McKittrick News

In Kern County, corporate farming operations that cover thousands of acres as far as the eye can see are a common sight.

GARY MICHAEL DAULT m ail@garymichaeldault.com $10,000-$42,000. Until Oct. 31, 451 King S. W., Toronto; 416-205-9000 With Oil, his new exhibition at Toronto's Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto-basedphotographer Ed Burtynsky has enhanced his reputation as one of the most celebrated documentary photographers of our time.

California's boomtowns of yore, with their infinite orange groves, have undergone a mass exodus and only remnants of what looks and feels like nuclear fallout remains.

Like a cinematic archaeologist, Lee Anne Schmitt packed her 16mm camera to explore the past of California's once-booming ghost towns which presently lay empty for a variety of reasons, mostly because of the disappearance of the natural resources upon which the local industries had originally depended.

Cots fill the Rec Cen's Multi-Activity Center. The MAC housed and supplied everyday items to approximately 600 Jesusita fire evacuees on Thursday and Friday night.