Comeback bids fuel aging stars in major league camps
Veteran hitters and a few pitchers like Andy Van Slyke Corey Snyder Howard Johnson Kelly Gruber and Kevin Bass are back in spring camps with the Cardinals Mets Orioles and Angels. Expansion and a pitching shortage push veterans to chase one more season hoping for payoff against thinner staff and downgrading arms.
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Andy van Slyke
Orioles
Cardinals
Rick Honeycutt
van Slyke
Tony LaRussa
Corey Snyder
Cardinal
Dodgers
Howard Johnson
Mets
Johnson
Met
Evander Holyfield
Kelly Gruber
Toronto
Texas
Roberto
Alomar
Gruber
Kevin Bass
Baltimore
Angels
Steve Trout
Scott
Tampa Bay
Phoenix
Snyder
Bass
Shafter Youth Basketball Teams Honored in Year End Standings
The Shafter Recreation and Park District wraps up the Youth Basketball Program with final standings for Boys Varsity and Girls Varsity teams. Bulls and Wolverines tie for first in Boys Varsity. Celtics and Bulls Dogs lead Girls Varsity. Tas Hills tops Junior Varsity. March 1 Raffles awarded prizes to Joshua Scales, Vanessa Aleman, Leilani Garza, and more.
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Shafter Recreation and Park District
Bulls
Wolverines
Celtics
Bulls Dogs
Pistons
Bull Dogs
Hornets
Magic
Tas Hills
Stars
SHS
Warren McDaniel
Sam Frantz
Joshua Scales
Vanessa Aleman
Toys R Us Bucks
Leilani Garza
Giovanni’s
Adrian Ramirez
Toys Phat Hee
Penshweee
Monica Nightingale
Evian Crane
Lediaeialien
Community events listed in Shafter military column
The Shafter Press announces local events including FIRST SATURDAY open depot tours by appointment call Denni Pearson or Stan Wilson, EVERY MONDAY crafts group at 1 pm at W C Walker Senior Center with Barbara Tisler, SECOND MONDAY Woman's Agron meetings at 7 pm Veterans Hall, FIRST THURSDAY community prayer at City Hall 12 30 to 12 40 pm to pray for community leaders.
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Shafter Press
P.O
W.C. Walker Senior Center
Sunset Ave
Barbara Tisler
Woman’s Agron
Shafter
Veteran’s Hall
Fem
Wildflowers Bloom Across Kern County Hills
Winter rains and sun spur wild and cultivated blooms in Kern County. Blooming areas include North Kern almond and peach trees, Shafter Allen Rd area, Wasco along Hwy 46 and 43, Delano along Hwy 43 and 95. Hotline 800 500 KERN offers seasonal questions. Maturango Museum walking programs begin in March.
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Kern County
Kern
Shafter
Allen Rd
Bakersfield
Wasco
Delano
Red Rock Canyon
Maturango
Ridgecrest
Kern County Board of Trade
Voice in the wilderness echoes in Dead Sea Scrolls
Professor James C. Vanderkam of North Carolina State University links Qumran and John the Baptist to Isaiah 40:3, noting both prepared the way of the Lord in the wilderness. He asks if that prophetic voice can cry out again for today’s Israel in the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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James C. Vanderkam
North Carolina State University
John (the Baptist
Vanderkam
John
Israel
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