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YOUR EDUCATION
Students need their sleep to learn O
ur youngest child came home from college for the first time over the holidays and said, “I think I got to bed at 12:30 a.m. — at the earliest all quarter.” What? Did I hear her correctly? This is the child for whom I cut out on her sister and brother’s elementary and middle school band concerts so she could be in bed by 8 p.m! I don’t even see midnight on
New Year’s Eve! Where did I get this child? The American College Health Association reports that a lack of adequate sleep — which is PEGGY DEWANE-POPE seven to eight Education columnist hours of sleep nightly — results in trouble with concentration, reaction times, processing infor-
mation, memory, mood and behavior, and fighting off illness. Small wonder our daughter came home at Thanksgiving with a throat infection and arrived at Christmas with a sore throat! (Both required trips to a doctor’s office!) Now, not only is lack of sleep making young people an emotional and physical wreck, it’s causing them to pack on pounds! According to Health.com a new study suggests: “All those late nights
spent trolling Facebook, texting friends, and cramming for tests may be taking a toll on teenagers’ diets. “Teens who average fewer than eight hours of sleep on weeknights tend to eat more fatty foods and high-calorie snacks than their better-rested peers,” according to the study, which was published in the journal “Sleep.” Ahh … mom (or teacher, grandmother, father, etc.) really does know best!
Young people should try their best to maintain a regular sleep and wake time schedule, including weekends, when she/he may be tempted to sleep in. The ACHA reports that a relaxing activity right before bedtime can help separate sleep time from things that cause excitement or anxiety. And be careful about naps; don’t sleep so much that it interferes with sleep at night. Exercise regularly and avoid caffeine, nicotine,
and alcohol close to bedtime. So please, kids, get plenty of rest! It will help you deal with school, friends, fitness, and weight! It breaks my heart when students come to class so exhausted that their eyes roll back into their heads as they longingly gaze at their desks as pillows. Peggy Dewane-Pope is a junior high teacher in the Panama-Buena Vista School District who gets plenty of sleep every night!
YOUR CLUBS
YOUR SCHOOLS
Girl Scout Troop 407 are top cookie sellers, busy community volunteers!
FACT to host open house, chance to visit with variety of local birds
BY TERESA JOHNSON
COURTESY OF CAL STATE BAKERSFIELD isitors to the free open house at CSUB’s Facility for Animal Care and Treatment (FACT) recently had the opportunity to see an aquatic bird uncommon to this area of Kern County. Delano Animal Control officials found a Clark’s Grebe on a roadway and brought it to FACT. After examining the bird and finding no injuries, FACT Coordinator Marlene Benton released it into the pond on site. The Clark’s Grebe is notable for its tuft of black feathers on its head and bright red eyes. “The Clarke’s Grebe is uncommon in this area although we are within their natural range. So that makes it even more exciting,”Benton said. At FACT, visitors can see a variety of local birds of prey including redtailed hawk, Swainson’s hawk, great horned owl, barn owl, and golden eagle as well as songbirds, turtles and frogs. Visitors will also learn
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ur Southwest Bakersfield area Troop 407 were not only the top cookie sellers in Central Valley 2009, selling 8,882 boxes of cookies, but over 1,000 went to local charities and the military. In 2010 we sold about 7,500 boxes and ranked third in the area. With that said, the girls voted on things to to do with their money, including a trip to Disneyland in 2009. We experienced what it’s like to be special guests at Club 33 at Disneyland, a rare treat that most people will never experience. Club 33 was Walt Disney’s private dining room turned into a club for those that can afford a nice yearly fee. In May of 2010 we spent Mother’s Day walking over the Golden Gate Bridge as most of our girls became Cadette level. It was a awesome experience for us all! What the girls loved the most was walking over the bridge — then taking a boat to Alcatraz Island. What a trip that was! We also do other things with our money such as award ceremonies, parties and dances. This next year, we hope to go to either Catalina Island or Georgia. One of our younger girls, Amanda, will walk over the GG Bridge this year with her Mom & Leader, Stacy Grant. We are so excited for her! Last spring, we did a fundraiser Pancake Breakfast in the Leaders back yard making over $400 — that helped us with our San Francisco trip. We also gave a Father & Daughter Dance. It was a great time with special guest ,the Mascot of the Condors. We also rented a cabin in Frazier Park for the night with 16 girls. Another great time! Besides all our traveling, we found the time to help out at Toys for Tots. Some of the girls worked inside the bins distributing the gifts — and the leader worked at the front table taking the applications. It rained the entire day and it was cold, but such a great way to serve — and we felt so good after wards! We have nut sales in the fall and hope to start raising money for our oldest girls, who are juniors, and have been in our troop the longest. There’s eight girls in that age level of
