{"id":40160,"date":"2025-11-06T02:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/40160\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T02:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:51:07","slug":"holiday-cottage-opens-for-community-to-fulfill-foster-childrens-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/40160\/","title":{"rendered":"Holiday Cottage opens for community to fulfill foster children&#8217;s wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcdhs.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Kern County Department of Human Services<\/a> has once again opened The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcdhs.org\/how-do-i\/learn-about\/holiday-cottage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Holiday Cottage<\/a>, marking 38 years of allowing the community to give back during the holiday season. <\/p>\n<p>Starting Wednesday, individuals can begin fulfilling the wishes of local children living in foster care. Kristy Torres, project manager of the Holiday Cottage, expressed the joy of the initiative, saying, &#8220;It is a happy time&#8230;it&#8217;s a great feeling.&#8221;<\/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\/2025\/11\/58f38839-d2ad-43f1-85d4-7af72e9c79ef-Sequence_MILLS_HOLIDAYCOTTAGE_0001_frame_1427.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}<\/p>\n<p>Each year, the department typically sees 700 to 800 wishes, all of which are fulfilled by community members.<\/p>\n<p>To participate, individuals can take an ornament, purchase the corresponding gift, and return it to the Holiday Cottage. The doors officially opened this morning and will remain open until Dec. 6.<\/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\/2025\/11\/f951bcbd-4e56-4ae5-9cc2-d6d52e12b568-Sequence_MILLS_HOLIDAYCOTTAGE_0001_frame_17094.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>KBAK\/KBFX{p}{\/p}<\/p>\n<p>The Holiday Cottage is located at 3043 Wilson Road.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>For more on The Holiday Cottage, follow them on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HolidayCottageKC\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Kern County Department of Human Services has once again opened The Holiday Cottage, marking&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40161,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-40160","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\/40160","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=40160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}