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What Zach's doing: Getting married, aka becoming a real man, accepting the ball-n-chain, tying the knot, etc.
ARVIN BEARS
Coach: Edgar Mares (ninth year)
2008 record: 5-7 (2-3 South Sequoia League, 3-3 home)
Average points: 20.5
Average points allowed: 21.4
*Average rush yards:...
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Traffic Fatality
NEWS RELEASE
KERN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
CORONER DIVISION
This news release is prepared under the direction of the Sheriff-Coroner-Public Administrator for the convenience of news reporters. Facts concerning news events of major importance, which occur after the...
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Traffic Accident Death
NEWS RELEASE KERN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE CORONER DIVISION
This news release is prepared under the direction of the Sheriff-Coroner-Public Administrator for the convenience of news reporters. Facts concerning news events of major importance, which occur after...
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Funeral services for Noemi Perez, the Cal State Bakersfield distance runner who was killed in a car crash Sunday night, will be held Thursday at 1 p.m. at the Arvin Funeral Home, 600 Tucker St.
A viewing will be held at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
Perez, a member of the CSUB track and field and cross...
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This photo was texted in from a cell phone user. It was accompanied by the following message:
Rainbow leading to bakersfield as seen from Arvin
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I'm sitting here wondering about Bakersfield. I'm thinking about the politics here. I have to admit they aren't nearly as bad as some places I've heard of. But I still wonder. When you think about politics in the United States, I think corruption, uselessness, money, and...
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Truancy Sweep Results
“Operation Bear Trap 2”
Serving the Communities of Arvin and Lamont
November 19, 2008
This is the results of the Truancy Sweep conducted in the communities of Arvin and Lamont yesterday morning. Agencies who participated:...
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INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT
NEWS RELEASE
KERN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE
CORONER DIVISION
This news release is prepared under the direction of the Sheriff-Coroner-Public Administrator for the convenience of news reporters. Facts concerning news events of major importance, which occur after the...
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Arvin Police Department
Press Release
Subject: Homicide
September 17, 2008 9:45 AM
On September 14, 2008 at 10:59 PM Officers of the Arvin Police Department responded to the 100 block of Arvin Avenue in regards to a stabbing.
When...
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Quickly (or knowing me, not so quickly), a non-football related note (gasp!).
I’m a sucker for the Olympics. I have friends who tell me they’re stupid, boring, don’t matter, strange sports, etc., and maybe some or all of that is true. But I don’t care. It’s...
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Details: Regarding the earlier news release of Lamont Deputies and the Gang
Suppression Section investigation of the stabbing that occurred on
Sunset Blvd, the second suspect in this case has been identified as
Julio Lopez, a Hispanic male, 19 years old, D.O.B 06/21/1989,
approximately...
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Kern County Sheriff's Department and Arvin Police Department make arrest in attempt homicide case
This is a news release of the Kern County Sheriff's Office.
Please do not contact the Sheriff's Communications Center.
Date: Thursday, July 17, 2008
Time: 11:48:37 PM
Department...
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The schools now are often criticized for their lack of physical exercise programs. There was no shortage of such programs in the 50’s. Not only were there sports and classroom athletics, but also twice per month, every class from the Haven Drive Elementary School made the...
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We make our own mess.
The graph of yearly violations of the 8 hour ozone standard for Shafter, Bakersfield, and Arvin seems to show Bakersfield is the source of Arvin's pollution and Shafter is fortunate to be upwind.
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The summers at Arvin are forever unbearably hot. In the 1950’s the lawns at the DiGorgioCountyPark were watered via flood irrigation and the kids would always watch the maintenance crew as they prepared each section of their lawn for watering. The water was usually only nine to...
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NO ONE SEEMS TO CARE
In the Bakersfield suburb of Shafter sits the Brown and Bryant toxic waste site number two. You probably heard about Arvin's problem recently and EPA's promise to clean up their mess over the next 15 to 30 years. A very similar site sits in Shafter, just upwind...
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As children in the 1950’s, we never understood the true meaning of the term “Trick-or-Treat”. There was no vandalism, very little mischief and even fewer bullies. No one had store-bought costumes and most Trick-or-Treater’s either had a hand-painted bag over our...
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Growing up in Arvin, California in the 50’s was fun. Twenty-one miles from Bakersfield and only seven miles from the famous Weedpatch, Ca. mentioned in the John Steinbeck’s book “The Grapes of Wrath”. We considered ourselves the town located south-of-the-tracks...
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In 1957, at the tender age of 11, Capitalism had hit me hard. I learned that people would pay you to mow their lawns. I loved this task so much, that I would have paid them for the privilege. I was outside and got to handle heavy equipment. Well, at least the equipment was...
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In 1951, I was just five years old when I was diagnosed with astigmatism by Dr. O. Righellis O. D. here in Arvin. I remember the first comment on my patient card was that I was continually getting car sick. I had to go to his office, which was located on Bear Mountain Blvd. just...
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In the 1950’s, Arvin was a very nice place to live. Everyone knew and trusted each other. By keeping a simple ear out, you could hear clear across town. You could tell where your friends were playing, whose parents were having a fight, or measure the progress if someone was...
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Arvin’s first community center did not have a roof. As a matter of a fact, it did not have any walls either. It had trees. I am referring to the DiGiorgio Community Park. In the 1950’s, the park was many things to everyone in the community. It was a place for...
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At ArvinHigh School in the 1960’s everyone was expected to participate in the Physical Education program which was chaired by Mr. Frank Barley, Department Head. Mr. Klinger, Mr. Dameon and Mr. Cameron also had assisted him. Each teacher had PE classes and were also coaches for...
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If you have ever lived in a small town such as Arvin, California, you know the value of advanced planning. With a single hardware store so poorly stocked that you had as good a chance finding what you needed next door at the Sprouse Riese five and dime cent...
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They say confession is good for the soul. Back in Junior High School at Haven Drive, then finally at Arvin High School in 1960, my friend, Gary D. Smith and I were members of “The Untouchables”. This was Arvin’s very own, model airplane club, where we met once a week...
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Several years ago, someone mentioned the term “Latch Key Kid” and I said “What is that?” They explained “OH! That is a kid who gets home after school while both parents are still at work, so they wear a door latch key around their neck, tied to a shoestring so...
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In 1954, when I was eight years old, I became a chicken rancher. My parents allowed me to have a small pen of chickens south of our garage at 301 Grove Street, where I grew up. We had bought a dozen mixed hen chicks and one red rooster chick from Canterbury’s Feed store on...
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The Ghost in My Garage
In the winter of 1952 when I was only 6 years old, our garage at 301 Grove Street, caught fire destroying the garage. It also destroyed our family 1946 Plymouth car and my brother, Leo’s Servic-Cycle, which was a cross between a motorcycle and scooter that had...
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In 1961, I bought my first pickum-up truck from Howard Wells; who was a janitor at ArvinHigh School. It was a 1951 forest green, deluxe cab, Chevrolet half-ton, narrow-bed, pick up truck. It only had a few problems when I got it. The 6-cylinder engine block was cracked and...
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In high school, I soon found that I had a very hard time in the study of English. I simply could not grasp all of the rules that were supposed to apply. Some might argue, that I still have yet to have mastered the subject. I can envision the English teachers at Arvin High School,...
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Bay area public radio station KQED's statewide news program, The California Report, which airs locally on KPRX 89.1 at 10 minutes to the hour during Morning Edition, ran a report this morning on Arvin's smog problem:
"Some of the worst smog in the nation can be found in a tiny California...
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