Toxic pumps cause sickness of deputies after chase
Deputies Glenda Weaver and Bruce Mushaney pulled over a brown car near Merced Ave and Hwy 43 in Shafter on Sept 19. They found three gas operated liquid pumps stolen from Simplot plant and arrested Anselmo Delgado and Enrique Guzman Soto. Both suspects remained jailed, while the officers and four colleagues later reported nausea and fatigue. Health officials tied fumes to Telon soil fumigant. vehicles were quarantined and decontamination started.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Levi Pagsuberon
Wasco
Glenda Weaver
Bruce Mushaney
Merced Avenue
Hwy 43
Shafter
Simplot Chemical Plant
American Motors
American Motors Matador Station Wagon, Was Stopped By Weaver and Mushaney
Anselmo Delgado
Enrique Guzman Soto
Delgado
Guzman
Weaver
Mushaney
Simplot
Daial
Kern County Health Department
Health Department
Wasco Sheriff's
Casagrande
Migrant ed veteran Dr Gaither joins county staff
Dr James Gaither, former Lerdo and Pond superintendent, becomes migrant education resource teacher under County Superintendent Claude Richardson. He will aid schools in Kern County districts including Lakeside Lost Hills Maple Maricopa Unified Southern Kern Fairfax Buttonwillow Shafter Lerdo and others, partnering with Joan Miranda to improve programs for children of migrant workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Gaither
Lerdo
Pond
Claude W. Richardson
Gaither
Marietta
Oklahoma
Greenville High School
Bakersfield College
Fresno State
Tion
USC
Plantation School
Greenfield Union
Greenfield Junior High
Pond Union
Lost Hills Union
Jim
Ray Zuniga
Joan Miranda
Lakeside
Lost Hills
Maple
Maricopa Unified
Southern Kern Unified
Fairfax
Buttonwillow
General Shafter
Semitropic
Mettler School
el Tejon
Kern High
Shafter High
Buttonwillow Harvest Festival plans announced for Oct 12
The Buttonwillow Chamber and Recreation Dept sponsor the Cotton Harvest Festival with a 2 pm parade, prize categories for costumes and floats, and competitions in tennis volleyball and horseshoes. Food booths run 3 pm to dark, Deep Pit BBQ 4 to 7 pm, raffle prizes include a recorder a gun and $1 in cash. A KKXX DJ appearance and a dance run 7 pm to 11 pm with Barbara Blair and Mary Wegis listed for contact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buttonwillow
KKXX
Fredericks
Oildale
D.J
Death Notices for Garry Latham and Vivian Peak
Garry Delbert Latham 83 of Shafter died September 26 in Delaho Hospital. Services were held September 23 at Miller Memorial Chapel Visalia with burial in Visalia District Cemetery. He was born in Oklahoma, married Oca Ira Spencer in 1926, and moved to Shafter in 1951 where he worked as a carpenter and laborer. Burial followed in Visalia District Cemetery. Vivian Estell Peak, 71, died September 25 in Bakersfield. Graveside services were held September 28 conducted by Vernon Gilley of The Church of Christ Wasco. Born April 7, 1914 in McAlister Oklahoma, she was a devoted wife and mother, member of Wasco Church of Christ, active in WADE and Golden Age Club. survived by two sons Charles Peak and Darwin Peak, a brother Jack Baker, a sister Inez Standridge, two grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
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Garry Delbert Latham
Shafter
Delaho
Miller Memorial Chapel
Visalia
Latham
Oklahoma
Oca Ira Spencer
Vivian Estell Peak
Bakersfield
Vernon Gilley
Church of Christ of
Wasco
Mrs Peak
Charles
Lucy Baker
McAlister
Wasco Church of Christ
WADE
Golden Age Club
Charles Peak
San Martin
Darwin Peak
Jack Baker
Inez Standridge
Tagus Ranch
Lathams
Oca Ira Latham
Arvin
Oneta Griffith
Missouri
Velma DiMaggio
Dora Gibbons
Norma Robertson
Manteca
Ewel Latham
Fresno
Altha Boren
KHSD Opens Open House At New Bakersfield Facilities
The Kern High School District invites the public to an open house on October 19 from 4 to 6 p.m. at SOI So. Mt Vernon Avenue Bakersfield. The site houses adult education vocational training and agriculture education with a 4 30 p.m. dedication for Bakersfield Adult School Regional Occupation Program and the school farm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kern High School
SOI So
Mt Vernon Avenue
Bakersfield
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Sheriff's Deputies
Dr. Gaither
Western Charter Council
The
Association of California School Administrators
ACSA
Sharon
Barbara Blair
Mary Wegis
Fruitvale
Vivian Estell
KHSD
Fror Eoc
Janzen’s Drugs Store
Central Pharmacy Cental Ave
Shafte
Che
Johnson’s Dept
Central Ave
Tony Lama
George Globe
D.D.S
Medi Cal
Union & Insurance Plans
TOSP
Habla Espanol
Woolworths
Odept
Central Ave. Food Store
Central Shafter
Weight Watchers New Shafter Meeting Church of Christ
Minter Ave
Thur
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