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Rotary Club of Taft Sponsors Community Concert Bus Rides Westside Community Concert members will again have bus transportation to Bakersfield for the sight concerts of the 2012-13 season. The Rotary Club of Taft is sponsoring the round trips to the Rabobank Theater for the season, as part of the Club’s commitment to community service.

TUHS is providing a 2010 50 passenger bus for a nominal fee, as a community service as well. Well-known Gary Rennie is the volunteer driver.

The first concert is October 4th, and those wanting to ride the bus need to be in the TUHS parking lot on Tenth and San Emido before the 5:30 PM departure. Since the Rotary Club of Taft is sponsoring, there will be no fees for the trips. Delivery and pickup is right at the front door, a blessing for many seniors.

Tickets may be purchased at the door, and season tickets by mailing a check for $80 to the Bakersfield Community Concert Association, P.O. Box 11920, Bakersfield, CA 93389-3923. At $10 a concert, and free transportation, the Community Concerts are the best entertainment buy of the year!

Five of the eight concerts are on Sunday afternoons.

October Breast Cancer Awareness Month, TC Donates Admission Proceeds October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. The Taft College volleyball team is teaming up with the ASB to host a Breast Cancer Awareness week October 15-19.

The kickoff event will be on October 12th at the home volleyball match vs Reedley.

The price of admission will be a donation to Breast Cancer Research.

The volleyball team is also selling breast cancer t-shirts. The orders need to be in by next Thursday, Oct. 4 so that we can have them available for the game.

The donations collected will be given to the Susan G. Koman Breast Cancer Research Foundation and to the local Soroptomist Club to be used in their critical care funds.

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Rocktoberfest 2012 Friday, October 5 and Saturday, October 6.

It’s going to be a fun filled weekend with lots of live music, an expanded beer garden, as well as Cruise Night on October 5th and 6th!

Friday, October 5, we will be kicking off the evening at 5:30PM on the Fifth Street Plaza with local rockers, Artificial Euphoria. Cruising Center will begin at 6:00PM, and after Artificial Euphoria finishes up their set, Celtic rockers, 1916 will take the stage! We will have an expanded beer garden hosted by Black Gold Cafe & Deli, The Petroleum Club, The Tumbleweed Cafe, and The Oasis.

Saturday night, get your tickets for a concert inside the majestic Taft Fox Theatre!

Starting at 7:00PM, local positive hip hop artist, CaliGEEK, will start the show with his clean rapping. Next, the very bluegrassy and fun, Mama’s Kitchin will take the stage followed by our marvelous headlining act, The Aviators. Beer and wine will be available inside the theatre, as well as refreshments from the concession stand.

Tickets for Saturday night will be available at the Chamber next week starting at $10 for general admission and $25 for primo VIP seating.

Spread the word about this upcoming and utterly thrilling weekend! We can’t wait to see you there.

Full size posters for Rocktoberfest are up for grabs at the Chamber if you are interested in hanging one up at your business, or if you would just like to have one for yourself !

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Drowning in a Sea of Debt. What Does Exceeding $16 Trillion Mean?

By Dr. Harold Pease On August 31, between the two national party conventions, our national debt exceeded $16 trillion dollars; four of which is from eight years of George W. Bush and six, and counting, from less than four years of Barack Obama—the two biggest spending presidents in U.S. history. So what is a trillion dollars? Let me try to give some perspective. To begin with a trillion is the number 1 followed by twelve zeros.

A trillion dollars is a thousand billion and a billion is a thousand million. This still means very little to my students who count their money in fives, tens and twenties.

One mathematician gave us a more practical way to evaluate our outstanding debt. One trillion one-dollar bills stacked atop each other (not end to end but flat) would reach nearly 68,000 miles into space— a third of the way to the moon (See CNN News Cast, Feb. 4, 2009).

If so, the debt incurred under President Obama alone, $6 trillion, would take us to the moon and back. Moreover, if you like traveling atop this stack of ones, our total $16 trillion in debt would take you to and from the moon twice and to the moon a third time and you would still get a third of the way back to earth as well.

Senator Mitch McConnell gave another illustration just as awe striking. He calculated that if we spent a million dollars every day since Jesus was born we still would not have spent a trillion dollars—only three-fourths of a trillion dollars (ibid.).

