Kern County celebrated the grand opening of the Heritage Park Beautification and Enhancement project in east Bakersfield on Wednesday morning.
- Video shows improvements to Heritage Park
- A mural at the park honors Alejandro Vargas and Angel Berumen, two boys killed in car crashes on Niles Street.
- Their mothers expressed gratitude for the memorial, which includes renovations to the skate park and new murals.
- The $4.2 million project was funded by the California Department of Transportation’s Clean California Local Grant Program.
Improvements to this skate park now honor the lives of two boys killed in car crashes on Niles Street.
You can see the initials of Alejandro Vargas and Angel Berumen, and their moms expressed their gratitude to see their boys’ memory kept alive at the Heritage Park grand opening.
This is the day Angel Berumen got his first skateboard.
He was learning how to do kick flips for the first time outside of the Heritage Park skate park.
Alejandro Vargas did the same, frequently skating at Heritage Park with his friends.