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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 01, 1997
Page
1
Kathy Vierra, a longtime Shafter resident, drives the Dial-A-Ride fleet of one bus and two cars for five years. She knows callers by voice, values the neighborhood’s friendliness, and says she has never felt threatened by riders beyond a few questionable ones.
Pastor Dean Long of Shafter Free Will Baptist Church runs Community Correctional Facility opened 1991. He eats lunch with inmates, guides them through faith and funeral losses, and notes some released prisoners stay clean after church involvement. Services run Fridays at 7 30 p m and Sundays at noon with Spanish options and volunteer helps.
Shafter High School events listed include a Wednesday meet at 4 p.m. and the Golden West Invitational in Visalia on Friday October 3. A tennis match is noted for October 2 at 4 p.m. and another event with Tafty at 3:30 p.m. All inquiries to 746-2102 for information or tickets.
Roy Patrick reports on a town shaken by a fatal gang shooting involving an innocent student named Sarah. The piece describes community alarm, school and parent involvement, and grants boosting anti gang programs as authorities seek to curb youth gang activity and protect neighborhoods.
The article traces the evolution of youth weapons from the zip gun era to postwar street violence. It notes zip guns in wood and basic parts, switches to knives and blades like switchblades, and highlights the rise of firearms such as the .38 caliber slug as a superior weapon. It mentions cultural touchstones like West Side Story and urban turf conflicts in New York.
Laura Frost 89 of Chico died recently after living 30 years in Shafer California and working with her husband at the S Press they owned for years Jack and Laura moved to Chico in 1992 to raise a daughter son and grandsons they enjoyed tea painting and traveling she is survived by Emil Jack Frost Ginger Russo Bob Frost and grandsons Jon and Jeff Raven memorial services will be held at the Chico Memorial Mausoleum memorials may be made to the Wasco Chapter of PEO Scholarships in care of Newton Bracewell Chico Funeral
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