Someone else equated our national debt to seconds and concluded that a million seconds is about 11 ½ days and a billion seconds is about 32 years. A trillion seconds is about 32,000 years thus 16 trillion seconds is 512,000 years (See CNN News Cast, Feb. 4, 2009). This only make my head spin. My Ph. D is not in math.

I ask my students, “Who gets to go without so that this debt can be paid?” Go without?” That is a concept foreign to this generation!!

They do not know, and neither do their parents and grandparents who laid it on their backs. When they are told that their immediate share of the debt is $51,265 (see USDebtClock.org), due immediately, they are angry.

The 13th amendment ending slavery has been rescinded. They are America’s new slaves. Bondage was given them before their birth, or while they were in the womb, or before they were old enough to know what it meant to be sold into slavery. The past generation wanted nice costly programs for free and were willing to sell their children in order to have them. Well Communist China owns an eighth of us and the bills are due. What is worse the older generation is still anxious to incur even more debt on our defenseless children and grandchildren.

Are we not the most debt addicted, insensitive generation in all human history?

The latest new theory to avoid fiscal responsibility and continue unlimited spending used by both Bush in late 2009 and Obama in 2010 is referred to as Quantitative Easing. Crudely it means printing more money out of thin air to cover our debt, but it is far more sophisticated than that. For Bush the money supply was greatly expanded by having the Federal Reserve purchase $600 billion in Mortgage-backed securities (Harding, Robin. 3 November 2010, Quantitative Easing Explained. Financial Times). Obama purchased $600 billion of Treasury securities over a six month period of time beginning in November 2010 in what has been called Quantitative Easing or QE2 to distinquish it from QE1, the Bush expansion of the money supply (Cesky, Annalyn,3 Nov.2010, “QE2: Fed Pulls the Trigger” CNNmoney.com. Retrieved 10 Aug. 2011).

Neither has stimulated the economy or created jobs, but for a few months, like a drug high, things seem to feel better.

The biggest problem with expanding the money supply is that it reduces the value of the money that you have in your pocket. Prices go up.

Those on fixed incomes are robbed as surely as had a thief lifted their wallet or purse. They cannot return to their employer for a raise to compensate for the loss caused by their own government.

Last month the Federal Reserve announced a third round of Quantitative Easing, QE3. Fed Chair Ben Bernanke will be expanding the money supply, this time by purchasing $40 billion worth of mortgagebacked securities per month indefinitely. By doing so now we will experience a similar feel good euphoria, with respect to the economy, through the presidential election. Bernanke fears more fiscal restraint

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October 5 - 11, 2012 from a President Mitt Romney than from President Barack Obama, it is alleged (Skousen, Mark, Oct. 2012, “Forecasts and Strategies,” p. 1).

Still, with all the sophisticated “doublespeak” it means that we will print whatever money we need to purchase whatever we wish. Neither party is serious about stopping the debt and removing the bondage that we are imposing upon our children and grandchildren. Moreover, who cares if our debt of dollar bills stacked upon one another can go to the moon four times and back to earth three so long as the government fills our stomachs and buys our cell phones.

Dr. Harold Pease is an expert on the United States Constitution. He has dedicated his career to studying the writings of the Founding Fathers and applying that knowledge to current events. He has taught history and political science from this perspective for over 25 years at Taft College. To read more of his weekly articles, please visit www.LibertyUnderFire.org.

Applications now being accepted for KCNC’s 2012 Leadership Development Program Applications are being accepted now through Oct. 31 for the Kern County Network for Children’s (KCNC) 2012 Leadership Development Program. Since 1998, more than 550 individuals from communities and organizations throughout Kern County have graduated from the program that serves to achieve three primary goals: • Educate participants to increase understanding of public issues and human relationships • Mobilize participants to learn to lead effectively in areas of community health and well being • Help participants network with other citizen action groups with common interests and issues “Leadership Development Program is one of the most exciting programs we offer each year,” said Tom Corson, executive director of KCNC. “It helps those involved make a positive impact in their community or organization through a training program that teaches and enhances natural leadership skills.”

The program includes 56 hours of instruction time in nine subject areas. Classes are held one Friday per month, starting in January 2013.

Each class is taught by trainers with expertise in the areas of public speaking, time management, effective community meeting facilitation, strategic planning, conflict resolution, community mobilization, resource development, media/marketing and legislative advocacy.

