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  • Red Simpson, a country music legend and a founder of the Bakersfield Sound, a honky tonk style of music, takes a break from playing at Trout's on a Monday night. Trout's is a honky tonk bar in Oildale, a community north of Bakersfield, California. The bar is known for performing acts like Bakersfield natives Merle Haggard and Buck Owens.
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  • Red Simspon, a country music legend and Bakersfield, California native, smokes a cigarette outside of the Rasmussen Senior Center in Oildale, north of Bakersfield. Simpson is a founder of the Bakersfield Sound, a honky tonk style of country music recognized in the music of Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. Simpson plays music every Tuesday morning at the senior center.
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  • Regulars hang out outside of Trout's. Trout's is a honky tonk bar in Oildale, a community north of Bakersfield, California. The bar is known for performing acts like Bakersfield natives Merle Haggard and Buck Owens. Red Simpson, the originator of the Bakersfield Sound, still plays there every Monday night.
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  • Patrons dance to the live music of Red Simpson, a founder of the Bakersfield Sound, on a Monday night at Trout's. Trout's is a honky tonk bar in Oildale, a community north of Bakersfield, California. The bar is known for performing acts like Bakersfield natives Merle Haggard and Buck Owens.
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  • Mel Lawrence, left, takes a break from dancing at Trout's on a Monday night. Trout's is a honky tonk bar in Oildale, a community north of Bakersfield, California. The bar is known for performing acts like Bakersfield natives Merle Haggard and Buck Owens.
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  • Heleigh Ramirez, 20, hangs out at Beach Park Skate Park in Bakersfield. Ramirez grew up in Bakersfield with six siblings, five sisters and one brother. Three of her sisters suffer from asthma.
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  • Dylan Ivey, 7, sits through an asthma education session with Sharon Borradori at his home in Bakersfield, California. Ivey recently was released from the hospital after being admitted for almost a week because of a severe asthma attack. Borradori runs a non-proft called Asthma and COPD Education Center. She makes visits to the hospitals and homes for free to help educate patients about asthma and how to control the disease.
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  • Asthma educator Sharon Borradori meets at the home of Amber Reese and her son Dylan Ivey, 7, in Bakersfield, California. Ivey recently was released from the hospital after being admitted for almost a week because of a severe asthma attack. Borradori runs a non-proft called Asthma and COPD Education Center. She makes visits to the hospitals and homes for free to help educate patients about asthma and how to control the disease.
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  • Asthma educator Sharon Borradori meets at the home of Amber Reese and her son Dylan Ivey, 7, in Bakersfield, California. Ivey recently was released from the hospital after being admitted for almost a week because of a severe asthma attack. Borradori runs a non-proft called Asthma and COPD Education Center. She makes visits to the hospitals and homes for free to help educate patients about asthma and how to control the disease.
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  • Asthma educator Sharon Borradori meets at the home of Amber Reese and her son Dylan Ivey, 7, in Bakersfield, California. Ivey recently was released from the hospital after being admitted for almost a week because of a severe asthma attack. Borradori runs a non-proft called Asthma and COPD Education Center. She makes visits to the hospitals and homes for free to help educate patients about asthma and how to control the disease.
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  • Nick Martinez, 31, skates at Kern Side, an little known skate park in the foothills outside of Bakersfield, California.
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  • Asthma educator Sharon Borradori meets at the home of Amber Reese and her son Dylan Ivey, 7, in Bakersfield, California. Ivey recently was released from the hospital after being admitted for almost a week because of a severe asthma attack. Borradori runs a non-proft called Asthma and COPD Education Center. She makes visits to the hospitals and homes for free to help educate patients about asthma and how to control the disease.
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  • Asthma educator Sharon Borradori meets at the home of Amber Reese and her son Dylan Ivey, 7, in Bakersfield, California. Ivey recently was released from the hospital after being admitted for almost a week because of a severe asthma attack. Borradori runs a non-proft called Asthma and COPD Education Center. She makes visits to the hospitals and homes for free to help educate patients about asthma and how to control the disease.
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  • Skaters at Kern Side, an little known skate park in the foothills outside of Bakersfield, California.
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  • Christopher DeLeon, 20, right, his wife Catherine DeLeon, 19, second from left, and friends watch skaters  at Kern Side, an little known skate park in the foothills outside of Bakersfield, California.
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  • Rigoberto Vindiola, 32, right, and Christopher DeLeon, 20, skate at Kern Side, an little known skate park in the foothills outside of Bakersfield, California.
