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Back row (left to right): Mariana Curiel, participant; Bridget Parks, Olive Garden manager; Jennifer Ellis, participant; Jin Yi, participant; Gabriel Suarez, participant. Front row (left to right): Ricardo Nuno, participant; David Gonzales, participant; Christina Rajlal , PathPoint director of program services; Ashley Howard, PathPoint employment services program coordinator.
PathPoint receives grant to help people with disabilities BY CORINNE WESTERHOFF Community contributor
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athPoint, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping people with disabilities or disadvantages to reach their fullest potential, has been selected to receive a $1,000 grant as part of the Darden Restaurant Community Grant Program from the Darden Foundation, the charitable arm of Darden Restaurants, Inc. The grants program, now in its second year, empowers each restaurant in the Darden family of brands to help award a $1,000 grant to support local community programs. The donation will enable PathPoint to provide providing comprehensive training and support services that empower people with disabilities or disadvantages to live and work as valued community members. Restaurants within the Darden family — Red Lobster, Olive Garden, LongHorn Steakhouse, The Capital Grille, Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52 — are helping to award local grants to exceptional nonprofit organizations nationwide. PathPoint’s partnership with the Olive Garden restaurant on New Stine Road was recognized as an important collaboration by members of the community grant program. In Bakersfield, the funds will be used to advance PathPoint’s employment services in
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he California Academy of Family Physicians has named Bakersfield’s Michelle Quiogue as 2013 “family physician of the year.” “Dr. Quiogue inspires us all with her tireless efforts to provide outstanding health care,” said academy president Mark Dressner. “She leads initiatives to improve health by bringing care to underserved communities, cultural proficiency to medicine, and career dreams to underprivileged students. “Dr. Quiogue also is an active spokesperson for the specialty of family medicine and family physicians’ roles in education and public health. She is well-loved by patients and respected by colleagues locally, stateand nationwide.” Quiogue practices family medicine as part of the Southern California Permanente Medical Group at Kaiser Permanente in Kern County, where she also serves as the physician champion of the culturally responsive care and diversity council. In addition to her office-based practice, when Kaiser Permanente in 2012 began sending a mobile health vehicle to serve patients in outlying
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AWARD CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 continuity of care as patients at traditional medical facilities. She is also an advocate for family medicine as a much-needed service to the community. When Kern Medical Center considered closing its family medicine residency program in 2012, Quiogue spent countless hours rallying fellow physicians and the larger community in an ultimately successful campaign to save the program. Combining television, newspaper, social media, outreach to county supervisors and colleagues, she also increased community understanding of the important role family medicine plays in keeping a community as healthy as possible. Through primary and preventive care, including expert treatment of chronic conditions such as diabetes and heart disease, family physicians’ care is a cornerstone of the health care system. Hippocrates Circle, a program dedicated to encourage students at underprivileged middle schools to pursue careers in medicine, is another of Quiogue’s passions. Begun more than a decade ago in San Diego, this Kaiser Permanente program encourages students to consider careers in health care. More recently, Quiogue brought the program to Kern County, where 105 students at three schools have participated since 2011. The program provides physician mentors to meet with students; individual and group education and support; and hands-on experience in partnership with the California State University at Bakersfield Department of Nursing and San Joaquin Community Hospital. Quiogue serves, and has served, in a number of prominent local, state and national positions to help improve health care, health access and medical education. She is president of the academy’s Kern County chapter, a delegate to the annual academy’s Con-
PATHPOINT CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 said. “Our employees are incredibly passionate about the communities where they live, and our restaurant teams are in a position to understand and help address the needs of their communities,” said Drew Madsen, Darden Restaurants’ president and chief operating officer. “We’re all proud to build on that passion through the grants program and bring real, local citizenship to life by enabling each restaurant to make a difference in their
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gress of Delegates, and editor of the statewide California Family Physician magazine. She also is a member of the Kern County Medical Society board of directors. She serves on the American Academy of Family Physicians Committee on the Health of the Public and Science and its subcommittee for Health Equity, and has been a delegate to the American Academy’s National Congress for Special Constituencies, representing minority and women’s delegations. Working with local, state and federal legislators to improve health policy, Quiogue is a champion of national health care reform, including the expansion of health care coverage to millions more Californians by 2014. She has advocated extensively in local media, presenting the benefits of health care reform to news reporters and, in turn, the public. Educating her peers through continuing medical education, she is an expert on the prevention and treatment of chronic illness; cultural proficiency in medicine; health care for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender patients; and ending health disparities that occur based on race, ethnicity, gender and sexual orientation. Quiogue received her medical degree from Brown University in 2003 and was named “family physician of the year” by Kaiser Permanente Kern County Medical Center in 2011. About the California Academy of Family Physicians: With more than 8,500 members, including active practicing family physicians, residents in family medicine, and medical students interested in the specialty, the academy is the largest primary care medical society in California. Family physicians are trained to treat an entire family’s medical needs, addressing the whole spectrum of life’s medical challenges. Family physicians serve patients in urban, suburban and rural areas, often in California’s most underserved areas.
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Bakersfield Symphony music director to bow out in 2014 BY BRYAN BURROW Community contributor
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he Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra music director John Farrer recently announced that the 2013-14 year will be his final season in that capacity. Beginning with the 2014-2015 year, Farrer will assume the title of the orchestra’s music director emeritus and conductor laureate. Farrer will be completing 39 years of service as music director. His imprint on the musical life of Bakersfield and Kern County is large and long lasting. Year after year, tens of thousands of music patrons have applauded the exceptional quality of musicianship he has brought to the orchestra. Similarly, hundreds of thousands of school children received their first exposure to classical music via the Young People’s Concerts led by Farrer. Under the leadership of Farrer, the symphony prepared students from Kern High School District and other Southern California districts for the music portion of the Academic Decathlon. Some of those teams won not only state competitions, but also placed first or second in the National Academic Decathlon. Farrer will continue as music director of the Roswell, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra and the Santa Maria Philharmonic. In making the announcement, Farrer stressed that this move will give him more time to expand his work abroad. He will continue to do conducting workshops in England and France. He is in the planning stages for additional conducting workshops in Italy, Australia and South Africa. Farrer is looking forward also to completing the recording of two of the four symphonies of Brahms with the New Queen’s Hall Orchestra of London. Symphony No. 2 has already been released and Symphony No. 4 is scheduled for release in June. He will continue as an officer in the Conductors Guild, an international organization of 1,400 members. In making the announcement, Maestro Farrer praised the high level of musicianship of the orchestra saying: “It has been my privilege to conduct the Bakersfield Symphony Orchestra. The BSO is a special orchestra consisting of highly skilled musicians
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