Shafter Centennial Celebration Weekend Echoes Community Spirit
Shafter marks its 100th anniversary with a multi event weekend from October 17 to 20. Gaslight Melodrama performs Shafter Showdown at Fred Starrh Center while tours, a parade, vendor areas, a car show, a 3 on 3 basketball tourney, and a free fireworks display animate downtown and Manuel Park.
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Shafter
Fred Starrh Performing Arts
Shafter High School
Gaslight
Manuel Park
Kiwanis Club
Shafter Veterans Hall
Shafter Recreation and Parks District
Shafter Depot
Tulare Avenue
Mannel Park
Mannel and
Blake Streets
Local Student Wins People to People Trip Dream
A young student, president of Interact Club, earns nomination as a People to People Student Ambassador. After interviews and fundraisers with Rotary and family support, she raises nearly the full 7000 dollar trip cost for a three week Italy France Greece journey. Appendicitis delays departure, trip canceled then credit offered. a new France Italy Greece option with Orange County peers emerges as a possible path forward.
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Interact Club
Rotary Club
Italy
France
Greece
Lee
Shafter Rotary Club
People To People
Orange County
Christian Fellowship Food Pantry Opens Monthly Giveaway in Shafter
Christian Fellowship Church partners with Community Action Partnership of Kern to feed 150 families a month. The monthly distribution will occur on the third Sunday at 2:00 p.m. at 32 James Street. For more information call Pastor Justin at 661 496 5259.
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Shafter Christian Fellowship
Community Action Partnership
Kern
James Street
Justin
Senior Center Opens Free Activities for 55 Plus in Shofter
The Senior Center at 505 Sunset Ave, Shofter invites anyone over 55 to a free program weekdays 10 30 a m to 2 pm featuring low impact exercise crafts computer lessons board games reading time sing along and other activities. Contact Shafter Recreation and Park District at 746 3303 or Senior Center at 746 7838 for details.
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Sunset Ave
Shofter
Shafter Recreation and Park District
See You at the Pole Prayer Event at Shafter High
Students at Shafter High gathered Wednesday for See You at the Pole. A local band led songs of praise while donuts and breakfast items were shared. Community members Maldonado Cain and Connie helped, with teachers, advisors, and law enforcement in attendance.
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Shafter High School
Cain
Connie
Quarantine Expands Over ACP Threat to California Citrus
Treatment and quarantines are in place across Wasco Kern Tulare Ventura Santa Barbara San Diego Imperial Orange Los Angeles San Bernardino and Riverside counties to combat Asian citrus psyllid. The pest threatens citrus greening disease HLB with no cure once a tree is infected, risking significant industry losses. The Kern Tulare zones cover 88 and 90 square miles respectively, with movement restrictions on host nursery stock and fruit cleanliness rules for transport. Residents are urged to avoid removing fruit from quarantined backyard trees.
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Wasco
State Department of Agriculture
Linette Bankston
Kern County
Tulare County
Dinabal
Fresno Avenue
Kern
Tulare
ACP
Ventura
Santa Barbara
San
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Shafter Depot Museum
Lerdo and
Beech
Shafter Mennonite Brethren Church
Kern St
Beech Avenue
Riverside
E. Orange
Green Hotel
Central Valley Highway
Stefanie
Christian Fellowship Food Pantry
Ricky Ishida
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