Established 2006 as a RI Centennial Celebration Project
Bakersfield Breakfast Rotary Club (BBRC) Members and volunteers planted 100 trees to establish a natural setting that could be used as a commemorative park by Bakersfield and Kern County Citizens as a place to honor the memory of a special person or pay tribute to a special occasion.
This was done in conjunction with:
Bakersfield Breakfast Rotary
City of Bakersfield
Tree Foundation of Kern
Kern River Parkway Foundation
BBRC has done the following in the Grove during RI year 2017-18.
- Clean and help maintain the Grove in November 2017. We planted 10 new trees in the grove on this day. Volunteers included BBRC members, family, Interact clubs and Rotaract Club.
- We have taken a portion of our annual fundraising and have directed it to at least one improvement in the Grove annually.
- This year we replaced brass memorial plaques that had been stolen with granite markers.
- We had a second cleanup in April 2018. During this event we began placing the new plaques into the grove.