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Ayres and Campbell Elementary students have given a gift to their schools that generations to come will appreciate. Both schools held Arbor Day celebrations, Ayres on Thursday and Campbell on Friday, with students helping to plant two catalpa trees, which will blossom in the spring, at each site. A parent, Troy Nicholaus, organized the event […]
Bakersfield and Kern County will ultimately be judged for the character, determination and rich diversity of its residents. As the year comes to a close, we look back at notable figures from Bakersfield and Kern County whose loss we have mourned in 2020. They were business people, entertainers, builders, police officers and public servants. The list includes a priest, an architect, a basketball coach, a talk radio personality, a journalist and a designer of community gardens. One of those who passed this year was only 11. Another had just turned 17. All were extraordinary in some way. All are...
She was a builder of gardens, where not only plants could grow, but people, too. As a landscape designer and founder of the nonprofit Giving Tree Project, Amber Beeson transformed vacant lots in Bakersfield into community gardens where adults could grow organic vegetables and children could learn about healthy living, healthy eating, and just plain old hard work. Beeson, a former program director at Kern Green, chairwoman of the Community Gardens Committee for Keep Bakersfield Beautiful, and a onetime board member with the Arts Council of Kern, died Thursday after a grueling and very public b...