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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Halloween Spooktacular Trunk or Treat
The Park Stockdale Civic Association will host a Halloween Spooktacular Trunk or Treat and Carnival Friday, Oct. 27.
The trunk or treat and a fire engine display will set up at 5:30 p.m.
The trunk and treat and the fire engine display will open to residents at 6 p.m. Please come in costume.
At 6:15 p.m., the party moves into the hall for a carnival until 8:30 p.m. A dozen games will be set up.
The PSCA is looking for volunteers to decorate their cars or just to hand out candy from their trunks. If you would like to volunteer or plan to attend, please call or text Kiki at (805) 235-7843, by Oct. 24.
Board of Directors opening
There is an opening on the Park Stockdale Civic Association Board of Directors.
Any Park Stockdale homeowner interested in serving on the 11-member board should contact a director or the office: 205 Rio Bravo Drive; (661) 323-4302; parkstockdale@bak.rr.com or attend the next meeting.
Meetings are at 7 p.m. the second Monday of each month and typically last a couple of hours. The board’s primary mission is to maintain the facilities and oversee activities there.
Community yard sale
The semi-annual Park Stockdale neighborhood yard sale will be held the morning of Saturday, Oct. 7.
Residents enjoyed luau, hula dancing
Four hula dancers and some inspired decorations turned the packed Park Stockdale hall into a little slice of Hawaii Saturday.
Five pink flamingos greeted residents outside. Inside, hula dancer Caroline Angkehan and her three daughters, Leslie, Melanie and Karlie, handed out silk leis to guests, who, for the most part, were dressed in Hawaiian attire.
Roxanne Fackler, the luau organizer and Park Stockdale Civic Association Vice President, and resident Dan Tuttle dished out shredded pork and chicken that residents ate with Hawaiian rolls, potato and macaroni salads, broccoli salad, pineapple, grapes, strawberries, and watermelon, brownies and cookies and shave ice.
As residents dined, emcee Melissa Martinez introduced the dancers who performed “God Bless America” and then a host of traditional Hawaiian hula songs.
Melissa encouraged guests to donate to the Maui relief efforts through their church, Red Cross or Thrivent Financial Services.
Next was audience participation. The dancers led volunteers of all ages, wearing grass skirts, through a hula lesson. Prizes were awarded to the best dancers.
Then three young girls participated in a hula hoop spinning contest.
The PSCA sponsored the event that included a decorated arch for photos. Each table was named for an Hawaiian island.
Board members who helped with the event were: Ana Flores, who shredded chicken; Kiki Contreras, who got the ice and helped clean; Pat Nolan who unloaded food, set place settings and manned the sign-in sheet with Susan Tuttle, who also provided drinks and decorated the photo op arch.
Besides serving as emcee, Melissa provided shave ice and sound equipment. Her husband, Jose, set up and took down the ice machine, sound equipment and decorations.
Becky Powers helped put food away.
Pool switches to weekends only
With Wayne Van Horn Elementary School starting on Wednesday, Aug. 16, the last day the pool will be open on weekdays is Aug. 15.
The pool will be open on weekends only beginning Saturday, Aug. 19.
Labor Day Monday, Sept. 4, is the last day the pool is scheduled to be open.
Pool closed for two days
The pool will be closed Friday and Saturday, Aug. 4-5, so that the algae can be treated before it worsens.
The pool will reopen Sunday.
