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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Mar 30, 1988
Page
7
Holy Week at St Therese includes Masses at 7:30 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. Confessions available from 4 to 7:30 p.m. in English and Spanish, plus Spanish Stations of the Cross by Jovenes Unidos. Easter schedule lists Masses at 9 and 11 a.m. in English and 1:30 p.m. in Spanish with the Passion rites and Veneration of the Cross observed.
Two guest speakers addressed the Soroptimist gathering on March 17. Pat Moosier of Houchin Community Blood Bank discussed blood donation and screening requirements while Susan Billman of Rape Hotline spoke on rape prevention and crisis support in Kern County.
Shafter Kiwanis raised over 400 dollars for the American Cancer Society and handed daffodil bouquets to patients at Kern Crest Manor and Shafter Convalescent Hospital. Participants named include Herb Watkins Lew Carrol Dick Garber and Burl Meek. An Easter sunrise service is planned at 7 a.m. in Manuel Park with a rain contingency at Valley Bible Church.
The Valley Bible Church of Shafter and West Park Baptist Church of Bakersfield unite their choirs to perform The Day He Wore My Crown under Neal Olsen. Show times are April 3 at 4 30 p.m. at West Park Baptist Church 5001 Ming Ave Bakersfield and 7 30 p.m. at Valley Bible Church 350 Pine St Shafter. A community invitation to worship the risen Savior in song.
The Shafter Kiwanis Easter Service will be held at Manuel Park next Sunday at 7 a.m. Rev. Bill Eudy of the First Church of the Nazarene will speak. If weather is bad, the service moves to Valley Bible Church at 350 Pine St.
The practice likely arrived in Europe in the 15th century via missionaries and knights returning from the Crusades. Colors were created from common materials like onion skins, walnut shells, and madder root, each carrying symbolic meaning from joy to royalty. The Pennsylvania Dutch helped spread decorated eggs in the New World, while William Townley’s 1870s coloring powders popularized the modern method.
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