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Well-versed!

Snow in Oildale? Asnowman proves it! Pg. 3Top educator Pg. 5Sports Shorts: Round-upof local sports stars Pg. 7

Warren Jr. High students win Verse Choir contest, pg. 6

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BY EVELYN ANDERSONCommunity contributor

ANOTHER YEAR

nother year of monthsand weeks,

Of days and hours, too;

To live life as it’s meantto be

Along life’s avenue.

Another year to live in time

As done through centuries:

To live today, this moment now,

And make sweet memories.

The old year’s gone, the newyear’s here

To live each tiny minute.

Life is here and life is now.

Eternity’s in it.

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A big congratulations goes out to the talented students atWarren Junior High!

You could say this group of seventh-graders are “well-versed” in the Verse Choir category of the Oral LanguageFestival — especially sincethey won at the district levelfor Panama-Buena Vista!

They now move on to thecounty level, and we hope tohear more good news fromthem!

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Your photo could be on our next cover! Photos and stories for the Jan. 16 issue must be postedby Wednesday, Jan. 5 at 5 p.m.

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5 Tops in taekwondoHI-YA! It’s a night of awards for a taekwondo

school. We have a list of all the winners.

6 Her winning waysA BC freshman swimmer brings home the gold!

Three of ‘em! Read how she stays in front of the pack.

7 Who’s got game?Our Sports Shorts columnist takes a look at the

local sports scene and names names. Are you amongthem? Check it out to see!

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BY USERNAME: SONFLOWERANDGRACE

unday morning dawnedand we had the distincthonor of being invited tobuild a snowman! Kaliand Jacob Humphrey

asked us to come along to theirfront yard and build a snowman

from the snow gathered the daybefore at their grandfather'smemorial service up in the moun-tains. Mr. John Elmer Avilezpassed away on Oct. 31 afterseven weeks of illness. His familylovingly remembered him as theyplayed in the snow and buried hisremains on Dec. 19. They brought

home a truckload of snow, whichthey shared with friends and fam-ily before keeping enough for asnowman on their front lawn.Kayla, Kylie and I had such funwith the Humphrey teens on thisspur-of-the moment adventure!

Thank you, Jacob and Kali!

SSnow day in Oildale? Really!

The Humphreyand Solomonteens show offthe snowmanthey made withsnow trucked toOildale from a lo-cal mountain. Snow collectedfrom the moun-tains, found itsway to Oildaleand was formedinto this jollysnowman.

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Taekwondo academy students earnhonors at annual awards nightBY FRANCIS ESPOSOCommunity contributor

009 was a fantastic year forHan’s Taekwondo Academy ofBakersfield! We had ninedeserving students earn theirblack belts, increased our stu-

dent body, established a non-profit spon-sorship program, and produced 21National Champions, five Western U.S.Regional Champions, and an exceptional53 State Champions from two state cham-pionships!

Han’s Taekwondo Academy is trainingthe best martial arts athletes in Bakers-field, and we HAVE the stats to prove ourclaims. Our success is coupled by thecooperation of our students’ families withthe direction of Grandmaster Han andMaster Francis. Our program is national-ly recognized and accredited by theKukkiwon, the World Taekwondo Feder-ation, and USA-Taekwondo.

Members of Han’s Taekwondo Acade-my gathered for the Fourth annualChristmas Party and Awards Night onDec. 18.

The awardees are as follows:•Student of the Year (Full Time Atten-

dance/Essay): Jillian Jo Medina, JoeyStieger, Genetra Anthony, and Haileigh

Russell. •Academic Student of the Year (Full

Time Attendance/GPA 4.0+): 1st-JustinRodriguez, Second, Taylor Russell, andthird, Garrett Pedersen.

•Athlete of the Year (Full-Time Atten-dance/Progression Team Member/MedalCount): First (Tie)-Jonathan Gallegosand Christopher Crisostomo, 2nd-EthanGallegos, 3rd (Tie)-John Estacio andRashall Holguin.

•Highest Achievement Award (FullTime Attendance/U.S. National TeamTrials): Alexandria Carino.

•2009 Most Dedicated Student Award(+Full Time Attendance/Exhibit numer-ous honorable qualities): Mark Agbalog.

•2009 Instructor of the Year: JoshuaNuckolls.

•2009 Best Team Supporter: WascoTigers Taekwondo, 1334 F St., Wasco.

•2009 Best Team Sponsor: Maui PhoFusion Restaurant, 4011 Ming Ave., Bak-ersfield.

And most of all, thank you to The Bak-ersfield Voice for supporting the fastestgrowing martial art and Olympic sport:Taekwondo.

