{"id":521040,"date":"2026-11-06T22:30:58","date_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/521040\/"},"modified":"2026-11-06T22:30:58","modified_gmt":"2026-11-06T22:30:58","slug":"wreaths-across-america-seeks-sponsors-to-honor-8540-veterans-in-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/521040\/","title":{"rendered":"Wreaths Across America seeks sponsors to honor 8,540 veterans in Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Organizers of the annual Wreaths Across America campaign are asking Kern County residents to help honor thousands of veterans buried at Bakersfield National Cemetery this December.<\/p>\n<p>According to volunteer Mary Stratton, the goal is to place a wreath at the gravesite of each of the 8,540 veterans laid to rest at the cemetery.<\/p>\n<p>Stratton said organizers are currently only halfway toward reaching that goal.<\/p>\n<p>Bakersfield Police Assistant Chief Ted King and Stratton joined ARC Bakersfield to discuss the campaign and the need for additional sponsors.<\/p>\n<p>Each wreath costs $17 to sponsor, with a deadline of Friday, Nov. 20.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign comes ahead of Veterans Day on Wednesday, Nov. 11, providing an opportunity for the community to remember those who served.<\/p>\n<p>Residents interested in sponsoring a wreath can visit the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wreathsacrossamerica.org\/pages\/175645\/Overview\/?relatedId=14738\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Wreaths Across America website<\/a> and select the red &#8220;Sponsor&#8221; button.<\/p>\n<p>The wreaths will be placed at Bakersfield National Cemetery in December.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 Organizers of the annual Wreaths Across America campaign are asking Kern County residents to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":521041,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-521040","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\/521040","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=521040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/521040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/521041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=521040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=521040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=521040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}