a great story andphotos about truly “springinginto action!”
Congratulations to Lewis!Please be on the lookout for our
next contest online and in afuture printed edition of TheBakersfield Voice.
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BY LEWIS M. ROGERSCommunity contributor
I went on my second mission trip toTijuana, Mexico where my church(Laurelglen Bible) high school youthgroup and I built three houses forneedy locals during spring break.
Since we started in one area thefirst day, and then were unexpectedlymoved to a safer area the next, it wasamazing we still finished in time. Wewould have had four days to build, butwe only had three. But we still, withGod’s help, laid the concrete and builtwalls the first day, put up the wallsand roof the second day, and thenstuccoed and tar-papered the housethe third day.
We hosted a small Bible school forthe last three days of the trip for allthe Mexican kids in the area. It was ablast, interacting with all the chil-
dren. There were about 50 kids thefirst day and around 70 the second,but on the third, we had probablymore than 100.
I was the official photographer andtook about 300 photos. I’m also takinga photography class at BHS, whichhelped. I really enjoyed doing thatand getting to know people betteralong the way.
Here’s our winning ‘Spring’ entry!
BY DONNA FRASERCommunity contributor
Our family had been looking forwardto our Spring Break trip to Marina (justnorth of Monterey) for weeks. My sonSimon, 9, is an ocean fanatic. He will goswimming in the Pacific on the coldestday in February. On this day at MarinaState Beach, he found a 10-foot-longpiece of kelp and proceeded to drag itaround for hours, playing and playing.He also discovered dozens of tiny jelly-fish, just big enough to fit in the palm ofthe hand. What a wonderful, peacefulplace this place was!
Lil’ ocean fanatic gets his fix
BY DEBBY GARZACommunity contributor
We started out with an early Easteregg hunt with “Sorority kids.” We gath-ered at RiverWalk Park, had a picnic,Easter egg hunt and flew our kites.
Next was our yearly egg-dying day.Wow, that was a messy but fun night aswe dyed and stuffed our 18 flats of eggswith a family favorite, confetti.
Then, came the day for our “specialtrip,” we headed out early in the morn-ing on a family “field trip,” but wait —aren’t we on vacation?! Don’t worry, wehad fun, I promise. Except for the onepage, single-spaced write-up after-ward, just kidding! (Don’t think I didn’ttry!). Off we go to the Museum of Nat-ural History in Los Angeles followed bydinner at Dave and Busters where thekids ate and played games until theydropped!
Our field trip was loads of fun, espe-cially for my son who wanted to bring
his new polar bear friend home. Butoverall, the best day of vacation wasEaster Sunday.
We had a blast enjoying the day withthe family by laughing, eating, playingan old school game of “volley-base-ball” (Go team blue!) and yes, ofcourse, putting our confetti stuffedeggs to use!
Eggs, kites & bears ... oh my, oh my!
Educator of the month
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Nominated by the parents of Henry SaucedoWe would like to nominate a miracle worker of
a teacher, Dr. Roberta Zaph, who teaches secondgrade at Thorner Elementary. She is a truly dedi-cated teacher and deserves many praises. Ourson had attended another school for the majorityof the year, where he was in constant trouble.
Dr. Zaph has turned our son around single-handedly with consistent, structured, teachingmethods. Our family is so thankful for Dr. Zaph’sgenuine dedication and perseverance. Keep upthe awesome work you’re doing, Dr. Zaph!
Dr. Roberta Zaph
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Nominated by Guadalupe Hernández
Educator of the Month
I’d like to nominate my twin daughters’ kindergarten teacher Mr. Rhodes who teaches at Discovery Elementary School. At the beginning of the year, I was so skeptical after having learned that they were going to have a male teacher for kindergarten. He has superseded all of my expectations as to what a great kindergarten teacher should be. My girls love Mr. Rhodes. He teaches them lots of cute and silly songs. He builds up their self-esteem. He is just so marvelous with my girls!
To submit your nominee for Educator of the Month, go to: www.northwest voice.com then click on “Post Something!” and contribute a
paragraph about why you appreciate and would like to recognize your nominee. Be sure to include the educator’s name, school, department and picture. The contest is open to
educators in the Southwest area. Entries can also be e-mailed to: [email protected]. Each month the winning entry $50 gift certificate,
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BY USER NAME: GURLROXYFamily all around and spring in the air. As
all the little ones run around snatching up theEaster eggs, parents advising them to only eatone piece of candy, I capture the moment.Spring Break is a time where we get to relaxand just forget everything. No work or school,just family and friends.
That’s exactly how I spent my Spring Break.
No work, all play
BY REBECCA SAMPSONCommunity contributor
Our family did something really funfor the Thursday and Friday of SpringBreak. We went up to Fort Tejon for theStudent Living History Program. Thekids were made privates in the armyand given an army coat and haversack(packs to carry supplies) to usethroughout the the stay. The parentswere in charge of stations set upthroughout the fort. The stations were:the kitchen (cooking), laundry, candlemaking, adobe bricks, blacksmith’sshop, carpenter’s shop, and quilting.
The kids in their squadrons rotatedthrough each station. They learnedwhat life was like at the fort and evenmade a candle, metal tool and toolbox totake home. At dinner, everyone ate the
stew that each group helped make. Wespent the night in the barracks with can-dles and a fire to keep the room warm.In the morning, we ate scrambled eggsand bacon cooked over an open fire pit.A few people in our group even helpedfire a cannon. Then we packed up andheaded home with a greater apprecia-tion of how soldiers lived in 1856.
Hands-on history lesson