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Girl Scout Troop 407 has been busy — selling nuts, donating their time to local charities AND traveling to Disneyland! Look for Troop 407 selling those yummy Girl Scout cookies in March and April at a store near you! the 22 girls in Troop 407. At the end of the next Girl Scout year, they will get to go to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco and walk over it in July. This event is called “Bridging to Cadettes of Girl Scouts..” We are focusing this summer, fall and next spring on raising $5,000 for this four-day trip. We also qualified as top seller of 1000 boxes of cookies and received a free day at Disneyland for it. From Fresno to Bakersfield two busses were filled with top sellers going down to OC. We also had a Halloween party for our troop to celebrate our founder’s birthday, Juliette Lowe. Then we went to a Girl Scout house to camp out in west of Bakersfield! We have done so many activities yearly — this is why we sell cookies & nuts! We hope next fall you will try our nuts — they are as good as our cookies! We sold nuts, mostly at a booth in front of Sam's Club — they were so awesome and nice to us. They then sponsored our troop in the 28th Annual Bakersfield Downtown Christmas Parade — which we won second place for the second year in a row for Youth Category! Our float was a Polar Express train with 17 girl scouts and a few leaders riding on it. A special thanks to two fathers of the troop who built it for us — Bak-
ersfield PD-SGT Melvin Johnson and Jeff Brown. Thank you — without dads like you, these girls would never experienced such a great float! So watch for our Troop 407 — we will be selling cookies at a store near you in March & April. Also other troops and locations will be happening around town too! Thank you for continuing your support of Girl Scouts across Bakersfield & USA — a place girls can learn and grow. I want to give a special thanks to our current year’s leader and team that made this troop survive — Melissa Brown, Stacy Grant, Tiffany Manu, Marisa Ramil and Beatrice Hazelton and all the girls’ families that participate in helping us all the year through! It was, and is, a privilege having them work along side myself! If you are interested in being a Girl Scout leader, or signing your daughter(s) up to be a Girl Scout, call the council at 327-1409, or me, “Teresa” at 833-8749. It is an experience well worth every moment you invest in it! Our goal for cookies sales in spring 2011 is $5,000+ which is over 8000 boxes. TROOP 407 ROCKS! Teresa Johnson is the leader of Girl Scout Troop 407, located in Southwest Bakersfield.
YOUR SCHOOLS
Almondale School donates 600 DVDS to burn center BY JIMMY PHILLIPS Community contributor
ach year Almondale Elementary School encourages its students to be actively involved in the community by choosing a local project for the students to support. When Darci Reed, program coordinator for San Joaquin Community Hospital’s Grossman Burn Center, received a call from school officials saying that they’d been collecting DVDs for the burn center, she was excited. But nothing prepared her for the outburst of generosity. Through donations by the students, the school donated more than 600 DVDs. The DVDs will be used to brighten the days of patients admitted to the burn center.
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Representatives from the San Joaquin Community Hospital meet the students of Almondale Elementary School who donated more than 600 DVDs to the SJCH’s Grossman Burn Center.
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This Clark’s Grebe was found in a road by Delano Animal Control officials and brought to CSUB’s Facility for Animal Care & Treatment where it was released into the pond after an examination found no injuries. about FACT’s animal rescue program, and kids can participate in a nature scavenger hunt and make a recycled journal. CSUB students and staff will give tours and demonstrations of birds of prey. Educational gifts and souvenirs
including two newly-designed Tshirts, zoobooks, coloring books, cards and other educational materials will be available for purchase to support the non-profit wildlife rescue and education program. FACT’s mission is to serve as a wildlife rescue, conservation and education project for CSUB. FACT hosts an open house on the first Saturday of each month, October through May. The open house is in the Environmental Studies Area at California State University, Bakersfield. To get to FACT, enter campus on Roadrunner Drive from Camino Media Boulevard. Turn right into Parking Lot I and, at the softball field backdrop, follow the dirt road over the bike path to the parking area. For more information about FACT, call 654-3167 or visit: www.csub.edu/fact. (View a video about the Clark’s Grebe at www.youtube.com/CSUBakersfield.)
