{"id":214291,"date":"2026-03-11T04:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214291\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T04:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T04:24:10","slug":"hard-rock-casino-tejon-honors-kern-county-sheriff-fire-chief-ahead-of-new-substation-opening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/214291\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Rock Casino Tejon honors Kern County sheriff, fire chief ahead of new substation opening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/search?find=Hard+Rock+Casino+Tejon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hard Rock Casino Tejon<\/a> marked the upcoming opening of Kern County\u2019s newest sheriff\u2019s substation by honoring Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood and Fire Chief Aaron Duncan with custom guitars.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/6e6e81e0-5ba7-4750-a0bf-0f80e729e657-Sequence_MILLS_SUPESHARDROCK_0001_frame_18393.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Casino President Chris Kelley said the substation is funded by the Tejon Tribe and will serve not only the casino but the surrounding community as well. It will be located at 7357 Wild Flower Street, near the casino.<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the fire and sheriff\u2019s buildings will be connected but will have separate spaces.<\/p>\n<p>During the event, Kelly said, \u201cAs a welcome to the &#8216;Hard Rock Casino Tejon band,&#8217; and as an opening note and an opening note to our shared futures together, thank you both.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/ca3db2b1-320e-4682-ba76-77c55c29af8c-Sequence_MILLS_SUPESHARDROCK_0001_frame_20769.jpeg\"\/>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>The substation is expected to open next month. Since the casino opened in November, deputies have been temporarily working out of a space at the Tejon Outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Hard Rock Casino Tejon opened in November 2025. The project was initially announced in June 2019 and a groundbreaking was held in December 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Hard Rock Casino Tejon marked the upcoming opening of Kern County\u2019s newest sheriff\u2019s substation by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":214292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-214291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield","tag-bakersfield-headlines","tag-bakersfield-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214291","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=214291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}