The participation fee is $85 once accepted into the program. Class scholarships are available for those with a demonstrated financial hardship.

Applications can be downloaded online at http://tinyurl. com/98zgkzc Completed applications should be submitted at the Dream Center and Coffee Shop, 1212 18th Street in downtown Bakersfield.

KCNC is a partnership of local government, agencies, organizations, business and communities working together with the common goal of improving the health and well being of children and families in Kern County.

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West Kern Water District Wants You to Junk Your John

Get Rid of Water-Wasting Toilets at Junk Your John Day in Taft This Saturday, October 6th

Water conservation is a top priority for Taft residents and old, inefficient toilets can be a big source of water waste.

That’s why West Kern Water District (WKWD), the Water Association of Kern County (WAKC), PG&E and Cooper’s True Value Home Store are teaming up to help WKWD customers “junk” their old, inefficient toilets and get new toilets at little or no cost.

Junk Your John Day will be held at WKWD’s parking lot at 800 Taft St., from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. on October 6.

Only customers of WKWD may participate. Customers must own or rent a home in the district and are allowed to bring up to 3 old, inefficient toilets in to the event. Or, an apartment or multi-housing unit owner can participate, with a limit of 6 toilets per complex. Residents must provide a drivers license or a WKWD bill in order to participate in the event.

A maximum of 40 toilets will be replaced on October 6.

Older, inefficient toilets which qualify to be traded in must have an efficiency rating of 3.5 gallon per flush or more.

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When WKWD customers bring these old toilets to the event, they will fill out required paperwork and be given a $150 voucher for a new, efficient toilet from Cooper’s True Vallue Home Store.

These new toilets are certified under the Water Sense program, a program designed by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Products that bear the WaterSense label meet all the criteria in EPA’s specifications for water efficiency and performance. Generally speaking, WaterSense labeled products will be about 20 percent more water efficient than conventional models in the same category.

Eric Cooper, owner of Cooper’s True Value Home Store, said helping the community achieve better water conservation is important.

“It’s a unique community service and we’ve always enjoyed working with water districts on projects and this is a great way to give exposure to some of the new products that we sell,” he said.

Junk Your John Day will also include some fun activities, he said, plus vendors of other water conservation products will be on hand.

Harry Starkey, general manager at West Kern Water District Manager Harry Starkey with True Value Hardware Owner Eric Cooper.

WKWD said the district takes water Here are some more water conservation tips: conservation very seriously.

• Turn off the faucet while shaving, washing up and “This program makes new water for the district. With the brushing teeth. The average person uses 10.9 gallons of problems in the Delta, every drop counts,” said Starkey. water from the faucet a day.

The Water Association of Kern County will also be on • Fix leaking toilets. A leaking toilet wastes 200 gallons hand for Junk Your John Day and will have some water of water per day. information and trivia games with prizes at the event.

• Install water-saving plumbing fixtures. A low-flow Toilets are by far the main source of water use in the shower head saves up to 7.5 gallons a minute. home, accounting for nearly 30 percent of an average home’s • Take shorter showers or fill bathtub only part way. The indoor water consumption. Older, inefficient toilets also average person uses 15 gallons a day in bathing and hygiene. happen to be a major source of wasted water in many homes.

• Throw used facial tissues into the waste basket instead Replacing these toilets with WaterSense labeled toilets could of using the toilet as a waste basket. save nearly 2 billion gallons per day across the country— • Put a plastic jug filled with water in the tank of conthat’s nearly 11 gallons per toilet in each home every day. ventional toilets. You’ll save that much volume in water each By retrofitting an entire bathroom with WaterSense labeled time you flush. You’ll save up to 2.5 gallons of water each fixtures, homeowners can save even more. time flush.

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West Kern Oil Museum Reception To Honor Don Gillaspie, Roll Out New Exhibits

Taft City Council Report

By Kent Miller

In one of Taft City Council’s shortest sessions in years, the city fathers approved the first reading of a motion to move the start time for their meetings up one hour.

Councilmembers also approved a contract extension for geographic information systems services and okayed continued funding for one temporary equipment operator and one extra-help maintenance worker for up to six months.