Please visitwww.HansTaekwondo.com; then, comeby the school and see us in action!

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Right: Academic Student of the Year: Garrett Pedersen-4.0+ GPA, Full-time Atten-dance. Left: Athlete of the Year: Rashall Holguin-Best Competition Record, Full-time At-tendance.

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2009 Student of the Year: Genetra Anthony

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Bakersfield College studentswims to the top all year long!BY JACQUELINE ALEXANDERCommunity contributor

rigitte Alexander earnedthree, first-place GoldMedals at the 2009 SouthernCalifornia Municipal Athlet-ic Federation (SCMAF) 60th

Anniversary Swimming Champi-onships, held on August 15 at theSplash! in LaMirada. Competing inthe age 15 & over Girls Division,Brigitte placed first overall in the 50-yard freestyle (26.58), the 50-yardbutterfly (28.97) and the 100-yardIndividual Medley (I.M.).

Brigitte qualified for the 2009SCMAF Championships with herthree, first-place Gold Medal finishesin these same events at the 2009 KernCounty Swimming Championships:the 50-yard freestyle (26.25), the 50-yard butterfly (28.46) and the 100-yard Individual Medley (1.08.41),which was held July 25 in Taft.

Brigitte only swims during fivemonths of each calendar year, by par-ticipating in the high school seasonand the summer recreation season(March through July). Brigitte is a2009 graduate of Frontier HighSchool, where she was on the VarsityGirls Swim Team her sophomore,

junior and senior years, and servedone year as the Varsity Girls TeamCaptain. Brigitte also swam on theVarsity Girls Swim Team during herfreshman year at Liberty HighSchool. During all four years of highschool, Brigitte qualified with Valleytimes and participated at Central CIFChampionships, with her best finishbeing sixth place. Brigitte swims withthe Aqua Aces Swim Team during thesummer and was honored as their2008 Outstanding Female Swimmerof the Year. Additionally, in the sum-mer of 2008, Brigitte traveled over-seas to Holland (Netherlands) as aPeople-To-People Sports Ambas-sador, swimming on the USA Team inthe International Youth FriendshipGames. At this event, her best finish-es were two, fourth-place overall fin-ishes (50 meter freestyle; 400 meterfreestyle).

Brigitte, 18, is a freshman at Bak-ersfield College and is now swim-ming year round with the BC SwimTeam.

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Brigitte Alexander at the 2009Southern California Municipal Athlet-ic Federation, where she earnedthree, first-place Gold Medals.

Educator of the month

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Nominated by: Drew Spicer

I would like to nominate Mrs. Kuestfrom Rosedale North Elementary Schoolfor educator of the month. She is mythird-grade teacher and she’s wonderful.She makes class a lot of fun. Sometimesshe acts silly while teaching us some-thing new. She brought hot cocoa for usone day because we were reading astory about it. Mrs. Kuest also lets usplay multiplication games. Last but notleast, she has the best cursive I’ve everseen.

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Educator of the Month

I’d like to nominate my twin daughters’ kindergarten teacher Mr. Rhodes who teaches at Discovery Elementary School. At the beginning of the year, I was so skeptical after having learned that they were going to have a male teacher for kindergarten. He has superseded all of my expectations as to what a great kindergarten teacher should be. My girls love Mr. Rhodes. He teaches them lots of cute and silly songs. He builds up their self-esteem. He is just so marvelous with my girls!

To submit your nominee for Educator of the Month, go to: www.northwest voice.com then click on “Post Something!” and contribute a

paragraph about why you appreciate and would like to recognize your nominee. Be sure to include the educator’s name, school, department and picture. The contest is open to

educators in the Southwest area. Entries can also be e-mailed to: dmartin@northwestvoice.com. Each month the winning entry $50 gift certificate,

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I’m 3!SAVANNAH MY LOVE,HAPPY 3RD BIRTHDAY!

We are so proud of you. Each and every-day you amaze us — the cute little thingsyou say: “Coco, you can have that,” or“Mommy, I will buy you socks,” — to thethings that you know. You are almost 3, andyou know your ABC’s, numbers, all of thecolors, two languages, and so many songsand artists, I can’t keep up.

You are our true blessing, and I want youto always know that we love you.

Happy Birthday, Savannah!Love, Mommy, Daddy, Granny, Grand-

ma, Coco, Sammy, Chance, Precious, Fattyand Freak.

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Savannah is now 3! Happy Birthday to this cutie pie!

