BY KAREN GOHCommunity contributor

athways will honor fouroutstanding “Women witha Heart for Bakersfield” atthe Eighth annual HighTea on Wednesday, June 9,

11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. (11 a.m. social)at Seven Oaks Country Club.

Honorees Kim Albers, Cathy But-ler, Susan Hersberger, and DaynaNichols have a proven record ofexceptional community serviceand leadership that has made apositive and lasting impact in Bak-ersfield.

Mayor Harvey Hall and otherdignitaries will present awards andresolutions to these women whoinspire, mentor, and empower oth-ers to serve their community.

Proceeds from the event will pro-vide mentoring and educationservices for youth and families whoare seeking to overcome the chal-lenges of poverty and at-risk condi-tions, and are moving towardseducational advancement andself-sufficiency.

Participants served includeyouth and families impacted bygang violence, families transition-ing from welfare-to-work and childprotective services programs,emancipating and emancipatedfoster youth, pregnant and parent-ing youth, and other at-risk youth.

Attendees will hear how the pow-er of mentoring has transformedlives from the inside out throughhope and relationship.

The four honorees have shapedthe life of the Bakersfield commu-nity and have served as mentors tomany.

Kim Albers, co-founder anddirector of Flood Bakersfield Min-istries, leads diverse initiatives tobattle homelessness through long-term relationships that meet thephysical, emotional, and spiritualneeds of the deeply impoverished.

Albers’ passion for the hurtinghas mobilized hundreds of volun-teers for weekly Saturday nightoutreaches that serve 300-400guests, a 12-block graffiti washprogram, and an emergency assis-tance program to prevent home-lessness.

Albers is vice chair of the KernCounty Homeless Collaborativeand co-chair of community out-reach for the 10-Year Plan to EndChronic Homelessness.

For over 35 years, Cathy Butlerhas been an advocate and drivingforce in the development of down-town Bakersfield, serving as secre-tary, office manager, and now,president of the Downtown Busi-ness Association.

Butler’s relentless efforts haveimproved the quality of life in theheart of Bakersfield — with theemerging arts district, the Down-town Street Fairs, the Mill Creek

project, and the restoration of theFox Theater and the Padre Hotel.

Butler, dubbed “Queen of theFox,” led the successful “Save theFox” campaign. As president of theArts Council of Kern, Butler contin-ues to advance the arts.

Susan Hersberger, public affairsdirector of Aera Energy, enrichesKern County through sustainedengagement and leadership in abroad spectrum of civic affairs.

With a history of copious com-munity involvement, Hersbergercurrently serves on the leadershipteam of Greater Bakersfield Vision2020, as a director of the Bakers-field Museum of Art and the Bak-ersfield Symphony Orchestra, andon the executive advisory councilof CSUB School of Business andPublic Administration. She is anactive member of the Rotary Clubof Bakersfield.

As owner and CEO of Castle Print& Publication, Dayna Nichols hasestablished a company culture ofgiving back to family and commu-nity.

For 19 years, Nichols has servedon the executive board of OptionsUnlimited, Bakersfield Women’sBusiness Conference and the Bak-ersfield City School District Educa-tion Foundation.

Nichols chairs Kern County Fam-

ily Week, serves as director at largeof the Bakersfield Chamber ofCommerce, is active on theWomen’s & Girls’ Fund VisionCommittee, and assists many non-profits.

Past honorees also will be recog-nized at the High Tea. Theyinclude: Sheryl Barbich, KarenBrown, Izetta Camp, Irma Carson,Esther Chapman, Holly Culhane,Peggy Darling, Joan Dezember,Beckie Diltz, Annie Everly, ChrisFrank, Susan Handy, Ann Hansen,Beverly Beasley Johnson, VirginiaKirschenman, Pauline Larwood,Judi McCarthy, Billie Jo Medders,Barbara Patrick, Christy Porter,Jeanette Richardson Parks, Rebec-ca Rivera, M.D., Sunny Scofield,Sandra Serrano, Mary K. Shell,Susie Small, Lueether Ward, Con-nie Wattenbarger, Wendy Wayne,and Betty Younger.

The public is invited to honorthese outstanding women, as wellas to invest in the communitythrough mentoring and education.

Individual tickets are $65. Host($5,000), Gold ($2,500), Silver($1,250) and Bronze ($500) spon-sorships are available.

