Our Mission – to help local businesses grow and prosper by creating an attractive and unified look to the downtown Lake Isabella business area.

About Us: We are the Community Development Committee of the Kern River Valley Chamber of Commerce, currently chaired by Emily Diggles.

• We are working with the CGD Foundation (also known as Downtown Isabella Beautification Fund) placed with the Kern Community Foundation and with the Community Services District to water and maintain the new plantings along the Lake Isabella Boulevard Improvement Project completed in 2006. Generally, two or three days a week you can see us weeding, fertilizing, trimming, etc. along the Boulevard. This is our major effort right now.

• In addition, we are maintaining the Downtown Design Guidelines, fund raising for the Downtown Isabella Beautification Fund and planning future projects. We hope to build the fund to a level that would generate enough income from dividends & interest yearly to pay for professional landscape maintenance forever. Our goal is $6,000 yearly

• We are also searching for volunteers to help weed and working to raise funds for the necessary supplies to keep the plantings hearty and healthy.

• Lake Isabella Boulevard Beautification/Road Project now completed. We worked with Kern County Supervisor Jon McQuiston to obtain required easements & permissions from cooperating business and property owners. This project added a left turn safety lane, bike lanes, curbs, sidewalks and landscaping between Kernville Rd. (Hwy. 155) and Erskine Creek.

• We cooperate with the Bob Powers Wetlands Project supervising path clearing and endangered plant species counts. This project is chaired by Tom Anderson.

• In the past, we ran a Beautification Award Program giving awards to new improvements of special merit throughout the valley. This program is on hold pending new volunteers.

Affiliations:
We are promoting valley unity by working with and assisting with other chambers, businesses, residents, organizations and agencies both in and outside the valley.

Contacts: Kern River Valley Chamber of Commerce
(760) 379-5236.
Inquires, suggestions, or comments:
Emily Diggles
PO Box 592
Bodfish CA 93205
(760) 379-6162