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Publisher John Watkins Editor Christopher Livingston Advertising Director Paula McKayAdvertising Sales Rodney Preul; Bob Aslanian; Gerald Elford Writer Jessica Weston

Inside this issue:Lake Isabella Fishing Derby celebrates 30 years .. 3Independence Fruitcake Festival returns.............. 5Bishop: Small town with a BIG backyard! ............ 7A trip to the Eastern California Museum ............ 16Mark your calendars: Upcoming things to do ... 18

SIERRA VIEWSJanuary 2019

On the cover:The Eastern California Museum in Independence tells atale of history in the Eastern Sierras with historic arti-facts both in and outside its location.

To our readers:Sierra Views offers a view of the events, activ-ities, and fun up and down the Eastern Sierraand beyond. In this issue, we feature the up-coming Lake Isabella Fishing Derby, browsethrough artifacts at the Eastern California Mu-seum, and what the town of Bishop has instore for the late winter and beyond.

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The 30th annual Isabella Lake Fish-ing Derby will take place from April13-15, 2019.

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and the youth division up to $1,000for first place. All five positions in allthree divisions pay double if a 2019Derby T-shirt or hoodie were purchased.

Also new this year, the Derby will bestepping it up in the raffle department.The first grand prize raffle will be aSundolphin Boss SS 12-foot-4-inch

Lake Isabella FishingDerby celebrates 30 years

LAKE ISABELLA FISHING DERBY/FACEBOOKA crowd gathers at the Isabella Lake Fishing Derby headquarters in 2018. This year’sheadquarters are at the Lake Isabella Senior Center, 6405 Lake Isabella Blvd.

fishing kayak fully rigged with aLawrence Hook2 4x with a Ram mount-ing system, 12-volt battery in a sealedwater-tight case in hall; a Lawrencethrough-hull scupper mount with bullettransducer; a set of trout rods andother items.

Second grand prize raffle will be aHonda Eu 2200i, 2200-watt Hondagenerator. The third grand prize rafflewill be cash, two separate drawingsfor $500 cash each.

There will still be the popular fishnetraffle.

Raffle tickets are sold at the derbyheadquarters this year, at Lake IsabellaSenior Center (6405 Lake IsabellaBlvd.). They are also sold, along withmerchandise, online athttps://www.kernrivervalley.com/2018-isabella-lake-fishing-derby.

The first trout were delivered to thefish pens at Red’s Marina in November.They are are growing fast, as they arefed three times a day by an all-volunteercrew set up by Mark Chambers of theKern River Valley Chamber of Com-merce. ❖

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BY JESSICA WESTONThe Daily Independent

After a two year hiatus,the internationally ac-claimed Annual Fruit-

cake Festival returned to theAmerican Legion Hall of theInyo County Seat at Inde-pendence, California on De-cember 15, 2018.

The theme this time as“When You Wish Upon aFruitcake.” Previous themeshave included everything from“Fruitcakes in Space,” “Foodof the Pharaohs” and, ofcourse, “Peace, Love and Fruit-cakes.”

Under the direction of em-cee Michael Pietrobon, theevent included all the tradi-tional elements, including theFestival Convocation by wayof Clanging of the Flatware,the lip-synch contest (won by93 year old Norma), the cer-emonial tasting of the archival14-year-old fruitcake, thecrowning of Fruitcake KingBryan Kosters, and of coursethe judging of various edible

Independence Fruitcake Festival returns‘Wishing Upon Fruitcakes’

PHOTOS BY JESSICA WESTON/DAILY INDEPENDENT

The American Legion Hall in In-dependence hosted the 2018 In-dependence Fruitcake Festival,an eclectic celebration of a holi-day icon. At the lower right,Bryan Kosters is crowned theFruitcake King.

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The back meeting

room of the Kerr McGee

Community Center

served as the scene of

forensics work Wednes-

day morning.

