DELANO — The city’s main east-west artery of Cecil Avenue is booming today with booths filling the parking lot of Delano High School on Cecil Avenue for the community’s annual Relay for Life.

DELANO — Cesar E. Chavez High School has selected its representatives to California Boys State and Girls State.

DELANO — Alfred Yanez as Exalted Ruler and other officers of Delano Elks Lodge No. 1761 were sworn in at installation ceremonies and dinner March 17 at the lodge.

DELANO — The City Council was to hold a public hearing March 20 in regard to a tentative tract map to subdivide a 28.38-acre parcel into 94 single-family residential lots.

DELANO — Steve Kinsey and Dorsey Driggs, both community leaders in Delano for many years and longtime leaders in activities of the Delano Kiwanis Club, were honored as Persons of the Year for 2021 at the 57th Delano Sports Dinner.

DELANO — Glenda Muldrow, a Delano High employee even before she was a graduate of the school, has set March 21 as her target date for retirement.

DELANO — Fourteen scholarship winners in the 2023 Delano Musical Memorial concert were revealed at the Feb. 23 concert in Delano High School’s auditorium.

DELANO — “Honoring Our Past, Cultivating Our Future” has been selected as the theme for Delano’s Harvest Holidays early October celebration. Directors, at their next meeting on March 13, will consider suggestions for the grand marshal.

DELANO — For the seventh consecutive year, the Robert F. Kennedy High School cheerleading squad has qualified for the USA Spirit Nationals competition scheduled for Friday, Feb. 24, at the Anaheim Convention Center.

DELANO — The Music Memorial concert, sidelined a couple of years due to the pandemic, will take place this year at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 23, in the Delano High School auditorium. Donation will be $5 at the door.

DELANO — Two recent notices in the Californian should be of interest to Delano area residents.

Under a new ordinance that took effect Jan. 7, Delano’s Planning Commission is changed from seven members to five with appointees selected by each member of the City Council.

DELANO — Pond School District earned the “best in parade” plaque in the December Delano Christmas parade.

DELANO — The new year brings with it the continuation of several educational programs offered by the Delano Adult School located on Princeton Street across from the Delano High varsity baseball diamond.

DELANO — After COVID forced the Delano Youth Foundation to suspend its annual Sports Dinner for two years, directors have scheduled the 57th community event for Saturday, March 11, at the Delano Elks Club.

DELANO — The Delano City Council at its Dec. 5 meeting approved a request from the Delano Chamber of Commerce to co-sponsor the 2022 Christmas parade and fair, events that took place Dec. 8.

Saturday is an opportunity for the public to view Christmas in the Park at Delano’s Heritage Park at the intersection of Garces Highway and South Lexington Street.

Robert F. Kennedy High School senior cheerleaders Esmeralda Rodriguez and Sadie Baldone at a summer cheer camp earned a trip to London, England, to take part in the upcoming New Year’s Parade.

Anthony Martinez of Delano’s Tony’s Firehouse Grill and a citizens committee headed by Art Armendariz were delighted on Thanksgiving Day that the 4th annual Delano Community Happy Thanksgiving luncheon met its goal of serving 1,500 people — and probably more.

The Delano-McFarland area of Kern County is again sponsoring its Toys for Tots program with a goal of helping 2,000 area families, more than the 1,600 who were aided last Christmas.

Of the 21 former Delano High School athletic greats to be inducted into the school’s Athletic Hall of Fame next June 15, information on all but four has been gained. All graduated between 1970 and 1978.

DELANO — Dominic Logrecco, a 105-year-old World War II veteran, will be the grand marshal and near the front of Delano’s first-ever Veterans Parade on Saturday. Let’s be present on the parade route from 8th Avenue to 13th Avenue on Main Street or 8th to 13th on Jefferson Street to give him a…

DELANO — A different format and location is planned for the community’s Trunk or Treat event that is planned from 5 to 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 27.

Delano’s 77th annual Delano Harvest Holidays Festival closed down Oct. 8 after a busy day of activities.

DELANO — Several personnel matters were approved by trustees of the Delano Joint Union High School District at a meeting in September.

DELANO — Steve Kinsey, lifelong Delano resident, has been chosen as grand marshal of Delano’s 77th annual Harvest Holidays celebration. He was born in Delano in 1956 to Wayne and Betty Kinsey.

DELANO — The 77th annual Delano Harvest Holidays Festival is holding its annual Queen’s scholarship pageant later this month, which for the second year will combine with a “King” portion as well.

DELANO — The November elections have three major races for local residents.

DELANO — Plans are in the preliminary stages for a first Veterans Day parade to take place in Delano in early November.

DELANO — Clinica Sierra Vista and The Wonderful Co. are to be main gold sponsors of Delano’s Harvest Holidays festival this fall. That was the report from Harvest president Claribel Gutierrez at an early August meeting of the Harvest directors. She also reported that Hall Ambulance has becom…

DELANO — Delano Chamber of Commerce board of directors were installed Aug. 18 at the city courthouse by Judge David Wolf.

DELANO — The City Council at a recent meeting approved a contract for the 2022 Albany-Stradley sump improvement project to Westberry Construction Inc., in the amount of $485 million.

Pre-planning is progressing on the queen/king scholarship pageant of Delano’s 77th Harvest Holidays celebration in the fall.

Spring athletic awards have been reported for Cesar E. Chavez High School. Thanks to Mattheew Grijalva, new assistant principal/athletic director, for running down the information for me.

Incoming freshman orientation to include new ninth graders and parents has been scheduled for the three comprehensive high schools of the Delano Joint Union High School District.

Enrollment in the Delano Union School District is expected to remain steady at about 6,000 students when classes begin Monday, Aug. 1.

Delano High School’s 109th annual commencement listed nearly 330 candidates for graduation.

Paola Calderon gained the honor of valedictorian at Robert F. Kennedy High School’s 12th annual commencement. There were just shy of 300 candidates for graduation.

Delano’s annual Fourth of July fireworks show arranged by the Kiwanis Club of Delano with the aid of a $15,000 donation by the city of Delano will take place the night of July 3.

The Delano Kiwanis Club is being joined by the city of Delano as the main sponsors of the city’s Fourth of July fireworks, which this year will take place July 3.

Annie Hirokawa, a Cesar E. Chavez High School student who has just completed her junior year, has been selected as Delano’s Distinguished Young Woman.

The city’s planned Aquatic Center, which was on hold during the pandemic, may soon be a reality.

Rosalina Rivera, superintendent of the Delano Union School District had some surprise visitors at her office in early May.

Memorial Day services will take place this year on Monday, May 30, at the Delano North Kern District Cemetery, thanks to the Merle Reed Post 124 of the American Legion taking over the event.

There will be no Delano Music Memorial concert this spring, but the memorial’s scholarship winners have been selected.