By AnnMarie Cornejo -- Students at Templeton High School gathered at lunchtime Tuesday to remember freshman Stetson “Stevie” Pahler, 14, who died Saturday in a dirt bike accident. Described by friends as positive, hard-working and kind, Pahler was the youngest of five children.Pahler was driving the bike about 11:30 a.m. Saturday at an unknown speed along a trail near Inyokern in eastern Kern County when the front tire struck a steep bump and he was thrown from the bike, the CHP report said. He was taken by helicopter to Ridgecrest Regional Hospital.

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