BUENA VISTA GROUP

   

Kern-Kaweah Chapter

 

Explore, Enjoy and Protect the Planet

headlines

Sunday January 07, 2007

Welcome

The Buena Vista Group holds monthly meetings in Bakersfield.

For more information, contact Donnel Lester, Group Chair.

This group serves the Southern San Joaquin Valley, Kern Valley, and Tehachapi areas. Centered in Bakersfield we are committed to providing quality education, outings, and conservation within our service area.

Programs

You are invited to join our Sierra Club/Buena Vista Group programs.

Happy New Year! 

We have hope for 2007 with Pombo OUT in California and more environmentalists IN around the country.  Thank you for your support of Sierra Club and your voice in protecting our air, water, wildlife and natural resources. 

Sierra Club, Buena Vista Group Program on Solar this Saturday   January 6, 2007, 8:30 a.m.

Kevin Scheidt, of REC Solar "Making Solar Part of the Mainstream Energy Supply"

Best Western Hill House, 700 Truxtun Avenue, Bakersfield Breakfast, optional, for about $7. The public is welcome! Bring a friend.   RSVPs are NOT required, but they help us set up the room. Just reply to Donnel or call 831-6784.

NEW  Battery Recycling at BVG Meetings – We're not supposed to toss batteries in the garbage can anymore.  So bring us your old batteries, lithium ion, nickel metal hydride, NiCad, small sealed lead-acid batteries and from cordless & cell phones, power tools, laptops -- even AAA’s to D’s. BVG member, Brier Miron, will add them to the Recycling Program bin she started at her company. No car batteries, of course.

Next month February 3, 2007 – Program Meeting speaker Brier Miron -- Overview of Sacramento Green Business Program. This nonprofit program certifies businesses that go above and beyond on environmental compliance.

Care For Kern

Come help the Buena Vista Group clean-up Hwy. 119 (Taft Hwy).

Date: 3rd Saturday of the month - foul weather cancels

Meet at the corner of Old River Rd. and Taft Hwy.

Bring water and wear boots and long sleeves. Trash bags and gloves are provided!! We need YOU!!!

Contact Donnel to sign up: 661-831-6784

Keeping Active

BVG leaders Isabel Stierle, Vice Chair, and Donnel Lester, Chair, put the Sierra Club environmental message before the public at Bakersfield's Downtown Street Faires. photo by Ken Fry 

The Park at River Walk was the June setting for BVG's Summer Potluck Picnic.  Elaine and Doug White (left) and Larry Wailes (right) with other members in the background, sampled the variety of delicious foods between enviro chats and treks to Explore and Enjoy this new park along the Kern River Parkway. photo by Ann Gallon


The Sierra Club's grassroots advocacy has made it America's most influential environmental organization. Founded in 1892, we are now more than 700,000 members strong. Our influence and effectiveness is dependent upon our members, donors, and benefactors.

get outdoors

Outings

Every Tuesday Evening Conditioning Hike. 4-5 miles in northeast Bakersfield area. Meet at 7 p.m. at the Chevron station at the corner of Hwys 178 and 184. Call Leaders: Eva/Gordon Nipp (661) 872-2432 or Larry Wailes (661) 861-1186 for details.

Read the Roadrunner for the latest hiking schedule!


Other Local Groups' Activities


WildPlaces has riparian restoration projects.

Volunteers are needed to take cottonwood/willow cuttings and planting willow, cottonwood (cuttings), wild rose, elderberry, and mulefat (potted).

Free camping and outdoor video presentation and dinner on each Saturday night. E-Mail Mehmet McMillan for more information. mehmet@wildplaces.net


One weekend a month Wind Wolves Preserve has a workday followed by a fantastic barbecue and a night of sleeping under the stars. To find out about their schedule and to RSVP call, 661-858-1115. (Condors are often referred to as Wind Wolves.)

who's who

 

Group Officers

Chair

Vice-chair

Treasurer

Conservation Chair

Membership Chair

Donnel Lester

Isabel Stierle

Jennifer Randel

Arthur Unger

Ann Gallon

within our web links

 

 

 

 


 

Sierra Club Home  

California Sierra Club
Kern Kaweah Chapter Home
Calendar
Roadrunner
Conservation
Local Groups
Join Sierra Club
Contact BV SC

other links

 
 

Regional National Forest and National Park Issues

Other Environmental sites of Interest to Bakersfield and western Kern County

Sierra Club® and "Explore, enjoy and protect the planet."® are registered trademarks of the Sierra Club © 2001-2006 Sierra Club. Website maintenance courtesy Alison Sheehey Nature Ali.