Fingerprints were tak-

en, surfaces dusted, tire

track marks examined,

and various substances

examined via microscope

— all conducted by chil-

dren.Groups

huddled

around different work-

stations, peering through

the microscope, dusting

the tables for finger-

prints, using toy cars to

create tire marks on clay

as part of the High

Desert Leapin’ Lizards’

third annual summer

camp.According to Manny

Fierro, the after-school

program provides two

hours of STEAM (Sci-

ence, Technology, Engi-

neering, Arts and Math-

ematics) activities for

students five days a week

at the Kerr McGee Cen-

ter. “The goal of this was to

bring STEAM to the

community during the

summer,” Fierro said.

“It’s all hands-on, some-

thing the kids are having

fun while learning.”

During the school year,

Leapin’ Lizards offers an

after-school STEAM

program that operates

at Inyokern, Faller, and

Pierce elementary

schools. Fierro said the

nonprofit contracts

through Sierra Sands

Unified School District

to provide the programs.

Fierro said the morn-

ing usually starts off with

vocabulary lessons and

memory-based activity.

During Wednesday’s

session, for example, the

students were given 15

seconds to view a tray

full of items before cov-

ering them again and

tested on the general na-

ture of what they saw.

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Cerro Coso holds

annual camp

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Maturango Museum

debuts art exhibit

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Full Forecast

Record

A2

A2

Obituaries

Sports

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Classifieds

Comics

B3

B5

In order to stem off an-

other shortfall of cash flow,

Kern County Board of Su-

pervisors on Tuesday unan-

imously authorized a

$500,000 advance to the

Indian Wells Valley

Groundwater Authority.

The county advance

marks the second such one

the groundwater authority

will receive in seven

months; the first was au-

thorized by the IWV Water

District in December for

similar reasons.

Kern County Deputy

County Administrative Of-

ficer Alan Christensen, who

also acts as support staff for

the groundwater authority,

presented the item before

the board on Tuesday.

He noted the package

provides advances for both

BY JACK BARNWELL

Staff Writer

jbarnwell@ridgecrestca.com

SEE ADVANCE, A5

Parkour at the library

BY JACK BARNWELL

Staff Writer

jbarnwell@ridgecrestca.com

PHOTOS BY JACK BARNWELL/DAILY INDEPENDENT

Students participate in the STEAM camp held by High Desert Leapin' Lizards at the Kerr McGee Center on Wednesday, with a focus

on forensics. The next two camps are the weeks of July 16 and July 23.

Leapin’ Lizards STEAMs

ahead with summer camp

Kern County

advances

groundwater

authority

$500K

SEE STEAM, A5

PHOTOS BY JACK BARNWELL/DAILY INDEPENDENT

A group of children execute some exercise in style Wednesday afternoon at

the Ridgecrest Branch Library as Infinite Movement Academy held a free

hands-on parkour and freerunning demonstration. Coaches provided an obsta-

cle course and some pointers on the sport. Parkour is a sport that involves

overcoming obstacles without assistive equipment in the fastest, most effi-

cient way possible. It usually involves running, jumping, swinging, rolling and

vaulting. Freerunning comes into play when a person decides to add their own

personal style. Infinite Movement Academy offers courses and open gym for

all levels and is located at 215 Balsam Street, and online at www.infinite-

movementacademy.com/.

California City, Mojave,

Ridgecrest and Wasco

could switch to different

ambulance service

providers as a result of a

recent decision by the state

agency overseeing emer-

gency medical services.

The California Emer-

gency Medical Services

Agency ordered Kern

County to carry out a new

competitive bidding

process to determine what

company will deliver am-

bulance services to the ar-

eas.Cal EMSA’s decision

means the county’s largest

ambulance services

provider, Hall Ambulance

Service Inc., could lose its

THE BAKERSFIELD

CALIFORNIAN

SEE AMBULANCE, A5

State orders

new bids on

ambulance

service in

parts of Kern

Program focuses on forensics Wednesday, aims to teach

science, tech, engineering, arts and math over summer

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Two important parts of the Fruitcake Festival: the lip-sync contest (left) and the judges’ deliberation over the various fruitcakes.

entries. The judging is a serious busi-

ness. Fruitcakes were honoredin the following categories: fruit-cake that travelled farthest, oldestfruitcake, most solids, the judgesaward and, of course, best oftheme.