For more information, contactExecutive Director Karen Goh at633-9133; or, www.gardenpath-ways.org.

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hile I was out running a fewerrands, the folks from theKern County PEET (PublicEducation and EnforcementTeam) Program stopped by

my house. I know this because a nifty littlebag of info was left on my door, waiting formy return.

PEET is the program where a team of ani-mal control officers canvass various countyneighborhoods checking to see if dogs areproperly licensed, as well as provide infor-mation on rabies vaccine clinics and lower-cost spay/neuter options in the area.

The more dogs that are licensed, themore money Animal Control has to providethe services the public is endlessly clamor-ing for; the more dogs that are licensed, themore money that is available for low-costspay/neuter programs; the more dogs thatare licensed, the greater chance a lost dogcan be safely returned to his or her owners.

True confession time here. We movedinto our current home last September,which was one month before Darby’slicense was to expire, which also meant thathe was due for his rabies booster shot.Seemed like a great idea to get it all doneonce we got settled into the house. Vacci-nate the dog, renew the license.

Easy peasy, right?

Only when we moved, we left the cityproper and ended up in one of the weird lit-tle county pockets that I swear couldn’texist anywhere other than Kern County.

I had no idea if I had to renew the licensenumber on his little collar or if I had to get a

whole new one.I, of course, did the

most obvious ofhuman things — did-n’t get either one.

To say that I wasdisappointed that Iwasn’t home whenPEET arrived is thetruth. I figured I couldget an answer to myquestion about exact-ly what licensing pro-cedure I needed tofollow to get the littledude back into com-pliance.

Yes, I could havecalled Animal Control, but funny thing — Idon’t think about calling about my dog’slicense when I’m at work and his hairy littledog face isn’t staring at me.

I think about it at night, when I’m homeand they’re closed.

Plus, have you tried calling Animal Con-

trol? No knock on them, because I realizehow dreadfully understaffed they are, butI’ve jumped through fewer hoops callingDell tech support on a Saturday night.

Fortunately, I had the info bag they leftbehind, so I knew all would be good.

There’s a lot of great info in those littlePEET bags. Most prominent was the sched-ule for their next low-cost rabies vaccina-tion clinic, information on the importanceof spaying and neutering your pets, a cardwith the resources to call to report a lostpet, a card listing the frequently callednumbers for Animal Control, a coloringpage for the kids, along with kid-friendly setof info on what pets and people both needto be happy and information on why

licensing your pet is great idea. A virtualcornucopia of critter-related tidbits pack-aged in a handy clear plastic hanger.

Except for one thing. One small thing wasmissing from the bag — a license applica-tion.

Seriously? You all are going to all of thiseffort to ultimately get people to licensetheir dogs, but you don’t include an actuallicense application in the bag?

It’s the one piece of paper out of every-thing in there you folks actually want fromus, but you don’t include it?

For real?It’s moments like that — the “I can’t

believe you brought me seven pieces ofpaper I don’t need, but not the one I actual-ly do in order to make both of us happy”moments that make it awfully hard to con-tinue to come to your defense withoutlooking like a maroon.

Put the flippin’ license application in thebag. Bonus points if you include a para-graph about what to do if someone movesfrom the city to the county and vice versa,because it took two phone calls, two trans-fers and three on-holds (after navigatingthe phone “press-8-if-you-are-incredibly-annoyed” command system — twice) to getmy answer.

But I do thank you for stopping by.

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Local high school students, one withMS, awarded National scholarships

Pathways honor outstandingBakersfield women at annual tea

Include dog license application in the PEET bag!

BY CHRISTINE GRONTKOWSKICommunity contributor

he National Multiple Scle-rosis Society is givingalmost $1 million in schol-arships to students aroundthe country. Of the more

than 700 applications that weresubmitted, less than 300 studentswere chosen to receive awards.

Two of those students who will bereceiving money are right here inBakersfield: Siobhan O’Rourkefrom Bakersfield Christian HighSchool and Paige Brock from Fron-tier High School.

O’Rourke received the secondhighest ranking from those appli-cants within the Southern Califor-nia Chapter. She will be receiving$2,500 and plans on attending Bio-la University in La Mirada.

O’Rourke says since her motherwas diagnosed about eight yearsago, life has been trying, yetrewarding.

“I had more work for myself andit’s been trickier to combine schooland responsibilities at home,” sheexplained, “but I have thoroughlybeen able to enjoy everything.”