Earlier meetings Under an ordinance prepared by staff, at the instruction of the council, beginning with the first council session in January: * Meetings would start at 6 p.m., instead of 7; * Authority for calling of special meetings would be clarified; * Rosenberg’s Rules of Order would replace Robert’s Rules for conducting meetings.

The council normally meets the first and third Tuesdays of the month, but the first Tuesday in January is Jan. 1, New Year’s Day, a holiday.

The council approved the changes by a vote of 4-to-0, with Councilmember Paul Linder absent.

Jobs continued At the recommendation of staff, the council approved entering into a short-term contract with Juan Gonzales to provide GIS services. The move was made necessary by the departure of the GIS/development services manager.

Gonzales previously served as GIS analyst for Taft and is familiar with the city’s system and files, Lonn Boyer, director of Human Resources and assistant city manager, said in material presented to the council.

Gonzales would provide services on an as-needed basis until the manager position is filled or a contract with another agency for GIS services is filled, Boyer told the council.

In November, the council approved one temporary equipment operator position for construction of Phase 2 of Rails to Trails and the Federal Wastewater Treatment Plant Tree Farm Demonstration Project, Boyer told the council.

The position was extended to perform work needed to prepare for the reopening of the Community Correctional Facility. In addition, in November the council approved three extra-help maintenance aide positions to provide services that in the past were provided by CCF inmate work crews.

Staff asked that one of the extra-help positions be continued for six months.

Other matters In other matters, the council: * Approved the Engineers Joint Documents Committee Design and Construction agreement loan application for the Waste Water Treatment Plant with Wallace Group and submission to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. * Awarded a contract for $150,000 to Yosemite Nursery of Ripon for recycled tire rubber products for use as rubber mulch and rubber mats. The funds came from a grant to the city from Cal Recycle. A total of 51,053 tires were recycled for the 612,632 pounds of mulch and 900 tires for the 10,800 pounds of mats. * Approved the purchase of four amber LED signal head replacement lights and parts needed for maintenance of the lighted Rails to Trails crosswalk on 10th Street, at a cost of $1,900.

Memorializing a community icon and rolling out new exhibits is on the agenda Saturday afternoon at a West Kern Oil Museum reception.

The event will be held from 1:30-4 p.m. in the Buena Vista Room and is open to the public. Refreshments will be served.

The Museum’s 25-seat theater, which is used to show historical videos, will be dedicated to the memory of local videographer Don Gillaspie.

The reception also will formally kick off several new exhibits, including a display of the world famous Dobro guitar that was invented in Taft by the Dopyera brothers.

Also featured will be displays of vintage pottery – another invention of the Dopyera family – as well as antique perfume bottles, glass slippers, cameras and toys.

An exhibit of photographs depicting Taft’s early days – presented by Karen Mitchell of KC Photography – also will be featured in the Buena Vista Room Gallery.

As owner and operator of Chroma Teleproduction, Gillaspie chronicled local events that aired on local cable television Channel 11 from 1983 until lung cancer took his life last year.

He was an active Museum volunteer and served on the board of directors the last 10 years of his life.

Gillaspie provided the video that was the basis of the Taft Heritage series on Channel 11 that was researched, written and hosted by historian Pete Gianopulos.

Gillaspie videotaped hundreds of local events, such as parades, entertainment, church services, city council meetings and activities sponsored by local schools. In fact, covering school events was a particular joy.

He created and directed a local news program written and performed by students at Roosevelt School.

A Taft resident since the age of two, Gillaspie was active in many Westside area organizations as well as his church. He sang in the Kern County Masterworks Chorale.

He is largely responsible for furnishing the Museum’s theater.

Museum volunteers are responsible for the new exhibits.

Esther (Dopyera) Livingston has put together two displays that draw on her family’s inventions.

The most prominent is the Dobro guitar – a resophonic steel bodied guitar with three resonators. The instrument is the invention of the Dopyera brothers, hence the contraction Dobro.

In addition to guitars, the exhibit will feature vintage Dopyera family photographs and a selection of antique ceramics created by Livingston’s aunt Valeria that are known for their unique glaze.

Bob Foreman will display his collection of vintage cameras, Carolyn Fuller her antique perfume bottles and Betty Scheidemantel her collection of glass slippers.

Volunteers also have contributed a selection of unique toys that will be on display.

