Easter activities announced by Shafter Recreation and Park District
The district schedules an Easter movie on Tuesday March 16 at Vet's Hall with Duck Tales The Movie at 1 p.m. admission is $1.50 and a snack bar will operate. On Wednesday March 27 the Annual Community Easter Egg Hunt at Shafter Sports Complex begins at 11 a.m. with age grouped hunts, lunch with the Easter Bunny, drinks and snacks offered, and contact numbers 746-3303 or 393-0866 for details.
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Shafter Recreation.and Park District
Walt Disney
Shafter
E. Tulare Ave
May Festival Booths Open for Reservations in Shafter
The Shafter Potato and Cotton Festival announced booth reservations close April 15 for the May 18 event at Manuel Park. Local, non local and professional vendors set varied fees from 30 to 220 dollars for booth sizes 15 by 15 or 30 by 15. The festival draws thousands and features a parade circus show 10K run crafts and Cow Pie Bingo.
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Shafter
Manuel Park
Preton
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
P.O
Prayer Breakfast by Shafter Womans Club on March 23
The Shafter Womans Club sponsors a prayer breakfast at the Vets Hall this Saturday March 23 at 8 30 a.m. Local speakers and a musical performance by the Methodist Church Bell Choir are planned. Admission is free and the public is invited.
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Shafter Womans Club
Vets Hall
Methodist Church Bell Choir
Doris Lewis Services Held in Kern County
Doris Lewis aged 75 died March 14 in Bakersfield. Services were held March 18 at Peters Funeral in Lamont with Rev. Glenn Smith of Harmon Baptist officiating. Interment in Shafter Memorial Park. Born in Abbott Arkansas she moved to this area in 1942 and later to Lamont near her children. Survived by two sons Robert and Tommy two daughters Rita and Rosita two brothers Dr Jack Hough and another sibling Ruth Cadogan one brother-in-law Bert Lewis and Sylvia six grandchildren.
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Peters
Doris Lewis
Bakersfield
Glenn Smith
Harmon Baptist Church of
Lamont
Shafter Memorial Park
Doris
Abbott
Arkansas
Robert Lewis
Tommy
Atascadero
Rita Comejs
Rosita Lewis
Oakland
Jack Hough
Oklahoma
Ruth Cadogan
Bert Lewis
Sylvia
Shafter
Bertha Schroeder Rites Held in Shafter at 96
Funeral services for Bertha E. Schroeder aged 96 were held March 18 at Peters Funeral Chapel. Born July 8, 1894 in Hankinson North Dakota she taught briefly and married Otto Schroeder in Hankinson 1922. They later lived in Detroit Lakes Minnesota and Shafter California where Otto died in 1961. She was active in the Seventh day Adventist Church and is survived by a brother in Shafter and a sister in Bakersfield. Donation requests go to the Seventh-day Adventist Academy in Shafter.
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Peters
Bertha E. Schroeder
Bakersfield
Paul Johnson
Shafter Seventh-day Adventist Church
Shafter Memorial Park
Bertha
Gustav and
Wilhelmina Felgner
Hankinson
North Dakota
Otto
Alfred Newman
Shafter
Hazel Craft
Seventh-day Adventist Academy
Open Cotton Station Aids San Joaquin Valley Growth
Open since 1922 the cotton station drives major developments in the San Joaquin Valley cotton industry. Though 25 percent of U.S. cotton is grown there, the station is budgeted to receive only 1 million dollars of the federal 32 million cotton research funds.
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San Joaquin Valley
Economic Strains and Critique of Postwar Policy
The writer notes large layoffs in the U S auto and electronics sectors from Japanese product competition and accuses West Germany of aiding Saddam Hussein’s Iraq in military matters. They lament rehabilitation of Japan and Germany with U S money and urge President Bush to rally national pride and counter both dictators and economic tyrants.
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U.S
West Germany
Saddam Hussein
Iraq
Japan
Germany
America
Pres. Bush
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California Federation of Womans Clubs
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Richland Primary
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By Georgette Kartel
Seventh Street
Wasco
Steven D. Gilbertson
D.D.S. Wasco Family Dental Office
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WTBS
Atlanta
WOR
WPIX
New York
WGN
Chicago
Warner Satellite Services
Primese 3
Television Warner Satellite Services
Kern County
Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
Bob Larson
KERI
Keri- Greenachres
CalFarm Insurance Agency
Selita Groves
James Street Shafter
Calif
Montgomery Insurance Agency
E Street
Joel N. Cooper
E. Tulare Shafter
Alter Entenne
Central Valley Chiropractic Clinic
Earl P. Kallies
E. Street
Manuel Campero
D.D.S
7Th Street
Robert A. Neufeld
D.D.S. Inc
Wasco, Calif
ADA
CDA
Kern County Dental Society
Wasco Family Dental Office
Michael Weinberg
Steve D. Gilbertson
Wolfgang H. Renken
Gregory George MD
St. Wasco
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