Kern Valley Community Faire

Sunday, March 27 - Last event in this year's Living Green Festival

This page will be updated later this week,

but for now:

Sunday, March 27: 11am to 3m, Lake Isabella Sustainable Architecture Open House Presented by Nancy Shebesta Architect & Principal of Sustainable Architecture. 3700 Suhre Street, Lake Isabella. (760) 549-0075. FREE

Sunday, March 27: 10am, Lake Isabella GARDEN TALK: “Native Medicinal Plants & their Uses Garden” Methods of gathering & storing by Terri Gallion. 1^st of 5 casual gardening talks organized by the Kern River Valley Garden Group an informal group of California's Kern River Valley gardeners interested in promoting the use of low water, fire-safe & native plants. Propagation of plants that are native to the Kern River Valley & difficult to find commercially is a special interest of the group which meets 2^nd Tuesday each month & has special tours from time to time. Garden Group info: Shirley Real (760) 379-1129 Vets Room 2 (you can enter off the large parking lot behind the Kern River Veterans/Senior Building, 6405 Lake Isabella Blvd., Lake Isabella. Copies of seed catalogs & special magazines FREE for the taking (till they run out). FREE

Sunday, March 27: 11 to 4pm, Lake Isabella Kids Friendly "Kern Valley Community Faire" the 2^nd Annual celebration of local clubs, groups, fraternal organizations, services, government agencies & their volunteers. The South Fork Women’s Club will provide a healthy LUNCH $6 (including dessert & drink). Face-painting by Denise Bedford Peters as well as "Kids Re-Use, Too" children’s clothing/toy/book exchange on hand as well. Drop items off at Miss Michelle's Schoolhouse, 409 Sirretta Street, Kernville Monday through Friday 7:30-4:30. For more information call Linda Block (310) 871-8795. Cerro Coso Phi Theta Kappa honors student club will give away cotton denim clothing & extol the use of clothes-lines for drying clothes; contact person Terri Jo Kumar (760) 378-3728 terrijokumar@yahoo.com. 2010 KV Community Faire Application. The 2010 Living Green Raffle prizes will be selected at the end of the day. Chair: Nancy Puckett (760) 379-2556 napucke@zeus.kern.org. Each KRV family attending with an elementary school child can pick up a free copy of the book “The New 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth” (while supplies last). Kern River Veterans/Senior Building, 6405 Lake Isabella Blvd.,
Lake Isabella. FREE

Participating organizations:

• AGLOW Christian Women's Organization
• Altzheimers Society
• Associated Student Body of Cerro Coso
• Burger King ~ Lake Isabella
  
• Cerro Coso Phi Theta Kappa
• Clan Diggers
• Clinica Sierra Vista
• Clinica Sierra Vista WIC Progam
• College Community Services
• D.G. Flamand Children's Books
• Douglas El Segundo Rod & Gun Club
• ECHO Health Academy ~ Kern Valley High School
• Ecosense Green shopping club
• Face Painting by Denise Bedford Peters
• Family Preservation Community Services
• Fish & Game Habitat Club
• Friends of the Hatchery
  
• Future Homemakers of America ~ Kern Valley High School
• Havilah Centennial Goup
• Hearts Connection F.R.C.
• High Sierra Wild Horse Sanctuary
• Karen Hartfield Fiber Artist Jewelry Maker
• Kern River Ranger District, US Forest Service
• Kern River Valley Fire Safe Council
• Kern River Valley LBGTQ group
• Kern Valley Gays & Straights Against Bullying
• Kern Valley Sun
  
• KRV Family Resource Center
• Lakeshore Farmers Market
• Optimal Hospice Care
• Owens Valley Career Development Center
• Pet Project
• REVA Responsible Ethical Volunteers for Animals
  
• Salvation Army, Lake Isabella Unit
  
• Sequoia ForestKeeper
• Sienna Wellness Institute
  
• South Fork Woman’s Club
• Southern California Edison Mobile Education Unit
• Tea Party of the Kern River Valley
  

