Shafter Healthy Start Wins $10,000 Grant
The Shafter Healthy Start program received a $10,000 grant from the California Wellness Fund aimed at boosting health and welfare for local families. The funding will support hiring a Family Advocate to assist families and advance community health goals.
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Family Resource Center
Shafter Collaborative
Shafter Healthy Start
Shafter Public Health Department
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College Community Services
Richland School District
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Family Advocate Aims Health Outreach In Shafter
The Family Resource Center plans a Family Advocate role to improve child and family health in Shafter. Activities include health insurance outreach enrollment referrals to dental medical and mental health providers nutrition classes mommy and me classes and community resource referrals. Programs will be bilingual with English and Spanish materials and assessments to measure impact.
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Nity
Richland School Board
Kern County Network For Children
First 5 Kern
National Health Services
Kern County Public Health Department
University Extension Office
Shafter Courts
Mommy and Me
Family Advocate
Family Resource Center
Bold trumpet vine overgrows fence and arbor near Lerdo Highway
A reader describes trumpet vine Campsis radicans producing two inch buds and trumpet shaped blooms in June. The plant climbs aggressively, with aerial roots attaching to surfaces and heavy bean pods adding weight. A neighbor’s 30 year old vine nearly covered a large arbor beside a house on east Lerdo Highway.
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East Lerdo Highway
Vines Around Allen Road Show Canon of Trumpet Varieties
A reader notes how young vines spill over a west Allen Road housing wall and observes shifts in naming and prestige from bignonies to trumpet vines. He contrasts violet trumpet vine with red orange varieties, discusses growth habits and support needs, cites Bakersfield College in the 80s, and ends with Psalm 80:8 9 reflecting on vines as a land plant.
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Allen Road
Bakersfield College
Egypt
Remembering Freedom and Responsibility in American Identity
A guest editorial recalls the Declaration of Independence principles and warns that neglecting civic virtue led to Rome's downfall. It argues Americans must uphold true freedom for all to prevent terrorism and cites John W. Whitehead of The Rutherford Institute as its constitutional authority.
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