{"id":366868,"date":"2026-06-19T07:13:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/366868\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T07:13:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T07:13:32","slug":"delano-city-council-approve-of-removing-cesar-chavez-name-from-park-and-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/366868\/","title":{"rendered":"Delano City Council approve of removing Cesar Chavez name from park and street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Delano city leaders approved the removal of the late leader <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/search?find=cesar+chavez\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Cesar Chavez&#8217;s<\/a> name from a park and a street this week, according to a city agenda.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/delano-leaders-move-to-rename-cesar-chavez-sites-after-council-vote\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED: Delano leaders move to rename Cesar Chavez sites after council vote<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Documents show the Delano City Council approved the changes during the Monday, June 15th meeting at Delano City Hall.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/bcsd-begins-renaming-process-for-cesar-e-chavez-elementary-seeks-community-input-kern-county-bakersfield-city-school-district-california\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">RELATED: BCSD begins renaming process for Cesar E. Chavez Elementary, seeks community input<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A resolution adopted during the meeting called for renaming Cesar Chavez Park to Ellington Park and changing Cesar Chavez Lane to Chavez Lane.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KBAK\/KBFX\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0555fec0-e084-4ae7-bed2-73c862dedd3a-mural.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>KBAK\/KBFX<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersfieldnow.com\/news\/local\/cesar-chavez-mural-in-downtown-bakersfield-seen-being-removed-kern-county-california-united-farmworkers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Chavez&#8217;s mural in downtown Bakersfield was removed in early April<\/a> after it was defaced with graffiti that read \u201cBelieve survivors,\u201d sparking debate about the late labor leader and the allegations raised against him.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Bassett Avenue was renamed 20th Avenue, according to the agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Delano city leaders approved the removal of the late leader Cesar Chavez&#8217;s name from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226787,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-366868","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\/366868","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=366868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}