Shafter Potato and Cotton Festival Seeks Location for Junior Rodeo
Festival officials scramble for a last minute site as rain saturated Rodriguez Parkette delaying the junior rodeo. Public Works Director Lew Carroll says ground remains too wet while plans for a four day festival including a parade grand marshal Tex Collins and various events proceed in Shafter with crowds expected.
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Shafter
Shafter Festival
Rodriguez Parkette
Parkette
Lew Carroll
Hudson Parkette
Carroll
Tex Collins
LA Times
Collins
Arizona
James
Police Administration
Stringham Park
Shafter Abolishes Pyramid Zoning On Urgency Measure
Shafter City Council adopted an emergency ordinance to end pyramid zoning for four months and limit development to areas already zoned. Some pyramid development may occur only with a conditional use permit from the planning commission and council approval. The council also asked for an ordinance to control moving houses into the city, giving the planning commission authority to approve or deny permits.
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Shafter
Planning Commission
Bill Sheldon
Sheldon
Kern County
Shafter Officials Approve Permits and Curfew Measure
April building permits in Shafter exceed 79 000 with 24 794 for Ernie Hofman Pine Street and 28 254 for Richland Chevrolet remodeling plus five homes. Council approves moving a house to East Euclid, sets 10 PM to 5 AM park curfew with up to 500 fine, and backs an assistant planner shared with McFarland funded by federal money.
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Shafter
Ernie Hofman
Pine Street
Richland Chevrolet
Lerdo
Central Valley Highway
North Shafter
East Euclid
R.A. Wolcott
Wolcott
Planning Commission
Bill Cummings
Jack Colvard
Elmer Unruh
McFarland
Sheldon
Colvard
Area students honored at achievement banquet
More than 75 students from six districts were honored at the nineteenth Scholastic Achievement Banquet in Shafter. Certificates were awarded after a barbecued steak dinner. Richland Choir performed. Rio Bravo-Greeley eighth graders missed the event due to state government observing in Sacramento.
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Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Education America’s Foundation
Shafter High School
Maple, Buttonwillow, Lerdo
Richland
Rio Bravo-Greeley
Shafter High Boosters Club
Herb Loewen
Maple
Sacramento
Keith Bane
Jamie Hogg
Connie Nikkel
Janice Rice
Lisa Robertson
Debbie Towery
Shafter High
Loyd Link
Diane Woo
Shafter Press
Shafter Celebrates Bicentennial With Library Open House
Shafter marks the American Revolution Bicentennial with a flag raising at the library and a weekend open house as part of the Potato and Cotton Festival. displays from the USDA Cotton Research Station and UC campuses Berkeley and Davis, plus 60 historical prints, a coloring contest, and "Bicentennial Times" journal views.
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America
Shafter Library
Shafter
William Ketchum
Kern County
California
Usda Cotton Research Station
James Street
Thomas Leigh
Stephanie Wynolds
University California
Berkeley
Davis
People’s Bicentennial Commission of
Washington
Bicentennial Times
of the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission
National Archives
Joseph de Ramos
United States
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Shafter Bicentennial Committee
Manuel Park
Shafter Kiwanis Club
ROCK
Veterans Memorial Hall
Kern County Library System
Bale
Shafter Coop Gin
Council
C. D. Linfesty
Gail Anderson
The
California Scholarship Federation
CSF
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