Fruitcake judges included InyoCounty Superior Court JudgesBrian Lamb and Steven Placewith technician/librarian JoeFrankel wielding somethingcalled the nut-o-meter to measurethe density of nuts in each entry.

The list of 2018 winners is asfollows:

• Most Solids – Rich and KathyWhite, Independence, California.A judge’s comment was “Minimalcake, mostly solids.” Honorablemention went to an alleged fruit-cake named Plumbum whichweighed 25 lbs.

•Traveled Farthest – EdPittman, Bishop, California. The

cake came from Summerton,South Carolina.

• Oldest – Judy and Sue Palmer,Shoshone, California. The cakewas made in 2013 from theirmother Ruth’s recipe.

• Best of Theme –Waucoba andTsiava Hunter for their fruitcakenamed Asteroid, which was agluten-free fruitcake. Honorablemention - Lynn and SteveChurch, Independence, Californiafor their Fruitcake with a shootingstar.

• Judges Award – Annika Foote,Bishop, California for her “RumKeep” cake, a fortified tower with-in a castle.

The event was dreamed up byNancy Masters and a group offriends in 2005 and has beenheld 14 times since then. Admis-sion was either $5 or a fruitcakefor the judging this year.

It is fervently hoped the festivalwill be back in 2019. ❖

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Awoman ahead of her time, MaryHunter Austin was a writer,schoolteacher, self-taught natu-

ralist and feminist who lived from 1868to 1934. She wrote her classic book“Land of Little Rain” in 1903 whileliving in her home in Independence.She left the area after the success ofthat book and moved to an artist colony

in Carmel, California. She later lived inNew York, Europe and Santa Fe, NewMexico. Austin wrote 27 books in alland more than 250 short works includingshort stories, poems, plays and articles.

Austin’s former home is located at253 Market Street in Independence. Itis a California State Park CommissionHistorical Landmark and is down thestreet from the Eastern California Mu-seum. The museum also features an ex-hibit of her work.

JESSICA WESTON/DAILY INDEPENDENT

Writer Mary HunterAustin's former homein Independence is aCalifornia State ParkCommission HistoricalLandmark. It is locatedvery near the EasternCalifornia Museum,which also features anexhibit of Austin'swork.

Mary Hunter Austin’s historichome in Independence

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BY JESSICA WESTONThe Daily Independent

The Eastern California Mu-seum has been aroundsince 1928. The mission

of the museum is “to collect,preserve, and interpret objectsand information related to thecultural and natural history ofInyo County and the EasternSierra, from Death Valley toMono Lake,” according to itswebsite.

The museum also housesabout 27,000 historic photo-graphs of the Eastern Sierra re-gion and typically handles about200 requests for informationor photo reprints per year.

The museum includes perma-nent exhibits include the Nor-man Clyde Exhibit, which spot-lights “The Pack with legs;” Bas-kets and American Life; Water(on the Owens Valley water sto-ry); GeneralHistory/Geology/Oddities; Pi-oneering Women of Inyo Coun-ty; the Virtual TransportationMuseum; Farming and Ranch-ing and an exhibit on 20th cen-tury writer Mary Austin – whosehistoric home is located near-by.

The permanent exhibit onManzanar includes artifacts,photos and original art fromthe Manzanar World War II In-ternment Center, which was lo-cated six miles south of Inde-pendence. Manzanar is also aU.S. National Park Service His-

toric Site.A special exhibit at the Eastern

California Museum featuresPhotogravures by Edward S.Curtis.

The museum also has a pop-ular bookstore.

The Eastern California Mu-seum is located at 155 N. GrantStreet in Independence, Cali-fornia. The museum is open 10a.m. – 5 p.m., seven days a week.

No entrance fee is required,although donations are appre-ciated. The museum asks that

EASTERN CALIFORNIA MUSEUM: a timemachine to Eastern Sierra of the past

PHOTOS BY JESSICA WESTON/DAILY INDEPENDENTThe Eastern California Museum has collections of artifacts related to the natural history of the Eastern Sierras.Among those artifacts are clothes (above) and baskets (right) used by early settlers.

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