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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Aug 07, 2013
Page
1
La Rosa De Saron Church hosts Vacation Bible School from Monday August 5 to Friday August 9 at 154 W. Tulare. Sessions run 6:00 PM to 8:30 PM with the theme Gotta Move Keepin in step with the Spirit. Kids are invited to attend.
The Youth Center opens to all ages Monday through Friday from 5 to 9 PM at 455 E Euclid Ave offering aerobics Zumba on Tue Thu, basketball, volleyball, computer lab and kids activities with free services.
The Supreme Court decision on August 2 allows California to release 9,600 inmates by end of 2013 to ease prison crowding, potentially reopening Shafter Taft and Delano facilities closed in 2011 under AB109. Sheriff Donny Youngblood says using the Shafter CCF could add 680 beds, about 70 jobs, and $7 million in state funding, with risks to public safety noted by officials.
Water quality investigators confirm a second unauthorized discharge by Vintage Production California LLC, part of Occidental Petroleum, dumping drilling fluids and oilfield wastes into unlined sumps near Shafter. Violations carry fines up to five thousand dollars daily. benzene and petroleum hydrocarbons exceeded safe drinking water levels.
The Shafter Police Explorer Program painted walls to cover graffiti across the city. Explorers removed graffiti in the south alley of Rodriguez Avenue and on Central Avenue, 125 N. Shafter Avenue, Spectrum Street. The group plans monthly clean-up days led by Officer Salvador and five explorers.
Local dignitaries toured Shafter Youth Center during the final week of the Shafter Week program. Mayor Jon Johnston, City Council member Cathy Prout, and Gilbert Alvarado spoke with children about Shafter’s history, centennial plans, and generations.
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