Shafter Officials Highlight Public Safety At Town Hall Meeting
At Shafter Veterans Hall a crowd of about 90 heard Police Chief John Zrofsky boast of 18 sworn officers, quick 5 to 6 minute emergency responses, and 24 hour shifts. Detective Bob Courtney warned of rising identity theft and car theft while urging neighborhood watch and parental responsibility to curb gang activity affiliated with the Mexican Mafia.
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Shafter Veteran's Hall
Shafter
John Zrofsky
Shafter Department
Jeff Bell
Bob Courtney
Mmembers
Correction notice and community announcements from Shafter
A reader note corrects earlier captions naming Nickel and clarifies a Lions Club offer for a Braille machine for Colton Meyer. The Shafter Library hosts a Summer Reading Program with a 2 pm Heidi Gomez Mini Dragons event. Public health clinics run July 11 to 27 at 329 Central Valley Highway with various services and contact numbers. The Shafter Youth Center camp runs daily 8:30 am to 5 pm through August 12 with meals and activities. The Shafter High Class of 75 plans a reunion on August 30 and Perry Bruce announces a Holy Land tour for Shama Resource Center departing November 7 to 16. Contact details and dates provided.
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Shafter
James Street
Heidi Gomez
The
Shafer Public Health Department
Central Valley Highway
Walker Center
Sunset Avenue
Call
Perry Bruce
Holy Land
Shama
Nikkel Iron Works Story Reveals Local Industry Past
Jack Nikkel details the 1923 start of Shafter Blacksmith & Welding Shop, its 1936 rename to Nikkel Iron Works, and plans for a pipe frame building with three rich sheet metal covering, illustrating the family’s early agricultural repair ventures before the site’s demolition for a new Richland School District administration building.
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Shafter Press
Nikkel Iron Works
Central Avenue
Richland School District
Jack Nikkel
Albert Nikkel
Shafter Blacksmith & Welding Shop
Shafter Pioneer Rosella Petker Dies at 93
Rosella Bergen Petker, 93, born June 17, 1912 in Dinuba to Jacob and Katherine Bergen, died after a life of independence. She married Thomas Petker on September 2, 1930, farmed in Shafter, raised two children, and worked as a cook on the Calloway Ranch before buying a 40 acre farm in 1943. Funeral services were held at Peters Funeral Home.
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Peters Funeral Home
Rosella Bergen Petker
Dinuba
Jacob
Katherine Bergen
Rosie
Shafter
Dos Palos
Thomas Petker
Robert
Norma
Thomas
Kern County Land Company
Calloway Ranch
SHS Class of 55' celebrates 50th reunion
The 1955 SHS graduating class held an all weekend 50th reunion in Bakersfield. Attendees gathered June 24 for a no host dinner at Double Moon coffee shop, then visited at the Nixon home before an evening at the Green Hotel. A goodbye brunch closed events amid emails from those unable to attend.
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Bakersfield
Bill and
Mary Nixon
Green Hotel
Nixon
South Dakota
Oklahoma
Debra Tackett
Virgil Tackett
Virgil
Sheri Linden Estert
Tim Linden
Herman Linden
Joe Galante
Don
Lois Murfin
Hal
Joyce Williams
Jordan Eliades
Ken
Mary Fahsbender
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Kern County
Courtney
Diane Burnett
Veteran’s Hall
Nikkel
Lady Lions
Colton Meyer
Lions Club
Shafter Youth Center
Reunion
Anne
Keeley) Taylor
Shafter Pioneer Passes
Peete
Se Bien Hotel
SHS
Barbara Prickett Craig
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