BAKERSFIELD
As soon as Justin Perez left the vaccination clinic, his phone buzzed with a text message.
A former co-worker had heard a hot rumor about a clinic where anyone, even young people like them, could get a COVID-19 vaccine. The clinic was in Bakersfield.
“I am in Bakersfield,” texted Perez, a 35-year-old video designer from Sherman Oaks, confirming the rumor. “I got injected 20 minutes ago.”
Cal State Bakersfield has been the go-to vaccination site for the young and the healthy from Los Angeles County for more than a week, ever since word spread that the facility had more doses than patients thousands more and no restrictions on age, eligibility or county of residency. Some vaccine seekers have been writers, engineers and Hollywood actors, who said the site was welcoming Angelenos with open arms.
Did this really happen? LA s young and healthy head to Bakersfield for COVID-19 vaccine
Laura J. Nelson, Los Angeles Times
April 7, 2021
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FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2021, file photo, drivers with a vaccine appointment enter a mega COVID-19 vaccination site set up in the parking lot of Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles, a day after it was temporarily shut down while protesters blocked the entrance.Damian Dovarganes/AP
LOS ANGELES – As soon as Justin Perez left the vaccination clinic, his phone buzzed with a text message.
A former co-worker had heard a hot rumor about a clinic where anyone, even young people like them, could get a COVID-19 vaccine. The clinic was in Bakersfield.
Bakersfield High School math teacher adds lightboards to the virtual learning equation
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It was over the summer of 2020 following what Bakersfield High School math teacher, Tamara Clark called the âcrisis mode of educationâ that the
LightUp Education Lightboard came to be. The board has allowed Clark to take applied algebra lessons directly from the agenda to the see-through board, so that students can see the equations and Clark at the same time.
âAs a lifelong educator, itâs imperative to me that we connect with these kids,â Clark said.
Clark saw something similar on YouTube, but found models online to be too expensive. So, her husband, Bakersfield Fire Department Battalion Chief, A.J. Clark got to work and built his own version.
Feb. 20—Inside Chabad of Bakersfield, you'll find lots of buttons — nearly 6 million of them. But they're more than just a feature on a shirt or jacket. Each one represents a Jewish life "ruthlessly uprooted" by Nazis during World War II, explained Rabbi Shmuel Schlanger, director of the Chabad of Bakersfield. And soon they will bring color to such a dark time in history through the Central .