Historic Shafter images shown at AARP meeting
Slides from the private Tenneco collection used to illustrate a history of the Shafter Depot during a talk by Stanley Wilson of the Shafter Historical Society for the Shafter Chapter of the AARP. Photos depict Kern County Land Company ranches and the Shafter depot’s origins and unions.
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Tenneco Company
Shafter Depot
Stanley Wilson
Shafter Historical Society
Shafter
American Association of Retired Persons
Wilson
Kern County Land Company
Jackson Ranch
Central Valley Highway
Kern County Board of Supervisors
Euclid Avenue
Jeanette Hernstedt
Harbin and Unrue announce wedding plans
Bonnie Louise Harbin and Ronnie Dean Unrue announced plans for their wedding. The ceremony will be held August 16, 1980 at 4 pm at the Assembly of God Church Shatter. The bride is the daughter of Pauline Farmer of 3094S East Lerdo Road and attends Shatter High School. The groom is from Taft and works for Mideal Construction in Tate. The ceremony will be performed by the bride's grandfather Reverend A B Farmer.
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Bonnie Louise Harbin
Ronnie Dean
Miss Fammer
Pauline Farmer
East Lerdo Road
Dons Unrue
Taft
A.B. Farmer
Assembly of God
Shatter
Shatter High School
Future Farmers of America
Unruc
Latte “High School
Mideal Construction Company
Tate
Pastor Kingsland to be Honored on Recognition Sunday
Reverend Kingsland of the Church of God will be honored May 4 1980 as Pastor Recognition Sunday. Speakers will include congregation members and Danny Jenkins will deliver the morning message. A pot luck dinner follows at Manuel Park after services. Friends are invited to attend.
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G.B. Kingsland
Church of God
Kingsland
Danny Jenkins
Manuel Park
The
Pentecostal Revival Set in Wasco at Maple and Highway 46
The United Pentecostal Church of Wasco hosts a revival from April 30 to May 4 at Maple and Highway 46. Reverend Fields speaks nightly at 7:30 and has services at 10:00 a.m. and 7:00 p.m. on Sunday. Public invited.
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United Pentecostal Church
Maple and Highway 46
Wasco
Fields
St Johns School Dinner Dance Benefit Plans May 17 1980
St Johns School will hold its third annual benefit dinner dance on Saturday May 17 1980 at St Johns Hall Wasco Social Hour starts 6:30 pm Dinner 7:00 pm Dancing 9:00 pm to 12:00 am Cha Risma from Bakersfield provides music Tickets 12.50 per person call Rose Struemph 758-3355 or Martha Jennings 758-3814 for reservations
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St. John's School
St John's Hall
Wasco
Rose’ Struemph
Martha Jennings
Pat Swisshelm
Valle Florist John
Gale Santillon
Trailer Club weekend gathering at Pine Flat hosts
Norval and Pat Winters of Shafter hosted the Shafter Trailer Club at their Pine Flat mountain home as Wagonmasters for April. Sixteen club members and seven guests enjoyed a barbecue and potluck Saturday, followed by a short meeting and leisure time. Twelve members attended Sunday church services. Guests included Don Butt, Martha King, Verdon Searcy, Ruth Searcy, J D Reynolds, Opal Reynolds, and Randy, with more locals joining for Sunday lunch.
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Norval
Pat Winters
Shafter
Shafter Trailer Club
Pine Flat
Bew
Velma Henderson
Ray
Verdon
Ruth Searcy
Delano
J.D
Opal Reynolds
Randy
Faye
Riley Ashby
Wallace
Jovee Ryker
SDA Home Talent Pro gram at Shafter SDA Church
Social Committee of the Shafter Seventh Day Adventist Church sponsored a Saturday evening talent program at Kern Elementary School hall. Master of ceremonies Dana Leke Molder guided a mixed sacred and secular show with solos duets and readings by Ehrhardt Bartlett Weishaar Chan New man Nichols Frost and others. The program closed with The Hawaiian Wedding Song to a full house reception.