Sunday, March 27: 11 to 4pm, Lake Isabella Kids Friendly "Kids Re-Use, Too" Children’s clothing/toy/book exchange Co-chairs: Linda Block linda_block@hotmail.com & Michelle Maring Mmm4peace@aol.com. Kern River Veterans/Senior Building, 6405 Lake Isabella Blvd., Lake Isabella. Drop items off at Miss Michelle's Schoolhouse, 409 Sirretta Street, Kernville Monday through Friday 7:30-4:30. For more information call
(310) 871-8795. FREE

Sunday, March 27: 11 to 4pm, Lake Isabella Kids Friendly
"Kids Re-Use, Rock & Roll" Creating instruments & then music from common re-useable (formerly disposable) items. Co-chairs: Jack Nadler Jnadlermd@pol.net & Linda Block linda_block@hotmail.com Kern River Veterans/Senior Building, 6405 Lake Isabella Blvd., Lake Isabella. FREE

Sunday, March 27: 11 to 4pm, Lake Isabella Kids Friendly Kids’ Green Films “Sesame Street: Love the Earth” (USA, 2008, 45 min) Elmo, Zoe, & Baby Bear venture into Bear National Park with Papa Bear in search of the elusive Blue-Feathered Swallowing Swallow so they can earn their Bird-Watching Badges. While looking for the swallow, they have fun discovering beautiful things in nature! They also learn that there are some simple things they can do to keep nature beautiful & clean: putting trash where it belongs, recycling, reusing things & saving water. Shown on the hour: 11am, Noon, 1pm, 2pm & 3pm Kern River Veterans/Senior Building, 6405 Lake Isabella Blvd., Lake Isabella. FREE

Sunday, March 27: 11am, Lake Isabella GARDEN TALK: Terri Gallion. Continues with “Recipes & How to Create Potions & Salves from Native Medicinal Plants” 2^nd of 5 casual gardening talks organized by the Kern River Valley Garden Group an informal group of California's Kern River Valley gardeners interested in promoting the use of low water, fire-safe & native plants. Propagation of plants that are native to the Kern River Valley & difficult to find commercially is a special interest of the group which meets 2^nd Tuesday each month & has special tours from time to time. Garden Group info: Shirley Real (760) 379-1129 Vets Room 2 (you can enter off the large parking lot behind the Kern River Veterans/Senior Building, 6405 Lake Isabella Blvd., Lake Isabella. Copies of seed catalogs & special magazines FREE for the taking (till they run out). FREE

Sunday, March 27: Noon, Lake Isabella GARDEN TALK: “Handy & Unusual Propagation Methods” by Shirley Real. 3^rd of 5 casual gardening talks organized by the Kern River Valley Garden Group an informal group of California's Kern River Valley gardeners interested in promoting the use of low water, fire-safe & native plants. Propagation of plants that are native to the Kern River Valley & difficult to find commercially is a special interest of the group which meets 2^nd Tuesday each month & has special tours from time to time. Garden Group info: Shirley Real (760) 379-1129 Vets Room 2 (you can enter off the large parking lot behind the Kern River Veterans/Senior Building, 6405 Lake Isabella Blvd., Lake Isabella. Copies of seed catalogs & special magazines FREE for the taking (till they run out). FREE

Sunday, March 27: 1pm, Lake Isabella GARDEN TALK: “Rare, Endangered & At Risk Wild Flowers” by Kernville Forest Service employee Steve Anderson., presenting a silde show & PowerPoint presentation created by Sequoia National Forest Botanist Fletcher Linton 4^th of 5 casual gardening talks organized by the Kern River Valley Garden Group An informal group of California's Kern River Valley gardeners interested in promoting the use of low water, fire-safe & native plants. Propagation of plants that are native to the Kern River Valley & difficult to find commercially is a special interest of the group which meets 2^nd Tuesday each month & has special tours from time to time. Garden Group info: Shirley Real (760) 379-1129 Vets Room 2 (you can enter off the large parking lot behind the Kern River Veterans/Senior Building, 6405 Lake Isabella Blvd., Lake Isabella. Copies of seed catalogs & special magazines FREE for the taking (till they run out). FREE

