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Tails are wagging for ‘Tails of Bakersfield’ fundraiser!
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es, it’s that time of the year again, when The Bakersfield Californian asks the community to rally together on behalf of the homeless pets in our area and get some serious fundraising done. So dust off that digital camera, grab your iPhone or start scanning the Polaroids and get your pet(s) entered into the annual Tails of Bakersfield photo contest. Why should you participate in this year’s Tails contest? Easy — the homeless pets of Bakersfield need us. The economy has put an awful lot of people into some pretty difficult circumstances these days, and when long-term financial hardship happens as a result of layoffs or families breaking up, all too often it’s the family pet who pays the ultimate price. Our local shelters function on perpetual overload during the best of times; these past couple of years have only exacerbated an already dire situation, as families who have run out of options find themselves turning in companion animals. Your participation in Tails of Bakersfield
will help provide much-needed funds for the organizations who take on the task of spaying, neutering and rehoming those pets still searching for a permanent place to lay their head. Even better, you get to choose which organization gets your donation; Alpha Canine, Bakersfield SPCA, The Cat People or Friends of the Kern County Animal Shelters Foundation. Although I am on the board of Friends, I can say , with great confidence, that any one of these organizations are an excellent place to show your Pet columnist support — as we all have the common goal of reducing the number of homeless pets in Bakersfield. Plus, your donation will allow your beautiful fur-kids to be seen in the pages of The
VICKY THRASHER
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Darby, Vicky’s pup, is waiting to check out his competition for the Tails of Bakersfield contest! Bakersfield Californian. Who doesn’t want to show off their pets? I’m even planning to pop a couple of mine on the site. As in years’ past, the donation is just $10 per photo. If you want your pet entered in the Pet
Idol competition, it’s an additional $5 donation through August 1. This year’s Pet Idol contest winners will be featured in Bakersfield Life magazine in full-on glossy color, perfect for showing off to your friends and family. Even if you’re not interested in seeing your pet in print, the Tails of Bakersfield site (www.tailsofbakersfield.org) features a handy button for straight-up donations. I know our community prides itself on coming together in support of a common cause. Let’s do something spectacular and make this the most successful Tails of Bakersfield fundraiser yet. You may enter the Tails of Bakersfield contest through any of the following means: * Go to www.tailsofbakersfield.org and submit your entry online. * Go to the Californian office at 1707 Eye St. Bring your photo and fill out an entry form. Photos will not be returned, so bring a copy if it’s a keeper. * Email your photo to tails@bakersfield.com. Include your con-
tact information, pet’s name, age and breed. Include one sentence describing something interesting about your pet. Photo will be entered when your donation is received. * Mail your photo and above information with a $10 check ($15 if entering Pet Idol as well) to Shanan Mallard, P.O. Bin 440, Bakersfield, CA 93302. Photos will not be returned. Make check payable to one of the following organizations: Alpha Canine Bakersfield SPCA The Cat People Friends Foundation (Friends of the KernCounty Animal Shelters Foundation) or FKCASF Have a pet-related question or comment? E-mail Vicky at: vicky@pawprintcity.com or visit: www.pawprintcitytimes.com.
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YOUR VOICE
Help make the difference in the life of a child!
CSUB geologist instructors help teachers develop earth science lessons to take back to classrooms
BY OPAL MORLAND Community contributor
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loha friends and community! I am a former foster child and current foster/adopt mom. I guess you could say my life has come full circle. I am writing this article to let you know how wonderful life can be. My husband, Gordon, and I have been blessed with five wonderful children — some bio and some adopted. We are also grandparents for the first time, so are family is growing. I am proud of my family and my children — and I am proud to be a part of an organization that is about helping families. This organization is Caregivers of Kern County. Members of “Caregivers” are parents of foster children, kinship caregivers and true advocates for needy families. Together we are sponsoring our first “Walk Me Home ... to the place I belong” 5K walk. This is the only nationwide walk for foster care. This 5k walk event will be held at Beach Park, Sept. 18 beginning at 9 a.m. We are inviting everyone to come and join us as a walk team, a sponsor, as a vendor, or a donation of your time as a volunteer. This is just another fabulous way to help our community. Teams consist of walkers earning at least $30 per walker. Funding raised through walking will be distributed with 30 percent to the National Foster Parent Assc., 35 percent to the CKC, and the other 35 percent back to the team for participation. The more sponsors your team gets, the more funding you raise for your charity or cause. Sponsors may donate any amount, of course, but we are requesting a minimum of $100 which will include your name on Tshirts and banners — and other bulletins and media attention we
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Funded by a $173,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, “San Joaquin Valley Rocks!: Inspiring Future Geoscientists” is hosted by the CSUB geology department. Two geology instructors from CSUB have teamed up with scientists from the Buena Vista Museum of Natural History and Kern County Museum, as well as geology students from CSUB and Bakersfield College, and teachers from the Bakersfield City School District, Rosedale School District, and Kern High School District. They’ve been studying such topics as how the Southern Sierra Nevada Mountains formed, evidence of the ancient ocean that covered Bakersfield 15 million years ago, and how oil formed in the earth beneath Kern County. They are creating lesson plans to teach these topics at both the sixth grade and high school levels.