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Shafter Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Kern
Dana
William Bartlett
Ezra Heinze
Noni Weishaar
Walter Weishaar
Hector Arviso
Millie Chan
Marjorie Ruth
Maryellen Newman
Uncle Podger
Becky Escalante
Noni
Weishaar
Claremore, Fenderson, Jr
Paul Johnson
Betty Nichols
Lorraine Frost
Jack
Wally Weishaar
Purple Creek
William
Sadie Bartlett
Art
Bertha Dirksen
Elizabeth Zimmerman
Ruth Isaac
Mel Ruth
Cradleroll of Chavezs Chooses North Kern Hospital Birth
Cradleroll Juan and Anita Chavez of 315 Mark welcome a daughter born April 18 1980 at 3 06 a m at North Kern Hospital weighing seven pounds nine ounces and measuring twenty one half inches in length.
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Juan
Anita Chavez
North Kern Hospital
Anita Ozuna Chavez
Shafter Lions Club Donates Large Local and Nationwide Gifts
The Shafter Lions Club donated just under 13000 last year with major activity in Shafter. Local gifts supported SHS programs, sports teams, scholarships, the fire department, parks, and veterans affairs. National gifts included to the U S Olympics Committee and Lions Eye Foundation. The club has 29 members and raises funds through events like the Joe O'Brien Harness Races and various shoots.
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Shafter
Shafter Lions
Lions Eye Foundation
Shafter Lions Club
Traditionals as watchdogs: early republic newspapers
In the dawn of the republic newspapers served as watchdogs on government, a tradition where press scrutiny and public discourse shaped governance and protected civic rights. This snapshot recalls the press’s role in accountability and public transparency.
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Our Republic
Shafter Rotary Club Talk Apology by City Administrator
The Shafter Press corrected a recent error noting that City Administrator Bill Sheldon gave a talk to the Shafter Rotary Club rather than the Kiwanis. The newspaper apologized for the misidentification in its prior report.
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Shafter Press
Bill Sheldon
Shafter Kiwanis
Shafter Rotary Club
Also Mentioned on This Page
Noel Weeks
Shafter Southern Baptists Church
Helen Hasty
Bill Walker
Sylvia Baughman
Evelyn Walker
Planning Commission
Harlan Wilson
Curtis Madding
Wasco Association For
Bakersfield Exchange Club
Stephanie Thrasher
Carolyn Novak
Monica Thompson
Harbin
St. Johns School
Palm
Charisma
Bakersfield
Trailer Club
Iivina Cummings
Gene
Avis Schleer
Neal
Rosalee Spersing
Norris
Joyce Thompson
Norland
Pat Winter
George
Faye Bender
Dale
Lula Spohn
Don _ Butt
Martha King
SDA
Richland Ave
Sam Hensley
Henry Harder
Jim Wiens
Mennonite Brethren Church
California
Church OF the Nazarene
W. Lerdo Kenneth Mitchell
ST. Therese Catholic Church
W. Lerdo
Msgr
John A. Delany
Pentecostal Church OF God
Shafter Ave. Sun
P.Y.P.A
Fred L. Hanshew
Jr. Highland Senior High Fellowship
E. Tulare Ave. Shafter
Owen C. Onsum
Ebenezer
Lions Club
Shafter Swim Club
Association of Christian Athletes
Richland
Kern County
Jack Frost
Buttonwillow
Buttonwillow Lions Club
Sun
Central Avenue Shafter
Congress
Frank.w. and
Donald L. Reedrick Lawler
Publishers News
Shafter United Methodist
Rev. G
Ted Larson
W. Lordo
North Pine Street
Roger Trautmann, Pastor
Menno Schellenberg
Hwy. 46
Maple Wasco
Rev. Fields
1St
Southern Baptist Church
H.D. Rutledge
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