Sunday, March 27: 2pm, Lake Isabella GARDEN TALK: “Tips on Growing Prize-winning Patio & Container Plants” by Shirley Real. 3^rd of 5 casual gardening talks organized by the Kern River Valley Garden Group An informal group of California's Kern River Valley gardeners interested in promoting the use of low water, fire-safe & native plants. Propagation of plants that are native to the Kern River Valley & difficult to find commercially is a special interest of the group which meets 2^nd Tuesday each month & has special tours from time to time. Garden Group info: Shirley Real (760) 379-1129 Vets Room 2 (you can enter off the large parking lot behind the Kern River Veterans/Senior Building, 6405 Lake Isabella Blvd., Lake Isabella. Copies of seed catalogs & special magazines FREE for the taking (till they run out). FREE

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Last year's Green Expo

Saturday, March 26, 2011, 10am to 4pm

At the Family Life Center Gym at the corner of Sycamore Drive & Oak Street (1 block N of the main drag), Wofford Heights

Green Expo Exhibit booths feature complementary ‘green,’ ‘living green,’ &/or energy saving topics such as:
Recycling, Reuse, Alternative Energy, Energy saving, Sustainable building, Low-Water/Native Plant Gardening, Conserving Resources, Eating Healthy, Green investing among other Living Green & Simple Living topics. 2 local car dealers

A used car may be the greenest car you can buy.

Our Living Green mantra of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rethink might help us shake the urge to have a new car every couple years. Let someone else (like a rental car fleet or car leasing outfit) pay the huge initial $ depreciation a new car has. It used to be a sign that you were doing well to have a new car every couple years; now your car choice can show that you are a money-wise & environmentally sensitive driver. Grist Magazine’s Umbra Fisk’s On Hybrid Myths points out “A used car, however, requires no new manufacturing impact. A used Prius would be the best of all worlds.” Isabella Motors from Wofford Heights & Lake Isabella's Kern River Motors both will be at the Green Expo with high MPG used cars and a motorcycle (even better mileage).

LIST OF GREEN EXPO VENDORS
with links & contact info

LIST OF VENDORS & LOCATION MAP below

At the Family Life Center Gym at the corner of Sycamore Drive & Oak Street (1 block N of the main drag), Wofford Heights

Map to Family Life Center

7th_Annual_Fire Wise, Water Wise & Native Plant_Sale_Flyer

ORDER FORM 7th Annual Desert Mountain RC&D California Native Plant Sale

• Pickup Date March 26, 2011, (9:00 AM to 1:30 PM)
• Pickup Orders at the Kern River Valley Living Green Expo at the Family Life Center Gym at 20 Panorama Street, Wofford Heights on the Corner of Oak St. & Sycamore Dr. (behind Charlie’s Market)
• ORDERS MUST BE RECEIVED BY MARCH 18, 2011 with PAYMENT (see form for details)

Living Green & Sustainably
Living green means living/working in a way that has less of an environmental impact & conserves nature, resources. Sustainability means “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.”

Living Green, Responsibly & Sustainably Links
Living green means living/working in a way that has less of an environmental impact & conserves nature, resources. Sustainability means “meeting the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.” The emphasis being on lifestyle practices and habits.

Energy-saving & Sustainable Building/Development Links
Energy saving technologies, sources of information for both new and retrofit construction & sustainable land development. The emphasis being on the built environment.

Water-wise, Fire-wise &/or Native Planting Resources Links
Websites providing plant & landscaping information for Kern River Valley residents. Fire-wise landscaping & plant information moved to the category: Fire Information for KRV. Residents.