Shafter Festival Celebrates Wide Weekend Across Town
Editor's Notebook praises Shafter's Annual Potato and Cotton Festival from Friday to Saturday. Linda and Doug Gragg led planning. new Battle of the Bands 1989 impressed with superb program, planning, and youth engagement at Shafter High School. Adults enjoyed the Volunteer Fireman's Dance. Festival planers deserve pride for a crowd-pleasing event.
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Fifty Years Later Fusion Promise Quickening The Race
The piece contrasts Bohr's 1939 uranium split with 1989 cold fusion claims by Dr. Stanley Pons. It weighs potential impact a compact device could have on energy, desalination, medicine, and space, noting science community skepticism, cross discipline tensions, and a race for patents. Dr. Gary Sandquist predicts a hydrogen car within a decade.
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Michael Faraday
Growing appreciation for local school events from a parent
A writer reflects on covering elementary school activities and discovering the pride and wonder parents feel. He shares how parenting his own child deepened his respect for teachers, students, and the educational process through music recitals science displays and crafts.
Wisdom in Press Coverage Sparks Reader Letter
A Shafter reader criticizes last week’s front page article by Stephen McFadden, urging more sensitivity during families in crisis. The letter argues the coverage added heartache and calls for wiser reporting in tragic situations.
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