City honors Senior Center staff for community service
Shafter celebrates Center staff who prepared meals for Delano Senior Center after a 2013 fire. City officials and Mayor Pro Tem Gilbert Alvarado awarded certificates to Donna Iannotti Maria Marroquin-Duncan Lucy Garcia Myrna Bernal Luis Juarez Amanda Kennedy Mary Rodriguez Michelle Pitts Mona Bautista Christopher Soto for their dedication and volunteer work. The event highlighted unity and community spirit.
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Delano Senior Center
Shafter Senior Center
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Gilbert Alvarado
Donna Iannotti
Maria Marroquin
Duncan
Lucy Garcia
Myrna Bernal
Luis Juarez
Amanda Kennedy
Mary Rodriguez
Wasco
Michelle Pitts
McFarland
Mona Bautista
Christopher Soto
Carjacking Suspect Arrested After McFarland Pursuit
A carjacking suspect, Luis Patricio Pedroza, 26, led deputies and McFarland officers on a high speed chase from Wasco to McFarland, hijacking a vehicle, injuring a patrol car, driving on Hwy 99, then breaching a home where he threatened a female occupant with a knife before surrendering to the SWAT perimeter.
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Kern County Sheriff's Office
Wasco
McFarland
McFarland Police Department
Luis Patricio Pedroza
Pedroza
Sheriff's Office Air Support
Industrial Rd
Maple Elementary Extends Dismissal Amid Swamp Cooler Woes
On a Tuesday with triple digit heat, Maple Elementary released students early due to stagnant indoor temperatures. Officials cited ineffective evaporative swamp coolers that fail in high humidity, circulating warm water and increasing humidity. Parents were asked to pick up children an hour and 45 minutes early as the principal noted the school applied for a remedy.
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Maple Elementary School
John Campbell
Campbell
Bella Avias
Maple School
Wildflowers blaze around Shafter’s memory of wild beauty
A reader recalls Shafter’s pre cultivation wildflower display with two inch white and yellow daisies, towering blue lupines, bright orange poppies, and sunshine flowers. The vivid scene evokes a Centennial memory of nature’s ornament.
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Shafter
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