Easter observances set across local churches
Easter plans span multiple congregations with Holy Week services. The Mennonite Brethren Church hosts an Easter Choral Concert featuring singers from Shafter First Baptist and other churches directed by Lowell Bergman, performing The Holy City. Catholic Holy Week schedule follows, with mass times and confessions, plus Easter services at St Mark's Episcopal, Ebenezer Reformed, Assembly of God, Congregational, Church of the Nazarene and other local churches.
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Mennonite Brethren Church
Kern St
Shafter First Baptist
Wasco Mennonite Brethren Church
Shafter M.B
Lowell Bergman
Holy City
A. R. Gaul
Christ
ST. Therese’s Church
John Delany
Ebenezer Reformed Church
Wallace and Rogers Circus Comes to Shafter for Two Shows
Shafter residents may see the Wallace and Rogers Circus twice in three weeks with 4 and 7 p.m. performances at Manuel Park. The event, sponsored by the Shafter Festival Committee, funds the Potato and Cotton Festival on May 15 and 16. Discount matinee tickets cost 2 for adults and 1 for children. The show features 22 acts including Tina the elephant, sea lions, macaws, aerialists, a high wire act, motorcycle daredevils, and a rare 44 whistle caliope.
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Shafter
Wallace and Roger Circus
Monay
Shafter Festival Committee
Manuel Park
Wallace and Rogers Circus
Circus Circus
Las Vegas
Tina
City awards water well contract in sole bid
The City of Shafter awarded the drilling of a new water well to Lyle Williams of Wasco for 21433 after no other bids were received. The bid opened at the city council meeting, with Williams supplying 16 inch casing instead of the 14 inch specified.
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Shafter
Lyle Williams
Wasco
Public Works
Lew Carroll
City Hall
Carroll
Williams
Murphy
Richland
Michael Schmidt
Schmidt
Belton Banks
Banks
Danny Escalante
Planning Commission
Escalante
Commission
Carl Moyer
Central Avenue
John Revell
Revell
Shafter Housin Authority
Councilonday
Mobil Blood Bank Visit Set for Shafter Tuesday
The Houchin Community Blood Bank mobile unit comes to Shafter on Tuesday April 20 to collect donations. Hours are 3 to 6 p.m. at the Veterans Memorial Hall with coffee and donuts for donors courtesy of the American Legion sponsors.
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Houchin Community Blood Bank
Shafter
Veterans Memorial Hall
The
American Legion
Former Miss Shafters to join in pageant event
A dozen former Miss Shafters have agreed to participate in this year’s annual pageant led by committee member Toni Johnston. The April 23 program at Shafter High School auditorium will honor Alma Wilson Handel 1931 and announce several 1950s and 1960s festival and Miss Shafter queens.
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Shafters
Toni Johnston
Alma _ Wilson
Handel
Shafter High School
Wilson
Shafter
Beverly Adcock
Duke
Bakersfield
Mary Anderson
Channeson
Marvin Lane
Betty Stringer
Lloyd Robertson
Marge
Bill Heneley
Norma Neuman
Leroy Kirshenmann
Doris Wilson
Jim Ryan
Janice Luker
McKit
Kern County approves 175000 for Shafter recreation facility
Kern County supervisors vote to use 175000 in Community Development Block Grant funds for a Shafter neighborhood recreation facility. Of the total, 150000 comes from this year and 25000 from next year. HUD review expected by June 30 and ENIA NEPA clearance required before design and site acquisition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern County Board of Supervisors
Shafter
Bill Mundgary
Community Development Program Agency
Mundgary
Department of Housing and Urban Development
HUD
Six arrested in $4500 furniture burglary spree
Six men are detained after police raided four residences in Shafter Wasco Kern County recovering a home entertainment center three color televisions four stereos a sofa and a love seat from Colvard's Home Furnishings. The arrests followed reports of littering and included charges of burglary receiving stolen property and accessory after the fact with bail amounts ranging from 3500 to 10000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colvard
James Street
Shafter
Kenneth Ray Warren
Terra Vista
Herman Edward Osborn
Richland Drive
Jimmy Dale Adams
Wasco
Larry Lee Mincks
Godey Road
Chesley Lafe Mincks
Carson Way
Ricky Lynn Manning
Orange Avenue
Virgil Smith
Kern Homes
Woodrow Wilson
Orange and
Shafter Avenues
Bryan White
Wilson
RCA
Osborn
Manning
Warren
Chesley Mincks
Adams
Larry Mincks
Bakersfield Municipal Court
Mincks
Shafter Justice Court
Rain Dampens Progress On Shafter Cotton Crop
Farmers report .51 inch rain around Shafter as .63 inch falls enter the week, season total 3.66 inches. Daily highs stay in the 60s with a 73 degree peak. lows drop to 50 to 35. Readings from the USDA Cotton Research Station near Shafter document season extremes.
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Shafter
Mercury
Usda Cotton Research Station
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Mercy Hospital
ST. Mark’s Church
Father Dana Howard
St. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Assembly OF God
Congregational Church
Owen Onson
Roy Farrell
Church OF the Nazarene
J. Paul Alexander
Shafter Police Department
Don Zachary
Bob Nixon
Wayne Davis
Dennis Dannemiller
Shafter Press
Mobil Blood Bank
Bobby Holmes
Sally Ferkins
Miss Shafter
Concord
Ricky Swan
Vickie Laverty
Kern County
Sacramento
Carole Richards
Anderson
Kern
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