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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 03, 1988
Page
1
A community festival at Richland invites families with children to attend and offers translators for Spanish speaking parents. A festival committee meeting is set for Feb 11 at the Shafter Depot, with volunteers urged to help.
Students from Shafter and other fed school competitors travel to Wasco for a Mock Trial event led by Judge Gary Ingle. This is the first of four sessions in the series. Andrea Selvidge returns home and enjoys a wonderful time. Welcome back Andrea.
SRPD conducted a special workshop on January 30 at the Bakersfield law offices of McMurtrey & Foley. The session reviewed district rules and regulations affecting board members and district operations with all board members present and district manager Lynda Leopold in attendance. LAPD attorney Terry Foley provided an overview of district actions and officer and public employee operating rules and regulations.
The Richland School District trustees approved a school based program for the intermediate school on Feb 1. The program targets fifth and sixth graders with Limited English Proficiency, offering English as a Second Language and Spanish instruction, journaling and essays, computer use, and an intensive math skill development plan with age appropriate placement and bilingual support as needed.
Tickets are on sale for the annual Chamber Installation and Community Awards Banquet on Feb 16. Priced at 12.50 with 300 tickets available. Emcee will be Bob Bann. Sandy Wiedmann to be installed as president with Ross Shaffer as VP and Shirley Hays as treasurer. Past winners included Joe Kirk John Turner Michael Hair and Don Zachary.
MFAD directors approved Hodges and Shutt to prepare the Master Plan for Minter Field. Hodges and Shutt with Kennedy Jenks and Chilton as subconsultants have completed similar airport studies. FAA approval is required after MFAD endorsement, with completion projected nine months to one year after FAA sign-off.
John Thomas, Kern County Council of Governments chairman and Kern County representative to the California Council of Governments, will leave Feb. 6 for Washington with fellow KernCOG members O'Delly, Mel McLaughlin, and Bart Mayes. They will join a National Council of Governments legislative committee and meet with Charles Pashayan Pete Wilson and Bill Thomas.
A Kern County album documents the first airmail service issued May 1938. Winton L Heard of Arvin owned originals once postmarked by Birdie Heard the Arvin postmaster. The display includes 23 first issue envelopes framed and a rubber stamped drilling rig outline noting Wasco and Shafter as sites in a historic aviation moment.
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