Kern County to seek funds to repair damaged roads
Rough El Nino impacts Kern County with pothole strewn byways and long travel times. The Kern County Board of Supervisors ordered staff to find more funds for road repairs, topping the priority list as the Roads Department budget gains 3.4 million from the General Fund, about twice last year’s amount, amid chronic state budget constraints and decades of under funding.
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Kern County
Kern County Board
Roads Department
Eral
California
Shafter Leads Kern County Permit Gains in June 1998
Building permit analysis shows Shafter driving a rise in Kern County with 15 single family starts boosting June valuation to 1.42 million and a year to date total of 7.39 million. Across 11 cities and unincorporated areas, June permits reached 55.32 million, while six month total climbed to 273.39 million, outperforming 1997.
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Shafter
Kern County
Kern County Board of Trade
Kern
May
Unincorporated Ker
Restoration Nears End for Shafter's Green Hotel
The 13 year restoration of Shafter's Green Hotel approaches completion as volunteers and Teen Challenge crews complete foundation work and reassemble a shed on a newly poured pad. Directors Pat Wilson and Gretchen Kirk planned a working museum to reflect the hotel’s original role, with prior ownership tracing to Marion Hitchcock and Herndon Hitchcock who acquired the property in 1917 from Kern County Land Company, built in 1913 for prospective buyers.
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Green
Dolly Hei
Pat Wilson
Gretchen Kirk
Teen Challenge
Shafter Farm
Marion Hitchcock
Herndon
Kern County Land Company
Hitchcocks
Shafter Press deadlines and local school registration
The Shafter Press announces editorial policy and Sept. 9 issue deadlines for displays and classifieds. Also notes the Kern Seventh-day Adventist Elementary School registration on August 17, 1998 from 3 to 7 p.m. at 30105 Riverside St. Shafter.
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Shafter Press
TOU Dreadstone Tocan
Kern Seventh-day Adventist Elementary School
Riverside St. Shafter
Community booths and youth soccer signup in Shafter
Various booth types including food games education and arts with entry due August 28. Call Chamber at 746 2600 with questions or forms. Youth soccer for ages 5 12 forms in Shafter registration August 27 to 31 call Sports Center at 746 3000. Regular August 25 7:15 p.m. enrollment for 1998 1999 school year at Shafter Kiddee Kollege call 746 4960.
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Shafter
Shafter Kiddee Kollege
Bean extract lures bugs in lab study near Shafter
Shafter researchers report bean extract attracts lugus bugs from cotton fields into traps to lay eggs, potentially reducing crop damage. Whitbey, a CSUB senior, works with advisor Linda Wells at CRAB and field tests will cover cotton plots owned by farmer Greg Palla as they seek practical agricultural solutions.
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Shafter
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
Whitbey
California State University
Bakersfield
Center For Research In Agricultural Biology
CRAB
Linda Wells
Greg Palla
Palla
Cal State Bakersfield
Shafter Flames Cheer Leaders win blue ribbons at NCA camp
Shafter Flames Cheerleaders attended the National Cheerleaders Association camp at the University of California Los Angeles from July 28 to 30, 1998. They earned blue ribbons for superiority and red ribbons for excellence, two Spirit Sticks, a Megaphone for overall Spirit, and the Motion Award. Lindsey Craig and Lissa Sanchez, both 11, were nominated for All American Cheerleaders by NCA instructors, with Coach Brandi Root earning a Coaches Certification.
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Shafter
National Cheerleader Association
NCA
University of California At
Los Angeles
Lindsey Craig
Lissa Sanchez
Brandi Root
Flames
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