Gragg Becomes First Woman Rotarian in Shafter Club
Linda Gragg owner of the Bar gain Outlet has been named a new member of the Shafter Rotary Club, becoming the club's first woman member. She accepted after visits and an application, joining a historically male organization at a 50th anniversary dinner with Rotary District Governor.
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Linda Gragg
Bargain Outlet
Shafter Rotary Club
Gragg
Joe Kirk
Met
Rotary
Rotarians
Community calendar listing local meetings and events
Community calendar for November lists meetings and social events. Christian Business Men's Committee at JD's Restaurant at 6 30 a m on Wednesday. AARP board at Senior Center 1 30 p m. Kiwanis at Noon at Veterans Hall. Lions at 7 p m Shafter Motel. Alanon at 588 E Lerdo Hwy 8 p m. Soroptimist events include Hernstedt office and Barn Dance at Hernstedt Ranch Saturday 7 p m. AARP potluck and American Legion activities fill Monday. Rotary at China Garden Noon Tuesday. Alcoholics Anonymous meetings plus American Legion Auxiliary noted.
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Christian Business Men’s Committee
Jd’s
Aarp Board
Kiwanis
Veterans Hall Lions
Shafter
Alanon
E. Lerdo Hwy
Soroptimist Club
Hernstedt
N. Shafter
Ner
Hernstedt Ranch
AARP
Veterans Hall
American Legion
Alcoholics Anonymous
E. Lerdo
Rotary
China Garden
Nueva Sonrisa
American Legion Auxiliary
Obituary: Scott O'Dell Dies in New York at 91
Scott O'Dell, a Shafter area visitor in the 1960s, died in New York on Sunday October 15 at age 91. His wife Harriet Mason, former Shafter Kern County Library librarian, is now a journalist and editor in Westchester County. O'Dell was a frequent guest at Richland Elementary School book fairs in the early 1960s. Survivors include his wife, a son, a daughter, a sister, and seven grandchildren.
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Scott O’dell
Shafter
New York
Harriet Mason
Kern County
Nalist
Westchester County
N.Y
O'Dell
Richland
O’dell
Graveside rites for Annette C. Albright in Shafter
Annette C. Albright 89 of Shafter died November 4. Funeral services held November 9 at Shafter Memorial Park conducted by Rev. Vernon Pollema. Born September 24, 1900 in Goodrich North Dakota, she lived in California since 1920, worked as Bank of America teller, farmed after 1956, survived by two sons James and Robert, two daughters Claudine and Maxine, two brothers and 12 grandchildren plus 15 great grandchildren. Memorial donations suggested to Shafter Ebenezer Reformed Church or charity. Peters Funeral Home supervised arrangements.
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Annette C. Albright
Shafter
Shafter Memorial Park
Vernon Pollema
Shafter Ebenezer Reformed Church
Albright
Christian
Sophie Handel
Goodrich
N. Dak
California
Lodi
Sam Albright
James
Robert
Lake Nacimiento
Claudine Rodgers
Maxine Mettler
Oregon
Ewald Handel
Lake City
B.J. Handel
South Lake Tahoe
California trustees get 5000 dollar training grant
The Security Pacific Foundation awarded 5000 dollars to the California School Boards Foundation to fund a New School Board Member Training Institute. Two day regional workshops will begin in February at five centers Redding Sacramento Fresno Redwood City and Orange County.
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California School Board
Security Pacific Foundation
Security Pacific
Mary Anne Houx
California School Boards Foundation
Houx
California School Boards Association
Carol Taufer
CSB Foundation
Redding
Sacramento
Fresno
Redwood City
Orange County
Security Pacific Poration
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Linda
Willard Rose
By Terri Murray
Kirk
Wasco
Area
Taufer
Thermos
Cambridge
Viet Nam
Chicago
Wilson Joe Montana
Wilson Michael Jordon
AIR Attack
Daisy Red Ryder
Central Ave
Habla Espajol
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