Health Center to host Health and Wellness Fair
On April 17, the Bakersfield College Student Health Center will be holding the Health and Wellness Fair.
The event will run from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Free Speech area, hosting a plethora of activities.
Many vendors will have current information and there will be on-site testing for blood pressure, glucose and cholesterol. The fair is open to students, staff and the community.
Vendors include American Cancer Society, Bakersfield AIDS Project, Clinica Sierra Vista, Kern County Mental Health, 24-Hour Fitness and others.
BC Food Services will be providing a Healthy Start Menu. For more information call 395-4337.
Newspaper brings back awards from state competition
The Renegade Rip staff won a total of 16 awards last weekend at the Journalism Association of Community Colleges State Conference held at the DoubleTree Hotel in Sacramento.
Students competed against 570 other students from 49 community college journalism programs around California and Arizona in a variety of on-the-spot deadline competitions and mail-in categories. Aside from awards won by individual students, the paper also brought home the top honor of general excellence for both its print and online editions.
On-the-spot awards included: first place, sports photo, Todd E. Swenson; first place, news photo, John Vodopija; second place, copy editing, Jarrod M. Graham; honorable mention, news story, Demethrasis Blackmon; honorable mention, editorial, Rachel Cribbs; and honorable mention, critical review, Amber Garcia.
Mail-in awards included: General Excellence, broadsheet, The Renegade Rip; General Excellence, online journalism, The Renegade Rip; fourth place, headlines, The Renegade Rip; second place, front page design, Rachel Cribbs; third place, photo story/essay, Ronnie Wilson and Teresa Valdez; fourth place, sports feature story, Amber Garcia; honorable mention, line illustration, Gerardo Delgadillo; honorable mention, inside page design, Daniel F. Hunt; honorable mention, news story, Ryan Knaggs; and honorable mention, feature photo, Todd E. Swenson.
– Compiled by staff writer Rudy Llamas