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Bike Bakersfield Uses Event To Outreach

May. 18, 2012 / By
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By LUZ PEÑA/South Kern Sol

BAKERFIELD – Bike Bakersfield will host a two day-event to get families on their bikes...

Obama’s Speech Gives LGBTQ Community Hope

May. 15, 2012 / By
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By ANDRES GARCIA/South Kern Sol

BAKERSFIELD – Local LGBTQ community is left a little uncertain after United States President Barrack Obama announced of his support for same Sex Marriage...

SERIES: Four Voices, One Dream – Jose Eduardo Chavez

May. 11, 2012 / By
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Compiled by MIROSLAVA DELEON/South Kern Sol

Ed. Note: Last week South Kern Sol featured the first part in this four part series featuring youth, who are Dreamers...

SERIES: Four Voices, One Dream

May. 7, 2012 / By
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Compiled by MIROSLAVA DELEON

Ed. Note: In October 2011, California Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB-131, the second part of the California Dream Act...

Expediting Graduation by Cutting Arts and Language

May. 4, 2012 / By
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By Stephanie Espinoza, May 4, 2012 4:24 PM

Stephanie Espinoza is a fellow with New America Media’s Youth Education Fellowship...

KEEN Launches Reporting System

May. 3, 2012 / By
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By BERENICE SANCHEZ/South Kern Sol

BAKERSFIELD–Community advocates and government agencies joined forces to launch the website that will allow community members and environmental advocates to report environmental and health hazards they see on May 1...

BHC Youth Group is Making Changes in South Kern

Apr. 22, 2012 / By
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By FABIAN GONZALEZ and ANDRES GARCIA/South Kern Sol

SOUTH KERN–The Building Healthy Communities Youth Group of South Kern is taking the initiative to improving their communities during Spring Break...

Arvin Students Compete For Counselors Time

Apr. 15, 2012 / By
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By Stephanie Espinoza

Cynthia Gomez, 15, is a sophomore at Arvin High School in south Kern County...

Beautifying the Community with Art

Apr. 13, 2012 / By
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By CLARA BRUNO/South Kern Sol

LAMONT–With paintbrushes in hand the Dolores Huerta Foundation Youth Group has done it yet again...

Community Recycling Remains Open

Feb. 19, 2012 / By
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By FABIAN GONZALEZ/South Kern Sol

ARVIN—Despite Kern County Board of Supervisors’ ordered of its closure, Community Recycling Center in Arvin remains open...

Why Aren’t They Graduating?

Feb. 12, 2012 / By
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by STEPHANIE ESPINOZA/South Kern Sol

Parents from Greenfield, Arvin, Lamont and Weedpatch met with representatives from The California Endowment, Community Asset Development Re-defining Education (CADRE), and California Rural Legal Assistance  (CRLA) on Jan...

Bakersfield Pride an opportunity for advocacy

Jan. 26, 2012 / By
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BAKERSFIELD–The Bakersfield Pride Festival was filled with booths, people, and of course, a sea of the rainbow from flags hanging or waving and products with the rainbow print on them...