Shafter Post Office to Be Upgraded in Coming Months
Fifty years ago Shafter residents were told a new post office would arrive between now and June and that the facility would be elevated to first class after Jan 1. Postmaster George Guenther cited rising annual receipts, noting 1951 totals around 45 000 dollars and a Dec 19 tally of 42 962. He stressed that money in the till does not affect postal rank and added that Dec 17 saw over 40 000 pieces of mail processed for out of town destinations.
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Shafter
George Guenther
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Kiwanis Welcome Chaplain Jan Wheeler Speaker
Kiwanis heard Chaplain Jan Wheeler speak at the club meeting. Wheeler has served as chaplain at Avenal, Delano and Wasco prisons and works with Match-Two Prison Outreach to recruit and train volunteers for one on one inmate visits. The program aims to offer hope and alternatives to crime and aid parole success. Wheeler sought volunteers to expand friend matches for inmates in need.
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Kiwanis Club
Jan Wheeler
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Avenal
Delano
Wasco
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Park site transfer stirs criticism in Shafter area
The plan to move the park from county to City of Shafter drew criticism from several quarters. City investigation into the site for a new DMV office spurred the transfer. A city official cited a policy of shifting park sites within incorporated cities to the city, raising concerns about maintenance costs.
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Veteran's Memorial Hall
Shafter
Dept. of Motor Vehicles
Shafter area notes lunch service and fire chief hire
The W C Walker Senior Center invites reservations for lunch from 11 30 to noon with a suggested 1 50 donation for seniors and spouses. Shafter High Key Club set a new food drive record delivering 6 440 pounds to aid area families. Bob Thompson was named Shafter's first full time fire chief after a thorough Aptos and Garden Grove background review by city officials.
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Key Club
Hall of the Catholic
B.W
Bob” Thompson
Shafter
Thompson
Aptos
California
Santa Cruz
Garden Grove
Aptos Fire Protection District
August Caires
Caires
City of
Richard Hoffer
Call boxes expand along Kerr County highways in industry push
Ten years into the program call boxes now line High way 43 and Beech Avenue south of Shafter with other Kerr County routes. CHP dispatchers logged over 1 180 MAS calls in Kern County during a busy November as more than 275 boxes operate and 300 planned for early 1992. MAS executive director Ronald Brummett notes all services contracted out while Roy Ashburn lauds safety gains for travelers in remote areas with blue and white signs marking boxes two miles apart rural and one mile in urban zones.
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Shafter
Beech Avenue
Kerr County
California Highway Patrol
CHP
Kern County
MAS
Ronald Brummett
Brummen
Authority
Roy Ashburn
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