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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1977
Page
3
Linda and Mickey, a young couple celebrating four years of marriage, manage a home filled with plants and orchids. Linda’s work includes bookkeeping and part time floristry while she tends field workers’ drinks and meals.
Barbara Hunt profiles Linda Leticia Hunt born in San Luis Obispo a creative hobbyist with a flair for strawberry cottage cheese salad flower arranging church events and weddings sewing interior decorating and crafts She balances family ties with ambitions in dress design and a future career while sharing a close bond with her mother and brother George.
Ricky W Friesen earned the Bausch & Lomb Science Award, a bronze medal given to the top science student at Shafter High among 8600 member schools in the US and Canada. He becomes eligible for University of Rochester scholarships up to 4500 dollars a year based on merit and need.
Saint Mark's Church in Shafter announces a March twenty seventh special collection to raise funds for Canterbury Cathedral restoration. The American effort aims at one million dollars with key supporters including Walter Cronkite Henry Ford II and John Lindsay backing the cause.
Revival set at Shafter Church of God runs March 16 with Rev. A L Manos. Evening services start 7 p.m. except Sundays 6 p.m. at the corner of Shafter and Richland Avenues. Everyone welcome.
A surprise dinner honored Inez Standridge of Shady Rest Trailer Court with son Leon and family delivering chicken from Oildale. Lydia Johnson of Shafter, living there since 1923, was feted Feb 26 by Shafter Seventh-Day Adventist Church before moving to Kailua Hawaii to join daughter Martha Thusman. Alpha Lydia Johnson honored on her 84th birthday March 10 with Zenobia Steel and several others in attendance.
Army private Otto P. McKinney 20 son of Juani ta V. Johnson Shafter California has been assigned to the 937th Engineer Group at Ft. Riley Kansas He serves as a light vehicle specialist in Company B of the 34th Engineer Battalion He entered the Army last October His wife Shari joins him in Kansas Also mentioned James Ellen Sexton and Sandy Pankey wish him 20 more years of happiness
Members of the Woman's Club enjoyed a hop at Century City while Dick Lynch spent a week in Pontiacolinois with his son Dennis and family before returning to Shafter. The Bud Barton family weekended in Anti och to check on property and visit Bud’s eight brothers. Scott Perkins Nathan Hurley and instructor Jim Bomprezzi examine a Shafter High School Farm lamb. Bomprezzi and Art Parham teach Agriculture at the high school with courses in crop production viticulture and orchard technique. Students in the class come from Delano.
Nomads of California San Joaquin chapter led by Al Hatala of Shafter plans a statewide convention April 30 and May 1 at Riverland Resort along Highway 99 in Kingsburg. The event aims to preserve the 1955 46 57 Chevrolet heritage. Reservation deadline is March 24. Officers include Tom Cummings Visalia vice president Annette Hatala secretary and Barbara Smith Tipton treasurer. Contact Shafter 746 2236 for details.
Richland School district serves a weekly menu from March 14 to 18. The plan lists meals including hot dogs with sides on Monday and burritos and pizza on other days. Descriptions cover chicken salad or tuna options, fruits and desserts, and beverages.
The Shafter Association of Retired Persons invites eligible residents 55 and older to a March 21 meeting at the Shafter Veterans Hall. A noon potluck, 1:30 PM business session, and bingo social follow lunch. Hosts are Lydia Bender, Lydia Mettler, and Evelyn Walker.
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