Kiwanis Shafter Meet Centers Community Updates
Kiwanis Shafter chapter meets at noon in Veterans Hall. Commodities distribution Friday July 27 from 9 am to 4 pm at Veterans Hall, bring a paper bag. Library bylaws vote July 27 at 7 pm at Shafter Library. public invited. Police hours updated 8 am to 6 pm Monday through Saturday. closed Sundays and holidays. Narcotics Anonymous adds Monday 8 pm meeting at Shafter Rehabilitation Center. Recreation District seeks volunteers and resumes for summer programs. contact Phil Walker. Chamber builds new map and guide, printing 10,000 copies. call 746-2600. Fire Department warns drought stage one brush-fire risk. Crisis counseling offered by local drug and alcohol rehab. More on 3a.
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Shafter’s Veterans Hall
Shafter Police Department
Narcotics Anonymous
Shafter Rehabilitation Center
E. Lerdo Highway
Shafter Recreation and Park District
Phil Walker
Shafter
Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
Courtland Publishing
Sherman Oaks
Shafter approves RTC construction and city contract steps
Shafter Planning Commission night voted 4 0 to conditionally approve a new return to custody facility to house parole violators. City Council authorized the city manager to sign the state contract with DOC and urged contract details be finalized by week end. Construction target is September with soil tests July 25 and Ash Street improvements. The privately owned 65 job project will be leased to the state with a 20 year guaranteed lease and annual city income of about 685000. Concerns include stigma fear of escapes financial risk. inmates will be screened and not hardened criminals.
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Shafter Planning Commission
Shafter
Wade McKinney
State Department of Corrections
McKinney
Ash
Dee
Gary Knox
Knox
Lerdo Highway
Los Angeles Street
California Department of Corrections
Commission
Shafter Grad Handel Earns Second Runner-Up in America’s Jr Miss
Shafter High graduate Gretchen Handel, representing California, placed second runner up in America’s Jr Miss in Mobile Alabama, earning more than 11000 in total scholarships from a field of fifty states. She won 1000 in preliminary poise and fitness awards and will return home with over 11000 in winnings. Parents Charlene and Tim Handel expressed awe and pride as Gretchen thanked them for support.
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Shafter
Gretchen Handel
California
America
Mobile
Alabama
Handel
Ericka Emery Ona
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By Mike Bledsoe
Kiwanis
Kiwanis Club
Veterans Hall
Shafter Library
Friends of the Shafter Library
Kern County Fire Department
RTC Construction
Bob Schettler
Weather Report
William Aw
Wasco Park
Darlene Williams
By Terri Murray
Gretchen
Charlene Handel
Europe
Mit
Tim
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