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February is a busy month at Beale Library BY KATHERINE ROSS Community contributor
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he following computer classes will be offered at the Beale Memorial Library in February: Beginning Surfing: Basic Internet — Saturday, February 19, 10 a.m. to noon. Let experts show you their tricks and tips to finding fun and reliable information on the Internet. Learn how to develop effective search strategies, choose the right search engine, decipher URLs, and much more. Powerpoint — Friday, February 25, 3 to 5 p.m. Topics include: • Parts of a typical Powerpoint window • Creating preformatted side shows using the AUTOCONTENT wizard • How to use the design & slide layout options • Formatting slides • Adding pictures & sound • Creating & printing handouts & speaker’s notes • Run slides in presentation mode, and other viewing options • Opening & saving a PowerPoint presentation Job Hunting Online — Saturday, February 26, 10 a.m. to noon. Using the Internet, learn about: • Kern County Library home page • Career research • Online classifieds and databases, as well as other sites that provide information on career assessment & resume development • Using job search websites • Registering online • Resumes Participants should be able to use a mouse, follow a link, type an Internet address into the address bar & type information into a text box. All events are free. No reservations necessary. For more information, call Beale Memorial Library at 868-0770.
Other Events at the Beale Memorial Library: Tuesdays, 11 a.m.: Toddler Time! Parents are invited to accompany their 18-month-old through 2-year-
old children for music, nursery rhymes, stories and play — Arkelian Children’s Library. Friday-Sunday, February 11-26: Harlem & Beyond Live Theater: Gem of the Ocean, a Pulitzer-Prizewinning play by August Wilson, which dramatizes the AfricanAmerican experience with the story of Aunt Esther, the drama’s fiery 285-year-old matriarch. She welcomes into her home Solly Two Kings, who was born into slavery and scouted for the Union Army, and Citizen Barlow, a young man from Alabama looking to start a new life. For more information, call Bakersfield Community Theatre, 8318114. Tuesday, February 15, 3:30 p.m.: TAG — Teen Advisory Group meeting — Lake Room Thursday, February 17, 4-5 p.m.: Student Volunteer Orientation — call 868-0784 to reserve a space. Saturday, February 19, 11 a.m. – 1 p.m.: Harlem & Beyond Author Visit— African-American Women Trailblazers: A Celebration of Africa’s Gift to Kern County, by Fred Haynes. The author will share his insights regarding these remarkable women who triumphed over racism and sexism and highlight their contributions to Kern County, part of the Local History Lecture series. Free Admission. Books may be purchased to be autographed by the author. Beale Memorial Library, Tejon Room. 868-0745. Saturday, February 19, 2 p.m: Harlem & Beyond Panel Book Discussion: Local sports celebrities will discuss major themes from the book The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game, by Michael Lewis, and share how topics relate to their personal experiences in professional sports. Panelists include: Brent McClannahan, former Minnesota Viking; Michael Reed, former Philadelphia Eagle; Anthony Jefferson, Arizona Cardinals rookie; Mandi Carver, former WNBA Detroit Shock player; Charlie Craig, CSUB Professor and Historian; and Kenny Wallace, Fresno City College rising star athlete. Free. Beale Memorial Library Auditorium. 868-0745. Monday-Saturday, February 21 –
March 5: Harlem & Beyond: Exhibition of the Freedom Trunk from the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center contains historical objects, photographs, original theatrical scripts, books, movies, and lesson plans for classroom use. School tours may be arranged For more information, call Bakersfield Museum of Art, 1930 “R” St., 323-7219. Tuesday, February 22, 5 p.m.: Get Hooked! Crochet for beginners: Join us for an evening of fun as we learn the basics of crochet. For those who are more experienced, bring your current project and stitch along with us. Please bring your own crochet hook (any size) and a smooth, lightweight yarn. All ages are invited to this FREE class! Tejon Room, 2nd Floor. Wednesday, February 23, 3:30 p.m.: Art in the Afternoon — an after-school children’s program — Auditorium. Saturday, February 26, 6 p.m.: Harlem & Beyond: Black Gospel Concert — My Circumstances Do Not Determine My Destiny. A Black History Month celebration of songs, dance, mime, and poetry including the Bakersfield Community Children’s Choir, Bakersfield Community Praise Dancers, CEO Community Youth Choir, Classic Souls for Christ, Victor Wilson (gospel rapper from Los Angeles), and other local talent, FREE. Compassion Christian Center, 1030 “4th” St., 868-0745. Sunday, February 27, 2:30-5:30 p.m.: Harlem & Beyond: The Twenty-Second National African-American Read-In, sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of English Enjoy this literary Black History Month Celebration by listening and sharing favorite picture books, poetry, folktales, essays, stories, or dramatic readings from writings authored by African-Americans and those of African descent, FREE. Bakersfield Senior Center, 501 4th St., 325-1113. All events are free. No reservations necessary. For more information, call Beale Memorial Library at 868-0770.
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