{"id":134165,"date":"2026-01-15T03:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134165\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T03:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T03:39:14","slug":"tang-mcminn-to-receive-kern-cog-awards-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/134165\/","title":{"rendered":"Tang, McMinn to receive Kern COG awards | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taft has two recipients of Kern County Council of Governments awards this year<\/p>\n<p>Long-time Taft physician Dr. Vibul Tangpraphaphorn and Chief of Police Damon McMinn are receiving Regional Awards of Merit.<\/p>\n<p>Tang is receiving the Ronald E. Brummett Award for Lifetime Achievement by a private citizen. Tang has served the community for almost 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>McMinn is one of three recipients for the Darrel Hildebrand Regional Award of Merit for Distinguished Leadership.<\/p>\n<p>McMinn has been Taft&#8217;s Chief of Police since 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The awards will be presented at a ceremony on March 5 at Seven Oaks Country Club in Bakersfield.<\/p>\n<p>The event includes no-host cocktails and dinner at 5:30 p.m. followed by the awards at 6 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Ticket information will be released later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Taft has two recipients of Kern County Council of Governments awards this year Long-time Taft physician Dr. Vibul&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":134166,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152,972,100,180],"class_list":{"0":"post-134165","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news","11":"tag-local","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-newsletter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/134166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}