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Help a few soldiers - campaign in the Northwest!
Greetings, friends and neighbors! I want to draw your attention to a blog with a great cause!  Recently, a teacher at Olive Drive Elementary was inspired to deliver goods to our troops overseas.  YOU CAN HELP! CLICK HERE to...
Posted by sunnica - Mon Apr 21, 2008 21:02:12 PDT
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Local soldier sends letter from Iraq
I was born in Huntington Beach and moved to Bakersfield in 1979 when my dad got a job in the oil business. I graduated from West High in 1994.  After a year or so running amuck, I decided to join the National Guard as a medic. ...
Posted by - Mon Mar 31, 2008 16:55:49 PDT
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Four of a kind
It isn’t often that two students from the same modestly-sized hometown garner a prestigious appointment to the military academies at West Point or Annapolis in the same year. In fact, when only around 1,300 students are chosen from...
Posted by sunnica - Fri Mar 14, 2008 18:40:22 PDT
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Writing Contest: A 93-year old hero
My hero is my grant-grandpa, Ernest Harris. Ernest is 93 years old.  He was born in 1914 and grew up in a mining camp in the Mojave Desert.  He went to school here in Bakersfield. Later on in life, he stated, his family...
Anonymous user - Wed Mar 21, 2007 15:41:17 PDT
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Writing Contest: Heroism runs in the family
My big brother, Josiah, was only two years old when he first wanted to join the United States Army.   My mother had given him her library of children’s history books, and before he could read, he studied the pictures of all...
Anonymous user - Wed Mar 21, 2007 09:22:45 PDT
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