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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 07, 1998
Page
1
Shafter's 4-H club invites boys and girls ages 9 to 19 to enroll for the year. Flu shot clinics are listed for Friday October 9 at Walker and Sunset from 11:30am and 1pm to 3pm at the ITTC. More details on page 2.
Governor visits Shafter to inspect an industrial park project that includes rail served and non rail served parcels. The Allen Group COO Kevin Noell touts $10 million investment and strong project commitment while ITTC’s Joseph Drew cites rapid growth targets of 500k to 1M square feet annually. The plan aims to create hundreds of local jobs as raw silk moves from Los Angeles to ITTC via Barstow for garment production and potential foreign or domestic sales.
The Shafter community plans an important meeting at the activity center to discuss the Healthy Start program. Initiatives seek to revitalize downtown, build a west side park, and address needs in health, dental care, mental health, housing, and family services. A 400-person survey across 13 city parts guided the plan with $50,000 state grant support. The effort aims to form a community plan and possibly open a Healthy Start Center serving children and families.
Les Peters documents Shafter funeral history noting Janzen as the first operator in 1916, who started from a shed on a farm and helped establish the local cemetery and ambulance service. The story covers relocations, legal cemetery status, and a succession of owners including Armstrong Mortuary and Peters Funeral Home sites through mid century to today.
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