Shafter July clinic notices and summer programs listed
The Shafter Health Department outlines July clinics including immunization exceptions, with 329 Central Valley Highway as the site. Family planning and pregnancy screening slots on July 23 require calls to 746-7562. Also listed are football conditioning, library summer activities, aquatic center hours, swim lessons, water safety classes, and community partner meeting notes with contact numbers.
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Shafter Health Department
Central Valley Highway
Shafter Aquatic Center
East Tulare Avenue
Shafter Healthy Start Discusses School Readiness Program
A Shafter Collaborative meeting on July 16 reviewed the Shafter Healthy Start school readiness program. The center-based program serves four to five year olds twice weekly with social, health, and safety education for parents, plus home visits and community resources. Yvonne Munoz detailed five components including First 5 funding, migrant program sharing, parent education, a summer readiness effort, and a Kindergarten Roundup with dental and vision checks.
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Aurie Roth
Shafter Collaborative
Shafter Healthy Start
Hilda Osorio
Healthy Start Office
Osorio
Yvonne Munoz
Munoz
Shafter
National Health Services
Shafter Opens Sweet Stop Candy Shop for Town
Debbie Bender opened the Shafter Sweet Stop on July 2 offering ice cream such as banana splits and sundaes, fresh baked goods and candies, specialty coffee drinks and gourmet sodas in a pink and white whimsical shop aimed at a comfortable, relaxing experience for Shafter residents.
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Shafter
Debbie Bender
Bender
Sweet Stop
Sweet Tooth Heaven
Tip a Cop fundraiser boosts Kern County support
On July 17 Applebee's in the Marketplace hosted Tip a Cop to raise funds for the Special Olympics. Law enforcement agencies from Kern County participated, collecting donations while wearing Special Olympics shirts. Davida Murphy noted this third annual Kern County event, part of a program dating to 1981, with CSUB and Bakersfield agencies taking part.
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Applebee’s
Applebee's
Kern County
Davida Murphy
California
California State University
Bakersfield
Summer reading program bubbles delight Wasco Shafter youngsters
Children at Wasco and Shafter Libraries enjoyed a bubble science program led by Brandon Gray of Wild Child Adventures Fresno. Gray, with a biology background, demonstrated bubble shapes taught the science of transparency and even let kids name a rainbow bubble while creating bubble castles and rain of bubbles.
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Michael Kennedy
Shafter Library
Wasco
Shafter
Brandon Gray
Wild Child Adventures
Wildchildadventures
Gray
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Shaft ‘Oe
Shafter Football
Shafter High
Manuel Garcia
Library
Mommy and Me
Shafter Pool
Shafter Recreation and Park District
Healthy Start
Shafter Sweet Stop
Chamber of Commerce
Cathy Prout
By Alexis Stokes
Candy
Ethan
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