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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Nov 09, 1983
Page
3
November notes share early shopping, baking ideas, and frugal hints. Readers are invited to contribute recipe shortcuts and money saving household tips, plus local fall outing suggestions from Kern County to Tehachapi and Wasco. Contact Sandy with ideas at 746-2670 or write to P.O. Box A Shafter CA 93263.
The Historical Society highlights include completing depot restoration parts, cataloging photos and artifacts, producing a history videotape, serving 1152 festival dinners, and forming a Hitchcock Hotel advisory committee. Since Oct 1982, a postcard contest, a video player purchase, restoration merit from California historians, and a $10,000 city loan for depot curbs and sidewalks are noted. Field trips, a potluck, and a pie auction accompanied member enjoyment. Goals for 1984 include finishing the rear depot fence, paving the depot lot, landscaping, and preparing exhibits for Shafter’s May festival, with caboose and Hitchcock Hotel restorations planned and debt repayment. A video project, Roots of Myne, accompanies discussion on Grapes of Wrath and 1930s migration. the Odyssey Project interviews locals, supports outreach, and may lead to publication.
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