Category: Partner in the Community

On Monday, November 26^th, 2018 through the Bolt of Hope program, Bolthouse Properties’ employees had the honor of presenting Garden Pathways with a grant to fund a tattoo removal machine. The grant will allow Garden Pathways to institute a premier tattoo removal program, providing participants an opportunity to experience outer transformation.

Tattoo removal is a current need that is critical for participants of Garden Pathways’ programs, especially former gang members, because the majority possess visible tattoos that become a physical obstacle that make it difficult to obtain and secure employment. One of the most mentioned reasons among participants for why they want to remove their tattoos is the hope of setting a good example for their children. With this service, participants will feel more confident in obtaining and retaining employment, enrolling in school, and stepping into their role as a healthy parent. Garden Pathways will provide the service to individuals enrolled in their programs and community clients seeking to start a new chapter in their lives and truly be transformed from the inside out.

Garden Pathways, a local organization that has served the Bakersfield community for the last 20 years, seeks to help low-income individuals and families, high-risk youth, homeless individuals, individuals struggling with substance abuse, current and former gang members, and formerly and currently incarcerated individuals.

For more information about Garden Pathways visit: www.GardenPathways.org.

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Bolt of Hope is a team comprised of Bolthouse Properties’ employee whose vision is to grow God’s kingdom in Bakersfield through love and compassion, by being open-minded to the needs in our community, and by watering the seeds planted by local organizations that have a passion for being the light in the world.

Written by Dawni Fauke, Hoffmann Hospice Volunteer

If you have ever lost someone close to you, you know just how important it is to keep their memory alive. While the mourning process can be incredibly difficult, keeping a loved one’s memory alive is a valuable part of the process. It provides a meaningful way to express the significance their life had. Though we are familiar with this sentiment in our personal lives, it’s not often that we see a company show the same compassionate act of honor in memory of employees whom they have lost. But that’s exactly what local business Bolthouse Properties LLC has done for Steve Debranch, an employee they lost to cancer in 2015. At the first Run to Remember event, Bolthouse Properties dedicated the Stephan J. DeBranch Memorial Trail, a trail that Steve designed and envisioned in the development of the land.  A beautiful plaque in remembrance of Steve DeBranch graces the entrance of the trail to the east of the Hoffmann Hospice Home. This trail is where the run begins every year. The DeBranch family and Bolthouse Property employees come together every year as a team to run to remember Steve DeBranch and the honorable legacy he left behind as a dearly loved employee of Bolthouse Properties. “It has been a wonderful way for us to honor and remember Steve and the legacy he left to his family and those of us at Bolthouse Properties, LLC.  He envisioned the trail long before its existence and to walk on it now with his family and our employees gives us a sense of satisfaction to see his vision come to life.”, Tony described. You can start your own team when you register for Run To Remember and honor someone you will never forget. Run To Remember will take place Saturday, October 27, 2018, 8A.M. at the Hoffmann Hospice Home.

Today, The Mission At Kern County completed the groundbreaking ceremony for a new extension to the Mission. Soon they will open the doors to a new facility where women and children will have the opportunity to receive supportive services necessary to improve their quality of life.

Bolthouse Properties along with other local donors and volunteers made this possible. The new facility will continue to assist serving those who are less fortunate.

If you would like to support The Mission at Kern County please visit us at themissionkc.org or call 661-325-0863.

May god continue to bless.

Ground was broken September 8th on a $10 million, 42,000-square-foot Houchin Community Blood Bank complex that will be built in Seven Oaks Business Park at Buena Vista Road, south of White Lane.

The complex will consolidate several of Houchin’s services that are now housed in multiple locations. They include: laboratory, quality assurance, manufacturing, distribution, information technology, community development and transportation. The complex will also include a full donor drawing site, with Houchin’s existing Truxtun Avenue location remaining as a blood drawing center.

Bolthouse Properties donated 5 acres for the complex, in the new Seven Oaks Business Park.

Bolthouse’s donation “will allow Houchin to build a state of the art facility and continue our vision of providing Kern County with a safe and reliable blood supply for the next 60 years,” said Houchin President and CEO Greg Gallion, who recalled Houchin’s “humble beginnings” in 1951, with “a group of community leaders and doctors who envisioned supplying blood for the emergency needs of local hospitals.”

“In this day and age of mega and national health care providers, Houchin is a unique community asset which is well deserving of our support,” said Anthony Leggio, Bolthouse Properties president.

Over the past six decades, medical innovations and Kern County’s expanding population have greatly increased the local demand for blood.

While this means an increasing number of people must be encouraged to donate their lifesaving blood, it also means that Houchin must remain efficient and innovative in the way it collects and distributes blood products.

“Expanding and consolidating. Houchin services will allow the blood bank to meet the needs of the area’s growing population and demand for blood and blood products,” said Gallion.

Thursday also marked the official groundbreaking for Bolthouse Properties’ Seven Oaks Business Park.

Go to www.hcbb.com for more information about the construction of Houchin’s consolidated complex, as well as ways to help.