Longtime former Bakersfield Mayor Harvey L. Hall was named on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday as Rep. David Valadao, R-Hanford, introduced a bipartisan resolution to recognize the disease that took the life of the founder and president of Hall Ambulance Service Inc.
Valadao and other lawmakers seek to designate Nov. 12 as Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Awareness Day. It is a rare brain disease yielding about 500 new U.S. cases annually that quickly compromises a person’s cognitive health; Hall died just two weeks after his 2018 diagnosis…