July Fourth notices and community calendar in Shafter
Shafter Press and Wasco Tribune announce early deadlines for the July 5 issue and closed office dates July 3 and 4. Health clinics, immunizations, and screenings are listed at 329 Central Valley Highway with appointment calls, plus a busy July schedule of library programs, fireworks events, animal control rabies clinic, and July 3 Chamber fireworks at SHS field.
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Shafter Press
Wasco Tribune
Shafter Public Health Department
Central Valley Highway
Shafter Senior Center
Shafter Library
Shafter Animal Shelter
Shafter Police Department
Heidi Gomez
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
SHS
Karen
Kern County Animal Control
Shafter
Sunset
Shafter Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
Shafter High
Zambelli Internationale
Chamber
Shafter High School
Chamber of Commerce
Law enforcement to run DUI checkpoints for Fourth of July weekend
Kern County agencies including Bakersfield Police, CHP and Shafter PD will conduct several DUI checkpoints July 1 as part of the AVOID program. The effort, funded by a state grant, targets drunk drivers during peak holiday traffic with saturation patrols and 80 percent CHP staffing during the weekend.
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Kern County
Jackie Park
Kern
Alcohol Beverage Control
Arvin
Bakersfield
Bear Valley
California City Police Department
California Highway Patrol
California State University
Delano
Ridgecrest
Shafter
Stallion Springs
Taft
Park
Shafter Police Department
California Office of Traffic Safety
National Highway Safety Administration
John Zrofsky
Hart Park
California City
AVOID
Zrofsky
Childcare programs offered to migrant families at COLLABORATIVE meeting
Yesenia Salazar and Norma Bautista presented two programs, the Migrant Childcare AP and the CMIG Program, at a June 21 COLLABORATIVE meeting. The Migrant Childcare AP serves migrant families in six California counties and supports children aged zero to 13 with a safe educational environment. Families must migrant at least one year or intend to migrant, work in agriculture, have childcare need, and meet income requirements in Kern Tulare Madera Kings Fresno or Merced counties.
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Yesenia Salazar
Norma Bautista
CMIG
Salazar
California
Kern
Tulare
Madera
Kings
Fresno
Merced
Early morning crash claims two Wasco men dead
Two Wasco men died in a head-on crash on Lerdo Highway Tuesday June 20. Nicholas Henderson 21 of Bakersfield drove a Ford E-150 van westbound and drifted into the eastbound lane. Jose Iniguez Perez 42 and Mario Vallejo 51 of Wasco died at the scene. Henderson and a passenger Richard Hodges 27 suffered minor injuries while Ronnie Stevens Jr 22 of Bakersfield was majorly injured and airlifted to Kern Medical Center.
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Wasco
Rick Jorgensen
California Highway Patrol
Jorgensen
Nicholas Henderson
Bakersfield
Lerdo Highway
California Aqueduct
Jose Iniguez-Perez
Henderson
Lerdo
Iniguez-Perez
Mario Vallejo
Richard Hodges
Ronnie Stevens, Jr
Kern Medical Center
Bakersfield Man Dies In Lerdo Highway Crash
Bakersfield man Alex Ortega, 24, died after his Nissan veered off East Lerdo Highway, overcorrected, and struck a cement irrigation tower. He suffered severe cranial and spinal injuries and was pronounced dead Sunday at Kern Medical Center.
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Bakersfield
Bell
Alex Ortega
Lerdo Highway
Ortega
Kern County
Kern Medical Center
KMC
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American Legion #865
Munzer Street
Hitchcock's Auto Parts
Library
SPD
By Melissa Hill
Central Avenue
Jeff Bell
East Lerdo Highway
Beech and
Cherry
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