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Opal Morland, pictured with two of her children, Cassie and Zachary Morland, both former foster children, is getting the word out about the “Walk Me Home” 5K walk, a fundraiser to benefit foster care, to be held Sept. 18. receive. You may not know that I teach This is great for positive awarehula. ness of foster care in Kern County Our class is Jamm’n Island Hula, and throughout California, as well and we will be a team participant. as national recognition. My children and I, as well as my Vendors may purchase a spot wonderful class, donate our time beginning at $25 for crafters, disto help needy children and famitributors, and food vendors for just lies. little more. (Must have proper food As a former foster child and a 14and health permits). year foster-adopt parent and kinVolunteers are the backbone of ship/guardian provider, I am any event and we appreciate any endorsing this program. help or time you can provide. Please, won’t you join us and be a We are sponsored by the Nationwalker, vendor, sponsor, entertainal Foster Parent Association and er or volunteer and help us be the supported by Kern County agendifference in the life of a child! cies and city departments, as well For more information visit: as private companies. www.WalkMeHome.org and regisOur goal is to bring positive ter under Bakersfield, CA or call awareness to foster care — and Gayla at 332-5129. raise much needed funding for Thank you for your consideracharity. tion.
YOUR CELEBRATIONS
Happy birthday, Kylee Saffell! COURTESY PHOTO
ocal educators and college students have been working with scientists to develop locally focused earth science curriculum for teachers to take back to their classrooms
“We are preparing thorough instructions and background materials so that a teacher with little or no earth science background can feel comfortable and hopefully excited about teaching these lessons,” said Staci Loewy, assistant professor of geology at CSUB. With the growing focus on language arts and math in schools, she says subjects such as science are not getting as much attention. “We are trying to provide teachers with better tools to get kids excited about earth science,” she said. During the upcoming school year, teacher participants will test the new activities in the classroom, refine them, and then share them with area teachers in a workshop next summer at CSUB, with the goal of implementing the lessons throughout the participating school districts. “San Joaquin Valley Rocks!: Inspiring Future Geoscientists” is one of four science-related, grant-funded projects taking place at CSUB this summer: • REVS-UP (Research Experience Vitalizing ScienceCampus Program), funded by Chevron Corp, hires local teachers and high school students to help CSUB with 14 different research projects, including geology, biology, chemistry, computer science, math and physics. Learn more at www.csub.edu/stem. • A grant from the Keck Geology Consortium will bring together college students from around the coun-
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Adam Herrera, an earth science teacher at North High School, participates in “San Joaquin Valley Rocks” hosted by the CSUB geology department.
try to study the geologic history of the Sierra Nevada in collaboration with CSUB’s Geology Department, Pomona College and the USGS-Stanford Geochronology Laboratory. Students will collect samples at Sequoia National Forest, process them at CSUB, then analyze them at Stanford, before returning home with assignments for the coming year. Learn more at http://keckgeology.org. • In another project funded by a $295,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, a team of CSUB science, math and education faculty is working with Kern High School District science and math teachers, administrators and community partners to develop a Math and Science Institute Partnership that would provide professional development for teachers. More info can be found here: http://gvmsp.mspnet.org.
Solar energy project gets underway at CSUB COURTESY OF CAL STATE BAKERSFIELD much-anticipated solar energy project expected to provide 25 to 30 percent of CSUB’s total energy usage recently broke ground at CSUB. Upon completion at the end of summer, the 1 megawatt solar photovoltaic collection system will also provide shade cover to 500 parking spaces on the south side of campus. The $9.5 million project is being paid for by SunEdison, part of a public-private partnership with 15 CSU campuses to fund and build solar power projects. The project leads to both a reduction in the university’s carbon footprint, and in its electrical costs. The solar power sold by SunEdison will cost about 5 percent less than what CSUB is now paying Pacific Gas & Electric. “We get 20 years of energy at a slightly lower rate and from a sustainable source,” said Pat Jacobs, Assistant Vice-President for Facilities Planning Development and Operations. “We’re doing something green for the environment, it helps the bottom line of the university, and I think people will enjoy having covered parking.” From June 14 to Sept. 5, parking lots E and I will be closed for the installation. The Facilities Department requested the construction take place during summer
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when the parking lots are least used. Jacobs said it will take about one more month after fall quarter starts to configure the system to go online. Underground conduits will carry the DC electricity created by the solar collectors to an inverter station next to the Facilities Department’s building, which is at the southern edge of Parking Lot E. The station will convert the electricity to AC, then send it underground to tie into the campus’ system. The solar project fits into CSUB’s overall strategy to reduce its carbon footprint, says Jacobs, who is one of two co-chairs of the university’s Sustainability Committee. CSUB President Horace Mitchell pledged to curb emissions when he signed the American College and University Presidents Climate Commitment in 2007. The eventual goal is to become carbon neutral — to not produce more carbon emissions than can be offset. Already, students have studied the amount of carbon emissions created by campus activities to create a baseline. Now the committee is developing a plan to reduce that amount. For more details about the solar project, contact Pat Jacobs at 654-2211.
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