Hello, everyone, I'm Louis Medina, faith and families general assignment reporter for The Bakersfield Californian, but on this site, my user name is LouieLou.

Anyway, we, The Bakersfield Californian family of publications — Web-based and print — are very excited about the new baby in the family, RaisingBakersfield.com.

Proud parent The Bakersfield Californian can't wait to boast to the community (in its print pages, of course) about this new Web site, which we know will come in handy to lots of local parents, especially those raising smaller kids and newcomers to the area who want to network with other parents.

If you would like to share your experience on RaisingBakersfield.com, for example other parents you've met on the site, ideas you've gleaned from others' blog posts or comments, deals you've found out about, what more you'd like to see, etc., we want to hear all about it.

Please send me an e-mail at LMedina@bakersfield.com or call me at 395-7496.

Thanks and happy parenting!

LouieLou