Bakersfield teen wins Shafter contest with short story
Brooke Bayless, a Bakersfield student, entered a Shafter Woman's Club short story contest and won praise for her 2000 word tale begun as a class assignment. She wrote many hours over a weekend with help from family, inspiring future entries as she plans to compete again.
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Mandy's Quiet Struggle Behind a School Year
A narrator recalls Mandy, a friend who endured abuse at home, keeping silent about her pain. The story follows warning signs from bruises and a burned hand to a long sleeve wardrobe and a protective silence, ending with the narrator confiding to Mrs. Smith about hearing the abuse.
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Rollins on Stand as Trial Details Emerge in Aug 1991
In the first trial Rollins testified he forgot meeting Rodriguez for about ten minutes at the Fastrip Market on Lerdo Highway Shafter on Thursday afternoon Aug 1 1991. Tauzer questions Rollins III on Aug 1 activities and phone records place him in LA by 3 p.m. Wasco resident Dale Knox testified a vehicle matching Rollins drive sped past on Aug 2 with a dented driver’s side door. Lab testimony continues as prosecutors near end of their portion this week.
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