Residents cite poor planning at game and complex meeting
Letters describe overcrowded admission at a game with five busloads arriving to a crowded gym and inadequate hospitality. Other notes support Citizens for the Sports Complex, criticizing the action group while praising the Rec Board for study, fairness, and a unanimous vote to back the project.
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Kerman
Shafter Recreation and Parks District
Recreation District Board
Citizens For
Citizens Against
Shafter Citizens Action Group
Recreation Board
Rec. Board
Rec
Crime Victims Restitution Act of 1983 proposed
Don Rogers comments support a bill allowing counties to add up to two percent restitution collection fees and mandating community service if financial restitution is inappropriate. The act would apply to adults and juveniles, with parents liable up to 5000 dollars if a minor cannot repay. Voters backed victims rights, lawmakers urged to follow through.
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California
Processing Potentials Productively in Life and Faith
An instructional piece linking Pauls I Corinthians guidance to Olympic ideals for maximizing personal gifts and disciplined living. It outlines four patterns: determination to win, disciplined training, directed goal setting, and self‑control to avoid disqualification, all under divine scrutiny and blessing.
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Christ
Paul I
Corinth
Paul
Jesus
J. Oswald Sanders
Finding God's Will Through personal discipline and love
The March 16, 1983 page presents a faith message urging readers to seek God’s will by following four guidelines inspired by Paul. It emphasizes living authentically, using divine life and gifts to develop personal potential, and pursuing a disciplined, directed path without disqualification.
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God
Apostle Paul
Traffic safety in Shafter focuses on threefold approach
The Shafter Police Department outlines traffic safety as engineering, education, and enforcement. It stresses driver responsibility, defensive driving, and avoiding risky habits as the main factor in reducing accidents, noting many faults lie with individual behavior rather than laws. The piece previews future discussions on psychological and physical factors and driving environment.
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Shafter Police Department
Peopl
Inservice Day for Richland School District Staff
On March 21 Richland School District staff will attend sessions on teaching English as a Second Language using the Total Physical Response method and stress reduction techniques. K-8 students do not attend that day. Parents or community members may attend by contacting Randy Cross at 746 5234.
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Ciizens
Recreation Board
Rif-raf
Shafter
Westside
Shafter High
Rec. Board
District Board of Trustees
Don
Fred Starrh
Rec. - Board
Richland
Randy Cross
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Shafter Lions Club
Joe O'Brien
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