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Q: Is there a specific resource to access the plans of the expansion of the Beach Park skate park? I would like to see what the planned additions are.
— Anselmo Moreno
A: You can see three pictures of the planned expansion here.
Q: Hello. I’m Elliot. I’m 21 and a college student at BC and I have a question for The Californian. Lately I’ve noticed black cables taped across the street to the pavement on many streets in Bakersfield. In some cases these black cables are connected to a box. What are those boxes, and moreover what are those cables for? Is it to control speed? I’ve noticed they are installing them in more and more streets. Thank you.
— Elliot Rodriguez
A: Most of the cables...
Q: Recently walking on the Panorama Drive Park walkway, my grandson and I noticed many flashing blue lights in the Kern River Oilfield. What is the significance of these blue lights?
Thank you!
— Nikki Moon
A: We are happy to inform you that this not a blue light special, Chevron style. The blue locator strobe lights mark the automatic well testing sites (and the equipment required to do the testing), said Roger Christy, spokesperson for Chevron.
They are used by the night...
Q: I would like to know what they’re planning on building at the corner of Alfred Harrell Highway/Commanche Drive and Hwy 178. Currently there is a big sign at the corner advertising leases for retail space. Do you know when and what they’re going to start building? Thanks!
— Chris Gathings
ANSWER: New development is planned for three corners at that intersection, though only plans for the southwest corner are moving forward at this time.
Duane Keathley, a senior vice...
Two things have been bothering me for some time: 1. Why do almost all journalists use the adverb "bodily" to modify the noun "fluids"? 2. If he "shot a man in Reno, just to watch him die", why would he be incarcerated in Folsom Prison? Thanks.
— Bill Casady
Answers
1. A search through the Californian archives found that reporters only used the term “bodily fluids” twice in the last year. Wire stories from the...
My neighbors leave their two brown trash cans on the street 24/7. Usually, they are overflowing and trash ends up in the street. Is there a county law that prohibits this nuisance and eye sore?
— Darrell Sephus
A: Overflowing trash cans are code violations in both the city of Bakersfield and the County of Kern. Anyone whose trash cans overflow onto the public street can be cited by code officers, according to officials with the Kern County Waste Management Department and the...
Q. I heard a rumor last year that a Sams Club was planned for the corner of Renfro and Rosedale. True or not?
— Dwight Tackett
A. Not.
“We are always looking for opportunities but we have no current plans for another Sam's Club in Bakersfield,” said Aaron Rios, a spokesman for Wal-Mart Stores Inc. “We have one in Gosford Village and will be constructing a new Wal-Mart Super Center next to that Sam's Club, which was approved last year. That’s it for...
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