Night-night, Lucy!BY KIMBERLEY WRIGHTCommunity contributor

ucy is a Chi-nese Pug.She hasbeen a part

of our family foralmost two years.She is such a sweetdog with a reallyfun personality.

Lucy loves goingbye-bye and ridingaround in the frontseat. She also loves naps — when I saw her sleeping, I could-n’t help snapping her pic.

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Lucy the Pug in a state of snooze.

Warren Junior High verse choir winnerswill compete at county competition

BY DHAVAL BUCHCommunity contributors

ongrats to the War-ren Junior High(7th grade) VerseChoir Oral Lan-guage team, Mudit

Buch, Josh Dhaliwal,Humza Siddiqui, ManrajGarewal and Shawn Bho-gal. We are extremelyproud of you for winningthe Panama-Buena VistaUnion School District leveland competing at the KernCounty level in February.

We wish you all the verybest!

The boys were veryhappy and excited to winthe district level again thisyear. This is the secondyear they will be represent-ing their school district atthe county level. Last year,they won second-place rep-resenting Ronald ReaganElementary at the countycompetition.

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Athlete of the month

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Dustin Fisher

Dustin Fisher played forthe Olive DriveTrailblazers. His third-grade NOR flag footballteam went undefeated thisseason. Dusty loves foot-ball and was excited whenhe scored points for theteam. His family is veryproud of him! This photo was taken byhis Uncle Wes of him scor-ing a touchdown!

f Friends and Foes. At theinception of “Sports Shorts” acouple of years ago, I wasasked to try to include namesof people in our community so

as to give the column a more personalfeel. As we begin to transition into thenext decade, I thought it might be kindof fun to toss some names around —names of sporting friends, sporting foesand sporting legends from our town.Ah, where to begin ...

Baseball/Softball — At this season ofcheer, there is not a cheerier personthat I know of than close friend, SteveHolloway. The Highland High varsitybaseball coach is a strong communityguy with a never-ending positive atti-tude. A true Bakersfield legend, formerprofessional Major League “no-no”pitcher, George Culver, has done theimpossible once again by securingTommy Lasorda for the upcomingannual Hot Stove Dinner. Big shout-outto softball friends and foes from yearspast: I interact work-wise with scrappy,second baseman, Leonard Ancheta.Carl Toney, from the Suds softballteam, not only set initial Cal State bas-ketball records, but blasted dingers outof the softball parks on a continuousbasis.

Longtime teammate, Kevin(“Moon”) Arriola is still toeing the rub-ber in league and tournament play,with his son, Michael, playing rightalongside. Mark Lundy, Jack Carpen-

ter, Myron Cook, Wyatt Ross, MarkTolliver, Robbie Robinson, Steve Dur-rett, Abe Morales, Michael Mo, Jim &Randy Maples, Mike Canchola, Mike“Hair” Moore. Hello, guys!

And, of course, one John Keigley.Traveled profession-ally around thes t a t e splaying/coachingslo-pitch softball.Used to call The Cal-ifornian every yearto ask them to run anarticle about hisexploits! Calls mefrequently to chideme for penning thiscolumn. Back at ya’,John-Boy!

Basketball —Shootin’ hoops atGarces High on Sun-day mornings is not

for the timid and meek! We get 15-20guys showing up ranging anywherefrom 14 years old to 57 (who’s THATold?). You better come prepared forbattle because hackers like Brett Cow-an and Mark Kobdish have no mercywhen they’re on defense. When I haveto defend against Brett, I can normallyguess which pub he was at the nightbefore! And Mark Brown has never,ever, committed a foul. All-sports preplegend and Frontier assistant footballcoach, Mike Lewis, can still dominate.

Tennis — So, years ago, current KernCounty Historical Museum curator,Jeff Nickell, and I are locked up in atennis tournament match at StockdaleCountry Club and it begins to rain. I’mup a set on Jeff and have the second setpretty much in hand when play is halt-ed. As we wait it out, Jeff states that“it’s as good as over” and lulls me into amental malaise. Forty-five minutes lat-er, I’m begrudgingly congratulatinghim at the net for his victory!

And current Frontier High PrincipalJay Sullivan is pasting me in tourna-ment play at Bakersfield Racquet Cluband somehow my racket “slips” out ofmy hand and nearly decapitates Jay.Hope Jay has forgiven me, because mykids attend his school!

OK, jeweler Jon Hall is whippin’ upon me at BRC; match is nearly over andhe embarrasses me with an underhandserve which just drops in beyond thenet. I carried that instance around withme in my mind for five years and, lowand behold,a couple of years ago, I hadmy chance for redemption at StockdaleCC. Now, Jon was a much strongerplayer than I, but you know, sometimescertain acts come back to haunt one. Istraight-setted Jon that day.

