Saturday, September 18, 2010

HINA’S DREAM: Raise public awareness of sickle cell disease

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Hina Patel, right, and is shown with her mother, Bhavana, in Bakersfield Memorial Hospital shortly before her death. Hina Patel lost her ba...

Bakersfield Pastor Answers Call To Serve

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Horn named rear admiral, Deputy Chief of Naval Chaplains Daughter Jessica ordained minister, joins Naval Chaplain Corps Gregory Horn po...
Monday, September 13, 2010

BC Professor Takes Entry Level 'Real World' Job

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Steve Hageman says his job is to make his students’ dreams come true. For most of Hageman’s Bakersfield College students, the dream is to be...

Whittling Away Your Time

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When Keith Turner retired from his job as a lineman for the telephone company, he thought retirement was going to be a blast. It wasn’t. Tu...
Sunday, August 29, 2010

Beating Bakersfield’s heat and ‘global warming’ with $1 draft beer at Ethel’s

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John Hayes is served lunch at Ethel’s in Bakersfield by waitress Lauren Evans. The joke around dusty, dry, hot Bakersfield, Calif., is tha...
Friday, August 27, 2010

FCIC takes economic meltdown inquiry to Bakersfield, Calif.

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Phil Angelides, left, and Bill Thomas at recent FCIC hearing. The pain just doesn’t go away as the nation’s economic problems continue to ...
Sunday, July 25, 2010

Good old boys and Cesar Chavez farm worker advocates line lunch counter at Keene, Calif., café

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Kirk Roper, left, and Jackie Palik stand in front of the Keene cafe. A peeling, weather-beaten sign that shouts “Keene…Eat…Deli…Gas” looms ...