Football Practice Starts Monday At SHS With 100 Expected
SHS head coach Merv Huston announces football practice begins Monday for varsity JV and frosh soph. First week practice starts 8 a.m. with scrimmage rules. pads come in next week. Huston cites 37 or 38 standout varsity prospects from 125 in June class and names Shafter Wasco Taft as top league contenders.
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Shafter High School
Merv Huston
Huston
SHS
Shafter
Wasco
Taft
Shafter High Adds Seven Teachers and New Staff Roles
Shafter High School names seven new teachers and a new secretary to Assistant Principal Evan Jones. Dora Jara becomes secretary. Vickie Houchin replaces Karen Wick in journalism and English. Jane Laumbach fills Arlene Kindel’s Business post. Virginia Valdez takes English, Tom Williams joins driver training and math. Kay Blackburn moves to teach educationally handicapped. Frieda Jackson replaces retired librarian Theodora Richard. Richard Strikler joins as teacher for the new opportunity program with a four period day and counseling duties, aiming to reintegrate students into the regular program.
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Shafter High School
Evan Jones
Dora Jara
Jara
Richland
John Maxwell
University of California At Santa Barbara
Kern County
Vickie Houchin
Buttonwillow
Karen Wick
Jane Laumbach
Arlene Kindel
Cathy Miller
Virginia Valdez
Tom Williams
Kay Blackburn
Bakersfield High School
Mike Spenske
East High
Theodora Richard
Frieda Jackson
Shafter High
Richard Strikler
Central Valley High School
Lerdo Highway
Strikler
Lerdo School District Names Jack Mize to Board
The Lerdo School District announces the provisional appointment of Jack Mize to the governing board replacing Steve Gonzales who resigned effective August 5 1976. Voters may petition within 30 days for a special election. if not, Mize serves until the next regular board election in March 1977, with publication in the Shafter Press on August 18 1976.
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Lerdo
Jack Mize
Steve Gonzales
Shafter Press
Shafter youths honored in Cal Poly HEP graduation
Five Shafter students joined 84 participants to complete the High School Equivalency Program at California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo. The federally funded Cal Poly HEP helps migrant and seasonal farm worker youth prepare for the GED and pursue college or job training.
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Shafter
California Polytechnic States University
San Luis, Obispo
Maria» Acevedo
Maria P. Acevedo
Diana Galaviz
Locadio Galaviz
Eduardo Jiminez
Manuel Jiminez
John Martinez
Alfredo Moreno
Cal Poly Foundation
U.S. Department of Labor
HEP
Antonio Garcia
Cal Poly
Stolen Vehicles Recovered in Rural Shafter
A Triumph 500 motorcycle and a 1957 Chevrolet pickup were recovered last week in Shafter. The motorcycle was stolen from Alice Reich’s porch and found in a sump on Seventh Standard Road near Zerker. The pickup, reported stolen from Steven Bagby near 332 East Euclid, was located in a field near Orange and Shafter Avenue, heavily stripped.
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Alice Reich
Mark Avenue
Seventh Standard Road
Zerker
East Euclid
Steven Bagby
Orange and Shafter Avenue
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Ikelinee
Ernie Lopez
Teofilo Farias
Joe Guardado
Manuel Melero
Leen
Célvard
James
High School
Rebecca
Rene Espericueta
Joe Gonzales
F Street
M&c
Bakersfield
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