Hello, old tennis foes: Justin Ahart,Brad Emerson, Peter Donaldson, DenisLepine (great mustache), MikeSweaney, David Wolfer and Phil Brem-ner (fellow lefty). I love you all! Anymention of tennis would be incompletewithout mentioning hometown legend,and really good guy, pro Hank Pfister.

It is my sincere pleasure to know allof you, gentlemen. And those friendsand foes not mentioned as well. Playingsports is a lifestyle which breeds com-petition, allows one to meet peoplefrom all walks of life and provides aplatform for fitness.

May all friends and foes have a fit andfabulous 2010!

OSports Shorts wishes you a fit & fabulous 2010!

MICHAELELLIOTTSports columnist

Tommy Lasorda will attend the local HotStove Dinner, thanks to George Culver!

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Art shows and classes offered bythe Bakersfield Art Association BY MAUREEN SUTTONCommunity contributor

erta Blackburn will be honoredwith a retrospective of her 40years of artwork at the Bakers-field Art Association Galleryfrom January 5 through Febru-

ary 28. A reception will be held on Janu-ary 8 from 5 to 7 p.m. The public is invit-ed.

Nancy Ely will be the special speakerat the Bakersfield Art AssociationGallery of Art at 9:45 a.m. on SaturdayJan. 9. Nancy will perform a watercolordemonstration sharing her techniques asthey apply to a floral subject. The publicis invited. Calendar of events for the New Year:

•Charlotte White, featured artist dur-ing January at Russo’s Bookstore at theMarketplace, 9000 Ming Ave.

•Charles McHose, featured artist dur-ing January, Mazda Art Gallery, 3201Cattle Drive, 328-8000.

•Dream Center and Coffee House,1212 18th St., features student artistsfrom Independence High (Dacey VanderWall, art instructor), through January.Open 6 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday throughFriday. 327-2402.

•Group of BAA Artists, Stars TheatreArt Gallery, 1931 Chester Ave. Featuring:Iva Fendrick, Chris Romanini, Ann Sulli-van, Balam Acab, Norma Easton, MelPaleo, Linda Osburn and CharlotteWhite. Open daily.

•Winter Art Show, BAA Artists, Uni-versity Square, through January, 2000 KSt., 2nd, 3rd and 4th elevator lobbies.664-1931.

•Group of BAA Artists exhibiting, Vic-tor Victoria’s Restaurant, 1623 19th St.Open regular business hours. 323-2271.

•Group of BAA Artists, Kern CountyBuilding Lobby, 115 Truxtun Ave.

•Beginning Drawing with Graphite IVwith Carol Bradshaw: A continuation ofbeginning class. Jan. 14 & 28 and Feb. 11& 25 For information or to register con-tact: Carol Bradshaw at 760-376-6604 orBradshawartist@earthlink.net.

•Beginning, Intermediate andAdvanced Drawing Classes with NinaLandgraff: New classes starting whenenough students are registered. Cost $75for five class sessions. For more informa-tion about dates and times, or to register,contact: Nina Landgraff at 304-7002

•Beginning Watercolor with CarolBradshaw. Continuation of beginningclass for nine weeks starting in Decem-

ber. Cost for a 9-week course is $105 or$15 for two- hour class. For informationand class times or to register contact:Carol Bradshaw at 760-376-6604 or Brad-shawartist@earthlink.net.

•Watercolor Painter’s Group withCarol Bradshaw: Continuation of nineclasses ( drop-ins welcome) Tuesdaysfrom 12:30 to 2:30 p.m., Jan 5,12 & 19,(resists) and Feb 2, 9, & 23,(spattering/stamping). Cost for a 9-weekcourse is $90 (or $10 per two hour class).For information and class times, or toregister, contact: Carol Bradshaw at 760-376-6604 orBradshawartist@earthlink.net.

•All Media Class with Phyllis Oliver:All media welcome, with color theorystressed. January 12 demo: watercolor,Tuesdays, 9 a.m. to noon. Cost is $75 forfour classes or $20 per class. Drop-inswelcome. For more information, or toregister, contact: Phyllis Oliver at 348-4717 or pegolivert@ix..netcom.com.

•Beginning Oil Painting with Glen Jel-letich: Mondays from 1-3 p.m. andWednesdays from 10 a.m. to noon.

Drop-ins are welcome for Wednesdayclasses. Cost is $15 per class.

For more information, or to register,contact: Glen Jelletich at 699-3707.

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