Christmas Programs Highlight Shafter Churches
Shafter churches prepare Christmas events with programs and plays for December 22 and 24. First Baptist invites families to a 6 30 p.m. Sunday School program with bus rides and refreshments. Other churches feature candlelight services, Christmas stories, youth choirs, and special offerings.
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First Baptist Church
Pine St
South Shafter Mennonite Brethren Church
Orange Ave
Richard Nickel
Ebenezer Reformed Sunset & James
Charles Roam
Congregational Church
Tulare
Christmas Dinner Planned for First Baptist Young Marrieds
Shafter hosts a December 20 spaghetti dinner at 6 30 p m for about 35 couples in the church fellowship hall. Local families share holiday visits with relatives in San Jose and Wasco while Lions Club and Boy Scouts plant flowers for the Harness Races on February 23.
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First Baptist Church
Fellowship Hall
Lions ‘Club
Lerdon
Boy Scouts
Shafter Women’s Club Christmas Party Held at Veterans Memorial Hall
The Shafter Business and Professional Women’s Club hosted its Christmas party on December 5 at Veterans Memorial Hall. Guests enjoyed a catered dinner by La Verne Elsberry of Wasco, carol singing led by Debbie Gorsching, and socializing with hostesses Teresa Pacheco Sandy Millwee and Clara Schnaidt. Attendees included Helen R. Hasty Irene Tilley and many others.
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Veterans Memorial Hall
Shafter Business and Professional Women’s Club
LaVerne Elsberry
Wasco
Debbie Gorsching
Teresa Pacheco
Sandy Millwee
Clara Schnaidt
Helen R. Hasty
Irene Tilley
Tom
80th Birthday Celebration for Mrs. Rohrbach
Mrs. Katie Rohrbach marked her 80th birthday with a December 9 party at Mexicali Restaurant Bakersfield. Attendees included six daughters two sons forty plus grandchildren and great grandchildren from Shafter Bakersfield Las Vegas Lompoc Porterville and nearby areas. The event featured lavender and pink decorations and a cake inscribed A Long Time to Grow Young.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Katie Rohrbach
Bakersfield
Joe Smithers
Las Vegas
Posey Southern
Lompoc
David Hellbusch
Porterville
Tilman Lehr
Ed Hellbusch
Shafter
Irvin Rohrbach
Harold Rohrbach
Army Specialist Four Reenlists for Six Years Overseas
Sp for four Ronald R Schneider reenlists for six years while serving as a medical equipment repairman in the U S Army Medical Material Agency Medical Maintenance Division in Okinawa He attended Shafter High School and DeVry Institute of Technology in Dallas earning high honors He married Carolyn Vernon in 1972 and later joined the armed forces stationed at Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center Denver He has been assigned to Okinawa and Korea and was top in his field on Okinawa base The piece also notes Rev and Mrs David Sloat hosting Christmas guests and the Kiddie Kollege Parent Night with Dr Kenneth Brouse as guest speaker
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Army
Ronald R. Schneider
Oxford
Faber St
Shafter
U.S. Army Medical Material Agency
Okinawa
Schneider
Shafter High School
DeVry Institute of Technology
Dallas
Texas
Carolyn Vernon
Wichita Falls
Fitzsimmons Army Medical Center
Denver
Colorado
Schneider’s
States
University of Denver
Japan
Korea
David Sloat
Clarence Sloat
Winterport
Maine
Sloat
Evangeline Buby
Lawndale
Calif
Fellowship Hall
Kenneth Brouse
Golden Empire Community Council Center
Bakersfield
Plant Gladiolias in Succession for Lasting Color
Plant Gladiola bulbs as soon as they arrive and set out bulbs at three week intervals to ensure a succession of color next year. This guidance emphasizes timely planting and staggered timing to extend bloom.
Spray timing for peaches and nectarines to prevent infestation
The notice urges spraying peaches and nectarines for leaf curl with the first of two winter applications.
Shafter Post Office Notice Adjudicates Court Action
Notice from Shafter California referencing second class matter and court adjudication at Shafter. Contains postal filing details under congressional act and mentions local court proceedings.
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Shafter
Congress
California
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Shafter Press
Jack Nikkel
Christ
ST. Mark’s Episcopal Church
Beech Ave
Mennonite Brethren Church
Kern St
Jesus
Jesue
Free Will Baptist Church
Richland Dr
Pentecostal Church OF God
Mrs. Jack Baker
Jeanette McWhorter
Garol Hastings
Raymond Hoover
Randy Mizell
James Cherry
Leroy Border
Michele
Brian
San Jose
Wanda
Leroy
Ray Borders
Cherry
Bob Fellows
Ramona
Plumb
Can Business
Veterans Hall
Tom Tiemens
Teen Challenge
Adolph Buhler
Marvin Hoover
Reimer
John Reimer
Henry Buhler
Dan Heinrichs
Timothy Peters
Mickey
Mesa
Arizona
United States Air Force
Peters
Iran
Ramona Buhler
Assembly of God
Powers
Rohrbach
Shafter Area
John Delany
St. Therese’s ‘Catholic
Father Giambastiani
University of San Francisco
Mage
Mase
Chrissmas
Carolyn
Shafter Missionary ‘Baptist Church
Golden West
S.S
Shafter United Methodist Church
Seventh Day Adventist School
Verside & Poplatunday
Henry Harder
Kern
1050
First Southern H.D
Rutledge
North Pine Street
Edward M. Rhoades
Sr. High & Jr. High
Pilgrim Fellowship
Bible Fellowship
Tulere Ave
Owen C
Confessions
Aleo
Sc. Mark’s
Jack Frost
Centra Shafter
Calfornia
Frost Esiter Ges
Seer Nares
Euteide
Kern County
Ass'n., Inc
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