Six SHS students named for UCSB Partners Program
Six Shafter High School students have been selected to participate in the University Partners Program at UC Santa Barbara. The program, in its second year, recruits minority students from Kern, Santa Maria and Ventura Counties for the Summer Academic Institute. Participants live in UCSB dorms for four weeks, follow a structured schedule, and attend math reading and writing instruction with early wake times and study blocks. The six from Shafter are Lee, Miguel Fernandez, Michelle Ganzdez, Eliazar Vela, Hector Avila, and Patricia Ozzy Espinoza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter High School
University of California, Santa Barbara
Kern
Santa Maria
Ventura Counties
Joe Marti
SAI
Martinez
Shafter
County
UCSB
Sal.h. Ornelas
Shafter Lee
Miguel Ea Fernandez
Michelle Gandez
Eliazar Vela
Hector Avila
Patricia Ozzie Espinoza
Ozzie
Jose and
Evarista Espinoza
Sole Power Walk A Thon Raises Funds for March of Dimes
The Sole Power Walk A Thon on February 23 in Shafter and Wasco drew 45 walkers, raising 2456.68 dollars over 1485 kilometers. Esther Mosby was the oldest in the over 50 group. Steve Parker and Shawn Tiger were the youngest at eight. Michele Berg led donations with 510 dollars. The Central Valley Amateur Radio Volunteer Group aided route patrol, with mail donations directed to Fresno 925 N Fulton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
March of Dimes
Shafter
Wasco
Esther Mosby
Steve Parker
Shawn Tiger
Michele Berg
Central Valley Amateur Radio
Fulton
Fresno
WADD hires Hastings as vocational coordinator to expand training
James Hastings has joined the Wasco Association for the Developmentally Disabled as vocational coordinator. He will direct community employment projects and real work training for disabled clients, with support from the Department of Rehabilitation and Kern Regional Center. Hastings seeks part or full time employment as outcomes vary by ability. He previously worked as a rehabilitation supervisor and studied social work at California colleges. he is married with one daughter.
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James Hastings
Wasco Association For the Developmentally Disabled
WADD
Hastings
PLC
Billy Keener
Department of
Rehabilitation
Kern
Tulare County
California State Colleges
Fresno and
Bakersfield
Wild chase ends with arrest in Shafter
Police say Lookadoo, driving on a suspended license, led a brief chase before being captured. charged with reckless driving evading a police vehicle and multiple assault counts with a deadly weapon on officers. He faces added weapon and drug possession charges after a statewide response and a scuffle.
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Lockadoo
Shafter
Lookadoo
Atlantic
Jon McLaren
McLaren
Kenneth Williams Sanderson
Glenn Pressley
Olsen named IDEA Fellow Academy of Fellows honors Kern High official
Neal W. Olsen Administrative Director of Instruction at Kern High School District Bakersfield California is named a member of the IDEA Academy of Fellows He is among 750 educators selected to attend a week long seminar at Harvey Mudd College Claremont California The program is the nation s oldest continuous in service education for school administrators and has trained over 6500 participants from North America and overseas
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Institute For Development of
Charles F. Kettering Foundation
Neal W. Olsen
Kern
Bakersfield
California
Olsen
Shafter
Shafter High
Harvey Mudd College
Claremont
Academy of Fellows
North Ame Ana
Cotton Station Seminar Set At Shafter Center
The USDA Cotton Research Station in Shafter will host a June 19 seminar at 2 30 p m with Agricultural Engineer Lyle Carter presenting Farming Without Wheels. A mini field day precedes at 1 30 p m visiting current field plots. Lyle M Carter is Research Leader at 17053 Shafter Avenue West Conference Room.
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U.S.D.A
Shafter
Lyle Carter
Shafter Avenue
Lyle M. Carter
Vehicle crash injures man as seven cattle die on Lerdo Highway
A noon Monday collision on Lerdo Highway near Scaroni between a truck driven by Frank Aincbury and a car driven by John Nickelsen left a man with head injuries and killed seven cattle. Nickelsen was taken to Mercy Hospital. Sheriff's deputies later reported a theft of 10 Briggs and Stratton engines from Borda Farms on Enos Lane near the Kern River, valued at about $3,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lerdo
Scaroni
California
Frank Aincbury
Bakersfield
John Nickelsen
Shafter
Larry Borda
Borda Farms
Enos Lane
Kern River
The Way We Were by Jeanette Wheeler and Local City Notes
A compilation of past events from June dates across decades in Shafter California. Items include a 1950 housing loan proposal for 35 Federal units, a 1960 ammonia leak at Brown and Bryant, a 1970 senior exercises and Disneyland outing, a 1975 housing suit in Kern County, and a large cotton oil fire at Ranchers' Cotton Oil in Cawelo with market price notes for seed commodities.
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University of Cali
Carl Kelly
Jack Black
Brown and Bryant
South Elm Street
Wendell Kinney
New York Life
Shafter High School
Mitchell Sprague
Marvin Roe
Roe
East Shafter
City of
Shafter
Kern County Superior Court
Cawelo
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Shafter Press
SHS
Magdalena Schnaidt
Ebenezer Reformed Church
Calvin Stuebbe
Maynard Koerner
Shafter Memorial Park
T. Mettler
Eugéne Mettler
William Mettler
Santa Barbara
Rosie Whitaker
Albina Kurtz
Lydia Temple
Los Altos
Jose Manuel Gonzales
Mexico
North Kern Hospital
Mr. Gonzales
Belridge Farms
Antonio Gonzales Dias
Shafter Agee Funeral Home
Elsie Olivia Unruh
Elsie Unruh
Delano Hospital
Paul Johnson
Shafter Seventh-Day Adventist Church
Miss Unruh
North Dakota
Delmar Unruh
Carrington
Agee Funeral Home
Osvaldo
Ozzie) Espinoza
Ee Enege
Se Tonne Es Huan Dez
Michelle Prendez
Miguel Aguilar
Patricia Lopez
Ruth Sexton
Jim Hastings
Wild Chase
Kaplan
Stern Alexander
Gene Kolhoff
Merv Crist
Jerry Janzen
Ben Palmer
Idea
Mercy Hospital
Liberia
Jeanette Wheeler
Fornia
Berkeley
Sapany
Oldsmobile
Richland
Elemen School
Wak Kaon
Disneyland
Johnnie Schnidt
SAVE
Red Wings Wood’s Shoe Store
Central Ave
George Globe
Bakerfield
Medical Union & Insurance
Mate Spm
Woolworths
Qwayne Armstrong
Dennie A
Armstrong
Boo Munzer
Shapter
Cal
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