Walking Toward Community Health, Safety
By Gladys Colotl/South Kern Sol GREENFIELD– The Greenfield Walking Group has achieved another goal in their quest in getting their community healthier: they’re a non-profit organization. The Greenfield Walking Group is an organization that’s dedicated to helping the improvement of parks in Greenfield, promoting healthy environments and hosting fun exercise activities such as zumba and [...]
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Youths Dared To ‘Dream Brave’
On Jan.21 more than 200 youth united their voices part of the #DREAMBRAVE Youth Summit in Los Angeles at The California Endowment headquarters. Youths were from each of the Building Healthy Communities sites throughout California. In the afternoon, youths and adult ally marched peacefully from TCE Headquarters to the Staples Center to foster hope, acceptance [...]
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With Taft Shooting, Small Towns No Longer a Safe Haven
South Kern Sol, First Person, Staff, Posted: Jan 12, 2013 Editor’s Note: Following the December tragedy in Newtown, Conn., another small town, Taft, Calif., is reeling from a school shooting this week. Students in the surrounding Kern County, at the southern end of California’s rural Central Valley, say the incident has heightened concerns over school safety. Worried that [...]
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Cornerstone Theater Company Presents ‘Talk It Out’
Cornerstone Theater Company and The California Endowment present Talk It Out on Thursday, Nov. 15 at 5:30 p.m. at the Beale Memorial Library Auditorium, 701 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, California 93301. Come see a preview of the world premiere play Consequence, based on real stories about school justice in Kern County as told and performed by students, educators, parents and community [...]
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Arts & Culture
Christmas A Time Of Celebration
This past Christmas time local Greenfield residents and parishioners from Misioneros Guadalupanos Iglesia Catolica attended Christmas mass with Rev. Jose Luis Ramirez. Christmas to many of them wasn’t about gifts, but family and celebrating the birth of Jesus. “We come celebrate this event because of our culture and to spend time and learn the real [...]
Creative Scribbles
Wings
How wicked a lifestyle we endure. We awake to sorrow, an angle’s fallen agony, filling the earth’s surface. We only have our light to guide us. A burning candle that has no end until its fine flame has disappeared. May our wings extend another day to stand above all and overcome this world full of [...]
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Hanging Out With The Cowboys
By LIZETTE MIRELES/South Kern Sol OXNARD– As a diehard fan living in Lamont, CA, it’s only been a dream to see the Dallas Cowboys in person. Growing up I’ve been a fan since I can remember. My family is 100 percent fans also excluding one of my sisters. For a couple years, the Cowboys have [...]
Recreation
Walking Toward Community Health, Safety
By Gladys Colotl/South Kern Sol GREENFIELD– The Greenfield Walking Group has achieved another goal in their quest in getting their community healthier: they’re a non-profit organization. The Greenfield Walking Group is an organization that’s dedicated to helping the improvement of parks in Greenfield, promoting healthy environments and hosting fun exercise activities such as zumba and [...]
Beyond South Kern Sol
Walking Toward Community Health, Safety
By Gladys Colotl/South Kern Sol GREENFIELD– The Greenfield Walking Group has achieved another goal in their quest in getting their community healthier: they’re a non-profit organization. The Greenfield Walking Group is an organization that’s dedicated to helping the improvement of parks in Greenfield, promoting healthy environments and hosting fun exercise activities such as zumba and [...]
The Time Is Now: Ethnic Media Call for Immigration Reform in 2013
Editor’s Note: This editorial was produced in association with New America Media (http://www.newamericamedia.org), a national association of ethnic media, and was published by ethnic media across the country to bring attention to the urgency of immigration reform. The White House and Congress must move quickly to enact just and humane comprehensive immigration reform. In the [...]
Youths Dared To ‘Dream Brave’
On Jan.21 more than 200 youth united their voices part of the #DREAMBRAVE Youth Summit in Los Angeles at The California Endowment headquarters. Youths were from each of the Building Healthy Communities sites throughout California. In the afternoon, youths and adult ally marched peacefully from TCE Headquarters to the Staples Center to foster hope, acceptance [...]
Christmas A Time Of Celebration
This past Christmas time local Greenfield residents and parishioners from Misioneros Guadalupanos Iglesia Catolica attended Christmas mass with Rev. Jose Luis Ramirez. Christmas to many of them wasn’t about gifts, but family and celebrating the birth of Jesus. “We come celebrate this event because of our culture and to spend time and learn the real [...]
With Taft Shooting, Small Towns No Longer a Safe Haven
South Kern Sol, First Person, Staff, Posted: Jan 12, 2013 Editor’s Note: Following the December tragedy in Newtown, Conn., another small town, Taft, Calif., is reeling from a school shooting this week. Students in the surrounding Kern County, at the southern end of California’s rural Central Valley, say the incident has heightened concerns over school safety. Worried that [...]
Cornerstone Theater Company Presents ‘Talk It Out’
Cornerstone Theater Company and The California Endowment present Talk It Out on Thursday, Nov. 15 at 5:30 p.m. at the Beale Memorial Library Auditorium, 701 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield, California 93301. Come see a preview of the world premiere play Consequence, based on real stories about school justice in Kern County as told and performed by students, educators, parents and community [...]
Diary Of A Teen Diet: Balanced Meals At School
Diary Of A Teen Diet takes a snapshot of what South Kern teens eat on an average day. Here’s one of their stories. Breakfast Name: Clara Bruno Age:16 Hub Affiliate:South Kern Nutrition Scale: Healthy Economic Scale: Free Description: Low Fat White Milk, Blueberry Muffin, [...]
California’s Pickiest Eaters Grade New School Lunches
New America Media, News Report, Jacob Simas / NAM Youth Wire reporters, Posted: Oct 22, 2012 Two months into a new school year that saw stricter federal nutrition guidelines go into effect for school meals, youth reporters from New America Media fanned out in high schools across California to interview their peers and check out the view from [...]
In California, Students and Parents Prefer the New School Lunches
New America Media, News Report, Suzanne Manneh and Jacob Simas, Posted: Oct 18, 2012 By a ratio of 3 to 1, public school students in California say the new healthy school meals being served up in California’s K-12 public schools are better than what they’ve had in the past, according to a survey released today by The California [...]
Diary Of A Teen Diet- Ibarra Eats Healthy
Diary Of A Teen Diet takes a snapshot of what South Kern teens eat on an average day. Here’s one of their stories. CEREAL AND A BANANA FOR BREAKFAST Name:Jeanette Ibarra Age: 17 Hub Affiliate: South Kern Nutrition Scale: Healthy Economic Scale: $0.75 -Breakfast at Home -Estimate of how much [...]
