Community health and schooling events in Shafter area
April and May events include health clinics at 329 Central Valley Highway with phone 746-7562, a Family Planning Clinic on April 26, a Pregnancy Screening Clinic on April 26, and a Seniors Health Screening on April 20 at the Shafter Senior Center. Also a Buttonwillow Community Fair on April 19 at Buttonwillow School with free food and prizes, plus a Health and Fitness Fair on April 28 at Richland Activity Center. Northern Christian School kindergarten open house April 26-27 in Wasco. Youth baseball/softball registrations at 700 East Tulare Avenue. Shafter Stingrays season kickoff at the Shafter Pool.
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Shafter Public Health
Central Valley Highway
Shafter Senior Center
Buttonwillow
Buttonwillow School
Buttonwillow Community Resource Center
Shafter Healthy Start and Community Action Partnership of
Kern
Richland
Shafter Health Start
North Kern Christian School
Wasco
Northern Christian School
Peters Street
Shafter Recreation and Park District
East Tulare Avenue
Stringrays
Smiths Corner cleanup organized by community groups
Smiths Corner near Shafter hosts a two day cleanup supported by the South Shafter Projects Committee Kern County Waste Management and local groups. Residents haul away years of debris from yards and streets as volunteers like Jennifer Whitbey and students from Shafter High assist. Plans mention future park facilities and basketball courts to improve the area.
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Shafter
South Shafter Avenue
South
Companerismo Christaino Christian Fellowship Church
Smith Corner
Whitbey
Edgar Espinoza
Jorge Rodriguez
Shafter High School
Espinoza
Rodriguez
Teen Challenge
South Shafter
New Kern County scam targets residents by phone
Kern County Sheriff warns residents of a new scam in which callers pose as Cingular Telephone Company employees and demand payment on alleged overdue bills. They request social security numbers and birth dates to steal identities, though legitimate debt collectors will not seek personal data over the phone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern County Sheriffs Department
Richard Wood
Wood
Cingular Telephone Company
Cingular
Lawyers abandon bid to block sludge initiative
Senator Dean Florez announced the lawsuit to keep Measure E off the June ballot has been dropped. He noted the move comes after earlier efforts to place a mega-dump on the November ballot and said the case did not allege voter fraud or coercion in signing the anti-sludge measure.
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Dean Florez
D-Shafter
Florez
Borton, Petrini & Conron
Lever
Padilla
Grand Marshall named for Cinco de Mayo festival
Redwood Elementary reading facilitator Yolanda Martinez was chosen as the Cinco de Mayo Grand Marshall for 2006. She received the call on April 4 from Deanna Rodriguez Root, praising Martinez for her decades of teaching and community service in Shafter and Kern County.
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Yolanda Martinez
Redwood Elementary
Cinco de Mayo Grand Marshall
Martinez
Deanna
Rodriguez Root
Grand Marshall
Shafter
Deanna Rodriguez Root
Cinco de Mayo
Root
Kern County
Bakersfield
Buttonwillow
California
Arizona
Shafter High School
Bakersfield College
California State University
Cal State
Richland
Golden Oak
Refugio
Claudio
Roberto
Refugio Daniel
Gina
Adrianna
Refugio Daniel, Jr
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Harold Llamas
American Legion
Alliance Fence Company
Alliance Electric
Shafter Healthy Start
Shafter Collaborative
Redwood
Shafter Stingrays
Shafter Pool
Smiths Corner
Leanup
By Melissa Hill
Jennifer Whitbey
New Telephone
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