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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 16, 1985
Page
6
Sandy Armstrong shares a personal essay on time use and stress. She describes balancing chores with personal goals, reorganizing tasks into have to do want to do and neither, and choosing work aligned with meaning. She recounts quitting a demanding job for happiness, and ends with a home bread recipe request.
The local AARP unit will hold a board of directors meeting at the Shafter Branch Library conference room at 2 p.m. Wednesday. A regular meeting follows at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday at Veteran's Hall with Rev David Morris presenting a program and slide show on Ghana.
Mr and Mrs B H Daniel of Shafter hosted a 50th wedding anniversary party at the Shafter Veterans Hall on December 8 with 6 children and spouses Letha and Bill McNew Curtis and Donna Daniel Carl and Patsy Daniel Jane and Edward Knight Jane and Pat Legg Mildred and Lee Jones also attending along with 16 grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. The couple wed December 7 1934 in Chickasha Oklahoma and moved to Shafter in 1938. A vow renewal was conducted by Rev Edward Johns in the Freewill Baptist Church in front of 175 friends and family, followed by gifts and a three tier cake.
Wanda Jackson, veteran country and western star, will present a gospel concert Saturday at 7 p.m. at the First Southern Church 250 N Kern St. native of Oklahoma, discovered by Hank Thompson and a longtime Capitol Records artist. The concert is free to the public with nursery care for children three and under.
The January Shafter Womans Club program at the Woman's Club Building focused on a world without war. Pat Cowles spoke as Kern County co coordinator for Beyond War about a new thinking needed for Earth's survival after the atomic era and nuclear weapons. Future Beyond War plans include a United Nations program and a major newspaper ad.
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