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Fuller Legislation Signed Into Law By Governor

Pine Meadow Counciling Joins Taft Chamber

SB 379, SB 1081, SB 1207, and SB 1367 (SACRAMENTO) – Four pieces of legislation authored by Senator Jean Fuller (R-Bakersfield) and passed by the Legislature this summer awaited final action from Governor Jerry Brown. All four bills were signed by the Governor this month.

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Staff from Pine Meadow Counciling cut the Grand Opening ribbon at their Taft Chamber of Commerce Grand Opening last week. Led by Stephen Crouch (right front row) Pine Meadow counseling (PMC) began 16 years ago and established its non-profit status in 2008, providing low cost counseling services.

PMC counselors utilize a counseling approach very different from most others available in the current field of mental health. Because it is a new way of looking at human nature and human potential, it calls for an entirely different way of going about the helping process.

SB 379 will allow rural Californians continued access to advanced telecommunications and information services that are reasonably equivalent to those services provided in urban areas.

“This legislation will ensure that customers in rural communities have access to affordable highspeed broadband,” said Senator Fuller.

“Without this legislation, it would be much more difficult for companies to offer this technology at affordable rates to customers in rural communities,” said Galen Norsworthy, President and CEO for Ducor Telephone Company.

California has a long history of supporting the goals of “universal service” - affordable and widely available telecommunications services for all Californians. Universal service cost support helps ensure the connectivity of urban with rural areas of the state, as well as rural customers’ access to the telecommunications network at affordable prices.

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“Hospitals, like Tulare Regional Medical Center, will be able to leverage existing federal dollars and improve healthcare access for many residents. As a donor state, it is important that we try to bring back as many tax dollars as possible to California,” said Senator Fuller.

This bill is especially important to Tulare County residents as the Tulare Regional Medical would like to be able to access these funds to offer the low income health program.

“SB 1081 will help ensure low income residents of Tulare county have access to needed healthcare at local hospitals and with local providers,” said Lindsay K. Mann, CEO of Kaweah Delta Health Care District and President of the District Hospital Leadership Forum. “We appreciate the hard work of Senator Fuller and her staff in moving this important legislation through the process that will make a very real difference for many of our residents.”

SB 1207 will allow the state’s three investor-owned utilities who administer the low-income CARE (California Alternate Rates for Energy) program to request verification of income and require energy audits when utility usage exceeds 400% of usage.

“Californians, and especially those in my district, pay some of the highest utility bills in the nation.

I want to help lower customer bills while maintaining the CARE program for those who are legitimately enrolled,” said Senator Fuller. “This bill will help ensure that ratepayers aren’t paying for the fraudulent or wasteful behavior of others.”

As the CARE program is subsidized by regular ratepayers, to the extent that fraud in the program is eliminated, overall energy rates could be reduced. The bill also allows utilities to declare fraudulent users ineligible for the CARE program and audit those who exceed a high ceiling of energy usage.

SB 1367 will revise the archery provisions of the Fish and Game code to authorize a peace officer, and those already licensed to carry concealed firearms, to carry a concealed firearm while deer hunting with a bow and arrow. The bill expressly prohibits deer hunting with that firearm.

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“This outdated law needed to be rewritten. With illicit drug and marijuana growing operations in those areas that are frequented by archery hunters, it made sense to allow the people we have entrusted with concealed firearms to carry them while they are hunting,” said Senator Fuller.

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Sequoia National Park Turns 122 Home of the Giant Forest established in 1890

By Paul Darin The Sierra Nevada mountain range, home to Sequoia National Park, has enchanted humans for thousands of years. But it wasn’t until President Benjamin Harrison signed a bill authorizing the park in the fall of 1890, that the site and its massive, ancient trees were protected, and would be admired by visitors for years to come.

Situated east of Visalia, Calif., and the San Joaquin Valley, in the southern section of the Sierra Nevada, the park spans over 404,000 acres, and is part of a partnership with the King’s Canyon National Park to the north, administered by the National Park Service. In addition to rugged mountains, deep canyons and valleys, the two parks contain and protect old-growth giant sequoia trees.

One main attraction considered to be the world’s largest tree (by volume): the General Sherman Tree. At a height of approximately 275 feet, a ground circumference

of about 103 feet, and weighing 2.7 million pounds, the tree stands at the northern end of the park’s aptly named Giant Forest.

The Giant Forest is home to 5 of the 10 most massive trees in the world.

