Shafter Livestock Team Wins at West Hills Day 1980
Shafter Livestock Judging Team rebounds from a Fresno State loss to win the West Hills College Fieht Day on April 26 1980. Members Laurie Sapp Brock Sapp and Marty Tasos took top honors including first high team overall and first in oral reasons with multiple category wins. They earned seven plaques three trophies and many ribbons and head next to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo for State Finals.
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Shafter
Fresno State
West Hills College
Laurie Sapp
Brock Sapp
Marty Tasos
Cal Poly
San Luis Obispo
Shafter Local Officials Hold Key Posts and Housing Plans
Thirty years ago Adolph Kirschenmann was elected mayor of Shafter, with Ben Grundy joining the council. The council moved to place 35 federal public housing units, while residents opposed annexation costs as not economically feasible. Ford sales boomed, summer recreation programs started, and a potato festival ticket sale highlighted community life.
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Adolph Kirschenmann
Shafter
Paul V. McClure
Ben Grundy
Sybil Nelms
Lerdo School Carnival Set For May 9
Lerdo School hosts a carnival May 9 from 5 30 to 8 30 pm on the school playground located a mile west of Highway 99 on Lerdo Highway. Homemade tamales pizza corn dogs cake pie coffee and soft drinks on offer with games like cake walk bingo ping pong toss sucker toss pick a pocket face painting and a white elephant booth. Shafter residents invited for prizes and treats for participants.
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Lerdo
Highway 99
Lerdo Highway
Shafter
Friesen Accepted at Tabor College Hillsboro Kansas
Ricky Friesen son of Norman and Doris Friesen from Shafter has been accepted at Tabor College for the 1980 Fall term. He is transferring from Fresno Pacific College and aims for Pre medicine as a possible major. Located in Central Kansas, Tabor is a four year Christian liberal arts college.
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Ricky
Friesen
Norman
Doris Friesen
Shafter
Tabor College
Hillsboro
Kansas
Shafter High School
Fresno Pacific College
Thompson Trio Competes at Bakersfield Talent Contest
Thompson wins third Three Shafter girls traveled to Bakersfield for the Bakersfield Exchange Search for Talent Contest on Saturday April 19. Contest featured age groups six to ten for primary junior 11 to 14 and senior 15 to 19 with instrumental vocal dance and novelty categories. From Shafter Carolyn Novak Stephanie Thrasher and Monica Thompson competed in junior and senior divisions. Monica Thompson earned third runner-up in the junior class.
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Shafter
Bakersfield
Gories
Carolyn Novak
Stephanie Thrasher
Monica Thompson
Martha Novak
Richland District Kindergartner Registration Scheduled
Richland School District will hold kindergarten registration May 6 to 8 at the Primary School Cafetorium from 1 30 to 3 30 each afternoon for children born on or before December 1 1975 living in the district. First grade registration echoes the date for those born on or before December 1 1974.
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Richland
Shafter’ Area
Kindergaren
Shafter residents hurt and killed in separate crashes
A Shafter man suffered severe head and leg injuries after a head on collision on Lerdo Highway west of 99 with a wrong way driver Ruben Alvarez 29 of Bell Gardens killed and passenger Jesus Avila 22 hurt. Separately Adelino Reyna 24 of Shafter died when pulled into a mulder while repairing it at Channelson Snow Farms near Shafter, apparently bleeding to death.
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Shafter
Lerdo Highway
Highway Patrol
Ruben Alvarez
Bell Gardens
Jesus Avila
Terry Lee McGowan
Adelino Reyna
Channelson
North Shafter
Wasco Shafter Historical Societies Host May Dinner Meeting
Wasco Shafter Historical Societies plan a joint dinner meeting on Thursday May 1 at 6 30 PM in Palm Avenue School cafeteria Wasco with speaker Mrs Mona Carver Granite Station presenting a slide tour of Woody and Glennville areas Dinner is pot luck each family brings a main dish salad or dessert and their own table service drinks and bread provided Open to members and friends for information call Gracia Wedel or Stan Wilson.
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Shafter and
Wasco Historical Societies
Palm Avenue
Wasco
Mona Carver
Granite Station
Woody
Glennville
Arsonists Hazlett and McQueen Sentenced in Kern Fires
Jurors in a Kern County Superior Court convicted Jimmy Dale Hazlett and Kenneth Keith McQueen of felony arson. Each received a two year term in the state prison system. Officials cited 29 grassland fires near Round Mountain Road and a $25,000 firefighting bill, urging deterrence ahead of the new fire season.
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Jimmy Dale Hazlett
Kenneth Keith McQueen
Cheif
Carl W. Williams
Kern County
City council welcomes Wise Little and Unruh gains praise
Letter writer congratulates George Wise and Don Little on election to the City Council and commends Mayor Elmer Unruh. He notes loyalty to the current leadership, praises Police Chief Gene Kaplan and the department, and defends overtime pay and ride along program benefits while thanking officers and volunteers for their service.
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George Wise
Don Little
Loyd Link
Elmer Unruh
Shafter
Gene Kaplan
Glenn Baldwin
Jon McLaren
Ross Regadanz
Jon Purcell
Russ Carr
Kaplan
Twin Girls Born to Hill Family in Bakersfield
Mrs and Mr Ronnie Hill welcomed twin daughters on April 26 at Memorial Hospital Bakersfield Jennifer LeAnn weighed 4 pounds 6 ounces and Jennette Michelle 4 pounds 3 ounces both about 17 and 16 inches long Big brother Jayson 17 months will greet them at home The Hills reside at 3131 New Stine Rd Bakersfield Grandparents are Mr Kyle Hill and Mrs Loraine Hill with a great grandmother also named Hill
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Ronnie Hill
Memorial Hospital
Bakersfield
Jennifer LeAnn
Jennette Michelle
Jayson
New Stine Rd
Kyle Hill
Loraine
Hill
Inheritance tax repeal bills face Assembly votes
Don Rogers reports that the Assembly defeated two motions to pull AB 2160 and ACA 64 from committee to the floor by 28 33 party line votes. Only Democrat Carmen Perino of Stockton supported the motions. Rogers, author, called it a minor victory in the war against taxation and urged voters to judge lawmakers on tax repeal records. He frames the tax as unfair and notes broad citizen support for putting the issue to voters via a people’s initiative.
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Assembly
Carmen ‘Perino
Stockton
Don Rogers
Bakersfield
Rogers
Assembly Revenue and Taxation Committee
Salvation Army marks centennial in USA and National Salvation Army Week
R Ross, chairman of the local Service Extension Committee, announces that 1980 marks the centenary of the Salvation Army in the United States. He praises 100 years of aid to the needy, funded by the public and led by unpaid volunteers. The milestone coincides with National Salvation Army Week from May 12 to May 18.
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Salvation Army
U.S.A
R. Ross
National Salvation Army
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Shafter Livestock Judging
Jeanette Wheeler
Iter
Ford
Ted French
A.J. Deaton
George Haberfelde, Inc
Western Polymer Inc
Richland School
Joe O'Brien
East Lerdo
Manuel Park
Hudson Parkette
Great Western
Freedoms Foundation
Valley Forge
Julie Ballantine
Jane Parsons
Elisa Francheschi
Jordache
Land Lubber
Ralph LaCher
New Girls Health
New Boys
Dee Dee
Painter Pants
Tabor
Thompson
Wasco Historical Society
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