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 home winners
109 Angell Street
409 Carr Street
5904 Cochran Drive
6108 Cochran Drive
901 Elsey Street
400 Gabriel Drive
5908 Hesketh Drive
5609 Kleinpell Avenue
6000 Preston Court
6013 Friant Drive
6401 Hartman Avenue
Thank you so much for all who took the time to decorate their homes. It’s a beautiful tour around the neighborhood.
The home with music that plays in coordination with the lights is 5908 Hesketh Drive. Turn your radio to 99.9 fm.
The home where you can press a button to make snow and fog fall on the decorations is 901 Elsey Street.
The home with a beautiful nativity set is 6000 Preston Court.
The number of inflatable decorations has increased delighting the children.
These are some of the best homes in the neighborhood as judged by four adult and four child residents. Board Vice-President Roxanne Fackler spearheaded the project. Winners each won gift certificates for a dozen Foster’s donuts.
Park Stockdale certainly has the Christmas spirit.
Board of Directors elections
The Board of Directors election will be held Tuesday, February 20, 2024. All nominations must be submitted by the end of the January Board meeting scheduled for 7 p.m. Monday, Jan. 8, 2024, in the hall.
Anyone interested in running for the Board should contact a current Board member or call the office at (661) 323-4302.
The following board members are up for re-election: Jim Carnal, Matt Coleman, Kiki Contreras, Ana Flores, Pat Nolan and Josh Saravia.
Entrance signs painted
Board President Jim Carnal volunteered to paint the two Park Stockdale entrance signs after they became faded.
Christmas home judging
You better be ready because a panel of Christmas aficionados will scour the neighborhood Dec. 18 to make a list of the best decorated Christmas homes. Residents of the top three homes in each of three categories will be awarded one dozen donuts. The categories are: nativity, traditional and kids’ pick.
These homes look ready.
Diseased tree removed
The Park Stockdale Civic Association board of directors approved removal of a diseased ash tree in the playground after it dropped three limbs during recent windstorms.
John Karlik, a tree expert with the UC Cooperative Extension, said the tree was infested with carpentermoths.
Three neighboring trees that were leaning were also trimmed.
Bathrooms painted, pavilion patched
Jeremy Myers Painting painted both bathrooms and patched the sprinkler-damaged eaves and painted them last week.
Here are before and after photos.