Sequoia National Park is also home to Mount Whitney, with a summit peaking at an estimated height of 14,505 feet. Mount Whitney is considered the tallest mountain within the contiguous 48 states.

According to local history, a Californian named John Muir climbed the nearby Converse Basin in 1877 and was surprised to discover a sawmill cutting trees from the Sequoia Groves. After consistent political lobbying, legislation was proposed to save the trees and then President Benjamin Harrison signed the bill into law on Sept. 25, 1890. That action made the park California’s first national park and the nation’s second, after Yosemite.

Today’s park visitors enjoy camping, cave tours, skiing/ snowshoeing, rock climbing, museums, ranger-led programs, hiking, horseback riding, and more.

October 5 - 11, 2012

EEOC Sues Braun Electric for Sexual Harassment The Braun Electric Company violated federal law when it allowed the unwelcome sexual harassment and discrimination of a class of female employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) charged in a lawsuit. The Bakersfield, Calif.-based company provides electrical services for the oil and gas industry throughout California’s San Joaquin Valley.

According to the EEOC, a male manager at Braun’s Taft and Belridge, Calif., locations continually subjected female staff to a hostile work environment infused with explicit sexual comments, advances and gestures since 2010. The manager allegedly made daily grotesque remarks about the sexual fantasies he had regarding his female subordinates, encouraging them to kiss and touch each other’s breasts and asking to commit sexual acts with them. He would repeatedly make various explicit sexual remarks or propositions and make obscene displays, the EEOC said.

The EEOC further asserts that Braun management largely ignored reports of harassment and discrimination and failed to adequately prevent and correct the misconduct. Ultimately, at least one female employee was forced to quit as a result of the unchecked hostile work environment.

Such alleged conduct violates the Title VII of the Civil Rights Act. The EEOC filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California (EEOC v. Braun Electric Company, Case No. 1:12-cv-01592 LJO SMS) after first attempting to reach a pre-litigation settlement through its conciliation process. The EEOC’s suit seeks compensatory and punitive damages for the class of female workers as well as injunctive relief intended to prevent further sexual harassment and discrimination at the company.

“Employers cannot stand by idly while workers are besieged by sexual misconduct,” said Anna Park, regional attorney for the EEOC’s Los Angeles District, whose jurisdiction includes California’s Central Valley. “Where employers fail to act, the EEOC will work to ensure the protection of workers in the face of harassment or discrimination on the job.”

Melissa Barrios, director for the EEOC”s Fresno’s Local Office, added, “Workers who have the courage to report sexual harassment on the job deserve to be taken

Gas Prices Rising Again

California, October 1- Average retail gasoline prices in California have risen 2.9 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $4.15/g yesterday. This compares with the national average that has fallen 2.4 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.79/g, according to gasoline price website CaliforniaGasPrices.com.

Including the change in gas prices in California during the past week, prices yesterday were 32.6 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 0.5 cents per gallon higher than a month ago. The national average has decreased 0.8 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 33.2 cents per gallon higher than this day one year ago.

“In the last few years, we’ve typically seen a seasonal downward trend at the gas pump as the cooler temperatures invade,” said GasBuddy.com Senior Petroleum Analyst Patrick DeHaan.

“We just haven’t seen any sort of real decline at the pump yet this autumn. This year has seen one of the warmest ever- temperatures and gasoline prices alike.

High temperatures have been blamed on global warming, perhaps we’re seeing a long term “pump warming” equivalent at retail pumps. Either way, the small drop in gasoline prices isn’t to the satisfaction of many, and I don’t see enough relief to satisfy the majority of American motorists any time soon,” DeHaan said.

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If You’ve Ever Considered Seeing A Chiropractor You Must Read This Now

If you suffer from a health problem and have considered seeing a chiropractor, this could be the most eye-opening article you’ll ever read.

Call today and we can get started with your consultation, exam and x-rays as soon as there’s an opening in the schedule. Our office is called Sparks Chiropractic and you can find us at 1107 Kern St. #7, in Taft (next to Chicken Of Oz).

Imagine for a moment that its 6 months from today…

You’re enjoying what you love to do…playing golf, playing with the kids, or maybe just laying on a beach somewhere.

Sincerely,

You’re free of the pain and health issues that were holding you back. You have more energy, better health, and absolutely no pain.

