Positive Cases Among Kern Residents: 307,235
Deaths: 2,609
Recovered and Presumed Recovered Residents: 298,307
Percentage of all cases that are unvaccinated:Â 71.34
Percentage of all hospitalizations that are unvaccinated:Â 83.15
Updated: 2/2/23
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PHOTO GALLERY: You're a fun one, Mr. Grinch!
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A trumpeter keeps cadence with his group at the NOR Christmas Parade in Oildale on Saturday.
The 49th annual NOR Christmas Parade featured numerous acts, including many Oildale bands.
Oildale's Northern Rockets football team roped arms with another as they passed by a sea of onlookers, many of which were parents.Â
Little John, a commanding officer in the Bakersfield Young Marines, calls out cadence orders to his troop.Â
This year's theme: The Grinch. Many of the green goblins pranced around and handed out candy at this year's NOR Christmas Parade.Â
The motor-free parade featured several horseback groups.Â
A trumpeter keeps cadence with his group at the NOR Christmas Parade in Oildale on Saturday.
Forty-eight entrants were featured this year, including nine bands, scores of Grinches, not enough horse poop-scoopers and a company of legionnaires.
The Bakersfield Young Marines marched in the NOR Christmas Parade on Saturday.
Bands practiced and prepared in the North High School parking lot before the march began.Â
Forty-eight entrants were featured this year, including nine bands, scores of Grinches, not enough horse poop-scoopers and a company of legionnaires.
An elderly man smiles at the camera while wait to march at the NOR Christmas Parade on Saturday, Dec. 10.
A company of medieval actors were among the entrants at the NOR Christmas Parade.Â
Thousands sat and stood in attendance at the parade on Saturday. Many arrived as early as 8 a.m. to get a good spot.Â
A festive marcher hands out candy to some of the onlooking children at the Christmas Parade in Oildale.Â
The Rockets, a youth cheerleading squad in Oildale, prepares to show off their dance moves before the judge's tent at the NOR Christmas Parade on Saturday.
