Potato Heritage Festival memories and planning notes
An opinion piece recalls the 1949 Second Annual Potato Festival and Rodeo in Shafter, with Queen Evangeline Steel and Missed details like a horse giveaway. It notes posters in 1952 calling it Potato and Cotton Festival, future Home Tour plans, and community activities. It also mentions high school dropout concerns and historical society preparations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
2030 Club No. 255
Richland Aquatic Center
Evangeline Steel
Billie Wheeler
Adele Duering
Joanne Willoughby
Juanita Rohrbach
Wm. H
Bill” Stroller
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Johnny Mack Brown
Community Chest
Green Hotel
Annabel Wedge Thompson
Dropout crisis prompts federal aid push for reform
The piece argues high school dropout rates distort true figures and harm economies, urging nationwide standards that count all dropouts. It cites Census data on wage gaps and savings from higher graduation rates, and calls for federal funding under a proposed Graduation Promise Act of 2007 to expand proven programs and pilot projects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Alliance For Excellent Education
Governors Association
Center For American Progress
Jobs For the Future
America
Slavery and donor influence in California politics
A reflective piece links modern slavery and trafficking to global numbers and moral duty while critiquing California governance. It cites the State Department figures on 800,000 trafficking victims and argues slavery violates life and liberty rights. The second segment accuses Gov. Schwarzenegger and allies of policy favoritism to big donors, notably in plastic pipe rules backed by the Building Industry Association funds and appointees with industry ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States State Department
United States
California
Gray Davis
Davis
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Schwarzenegger
California Building Industry Assn
Building Standards Commission
Dennis Beddard
State Department of Housing and Community Development
EIR
Rosario Marin
Building Code Commission
Marin
Maria
Lynn L. Jacobs
Building Industry Association
David Walls
America
New York City
Chicago
Carmen Barber
The
Foundation For Consumer and Taxpayer Rights
Arnold
Housing Department
Jacobs
SBC Communications
At&t Corp
Public Utilities Commission
Jackie Pfannenstiel
Pacific Gas & Electric Co
Energy Commission
Elias
Burzynski
Tdelias
Aol
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Barbara Prickett Craig
Shafter High School
McFarland
Delano
Wasco
JW Auudl
Que Pasa
Deanna Rodriguez Root
Fioua
By Thomas D. Gias
Reed Print Inc
California Newspaper Publishers Association
Shafter Press
East Lerdo Highway
Shafter
Reed Print, Inc
Aldrin Ct
Bakersfield
Congress
P.O. Box
Frank W. Reed
Donald L. Reed
Melissa Hill
Mana Diane Givens
East
Lerdo Highway
Ger
Shafterpress
Earthlink.net
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