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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jan 17, 1979
Page
5
Kern High School District studies segregation by community. Shafter High School serves 947 students with 28 percent bused across six routes. Rural areas span 458 square miles, and combined attendance would raise travel distances and transportation costs.
At a CBMC luncheon guest Bennett Clark, a Bakersfield resident born in Minneapolis in 1903, shared life details from his youth in Minnesota to his California move in 1928. He discussed family, faith, work in oil, business, and post office service, retirement at 72, and personal milestones including his wife’s illness and passing, and his cancer surgery. He highlighted faith changes, church roles, and family. The article notes upcoming speakers Ben Grundy and Alan Larsen, both Shafter residents, and lists CBMC meeting details and a note on school segregation debates in local communities.
Anna Prender and Rose Mary Palomo organize a parent education session for January 18 at 7 00 p m in the Richland Primary Cafetorium. Barbara Swanson Baker Street Library head will discuss children and storytelling. Babysitting available and the public is welcome. For questions contact Gene Bonas at Richland Primary School 746 3317.
Obituaries held for Johanna Schafer 94 at Mennonite Brethren Church Shafter with burial in Johns SEN Cemetery Regan. she lived in Shafter five years and left three sons Hermon Ernest John all in North Dakota, four daughters Edna Williams Lillian Schafer Laura Martins Elsie Friesen 19 grandchildren 35 great grandchildren and two great great grandchildren. Agee Funeral Home. Service for Elijah Banks 89 held 2 p.m. Tuesday in Agee Funeral Home Chapel Wasco with burial in Shafter Memorial Park. he was born in Cooper Texas and lived in Shafter 30 years survivors include two daughters Lilly Watts Lu Ellen Rice a son Monroe three grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
The Richland School District PTA Board hosts the Seventh District meeting in Shafter on Friday January 19. Registration and coffee start at 9 00 a.m. at St Therese s Church social hall. Topic Youth Programs includes a slide from Cynthia Silliman about Valley Forge. Intermediate Choir directed by Martha Novak. Spanish lunch at noon. Reservations via Nancy Wilson 746 6890 or Jerene Rekosh 746 3029. Tickets 3 50. A nominating committee will be elected.
David Atwood will appear in a sacred concert Friday January 19 at 7 00 p m at Shafter Seventh Adventist Church corner Lerdo High and Poplar Street The exciting new voice in musical praise joins pianist Berdyce Summers Centered in Southern California they travel the United States in full time ministry They have four albums available in tape and record Everyone in Shafter and surrounding areas is invited and welcome Mary Ellen Newman communications secretary for the church says
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