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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 13, 1982
Page
2
The Shafter Press invites free wedding and birth announcements and society items. Submit to the Press office by Monday noon. contact society writer Jeanette Wheeler on Mondays or Fridays at 746-4942 or 399-5925. Photos preferred in black and white. color accepted if properly exposed. Page 2, Wednesday October 13 1962.
Shafter Woman's Club heard NASA aerospace specialist Earl White praise women as better astronauts due to lower motion sickness and higher body fat. Eight women are in training, including Sally Ride. NASA plans 20 more astronauts in fall 1983.
Longtime Shafter resident travels to Oklahoma City for a family reunion at Will Rogers Park on September 11 reuniting with sister Jenny Giallombardo of Buffalo after 53 years. Nina Giallombardo from Arlington, Virginia accompanies. More than 150 relatives from across the United States attend. Josie Filippo’s family helps plan.
Third annual Senior Citizens Day takes place this Sunday October 17 at Shafter Pentecostal Church of God 425 So Shafter Ave with many former members returning Special guests include Rev Cecil Poole and Adlee Poole of Victorville CA former church pastors Also attending Rev Mrs Maxine Owen wife of late Rev Wayne Owen and Rev Mrs Owen of Louisville KY Lunch potluck at noon and 6 00 pm service with Poole presenting speeches and revival talks Local pastor John Davis invites all friends to attend
Pastor Ronald Kegley and his Maybelle arrived in Shafter to lead the Seventh Day Adventist Church. He previously served six years at the Salinas SDA Church and is a Washington native a Walla Walla College theology graduate. The couple spoke of the warm community and reported baptizing a couple and dedicating two infants in his first Sabbath.
Derrys announce the birth of their first child, a daughter named Mellissa Crystal Derry, born September 15 1982 at 10 03 p.m. at Greater Bakersfield Memorial Hospital weighing 7 pounds 2 1/2 ounces and 19 1/2 inches long. Grandparents are Bill and Derry of Shafter. great grandparents are C H Rogers, Ruby Sade of Shafter.
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