P.S. You’ve got enough people trying to waste your time with risky treatments that you don’t really want or might not need. I’m not one of those people.

Does this sound too good to be true -- to live pain free, like you were in your younger years?

What I’m offering here is something quite different. I encourage you to call today and start living a healthier, more joyful life.

In a minute, I’ll tell you how you can make this a reality. But first you should know a little about me.

My name is Dr. Keith Sparks I chose to start my practice in Taft because I love the town. I’ve used gentle chiropractic treatments to help thousands in our community feel better and live healthier, more productive lives.

Keith Sparks, D.C.

“Don’t Let Pain Keep You And Your Family From Experiencing A Full Life.”

“Isn’t Chiropractic Just For Back Pain?”

Do you have any of the following conditions...

There’s an extensive list of health problems chiropractic can help with. For example, here’s what a recent study on chiropractic and high blood pressure found…

• Headaches and Migraines • Asthma and Allergies • Numbness in the Arms and Legs • Carpal Tunnel Syndrome • Athletic Injuries • Car Accidents • Shoulder, Hip And Knee Pain • And much more

“This procedure has the effect of not one, but two blood-pressure medications given in combination…

And it seems to be adverse-event free. We saw no side effects and no problems” said study leader George Bakris, MD, director of the University of Chicago hypertension center.

We can help!

“Does Chiropractic Really Work?”

Chiropractic has been around for over a hundred years, and has been used to help everyone from tiny babies to the elderly. Even top sports star and entertainers… like Tiger Woods, Emmitt Smith, Tony Robbins, Joe Montana, Lance Armstrong, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and Mel Gibson.

“How Much Does Chiropractic Cost?”

It’s impossible to know for sure what you’ll need to get rid of your nagging health problem until I’ve examined you. That’s why for 10 days only, $27 will get you all the services I normally charge new patients $250 for!

What does this offer include? Everything I normally do in my new patient evaluation. Take a look at what you will receive: • An in-depth consultation about your health where I will listen…really listen.

• A complete nerve, muscle and spinal exam to find the “cause” of your problem.

In fact, the U.S. government is so convinced chiropractic works they’ve been paying for it through the Medicare system for 30 years.

• A full set of specialized x-rays to look for misalignments, bad posture, and joint degeneration… (Cost $125).

In addition to that, here’s what some of the top medical researchers had to say about chiropractic…

• A thorough analysis of your exam and x-ray findings so we can map out your plan to better health.

“Manipulation [chiropractic adjustments], with or without exercise, improved symptoms more than medical care did after both 3 and 12 months.”– British Medical Journal

I’ll answer your most probing questions about chiropractic and what it can do for you.

The appointment will not take long at all and you won’t be sitting in a waiting room all day either.

“Chiropractor’s manipulation of the spine was more helpful than any of the following: traction, massage, biofeedback, acupuncture, injection of steroids into the spine and back corsets, and ultrasound.” -- Stanley Bigos, MD, Professor of Orthopedic Surgery

To take me up on this special offer, you must come in before October 19th.

Although chiropractic works great for back pain, at our office we’ve helped patients with a wide range of problems.

Phone 661-765-2225 When you call tell the receptionist you’d like to come in for the Special Chiropractic Evaluation before October 19th, 2012.

Due to federal law Medicare restrictions apply

P.P.S. Why Suffer With Years Of Misery?

The big myth about health problems is “maybe it will just go away on its own.”

A 1998 study in the British Medical Journal proved this myth false, showing that most back pain sufferers who do nothing will have pain 12 months later.

That’s no way to live, not when there could be an easy solution to your problem.

Our Patients Say It Best…

At the age of 23 I had back surgery to fix my sciatic nerve in my back. I went through a lot of pain and money and it did not fix my problem. I heard about Dr. Sparks, but I thought if surgery didn’t work then this wouldn’t. I decided to give it a try, after six weeks of care, I felt so good, I seldom ever have any pain.

-Christine M. After experiencing severe migraine headaches for more than nine days, during which time I went to the doctor three times , only receiving traditional migraine prescription medication, I felt no relief. I visited Dr. Sparks ‘s office and by that evening the pain was gone!

- Jane S.

Call Today To Schedule Your $27 Chiropractic Evaluation (A $250 Value) 661-765-2225