http://people.bakersfield.com Recent Posts on http://people.bakersfield.com en-us http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/44734 <img src="http://people.bakersfield.com/file/picture/118720/0/0/" width="0" height="0" border="0"/> <div style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">Not sure what to wear to the Robert Burns Supper on Saturday, January 26th?&nbsp;Gentlemen, dust off your kilt or a nice pair of slacks.&nbsp;Ladies, dress up your favorite dress or pants suit with a tartan scarf or just come in your favorite dress.&nbsp;The Burns Supper is a time to socialize with new friends and drink to the great Scottish Poet.&nbsp;You do not have to be Scottish to attend.&nbsp;More information about the event can be found online at <a href="http://www.kernscot.com/"><font color="#800080">www.kernscot.com</font></a>. </div> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/44731 <img src="http://people.bakersfield.com/file/picture/118061/0/0/" width="0" height="0" border="0"/> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/44699 <p>Love is you</p> <p>Carrying the dead mouse outside</p> <p>Love is you</p> <p>Buying me size 7 underware</p> <p>Love is you</p> <p>Cleaning the shower trap of hair</p> <p>Love is you</p> <p>Asking for seconds of my burned casserole</p> <p>Love is you</p> <p>Cracking me up with corny jokes</p> <p>Love is you</p> <p>Putting gas in my car</p> <p>Love is you</p> <p>Lifting the heavy side of the load</p> <p>Love is you</p> <p>Loving me</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/44693 <p>Love is not passion</p> <p>Passion is its child.</p> <p>Love is not commitment</p> <p>Commitment is its father.</p> <p>Love is your essence and mine</p> <p>Filling an empty glass.</p> <p>Love is your fingers&nbsp;on mine</p> <p>Counting the pulse&nbsp;of time.</p> <p>Love can't&nbsp;inflect creation</p> <p>Since it &nbsp;has no shape or form.</p> <p>In&nbsp;the last fluttering moments of time</p> <p>Love is the last to fade.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/44238 <strong><em><font size="4">I was saddened to read my favorite sixth grade&nbsp;teacher, Mr. Warren Buck Sr., had passed away.&nbsp; He was&nbsp;&nbsp;the most influential person in my young&nbsp;life, because he&nbsp; taught me how easy it was to learn, and gave me the &nbsp;confidence to go after those good grades&nbsp;I achieved in school.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; Mr. Buck was my teacher at Longfellow school in the late fifties.&nbsp; Our class was mixed with Mexican, Chinese, White and Black students, those were restless times.&nbsp; Mr. Buck taught us all how to get along, and treat each other with respect and kindness, and that being poor was not a sin.&nbsp; He also instilled&nbsp; that you had to learn to get ahead,&nbsp;he always had a certain gentleness that made him very&nbsp;easy &nbsp;to relate, and confide in.&nbsp; Through the years I have often thought of him and my wonderful&nbsp;grade school memories.&nbsp; Thank-you, Mr. Buck.&nbsp; </font></em></strong> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/44228 The time is now to reform California's Three Strikes Law to what the people intended when passing the law in 1994.&nbsp; We are not F.A.C.T.S.&nbsp; We are mother's, father's and&nbsp; tax payers.&nbsp; With our initiative, sentences of 25 years to Life would be given to third strike felons with a SERIOUS or VIOLENT crime, NOT a non-serious/non-violent crime.&nbsp; The reform <em>we</em> propose will not affect the integrity of the law as it was&quot;presented&quot; to the people!&nbsp;It also does not include any provisions for conjugal visits, unlike others being circulated.&nbsp; We need your financial support and time now!&nbsp; Please help us&nbsp;gather signatures by registering with us at <a href="http://threestrikesreform2008.com">http://threestrikesreform2008.com</a>.&nbsp; We can not do this alone! http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/44234 <img src="http://people.bakersfield.com/file/picture/117232/0/0/" width="0" height="0" border="0"/> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/44233 <img src="http://people.bakersfield.com/file/picture/117222/0/0/" width="0" height="0" border="0"/> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/44232 <img src="http://people.bakersfield.com/file/picture/117200/0/0/" width="0" height="0" border="0"/> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/44231 <img src="http://people.bakersfield.com/file/picture/117186/0/0/" width="0" height="0" border="0"/> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/44230 <img src="http://people.bakersfield.com/file/picture/117174/0/0/" width="0" height="0" border="0"/> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/44229 <img src="http://people.bakersfield.com/file/picture/117157/0/0/" width="0" height="0" border="0"/> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/44227 <img src="http://people.bakersfield.com/file/picture/117138/0/0/" width="0" height="0" border="0"/> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/44225 <img src="http://people.bakersfield.com/file/picture/116355/0/0/" width="0" height="0" border="0"/> http://people.bakersfield.com/home/ViewPost/44194 <img src="http://people.bakersfield.com/file/picture/116426/0/0/" width="0" height="0" border="0"/> <p>After the fire of July 1889, Bakersfield was in ruins. This image shows the devastation south from the intersection of 19th Street and Chester Avenue.&nbsp; </p> <p>Images like this are available for purchase from the Kern County Museum. Check out the Historic Photos section of the museum's website - <a target="_blank" href="http://www.kcmuseum.org/"><font color="#800080">www.kcmuseum.org</font></a> </p>