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During the planning of the memorial, the Department of Veterans Affairs listed about 350 Kern County veterans who were killed or missing in action. With the work of citizens, especially the Achieve class at Bakersfield High School, an additional 657 veterans were discovered for a total of approximately 1007. That class also researched the 1007 ...
The biggest event Saturday is the annual Veterans Day Parade, with a theme of "Veterans prepared to serve," in downtown Bakersfield. The parade kicks off at 10 a.m. from L and 21st streets.
Veterans elementary is the district's newest school. It opened on August 20, 2007. The school's current principal is Joni Sallee. The school colors are red, white, and blue. The school is very patriotic and supports the veterans and does a lot of things to help the community and support their veterans.
This is a list of elected officials serving in the city of Bakersfield, California. They include: city officials , city council members, California state representatives, and United States federal representatives.
Nov. 10—Longtime Bakersfield resident Jeryl Matthews was never wounded in action during his combat tour of the Korean War. Not technically. But make no mistake, his heart and mind were badly ...
Old Maricopa Jail House. Served as a "drunk tank" from the 1910s to the 1960s. Maricopa is a city in Kern County, California. Maricopa is located 6.5 miles (10 km) south-southeast of Taft, [8] at an elevation of 883 feet (269 m). [6] The population was 1,154 at the 2010 census, up from 1,111 at the 2000 census.
The Veterans Village, which will consist of 99 single-occupancy apartments and 24 solo “comfort homes” of 525 square feet, is being planned by the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, which has a ...
Arizona has provided services to Arizona Veterans since 1925, six years after the First World War (1914/1917-1918), when it created the position of a solitary Veterans’ Service Officer. This position was abolished 26 years later, following World War II (1939/1941-1945),and in the midst of the Korean War (1950-1953), in 1951 and was replaced ...