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BY OPAL MORLANDCommunity contributor
loha friends and commu-nity! I am a former fosterchild and currentfoster/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 havebeen blessed with five wonderfulchildren — some bio and someadopted. We are also grandparentsfor the first time, so are family isgrowing.
I am proud of my family and mychildren — and I am proud to be apart of an organization that isabout helping families. This organ-ization is Caregivers of Kern Coun-ty.
Members of “Caregivers” are par-ents of foster children, kinshipcaregivers and true advocates forneedy families.
Together we are sponsoring ourfirst “Walk Me Home ... to the placeI belong” 5K walk. This is the onlynationwide walk for foster care.This 5k walk event will be held atBeach Park, Sept. 18 beginning at 9a.m.
We are inviting everyone to comeand join us as a walk team, a spon-sor, as a vendor, or a donation ofyour time as a volunteer.
This is just another fabulous wayto help our community.
Teams consist of walkers earningat least $30 per walker. Fundingraised through walking will be dis-tributed with 30 percent to theNational Foster Parent Assc., 35percent to the CKC, and the other35 percent back to the team forparticipation.
The more sponsors your teamgets, the more funding you raisefor your charity or cause.
Sponsors may donate anyamount, of course, but we arerequesting a minimum of $100which will include your name on T-shirts and banners — and otherbulletins and media attention we
receive.This is great for positive aware-
ness of foster care in Kern Countyand throughout California, as wellas national recognition.
Vendors may purchase a spotbeginning at $25 for crafters, dis-tributors, and food vendors for justlittle more. (Must have proper foodand health permits).
Volunteers are the backbone ofany event and we appreciate anyhelp or time you can provide.
We are sponsored by the Nation-al Foster Parent Association andsupported by Kern County agen-cies and city departments, as wellas private companies.
Our goal is to bring positiveawareness to foster care — andraise much needed funding forcharity.
You may not know that I teachhula.
Our class is Jamm’n Island Hula,and we will be a team participant.My children and I, as well as mywonderful class, donate our timeto help needy children and fami-lies.
As a former foster child and a 14-year foster-adopt parent and kin-ship/guardian provider, I amendorsing this program.
Please, won’t you join us and be awalker, vendor, sponsor, entertain-er or volunteer and help us be thedifference in the life of a child!
For more information visit:www.WalkMeHome.org and regis-ter under Bakersfield, CA or callGayla at 332-5129.
Thank you for your considera-tion.
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es, it’s that time of the year again,when The Bakersfield Californianasks the community to rallytogether on behalf of the home-less pets in our area and get some
serious fundraising done.So dust off that digital camera, grab your
iPhone or start scanning the Polaroids andget your pet(s) entered into the annual Tailsof Bakersfield photo contest.
Why should you participate in this year’sTails contest? Easy — the homeless pets ofBakersfield need us.
The economy has put an awful lot of peo-ple into some pretty difficult circumstancesthese days, and when long-term financialhardship happens as a result of layoffs orfamilies breaking up, all too often it’s thefamily pet who pays the ultimate price.
Our local shelters function on perpetualoverload during the best of times; thesepast couple of years have only exacerbatedan already dire situation, as families whohave run out of options find themselvesturning in companion animals.
Your participation in Tails of Bakersfield
will help provide much-needed funds forthe organizations who take on the task ofspaying, neutering and rehoming thosepets still searching for a permanent place tolay their head.
Even better, you getto choose whichorganization getsyour donation; AlphaCanine, BakersfieldSPCA, The Cat Peopleor Friends of the KernCounty Animal Shel-ters Foundation.
Although I am onthe board of Friends, Ican say , with greatconfidence, that anyone of these organiza-tions are an excellentplace to show yoursupport — as we all
have the common goal of reducing thenumber of homeless pets in Bakersfield.
Plus, your donation will allow your beau-tiful fur-kids to be seen in the pages of The
Bakersfield Californian. Who doesn’t wantto show off their pets? I’m even planning topop a couple of mine on the site.
As in years’ past, the donation is just $10per photo.
If you want your pet entered in the Pet
Idol competition, it’s an additional $5donation through August 1.
This year’s Pet Idol contest winners willbe featured in Bakersfield Life magazine infull-on glossy color, perfect for showing offto your friends and family.
Even if you’re not interested in seeingyour pet in print, the Tails of Bakersfield site(www.tailsofbakersfield.org) features ahandy button for straight-up donations.
I know our community prides itself oncoming together in support of a commoncause. Let’s do something spectacular andmake this the most successful Tails of Bak-ersfield fundraiser yet.
You may enter the Tails of Bakersfieldcontest through any of the followingmeans:
* Go to www.tailsofbakersfield.org andsubmit your entry online.
* Go to the Californian office at 1707 EyeSt. Bring your photo and fill out an entryform. Photos will not be returned, so bringa copy if it’s a keeper.
* Email your photo [email protected]. Include your con-
tact information, pet’s name, age andbreed. Include one sentence describingsomething interesting about your pet. Pho-to will be entered when your donation isreceived.
* Mail your photo and above informationwith a $10 check($15 if entering PetIdol as well) toShanan Mallard,P.O. Bin 440, Bak-ersfield, CA 93302.Photos will not bereturned. Makecheck payable toone of the following
organizations:Alpha CanineBakersfield SPCAThe Cat PeopleFriends Foundation (Friends of the Kern-
County Animal Shelters Foundation) orFKCASF
Have a pet-related question or comment?E-mail Vicky at: [email protected] orvisit: www.pawprintcitytimes.com.
