Shafter Chamber Dinner and Awards Set in Wasco Area
Citizens urged to buy tickets for the 44th annual Shafter Chamber Commerce and Agricultural Installation Dinner and Community Awards Ceremony at Shafter Veterans Hall. Master of ceremonies Danny Tudor to host. meal by Shafter Motel Restaurant. social hour 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tickets $15. Call 746-2600 or 746-4068 for info. Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District schedules a Feb 1 meeting at 9:30 a.m. at Elk’s Lodge Wasco to brief water users on contract renewal, future rates, and 1990 water supply. All users invited.
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Anova Shafter Chamber Commerce and Agric Nal
Shafter Veterans Hall
Danny Tudor
Shafter
Shafter-Wasco Irrigation District
Elk’s Lodge
Highway 43
Dresser Ave
Wasco
Shafter Library Tax Forms Available to Public
The Shafter branch library offers tax forms with calls to 746-2156 for details. Free Tuesday children movies start at 3 15 p.m. in the conference room. SHS Majorettes host first annual talent contest Saturday at 7 p.m. in SHS Auditorium with proceeds aiding the February band trip. contact Cindy Walker at 280 Maple St.
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Shafter
Shafter High School
SHS
Cindy Walker
Maple St
Parents first teachers in bilingual education at Richland
Ventura Guerra wife of Gamaliel Guerra led an unrehearsed song for over 70 parents and children at Richland Elementary to boost parent student learning under a $2000 Immigrant Grant. Principal Chris Frazier noted the grant funds books and innovative programs while four of ten second grade classes have bilingual teachers guiding a three night program of music stories and reading.
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Ventura Guerra
Gamaliel Guerra
Richland Elementary
Guerra
Richland
Chris Frazier
Fire warns Kern County owners to lock vacant units
Kern Homes fire caused about 35000 in damage at 112 Carson Way Apt B Shafter. Firefighters from Station 32 and Wasco Station 31 confined blaze to a utility room and saved the final unit after mop up. Captain Sotello urged locking vacant dwellings to deter transients and potential juveniles amid an incendiary investigation.
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Kern Homes
Kern County Fire Department
Richard Sotello
Shafter
Wasco
Carson Way
Apt. B
Sotello
RTC launches three person team to cut inmate costs
Greg Greeson Ken Varley and Paul Peterson lead Shafter return to custody efforts as Bakersfield Mc Farland and Delano run parallel tests to reduce state housing costs. California reports a prison population near 90,000 with a 63 percent two year recidivism rate, each inmate costing about $20,000 annually to taxpayers.
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Greg Greeson
Ken Varley
Paul Peterson
Shafter
Bakersfield
McFarland and
Delano
California
Department of Corrections
Lost sheep finds the Lord and now carries the staff
Former Shafter resident Larry Medina, son of Stevie and Juanita Medina, turned from difficult years and lack of interest to devote his life to faith. He graduated second in his Bible Institute class on May 28, 1988, became salutatorian, and now directs a South El Monte men’s home aiding gang members and families while receiving recognition from city, county, and state officials.
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Shafter
Larry Medina
Stevie
Juanita Medina
Medina
Latin American Bible Institute of California
la Puente
David H. Martinez
Fellowship of Excitement Ministries
el Monte
Martinez
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Jimmy Byerley
Mary Porter
Porter
Jaime Garcia
Jessica
RTC
Paul Petersen
David
Larry Zachary
Childrens Center
Congregational Church
Robert Castillo
Zacharys
Ewe
Darlene Williams
The
Bible Institute
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