O’Rourke says she has been ableto get through the years becauseher family has been so supportive.

O’Rourke plans to major in Eng-lish and minor in Biblical Studies,and hopes to either teach Englishor write (mostly Christian stories,short stories, and poems).

Brock was diagnosed with multi-ple sclerosis just before her 17thbirthday last year. She says before

her diagnosis, she was a social but-terfly and very outgoing. But aftershe found out she had MS, shemissed several classes, started tomellow out, and was forced tomature faster than most teenagers.

Through her treatments, she hasbeen able to juggle managing thedisease, school, and other activi-ties.

Her mom, Jennifer Brock says,“When all this happened, it wasreally hard, but she is so positiveand strong … I feel like she will bean inspiration to others with MS.”

Brock will be receiving $1,000and plans on staying in Bakersfield,attending California State Universi-ty, Bakersfield’s nursing program.

Brock hopes to become a laborand delivery nurse.

O’Rourke, Brock, and the otherscholarship recipients were noti-fied one week before World MSDay, which is was celebrated onMay 26.

The National Multiple SclerosisSociety is encouraging everyone tobecome involved by registering atwww.worldmsday.org, or by tex-ting “MSAWARE” to 20222 to makea $5 donation to the National MSSociety.

Funds raised by the National MSSociety, Southern California Chap-ter, go to research for prevention,better treatments and a cure, aswell as comprehensive local pro-grams and services for 14,500Southern and Central Californiansliving with MS.

COURTESY OF CALVARY BIBLE CHURCH

ake your kids to the ulti-mate “concert” experienceeach day to worship andsing with the Go Fish Guys!After that, it’s time to go

backstage, tour a recording studio,and most importantly — learnabout the Bible!

Your kids will have a great timelearning the books of the Bible, theten commandments, and how to

be saved by grace through faith —and that’s all just in the first few

minutes of singing each day!Our goal with this Vacation Bible

School is to clearly present thegospel of Jesus Christ while havingas much fun as humanly possible.

It’s time to put the BIBLE backinto Vacation Bible School!

VBS will be Monday, June 21through Friday, June 25 from 8:45am to noon.

Register now at Calvary BibleChurch, 48 Manor St. or, online at:www.gocbc.org.

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PHOTO COURTESY OF STEVEN STUDIOS

Paige Brock, Frontier High School.PHOTO COURTESY OF ERIN COLEO

Siobhan O'Rourke, BakersfieldChristian High School.

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VICKYTHRASHERPet columnist

Cathy Butler Dayna Nichols

Kim Albers Susan Hersberger

Go backstage with ‘Go Fish” at CBC Vacation Bible School!

BY SUE LEMONCommunity contributor

tockdale High School FootballInaugural PokerTournament/Silent Auctionwill be Saturday, June 12, at 5p.m.

There will be cash prizes for top play-ers. There is a $100 donation whichincludes dinner for one and $200 pokerbuy-in for 1 player.

A $120 donation includes dinner fortwo and $200 poker buy-in for one play-er.

The dinner/poker tournament will beat Veteran’s Hall, 400 Norris Road. Theevent is sponsored by the SHS Touch-down Club.

For more information contact theTouchdown Club at: SHSTDClub@hot-mail.com.

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Stockdale HighFootball PokerTournamentJune 12!

BY DONNA ALSOPCommunity contributor

summer family eventcalled “Egypt, Joseph’sJourney from Prison toPalace,” will be hosted atOlive Knolls Church, June

21 to June 24 from 6:15 to 8:15 p.m.Families step back in time in

Egypt, exploring the life of Joseph.Kids and adults participate in amemorable Bible-times market-

place, sing catchy songs, playteamwork-building games, dig intoEgyptian eats, visit Joseph in prison— and then in his palace home —and collect Bible Memory Makersto remind them of God’s Word.

Plus, everyone learns to look forevidence of God all around themthrough something called GodSightings.

Each day concludes at Celebra-tion — a time of upbeat worship

that gets everyone involved.Kids and adults at “Egypt” will

join nearly a million participantsblanketing Africa with God’s lovethrough a hands-on mission proj-ect in association with an organiza-tion called Operation Kid-to-Kid,where families will create soft blan-kets that will be sent to orphansand vulnerable children.

For more information call 399-3303 or, visit: www.oliveknolls.com.

ASpend awhile on the ‘Nile’ with Olive Knolls Church!

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