Park Stockdale is a neighborhood of 578 homes located in beautiful southwest Bakersfield With entrances at Rio Bravo DrIVE and Lennox AveNUE. Park Stockdale is a quiet, mature community with a distinctive character not seen IN the newer housing tracts where it is difficult to tell one house from the next.
Residents enjoy community amenities including four full-size tennis courts, a five-lane, 75-foot-long swimming pool with diving board, Harrington Park – a private community park/playground, and Frank Weldon Community Hall – the neighborhood community center. Regular neighborhood activities include T-Ball, bi-annual neighborhood-wide yard sales, and seasonal neighborhood events.
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Christmas homes winners 2025
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A crack team of board members and children scoured the neighborhood for their picks for the nicest Christmas decorated homes.
Homes were judged on Christmas trees, traditional decorations, children’s themes, nativity, and electronic and mechanical features.
Winning homes in alphabetical order.
5805 Carissa Avenue
5812 Daggett Avenue
6013 Friant Drive
112 Gabriel Drive
400 Gabriel Drive
5908 Hesketh Drive
6005 Hesketh Drive
6413 Hesketh Drive
611 Hewlett Street
800 Hewlett Street
5609 Klienpell Avenue
Honorable mention: 5813 Hesketh Drive. Appreciate the menorah. 🕎
Judges were board members Roxanne Fackler and Ana Flores, prior board member Pat Nolan and Mary, Aaliyah and Mya.
Board members enjoyed meeting the residents Monday when they passed out coupons for a dozen Foster’s Donuts to each winning household.
To be eligible, residents had to be current with their quarterly dues.
5805 Carissa
6013 Friant
5609 Kleinpell
Election of directors
Half of the Park Stockdale Civic Association Board of Directors is up for election early next year. If you would like to run for the board, nominations must be submitted by the end of the January Board meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 12, 2026, in the hall. One ballot per homeowner will be mailed and must be returned with a signature and address by Tuesday, Feb. 17.
Anyone interested in running for the Board should contact a current board member or the office at (661) 323-4302, parkstockdale@bak.rr.com.
The following board members are up for re-election: Jim Carnal, Matt Coleman, Kiki Contreras, Ana Flores, Adam Johnson and Josh Saravia.
If no other residents run, the election will be canceled and directors will automatically receive another two-year term.
Christmas home judging
You better watch out because a panel of adult and child Christmas aficionados will scour the neighborhood Dec. 20 (weather dependent) to make a list of the best decorated Christmas homes. Homes in each of five categories will be posted on this website and homeowners will receive one dozen donuts from Foster’s Donuts. The categories are: Nativity, Electronic/Mechanical, Children, Creative, and Traditional.
Pool covered for winter
Thanks to the seven volunteers who covered the Park Stockdale junior Olympic-size pool on Saturday.
Volunteers were: board members Eli Hamm and Jim Carnal, past board member Bob Snoddy, residents Adam Johnson and Ben Dement, and Nick Galuska and Garion Brown.
The private pool will open for residents and their guests from noon-8 p.m. Memorial Day weekend (May 23-25). It will reopen daily on Friday, May 29, through Aug. 11 and then weekends and holidays through Labor Day.
Volunteers needed to cover pool
Volunteers are needed to help cover the swimming pool for the winter. Meet at the pool at 9 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 29.
Volunteers should wear old clothes. You will get dirty. And you may get glue on your clothes and hands. An exacto knife and flathead screwdriver would be handy. It takes about two hours to cover the pool.
The pool will reopen for the Memorial Day to Labor Day season on Saturday, May 23, 2026.
Movie in the rec room
A small gathering enjoyed the family movie “Ratatouille” in the rec room Friday night, as rain forced the showing inside.
The group enjoyed chips and bottled water at the event sponsored by the Park Stockdale Civic Association.
