Grandparent Guardianship Day and community notices
Community calendar items list Grandparent Guardianship Day at Walker Senior Center from 10 a.m. to 2 30 p.m with access to a paralegal for guardianship questions. Shafter Healthy Start invites participation in May meeting at Redwood Elementary School cafeteria. Maple School District seeks students for fall enrollment and warns the waiting list vanished. parents must contact the school to reestablish names, call Lori Isaac at 746 4439. Shafter High FAA awards banquet set for May 20 at 6 30 p.m in the school cafeteria, dinner $5. contact Brian Combes at 746 4961 for details. A free CPR class offered May 21 at Rabobank Convention Center Bakersfield from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. with no reservations needed. call 324 6427 for more details. Handy Ranch House Halter Clinic on May 21 at 1 p.m at Two Dawg Ranch Bakersfield. fee 20 for riders 5 for observers. pot luck dinner at 6 p.m. Call 392 0233 for Judi. Organ recital May 22 at 6 p.m. First United Methodist Church Wasco sanctuary with Phil Browning. free-will offering collected. refreshments after. Kern County Health Department May clinics at 329 Central Valley Highway Shafter by appointment include Pregnancy Screening May 23 9-11 a.m. and Family Planning May 25 8 30 a.m. - noon and 1-4 p.m.. call 746 7562 for appointment.
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AG Dept
Rabobank Convention Center
Bakersfield
American Red Cross
California Foundation Quarter Horse
Handy
First United Methodist Church of
Wasco
Phil Browning
Central California
Organist Guild
Kern County Health Department
Central Valley Highway
Shafter
Public invited to shape Kern County transportation plan
Kern Council of Governments will hold a series of transportation workshops across Kern County from May 3 to June 30 to identify needed projects through 2030. A Shafter meeting on June 23 at the City Council Chamber invites public input to set priorities for roads, transit, and related infrastructure listed in Destination 2030 RTP and tied to a 1/2 cent measure on the November 2006 ballot.
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Kern County
Shafter
Shafter City
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Kemcog
Kern
RTP
California Trio Keeps Junior Miss Program Alive
California and most states will continue the Junior Miss Program after a recent report it was quitting. Kay Millwee, director of Shafter Junior Miss, says the program end is untrue and celebrates the event that boosts high school girls in the junior class through talent, academics, poise, fitness and spirit while offering chances to win college scholarships.
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Mobile
Alabama
Kay Millwee
Shafter
California
Relay for Life event spans Shafter Wasco May 21 22
Shafter and Wasco residents will participate in the American Cancer Society Relay for Life 24 hour event from 9 a.m. Saturday to 9 a.m. Sunday May 22. Survivors and supporters will walk in teams, with luminaria ceremonies at night, and fund raising to fight cancer and support treatment progress. Anna Poggi stresses awareness and progress against cancer through community involvement and funds raised.
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Shafter
Wasco
American Cancer Society
Bac Yelea
Dada Rabin Owen
Relay For
Relay For Life
Anna Poggi
Shafter Readiness Program Advances Under Prop 10 Funding
Prop 10 funds support 50 children in Shafter's School Readiness Program through Shafter Healthy Start and Richland School Nurse Laurie Roth. Two weekly classes meet in Kern County Health Department facilities while staff visit homes. Families join activities with Santa and Easter egg hunts, and graduates attend four weeks of summer school at Golden Oak Elementary to bridge to Kindergarten.
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Richland
Laurie Roth
Kern County
Shafter
Healthy Start
Santa
Mom
Fing
Roth
Golden Oak Elementary
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North Kern Vocational Training Center
Minter Field
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Janice Smith
Holiday Ford
Mercury
Eddie Andreini
Shafter Press
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