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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1977
Page
3
City of Shafter amends Ordinance 116 to require annual dog registration by June 30, including owner name, address, dog description and a 2.50 license fee. Rabies vaccination proof required. The ordinance was introduced March 28 1977 and adopted April 11 1977 with no absentees.
Weekend activities at Lake San Antonio include boating and fishing by the Carpenters and friends Beal and Gene. Earl Williams, 1972 Punt and Kick winner, plans a summer football camp, while nursing a broken arm from wrestling and aiming for Shafter High four-year path. Families relocate to Batesville Arkansas as Barbara Payne hosts a bunko party and Naomi Ary's backyard birthday is celebrated with pink roses.
In Niles, Michigan, Judy plans to return home with her mother Naomi Bankston living there. She cites heat and lack of secretarial work as reasons to go back, noting it will get hotter. Meanwhile the Wayne Miller family moves to Santa Maria as entomologist Miller is transferred. Denise, once a cook in Readers Recipes, is mentioned as leaving.
The Blue Birds traveled to the Ted Bloemhoff farm where the ranch rents horse stables. After a one mile nature walk they toured the horse facility with trainer Chuck Hitchcock working a horse named Tar Tack. The group returned to Shafter and stayed the night with leader Dixie Crane. A backyard supper preceded bag making until bedtime.
Shafter Methodist Church United Methodist Women met April 12 at Mrs. Oleta Cooper’s home for a salad luncheon on the patio. Guests included Mrs. Relia Hummel and Mrs. Leni Reimer who spoke of a mission trip to India, Bangladesh and Indonesia with slides. The group will continue hunger education and host a fund-raising booth at the Shafter Harvest Festival in May.
The article states April is church educational month as per Richard Green of Eriacee Kern. It lists Blue Bird program leaders Tammy Crane Lisa Pachaco Lisa Alexander Leasa Crow and Monica Stepp with Gloria Stepp as a second leader. Valley Elementary School at Popular and Riverside run by the Seventh Day Adventist Church. It notes some areas face strikes and walkouts yet the church regards schools as the most important institutions.
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