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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 01, 1978
Page
3
The Unity of Black Students at Shafter High will host an International Foods Buffet Dinner on February 8 from 5 to 7 p.m. in the school cafeteria to celebrate Black History Week. Tickets are $2, with free admission for those who bring an ethnic dish. contact 746-4961 for details.
The American Association of Retired Persons chapter in Shafter will hold its first social of the year on Monday February 6 at 130 p.m. at the Shafter Veterans Memorial Hall. The event aims to foster recreation and conversation with fellow members while table games bingo Scrabble and cards will be available hosted by Maryellen Newman and Lottie Thomas.
Obituaries note services held today in Phoenix for J W Dusty Sharp of the Shafter Motel who died at Maricopa Hospital. He is survived by two sons Rick and Roger and two daughters Joy James and Sharon Kellogg. Services for Alice Clara Kizziar were held in Shafter with interment at Shafter Memorial Park. she moved from Ada Texas to California in 1932 and lived in Shafter 35 years. Ene dina Salinas, 49, buried in Las Cruces Mexico after memorials in Salinas and Bakersfield. she was born in Mexico and lived in California 22 years with a large extended family. Additional survivors include multiple children and grandchildren across Shafter, Wasco, Bakersfield, and surrounding areas.
The Shafter Women's Club hosts Kern District 13 Area B meeting on Feb. 2 at Veterans Memorial Hall. Mrs. Lyle Schermitzler, CFWC leadership chair, will speak. district officers and chairpersons will join a business session and lunch follows. Reservations by Jan. 30.
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