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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 06, 1986
Page
8
A reader shares thoughts on toys, clutter, and parenting. She contrasts past toy abundance with present child keepsakes, details a labeled storage and one toy at a time rule to instill responsibility, and plans to improve playroom cleanliness while seeking travel ideas and recipes from readers. She asks for recipes and provides contact details.
Don and Mamie Lewis return from a three week Tennessee and Kentucky trip visiting Don’s sisters Katye Joseph in Nashville and Becky Wolkewick in Philadelphia. They tour Knoxville Dollywood and the Grand Ole Opry then sail the General Jackson on the Cumberland River before visiting the Smokies and Ashland City homecoming festivities. Minnie Smith travels two weeks to Alaska visiting family in Anchorage Seward and attends a Kenny Rogers concert.
The Arts Council of Kern is gathering a master arts calendar for the September 1986 to September 1987 year. It will include organizations across Kern County and list programming events.
Women’s Aglow Shafter plans a Monday August 11 meeting at 7 p.m. in Shafter Veteran’s Hall with guest speaker Gloria Banks, Tulare Aglow charter president, poet, author, and counselor. The Arts Council seeks Kern County events for the master calendar, due by August 15, to file with the Kern Cultural Calendar. Contact Arts Council of Kern at (805) 324-9000.
The Shafter Chamber of Commerce solicits a volunteer to chair the long running exhibit booth at the Kern County Fair. The booth promotes local agriculture and culture and will recruit helpers once a leader is named. Contact Ben Grundy or Shirley Harp at 746-2600.
Shafter residents Jack Lollar and Dolly Hai attended a Beyond War luncheon at Hodel's in Valley Plaza on July 29. Over 40 guests heard Barbara and Ed Kyser describe national and international peace efforts, with plans for a September 27 national town meeting linked by satellite and Bakersfield as a down link site.
Felipe Olveda age 83 died August 3 1986 at Shafter Convalescent Hospital after a long illness. He is survived by three daughters Stella Montoya Carmen Fiores of Shafter and Lupe Kennedy of Wasco, two sisters Lola and Teofila Farias of Texas, plus other relatives. Funeral arrangements are pending with Agee Funeral Home Shafter.
At family request there will be no funeral services and cremation will be private at Mish Funeral Home Crematorium. Ashes will be scattered at sea near Santa Barbara at a later date. Native of Henderson Nebraska, long time Shafter resident and salesman for McMahan Furniture Stores. Survived by brother Daniel M. Fadenrecht of Hanford and many other relatives.
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