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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1987
Page
11
A diary style update recounts a family vacation with relatives helping with house sitting, sunburns, and busy days. It includes reflections on rest, travel chaos, and preparations before departure. The writer shares recipes for Easy Plum Cobbler and Pork Chops with Zucchini Topping, plus memories of peaches, salsa, and garden produce.
The KCEOC menu lists daily meals from July 23 to July 29 featuring BBQ chicken with sides on Thursday, macaroni and cheese and vegetables on Friday, Swiss steak and scalloped potatoes on Monday, sweet and sour pork with rice on Tuesday, and chicken enchilada casserole with sides on Wednesday, with desserts and bread variously noted.
Joe and Gretchen Kirk meet Ed and Ruth Nelson in Bermuda after a State Farm convention. Nelsons lived in Shafter from 1942 to 1946 on the Bartell property and both taught at Kern Academy. They later moved to Sao Paulo, Brazil, and now retired after 42 years in Adventist education. Ruth works for Conejo Valley SD, Ed for Thousand Oaks Hermon Services Center. Ruth’s Bermuda lineage dates to 1729. Contact Ed and Ruth Nelson at 39 Corrine Drive Newbury Park California 91320.
Shafter resident Paslay travels with grandson Denny Evans wife Pamela and their sons Josh and Todd. They fly from Los Angeles to Kansas City and drive to Topeka to visit a 91 year old aunt while Evans family visits Pamela's relatives in Hays. Paslay says flying saves time.
Scheduling for Veterans Hall shows dates and times for applications in 1987 with sessions at Shafter Veterans Memorial Building and East Bakersfield Veterans Hall. Times include 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. on 23 Oct 1987 and 8:30 to 10:30 a.m. on 1 Oct 1987 plus 5 Oct 1987. See Veterans on page 14.
Tamara Johnson of Shafter and Gregory Cox of Carson married June 6 1987 in a double ring ceremony at St Mark s Episcopal Church Shafter officiated by Father Brian Endicott with 150 guests in attendance The bride wore a lace trimmed white gown and carried silk mums and red roses A reception followed at the home of Don and Louise Jones Shafter The couple planned to reside at Twentynine Palms California with no immediate honeymoon added references to family and showers
Ann Heinke and Dale Hessler announce their engagement at the Heinke home in Campus Park Bakersfield with about 30 guests. Heinke, a 1986 Shafter High School graduate now at Bakersfield College and employed in Bakersfield, is the daughter of Shirley Ann and the late Roc Heinke. Hessler, son of Jan and Elmer Kessler of Delano, is a 1983 McFarland High School graduate and employed by Pruitt Industries. The couple plans to wed February 6 1988 at St. Mark's Methodist Church in Oildale.
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