{"id":65665,"date":"2025-11-22T21:14:15","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65665\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T21:14:15","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:14:15","slug":"salvation-armys-red-kettle-campaign-returns-to-bakersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/65665\/","title":{"rendered":"Salvation Army&#8217;s red kettle campaign returns to Bakersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Salvation Army, Bakersfield Corps is bringing back its iconic red kettle campaign this holiday season. <\/p>\n<p>The 134th annual Red Campaign started on Nov. 21, 2025 and will last through Dec. 24, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative aims to collect spare change and other donations from holiday shoppers, with all funds staying within the community. <\/p>\n<p>This year, several local celebrities are joining the effort to help ring the bell and collect donations. <\/p>\n<p>A feature allows donors to &#8220;tap to give&#8221; by using their credit cards. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The Salvation Army, Bakersfield Corps is bringing back its iconic red kettle campaign this holiday season. This is a photo\" class=\"ImageEmbed_image__qZBo_\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ef52f272-55a3-42d3-8201-ac253001c6df-LINARES_SALVATIONARMYREDKETTELAARON_0005_frame_0.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Salvation Army, Bakersfield Corps is bringing back its iconic red kettle campaign this holiday season. This is a photo<\/p>\n<p>There are 10 donation locations throughout Kern County, including Hobby Lobby on California Ave. and all eight Walmart stores. <\/p>\n<p>Those interested in volunteering as bell ringers can register <a href=\"https:\/\/www.registertoring.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK\/KBFX) \u2014 The Salvation Army, Bakersfield Corps is bringing back its iconic red kettle campaign this&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":65666,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":["post-65665","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\/65665","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=65665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}