AARP Shatter Chapter Publishes First Newsletter
The Shatter Chapter of the American Association of Retired Persons distributed its first newsletter at a recent meeting at Veterans Hall. It includes a message from President Dar! Meyer, tours, a meeting calendar, member and officer obligations, and chapter purposes edited by Catherine White. The fall revival is planned, with Hawaiian music by the Silver Notes, a pot luck luncheon led by Evelyn Walker, and color slides by J Paul Alexander.
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Silver
Bakersfield
Shafter
The
American Association of Retired Persons
Shatter
Veterans Hall
Dar! Meyer
AARP
First Vice Presi
Silver Notes
Evelyn Walker
Harlan Wilson
Wedding and engagement notices policy and contact details
The Shafter Press offers free wedding engagement birth and society notices with deadlines Monday noon for weekly publication. Contact society writer Jeanette Wheeler on Mondays or Fridays at 746-4942 or 399-5925. Photos should be black and white. color accepted if properly printed. Page 24 June 23 1982.
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Shafter Press
Contact Society
Jeanette Wheeler
Woods Tie Home Life of Kent Wood Bride in Shafter
Kent and Melanie Wood establish their home at 124 Golden West Avenue Shafter following their April 3 1982 wedding at Valley Bible Church 250 guests. The bride wore a satin daisy lace gown with nylon net veil. Honeymoon included Madonna Inn and San Diego before returning April 8. Both graduates of Shafter High School with further study at Lufkin’s Business College.
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Kent Wood
Golden West Avenue
Ken
Melanie West
Sally Alexander
Solvang
Lisa Handel
Shafter
Melissa Barton
Bakersfield
Kim Wells
Tanya Wood
Jane Wood
Joni Lewis
Candelighter
Linda Ford
Jason Wood
Marcie Schmidt
Danny Wood
Richard Alexander
Herbie Wood
Terry Lewis
Carl
Ricky
Madonna Inn
San Diego
Shafter High School
Lufkins Business College
Oshel to Lead Scouts at Southern Sierra Leaders Training
Paul Oshel of Shafter-Wasco was named Course Assistant Scoutmaster for the Southern Sierra Council Boy Scout Leaders Training Conference. The July 3–10 meeting at Camp Kern near Fresno will prepare twenty senior patrol leaders and other leadership corps from Kern Inyo and Mono counties.
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Scouts of America
Southern Sierra Council
Oshel
Shafter-Wasco
Kern High Sierra Camp
Fresno
Kern
Inyo
Mono Counties
Shafter Library Highlights Service and Staff
Hansen, serving nearly four years at the Shafter branch, runs a quiet hub for reading classes films and meetings. The library rotates its books weekly and stocks current fiction best sellers from the New York Times Book Review plus select non fiction titles. Library staff deliver to shut ins and convalescent homes and encourage more residents to visit to boost circulation.
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Shafter
Hansen
New York Times Book Review
Yook Times Haok
Shafter Library Seeks Volunteers to Teach Arts and Crafts
The Shafter Library invites volunteers to teach knitting crocheting handi crafts and art with supplies provided by the library. Weekly activities include Chess Club painting and a summer story hour with free lessons and no fees for all ages. Overeater's Anonymous meets Thursday mornings and Films are shown Friday and Tuesday afternoons.
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Shafter Library
Margaret Hansen
Hansen
Ning
Balloons Launch for Great Escape Reading Club in Kern County
Over 6000 balloons were released Tuesday to promote the Great Escape summer reading club in Kern County. In Shafter at least 200 balloons were launched by children and families with postcards asking finders to call the library. A prize will be awarded by July 15th to the finder of the balloon that travels far, even into park trees and residents’ yards, with helium balloons known to drift miles and appear months later.
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Kern County
Shafter
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AAPR
J. Paul Alexander
Church of the Nazarene
Woods
Mr. and
Mrs
Paul Oshel
James Street
Henry Harder
Mennonite Brethren Church
California
Overeater’s Anonymous
Reading
E. Tulare Ave. Shafter
W. Stanley Jensen
Pactar
Congregational Church
Msgr
John A. Delany
the People's Church
James St
Shafter United Methodist
Sun
Rev. G
Ted Larson
W. Lerdo Hwy
First Southern Baptist Church
Kern St
H.D. Rutledge
Ebenezer Reformed Church
Corner of Sunset
James Maynard Koerner
God
Shield of Faith Revival Church
California Ave
Shafter, CA
Pastors
Graeber
Donald Brown
Cones Korn
Wwe
First Assembly
Elm Street
Jerry Mitchell
Pentecostal Church OF God
South Shafter Ave
Kevin Grills
P.Y.P.A
Varlene Melllwain
John Davis
Valley Bible
North Pine Street
Roger Trautmann
Ken West
Menno Schellenberg
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