Shafter City Council Axes City Planner Post
The Shafter City Council voted to eliminate the City Planner position citing budget concerns. Ron Slade, the first full-time planner, will receive 60 days severance. a part-time planner is to be sought. The council also approved a three year contract for City Administrator August Caires and a new disability plan effective July 1. Additional actions included park improvements, a yard sale permit proposal, and congratulatory notes for a 50th wedding anniversary.
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Coma Dees
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New Bakersfield Press appoints Rick Lawler editor and hires Patti Musick
Rick Lawler resigns as Shafter Press news editor to lead the Bakersfield Press. Patti Musick, new News Editor, is a California State College graduate born in France, raised on Air Force bases, and married to Bill Musick. She aims to engage readers and grow the paper as she and her husband settle in Shafter.
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Texas
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Cal State Bakersfield
Shafter Woman Shot to Death in Sullivan Road Area
A Shafter woman, Martha Amador 19, was killed by a gunshot linked to a fatal shooting case on Sullivan Road near Enos Lane. Jose Vizcarra 31 of Santa Paula was booked on homicide charges after claiming an accidental discharge during target practice. Deputies investigated multiple arrests in Shafter including drunkenness and weapons incidents.
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Kern County
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Carlos Juan Chacon
S. Shafter Avenue
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Graduation at Richland Junior High Honors 147 Students
About 147 Richland Junior High students graduated in a ceremony June 9 at Shafter High School football stadium. The Richland Band played Pomp and Circumstance as Corina Arismendez led the pledge, Rev. Stan Jensen gave the invocation, and Eiko Yamamoto served as mistress of ceremonies. Speakers included Deanna Wooley and Michelle Wiens, with Yamamoto, Concepcion Mendez, and others taking parts. Awards went to Julie Walles, Richard Turner, Yamamoto, Debbie Nunlist, Kevin Holliman, and Eiko Yamamoto, who was named Valedictorian. Sherri Jensen was Salutatorian.
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Richland
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Stan Jensen
Eiko Yamamoto
Concepcion Mendez
Deanna Wooley
America
Michelle Wiens
Education
Foundation of America
Ma Reppert
Ray Wiley
Doris Wiley
Julie Walles
Richard Turner
Yamamoto
Jim Siler
Grady Bartlett
American Legion
Debbie Nunlist
Kevin Holliman
Phi Delta Kappa
Kern View to close Wasco Shafter Center June 30
The Wasco Shafter Counseling Center will end after 32 months of full time operation due to cutbacks in federal subsidies. Opened October 1979 as an extension of Kern View in Bakersfield, the center served over 400 clients and 400 area officials, with most funding from a National Institute of Mental Health grant.
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M.th
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Barker
Delano
SHS Graduates 137 Seniors at Thursday Ceremony
Shafter High School awarded diplomas to about 137 seniors in a June 10 ceremony at the SHS football stadium. The band played Pomp and Circumstance under Mike Hutchinson, with Invocation by Rev. Roger Trautmann. Class president Miguel Aguilar and Blanca Avila spoke, and several seniors were honored for awards and honors.
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Roger Trautmann
Miguel Aguilar
Blanca Avila
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