BAKERSFIELD - Several of your neighbors, local organizations, and businesses were honored Saturday for helping make Kern County a better place.
Last Update: Jun 11, 2007 3:10 PM
Posted By: Megan Trihey
Posted 6/9/07
BAKERSFIELD - Several of your neighbors, local organizations, and businesses were honored Saturday for helping make Kern County a better place.
The annual Beautiful Bakersfield Awards banquet was held Saturday at the Doubletree Hotel.
The awards were presented by the Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce and included several categories, including architecture, art, and health.
The prestigious Chairman's Award was presented to Bright House Networks and the City of Bakersfield Recreation and Parks Department for their work on the Bright House Network Amphitheater.
“One of the reasons the Chamber of Commerce loves doing the Beautiful Bakersfield Awards is we feel like by spotlighting some of the good thing that are going on in the community, the people, the businesses, the organizations, it gives other people the idea that they should be out there doing like wise and we all need to do what we can to support and build up our community,” said Debbie Morena, the President of the Chamber of Commerce.
The awards include:
ALL AMERICAN CITY TRADITION-CIVIC/NONPROFIT Bakersfield Homeless Center
ARCHITECTURE The Park at River Walk
ARTS-INDIVIDUAL Wendall Kinney
ARTS-GROUP E3 Performing Arts, a division of Garden Pathways, Inc.
BUSINESS & COMMERCE Bakersfield Women's Business Conference
COMMERCIAL REMODEL Village at Towne Centre
EDUCATION Foundation for SUCCESS
ENVIRONMENTAL Central California Power
HEALTH Michael Gagner & Stacy Inman
HUMANITARIAN-INDIVIDUAL Stephanie Deveau
HUMANITARIAN-GROUP Bakersfield Condors
PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP Northwest Bakersfield Baseball – Kern County Parks & Recreation Department
SENIORS Kirsten Lynn Finch
YOUTH-INDIVIDUAL Mariah Miranda
YOUTH-GROUP Bakersfield Students for the Kern Veteran's Memorial, Thomas Benham & Blake Keathley
CHAIRMAN'S AWARD Bright House Networks and the City of Bakersfield Recreation and Parks Department for the Bright House Networks Amphitheater