?In order to raise funds, the Bakersfield College Agriculture Department had an all-day citrus sale on Feb. 2 in the BC barn area.

Anyone who wanted to help out the department simply had to purchase some BC grown Navel oranges, according to Bill Kelly, department chair.

Bags were sold for $5 if the agriculture students picked them and $3 if you picked them yourself. According to Kelly, almost everybody picked their own oranges.

Ranjit Badesha, a business administration student, took advantage of the sale, saying, “My kid loves them [the oranges].”

Lindsay Ono, professor of horticulture, picked oranges for the event and felt it had gone well.

“We sold quite a number of bags,” Ono said.

According to Kelly, the event made almost $200.

Environmental horticulture student, Brett Marinkovich, added that the event went “fairly well.” Marinkovich and other agricultural students participated in the picking of the oranges as well.

Bonnie Ward, a BC student, attended the event with her husband, Michael. “We love it [the event], and it supports the ag department,” Michael Ward said. He also described the oranges as “delicious.”

According to Kelly, the citrus sale has been going on since 1975 and BC is “the first community college in California to have an agricultural department, which has its own farm on campus.”

Professor Keith Haycock planted the orange trees in 1975.

According to Kelly, the funds raised will be used for field trips, feeding the department animals and the maintenance of the equipment.