Safety Week at Shafter Youth Center Teaches Emergency Readiness
Shafter Youth Center hosts Safety Week with guests from the American Red Cross Kern County Fire Department and Hall Ambulance. Kids learn disaster preparedness fire safety EMT roles and life skills including stranger danger DUI awareness and in house nutrition and cooking sessions. Special next week previews Sports Week with a pro sports guest.
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Shafter
American Red Cross
Kern County Fire Department
Sean Collins
Hall Ambulance
Shafter Youth Center
SYC
Bakersfields
Sentencing delayed again in Shafter murder case
The judge pushed the sentencing for Maxamillan Lee McDonald to August 2 at 8:30 am after his new attorney requested more time to review records. McDonald was convicted in April of murder and related robbery charges in the death of Guadalupe Ramos, 72, whose killing occurred in a Foods Co parking lot on Haley Street. Co-defendant Lawrence Slaughter received life without parole after being found guilty of murder, robbery and gang-pleaded crimes. CAPK announces a Summer Food Service Program starting June 10 through August 2, 2013, offering free meals for children with multiple site locations in Bakersfield Shafter and Lamont.
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Fred Dorton
Dorton
Kern County
Thomas S. Clark
Guadalupe Ramos
Ramos
of Foods Co
Haley Street
Christopher Harvell Patterson
Patterson
Lawrence Gregory Slaughter
Slaughter
Community Action Partnership of Kern
CAPK
SFSP
Cape
Friendship House
Shafter
Bakersfield
Lamont
Community Evening Programs at Youth Center
The Youth Center at 455 E Euclid Ave opens Monday to Friday from 5 to 9 pm offering aerobics Zumba on Tue and Thu, basketball, volleyball, computer lab, Wii Stay Fit, arts and crafts, reading time and homework help free of charge. Volunteers for Kern County Mental Health Senior Outreach grocery deliveries welcome. call Melanie Davie-Haynes at 758-7332.
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E. Euclid Ave
Araceli Solis
Kern County Mental Health
Wasco
Shafter
Melanie Davie-Haynes
Hazardous Anhydrous Ammonia Release at Local Warehouse
A person reported a hazardous materials release at Buttonwillow Warehouse Co near Fire Station 25. Kern County Haz Mat 66 responded as crews controlled a leak from a 30,000 gallon tank transferring to a 1,000 gallon tank. No injuries reported.
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Buttonwillow Warehouse Co
Kern County Haz Mat 66
Haz Mat 66
Shafter Welcomes Deputy Chief Brian Smith
The city of Shafter announces the appointment of Brian Smith as Deputy Chief of Police on June 3, 2013. A former California Highway Patrol commander and Bakersfield CHP official, Smith brings decades of law enforcement service, community focus, and leadership to expand safety in Shafter. Married with eight children and five grandchildren, he expresses enthusiasm for integrating with the city and its residents.
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Shafter
Brian Smith
California Highway Patrol
Brian
Cheltenham
Philadelphia
United States Marine Corps
Bakersfield
CHP
Santa Barbara
Smith
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