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YTails are wagging for ‘Tails of Bakersfield’ fundraiser!
COURTESY OF CAL STATE BAKERSFIELD
much-anticipated solar energy projectexpected to provide 25 to 30 percent ofCSUB’s total energy usage recently brokeground at CSUB. Upon completion at the endof summer, the 1 megawatt solar photovolta-
ic collection system will also provide shade cover to500 parking spaces on the south side of campus.
The $9.5 million project is being paid for by SunEdi-son, part of a public-private partnership with 15 CSUcampuses to fund and build solar power projects.
The project leads to both a reduction in the universi-ty’s carbon footprint, and in its electrical costs.
The solar power sold by SunEdison will cost about 5percent less than what CSUB is now paying Pacific Gas& Electric.
“We get 20 years of energy at a slightly lower rate andfrom a sustainable source,” said Pat Jacobs, AssistantVice-President for Facilities Planning Developmentand Operations. “We’re doing something green for theenvironment, 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 beclosed for the installation. The Facilities Departmentrequested the construction take place during summer
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 stationnext to the Facilities Department’s building, which is atthe southern edge of Parking Lot E. The station willconvert the electricity to AC, then send it undergroundto tie into the campus’ system.
The solar project fits into CSUB’s overall strategy toreduce its carbon footprint, says Jacobs, who is one oftwo co-chairs of the university’s Sustainability Com-mittee. CSUB President Horace Mitchell pledged tocurb emissions when he signed the American Collegeand University Presidents Climate Commitment in2007.
The eventual goal is to become carbon neutral — tonot produce more carbon emissions than can be off-set.
Already, students have studied the amount of carbonemissions created by campus activities to create abaseline. Now the committee is developing a plan toreduce that amount.
For more details about the solar project, contact PatJacobs at 654-2211.
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PHOTO BY LORI ROBERTS
Opal Morland, pictured with two of her children, Cassie and ZacharyMorland, both former foster children, is getting the word out about the“Walk Me Home” 5K walk, a fundraiser to benefit foster care, to be heldSept. 18.
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Darby, Vicky’s pup, is waiting to check outhis competition for the Tails of Bakersfieldcontest!
VICKYTHRASHERPet columnist
Solar energy project gets underway at CSUB
COURTESY OF CAL STATE BAKERSFIELD
ocal educators and college students have beenworking with scientists to develop locallyfocused earth science curriculum for teachersto take back to their classrooms
Funded by a $173,000 grant from the NationalScience Foundation, “San Joaquin Valley Rocks!:Inspiring Future Geoscientists” is hosted by the CSUBgeology department.
Two geology instructors from CSUB have teamed upwith scientists from the Buena Vista Museum ofNatural History and Kern County Museum, as well asgeology students from CSUB and Bakersfield College,and teachers from the Bakersfield City School District,Rosedale School District, and Kern High SchoolDistrict. They’ve been studying such topics as how theSouthern Sierra Nevada Mountains formed, evidenceof the ancient ocean that covered Bakersfield 15million years ago, and how oil formed in the earthbeneath Kern County. They are creating lesson plans toteach these topics at both the sixth grade and highschool levels.
“We are preparing thorough instructions and back-ground materials so that a teacher with little or noearth science background can feel comfortable andhopefully excited about teaching these lessons,” saidStaci Loewy, assistant professor of geology at CSUB.
With the growing focus on language arts and math inschools, she says subjects such as science are not get-ting as much attention.
“We are trying to provide teachers with better toolsto get kids excited about earth science,” she said.
During the upcoming school year, teacher partici-pants will test the new activities in the classroom,refine them, and then share them with area teachers ina workshop next summer at CSUB, with the goal ofimplementing the lessons throughout the participat-ing school districts.
“San Joaquin Valley Rocks!: Inspiring Future Geosci-entists” is one of four science-related, grant-fundedprojects taking place at CSUB this summer:
• REVS-UP (Research Experience Vitalizing Science-Campus Program), funded by Chevron Corp, hireslocal teachers and high school students to help CSUBwith 14 different research projects, including geology,biology, chemistry, computer science, math andphysics. Learn more at www.csub.edu/stem.
• A grant from the Keck Geology Consortium willbring together college students from around the coun-
try to study the geologic history of the Sierra Nevada incollaboration with CSUB’s Geology Department,Pomona College and the USGS-Stanford Geochronol-ogy Laboratory. Students will collect samples atSequoia National Forest, process them at CSUB, thenanalyze them at Stanford, before returning home withassignments for the coming year. Learn more athttp://keckgeology.org.
• In another project funded by a $295,000 grant fromthe National Science Foundation, a team of CSUB sci-ence, math and education faculty is working with KernHigh School District science and math teachers,administrators and community partners to develop aMath and Science Institute Partnership that wouldprovide professional development for teachers. Moreinfo can be found here: http://gvmsp.mspnet.org.
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Happybirthday,KyleeSaffell!
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Help make the difference in the life of a child!
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Adam Herrera, an earth science teacher at North HighSchool, participates in “San Joaquin Valley Rocks”hosted by the CSUB geology department.
CSUB geologist instructors help teachers developearth science lessons to take back to classrooms
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