Deserving Seniors awarded at Shafter Senior Awards Program
Shafter High School held its Senior Awards Program on Tuesday May 23 at 730 pm with Dr Richard A Bilas as guest speaker. Numerous scholarships and awards were presented to students including Jane Zachary Cynthia Absher Cheryl Anderson Craig Bassett Tammy Lauderdale Julie Horn and many others across dozens of local organizations and colleges. Photographs of the event will appear in upcoming issues of the Shafter Press.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter High School
Richard A. Bilas
Department of Economics
California State College
Bakersfield
Richland Teachers Association
Cindi Watkins
Abilene Christian University
Susie Bellows
Anne Ward
Cheryl Anderson
Kern County Heart Association
Miss Shafter
American Legion
Craig Bassett
Jane Zachary
California Association For Health, Physical Education and Recreation
Torey Britt
California
Jane
D.A.R
Tammy Lauderdale
Cal State
Kern County Basketball Coaches’ Association
Jay Olsen
Carolyn Camp
Kern County
Kim Wells
Kern High School
Daisy Vander Eike
Scott Sherrill
Theresa Corti
Biola College
Brenda Bergman
Julie Horn
Donna Warkentin
Fresno Pacific College
Paul Jacobsen
University of Nebraska
Bank of America
Cynthia Absher
Stacy Wood
Cheryll Anderson
Teresa Lytle
Greg Vazquez
Lori Pruitt
Sharla Holt
Nadine Litke
Shari Waldron
Michael Brown
Ronda Waters
Cal
Rachel Espericueta
Mary Mesa
Eddie Rodriguez
Lisa Alarcon
Henry Aleman
Brenda
Joe O’brien
Stan Cook
Shafter Rotary Club
Donny Clark
Shafter Police
Shafter Press
Grady Bartlett
Janet Grumbles
Nadine Like
Scott Neufeld
Dana Nickelsen
Ellie Weber
Janie Zachary
Shafter High
Opal Reynolds
Shafter Woman’s Club
Bruce Crawford
Buttonwillow School
Elmer Unruh
Chamber of Commerce
Clara Schnaidt-Miller
Festival Highlights Shine At Local Chamber Event
The Chamber reports a successful Festival featuring a Queen's Pageant, parade with bands floats decorated cars and equestrian riders, a Tractor Pull, a youth Carnival, park barbecue with music crafts booths and cats, all drawing broad community participation. General Chairman Ben Grundy praised the event as the best since the Golden Anniversary and thanked volunteers for their service and kindness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben Grundy
Scholastic Achievement Banquet Honors Shafter Area Students
The twenty first annual Scholastic Achievement Banquet was held Thursday May 25 at the Richland cafeteria. Students from Buttonwillow Lerdo Maple Richland Rio Bravo Greeley and Shafter High School received Academic Achievement certificates and barbecue steak dinners. Honorees spanned seventh through twelfth grades with recipients from Richland Shafter High School and Shafter Junior Miss Kevin Hyer among others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richland
Buttonwillow
Lerdo
Maple
Rio Bravo-Greeley
Shafter High School
Shafter Chamber of Commerce
Gail Anderson
Stacy Carroll
Theresa Isaac
Laurie Lynch
Anne Starrh
Susan Carter
Michael McCoy
Gail Monk Kara Nickelsen
Steve Thullen
California Scholarship Federation
Diane Bassett
Joe Houston
Melinda Zachary
Sheri Almberg
Shelley Barling
Clinton Bergen
Amy Handel
Cindy Handel
Two Separate Crashes Reported at Central Valley Highway
Shafter police logged two crashes near Central Valley Highway and Central Avenue on May 26. In the first, a 4 year old girl was injured after a white 1974 Ford fled the scene. Narciso Alvarado Losoya, 20, of Wasco, was arrested for felony hit and run and no license. In the second crash, two people were hurt when a 1968 Pontiac and a 1978 Ford pickup collided as a red light allegedly was ignored. Curtis Bergman and Elizabeth Tanner, both of Shafter, were treated at Memorial Hospital.
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Shafter
Central Valley Highway
Central Avenue
Wasco
Kern Street
Narciso Alvarado Losoya
E. Euclid
Carol Ann Carroll
Carroll
Losova
Curtis Bergman
Eliefoth Fred Tanner
Francis
History at Shafter High celebrates 50th anniversary
Shafter High School marks its half century milestone this year with a commemorative series in the Shafter Press. The paper will publish articles and photographs detailing the school's history in upcoming issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter High School
Shafter Press
Memorial Day Service Observed At Shafter Cemetery
Community groups including Lions Kiwanis AARP Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture Shafter Woman's Club BPW American Legion Auxiliary Unit 213 and Leslie L. Robinson Post 213 honored the dead at a 2 p.m. Sunday ceremony May 28. Commander John Lions led the event with Chaplain Grady Bartlett and speaker Reverend James McDowell. Buglers Steve Hansen and John Harding and Sgt At Arms Ray Weaver attended along with several named participants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter Cemetery
Shafter
Lions
Kiwanis
AARP
Chamber of Commerce and Agriculture
Shafter Woman’s Club
Business and Professional Women
American Legion Auxiliary Unit 213
Leslie L. Robinson Post 213
American Legion
John Lions
Grady Bartlett
James McDowell
Shafter Pentecostal Church of God
Buglers
Steve Hansenman
John Harding
Ray Weaver
Wasco Vfw
John Frysak
Charles Luna
Alvie Snow
Charlie Maxey
Walter Woalley
Rudy Rey
Arthur Crettel
Don Continued
Eight vie for proposed recreation district in Shafter
Voters in Shafter face two measures on the June 6 Primary ballot. The recreation and park district would be formed and a maximum tax rate set at sixty cents per hundred dollars of assessed valuation. Eight candidates seek spots on the district’s Board of Directors: Mickey Gladden, Dora Jara, Toni Johnston, Dick Larson, Frank Alvidrez, David Mizener, W. C. Walker, and Fred Starrh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shafter
American Independent Party
Peace and Freedom
Shafter Recreation and Park District
Recreation and Park District
Shafter Park and Recreation District
Mickey Gladden
Dora Jara
Toni Johnston
Dick Larson
Frank Alvidrez
David Mizener
W.C. Walker
Fred Starrh
Davis boy dies from horse fall in Shafter
Ronald Davis a 10 year old of 28735 West Tulare Street Shafter died at Kern Medical Center at 9 20 p m Thursday from head injuries after falling from a galloping bareback horse on May 6 He had remained comatose in the hospital ICU since the accident Coroner Dick Gervais listed bronchial pneumonia due to cerebral contusion as the cause of death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ronald Davis
W. Tulare Street
Shafter
Kern Medical Center
Dick Gervais
Tulare Street
Gervais
Young Davis
KMC
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Herb Howell
Sharon Biloff
Kay Millwee
Gloria Boggs
Jack Nikkel
Mary Crabb
Marilyn Gladden
Shafter Alert C.B
Julie Kirk
Paula Kurtz
Debbie Mitchell
Tena Mullen
Her
Ning
Board of Directors
Board of
Davis
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