Board Tours Consider Growth Needs for Richland Schools
Richland School District trustees accompanied Superintendent Vera Stone on a tour of the district’s primary, intermediate and junior high facilities to observe current space use. The group discussed immediate classroom needs and long range plans, including remodeling costs and portable buildings, as enrollment is expected to rise over the next five to ten years.
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Richland School District Board of Trustees
Vera Stone
Stone
California elementary school expands amid space concerns
Dr Stone notes the school evolving into one of the state's largest while board members focus on curriculum and student needs. Teachers in three schools are asked to propose ideas for future challenges as space requirements remain a major agenda item at upcoming meetings.
Nutrition views in fitness series present health advocate angle
The article in the fitness series presents nutrition from a health advocate viewpoint noting other perspectives exist. It frames alternatives to standard advice as worthy of consideration rather than prescriptions.
Cornerstone of fitness and self care in nutrition
The essay argues health comes from daily exercise and careful nutrition rather than reliance on experts. It cites Seventh Day Adventists and Brenda Mulder, a Shafter nutritionist, as examples of disciplined diets reducing heart disease and cancer risk. It notes Adventists live about six years longer, emphasizes reducing saturated fat, sugars, and processed foods, and suggests individual meal planning and restaurant choices.
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United States
Seventh Day Adventists University
California
Brenda Mulder
Shafter
San Joaquin Community Hospital
Hawaiian Sun Contest Offers Prize Trip to Waikiki
The Shafter Press runs a four week contest with local merchants, entry blanks, and weekly prize drawings for a vacation for two to Waikiki Beach Hawaii. Travel Travel of Bakersfield and many shops sponsor the promotion with a February 15 grand prize drawing. entrants must be 18 plus, employees and merchants disqualified, weekly drawings every Monday.
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Shafter Press
Hawaii
Wasco Tribune
Lockler
Palm Avenue
Richland Chevrolet
Central Avenue Food
Made- O-Day
Foster's Freeze
Shafter Cleaners
Fries
Shafter Drug
Beno's
Tops
Family Furniture
Union 76
Clara's
Napa
Yamaha
Big Stop
Shirley's
Shafter Flower
Hitchcocks, Fabrics
Dari Delite
Wards
Farmers Insurance
Odie Miller
Fastrip
Budget Food Mart
A-1 Superette
City Plan Results Tabulated In Shafter Survey
City of Shafter tabulates planning commission citizen survey results from an insert in the January 11 issue of the Shafter Press. Four land use maps show slow, no, moderate, and rapid growth options. As of January 16, 170 responses were received, with most favoring moderate growth and a population rise of 15,000 to 30,000.
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Planning Commission
Shafter
Shafter Press
August Caires
Fred Goodrich
Past Times Settling Shafter and the Wiedmann Family
Oscar Wiedmann recalls his arrival in Shafter from Los Angeles in 1914 with belongings on a railroad car. He describes building a home, starting a family with Hazel and their daughter, and life as early settlers. The excerpts celebrate pioneer life and the pioneer woman.
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Mr. Wiedmann
Shafter
Los Angeles
Oscar Wiedmann
Hazel
Wiedmann
A Special Woman Pioneer Arrives on a Rainy April Train
Oscar Wiedmann recounts Hazel and Betty’s arrival from Los Angeles in April 1915 to a struggling ranch. They endure mud, storms, and insects as they begin building a home, learn dairy tasks, and join church and farm bureau social life amid harsh desert conditions.
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Hazel
Betty
Los Angeles
Dan
Church
Farm Bureau
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Nutrition
Brenda
Hawaiian Sun
Hazel Wiedmann
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