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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 20, 1985
Page
5
Sandy Armstrong shares spring garden ideas and family activities including tomato planting tips, pruning guidance, and curbside beautification. The column includes multiple home recipes for French Silk Pie and Never-Fail Pie Crust, with personal notes and a reader call for recipe contributions.
The Shafter Historical Society schedules its annual potluck and pie auction for Thursday April 11 at the Shafter Veterans Hall. It is a fund raiser open to the community. Details will appear in the society newsletter and The Shafter Press.
Jack and Catherine Sherrill mark their 45th wedding anniversary with family at daughter Leeda Stark’s home in Shafter. Married March 7 1940 in Parma Missouri Pentecostal Church, a lavender and white three tier cake and buffet accompanied gifts and well wishes from relatives across Wasco Alpaugh Mojave Porterville Bakersfield and Dudley Missouri.
Shafter Convalescent Hospital staff and residents hold a yard sale at 10 a.m. Thursday on hospital grounds to raise money for the Heart Fund as part of Heart Month. A Friday bake sale and cake walk start at 10 a.m. with chili dogs, frito boats, popcorn, and a jelly bean guess for prizes at 140 E Tulare. Volunteers are welcome. call 746-3942 to help.
Community calendar listing events from March 20 to March 26 includes CBMC prayer breakfast at Yee's Steak House Shafter Kiwanis and Lions Club meetings at Veterans Hall and other venues, Valley Bible Church study, Chamber of Commerce sessions, a Shafter-Wasco Health Fair at Richland Primary, and city council and Rotary events with locations and times. Notable venues include Yee's Steak House, Veterans Hall, J.D.'s, and Elks Club with multiple noon meetings and evening sessions.
Beginning Tuesday April 2 and each Tuesday in April children of all ages can attend an Easter Storyhour at 10 00 a m at the Shafter Branch Library 236 James St Head storyteller is Barbara Swanson head of Children's Services Kern County Library She also teaches Children's Literature at Bakersfield College Call 746-2156 for details
Elaine Kanode, librarian at Shafter Branch Library, reads a story to Johnny and Kathy Eastman. Story hours during April are set for Tuesdays at 10 a.m.
Kelly Campbell from Wagga Wagga Australia and Samuel Schafler from Brig Switzerland will spend a year in the Shafter area as exchange students. The program is run by Youth for Understanding based in Washington DC. Host families provide homes and meals with tax deductions available for hosting.
A compact moral note compares old friendships to aged wine, warning that new friends pale beside enduring ties. It emphasizes valuing long-time companions over fresh relationships and urges gratitude for lasting bonds.
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