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  • A dust storm blows through Arvin, California, south of Bakersfield.
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  • Beach Park Skate Park in Bakersfield.
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  • Kelly Rashad Dixon, 24, recently moved to Bakersfield from Sacramento.
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  • A brief dust storm rolls through Arvin, California. Arvin is an agricultural community set at the base of the Central Valley, south of Bakersfield.
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  • Scott Mathis, 38, an oil well site manager, wears his heritage on his skin with two oil derricks and a crop duster tattooed to his back. Mathis is a fourth generation oil field worker. His grandfathers and a great-grandfather were all oil drilling hands. "I was born with like 10 years experience," Mathis said.
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  • Eight homes in Arvin, California were evacuated after a gas pipe leaked underground. According to reports, the 40-year-old pipe was leaking for a long as two years before it was detected.
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  • Eight homes in Arvin, California were evacuated after a gas pipe leaked underground. According to reports, the 40-year-old pipe was leaking for a long as two years before it was detected.
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  • Asthma educator Sharon Borradori, left, shows Margarita Hernandez, center, and her husband, Severo Velasco, right, how their 2-year-old son, Mauricio Velasco will use an inhaler when he's older. Mauricio was recently released from the hospital after suffering from an extreme asthma attack. The family who doesn't speak English received help from Borradori with translation from Pastor Gladys Dias, second from left, from New Live Church.
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  • Samantha Olivarez, 9, holds her cat, Furbie, in front of her home in Arvin, Calif. The homes across the street from Olivarez were evacuated after a gas pipe leaked underground. According to reports, the 40-year-old pipe was leaking for as long as two years before it was detected. Olivarez's family is worried about possible health risks in the area due to the pollution.
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  • Percolation ponds fill up with runoff water from nearby Belridge Oil Fields in Eastern Kern County. As the water evaporates, leaving oil residue, hydrogen sulfide, methane and volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, are released in to the air.
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  • A shrine for Armando Ramirez, 16, and his brother Heladio Ramirez, 22, sits outside the gates of Community Recycling & Resource Recovery Inc. in Arvin, Calif. Two years ago, the brothers died from inhaling the poisonous gas hydrogen sulfide while cleaning out a drainage shaft at the facility. The facility handles the disposal of bio-waste from Los Angeles. Many residents of Arvin and Kern County oppose the site because of the air pollution the facility emits.
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  • Gustavo Aguirre a community organizer with  Global Community Monitoring attaches a particulate monitor to a pole outside of Comunity Recycling & Resource Reconvery, Inc. outside of Arvin, California in Kern County. The monitor will run for 24 hours to collect PM 2.5, particulate matter in the air that can indicate acute health risks. Aguirre strategically places the monitor outside of Community Recycling because members of the community are concerned about pollution that comes from the facility that recycles bio waste from Los Angeles.
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  • Committee for a Better Arvin meets inside a notary public office ever Friday night in Arvin, California. The group meets to talk about various concerns for the community, many of which are environmental.
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  • Samantha Olivarez, 9, from left, and her cousins, Isabel Olivarez, 5, and Daisy Olivarez, 7, play in front of their home in Arvin, Calif. The homes across the street from Olivarez were evacuated after a gas pipe leaked underground. According to reports, the 40-year-old pipe was leaking for a long as two years before it was detected. Olivarez's family is worried about possible health risks in the area due to the pollution.
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  • Samantha Olivarez, 9, left, and her cousin, Daisy Olivarez, 7, play in front of their home in Arvin, Calif. The homes across the street from Olivarez were evacuated after a gas pipe leaked underground. According to reports, the 40-year-old pipe was leaking for a long as two years before it was detected. Olivarez's family is worried about possible health risks in the area due to the pollution.
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  • Environmental Activist and almond farmer Tom Frantz, drives through the Belridge Oil Field to prepare for a tour he'll give to State water officials.
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  • Percolation ponds fill up with runoff water from nearby Belridge Oil Fields in Eastern Kern County. As the water evaporates, leaving oil residue, hydrogen sulfide, methane and volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, are released in to the air.
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  • Percolation ponds fill up with runoff water from nearby Belridge Oil Fields in Eastern Kern County. As the water evaporates, leaving oil residue, hydrogen sulfide, methane and volatile organic compounds, or VOCs, are released in to the air.
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  • Oil pumps and scarred earth can be seen for miles in an area of North Bakersfield called the Bluffs. The Sycamore Cogeneration Plant sits in the middle of the fields and is one of California's top polluters.
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