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Monthly Archives: October 2018
Links for Life offers free breast screenings this weekend in Arvin
Do you or someone you know need a screening mammogram? If you are without insurance and need a screening mammogram, join Links for Life at the first ever Health & Resource Fair, hosted at Bear Mountain Elementary School in Arvin.
Learn about public health careers at BC Public Health Science Program’s information fair
Bakersfield College’s Public Health Science Program is hosting an information fair next week for students interested in degrees and careers in public health.
Celebrate ‘life, love and death’ this weekend at the 10th Annual Dia de Los Muertos Festival
You won’t want to miss this weekend’s 10th annual Dia de Los Muertos Festival, a celebration of “life, love and death.”
Sol on the street: Bakersfield College students weigh in on McCarthy’s bill to build the border wall
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy has introduced a bill this month that fully funds a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico
Rexland Acres youth ready to kick off soccer season with new indoor field
Kids in southeast Bakersfield will soon have a new soccer complex — thanks to their own advocacy.
Bakersfield Police Department hosting National Prescription Drug Take Back event Saturday
The Bakersfield Police Department and Drug Enforcement Administration are hosting a National Prescription Drug Take Back event to prevent prescription medication abuse and theft by allowing the public to rid their homes of potentially dangerous, expired, unused and unwanted prescription drugs.
COMMENTARY: Another year older, another year wiser, another year closer to voting
BY BIVIANA URIBE
For my 16th birthday in September, I celebrated with other high school students from Delano at DoSomething.org’s
Q&A: New York Times writer Sonia Nazario talks about immigration and journalism
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sonia Nazario is currently an opinion writer with the New York Times. She won the 2003 Pulitzer Prize in Feature Writing for her six-part series “Enrique’s Journey,” which follows a Honduran boy immigrating to the United States, searching for his mother eleven years after she was forced to leave her family to find work in the U.S.
Latinas unite to provide ‘space for women to come together and support each other’ at Bakersfield College
A ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday afternoon opened the first meeting of Bakersfield College’s newest campus club — Latinas Unidas.
VIDEO: Bakersfield High student stabbed in violent brawl; two students arrested
Two students were arrested Friday after a Bakersfield High student was stabbed on campus the day before.