Local Historical Society to Hold Fall Membership Meeting
The annual fall membership meeting is set for Thursday at 7 30 p m in the east wing of the Veterans Memorial Hall. Members and guests may attend to hear reports on projects and acquisitions, elect three directors, and hear William Rintoul discuss Kern County oil history with slides. Rintoul, a Bakersfield Californian columnist, will autograph his books Spudding In and Cilderado. Refreshments will follow and nominations are in order for outgoing directors Virginia Bender Helen Gaede and Ben Grundy.
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Veteran's Memorial Hall
William Rintoul
Rintoul
Bakersfield Californian
Kern County
California
Forbidden Cookies Temptation and the Way to Escape
A devotional urges recognizing temptation as dangerous and asserts believers never must sin. It cites James 1 14 15 and I Corinthians 10 13 and urges refusing forbidden pleasures, choosing right, and seeking God's escape. The message ends with leaving those forbidden cookies in the jar.
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Community Evangelical Congregational Church
James
Concert Series Opens Saturday in Shafter High Auditorium
The Shafter Friends of the Fine Arts begin their Concert Series this Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in the Shafter High School Auditorium. The Cal State Orchestra is unable to perform. The President's Quintet from Fresno State University will replace them. The ensemble, formed in 1977, includes flute oboe clarinet horn and bassoon and has toured Taiwan and China. Tickets cost 3 or 10 for the four concert series and may be refunded for this performance.
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Shafter Friends of the Fine Arts
Shafter High School
Cal State
Fresno Oe Pay University
Taiwan
People’s Republic of China
Free cancer screening event in Bakersfield clinic
A free cancer screening day is set for November 17 at the Community Health Center 601 California Avenue Bakersfield. Supported by Buck Owens Charities from 1977, the event offers pap, pelvic, breast exams for women and prostate and testicle exams for men, plus colon tests and superficial checks. Appointments via American Cancer Society 327-2424 or Community Health Center 323-6086.
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American Cancer Society
Kern County
Community Health Center
California Avenue
Bakersfield
Buck Owens Charities
Video showing of The God Makers at First Assembly of God
The First Assembly of God at 150 Elm St will present a Sunday 6 p.m. showing of the documentary The God Makers. The film features three former cult members detailing their delivery from the group and describing its practices and requirements to join its hierarchy.
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First Assembly of God Church
Elm St
God Makers
Cult of God Makers
Ski Swap by Bakersfield Ski Club Planned for October 21
The Bakersfield Ski Club hosts an annual Ski Swap at Casa Royale in Bakersfield with sellers at 9 am and buyers at 1 pm. Chris Siemens of Shafter endorses it for families to recycle winter wear or profit, while the club, over 25 years old, also runs ski trips, races, and social events. The club meets monthly at Bakersfield Racquet Club. A dry-land ski school is set for Saturday, Nov. 3 at Bakersfield College.
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Bakersfield
Casa Royale
South Union
Chris Siemens
Shafter
Georgene Bihlman
Snowy College
Waldron keeps music interest alive abroad in Berlin
Robert Waldron a 1982 Shafter High graduate has served since January 1983 with the 298th Army Band in Berlin West Germany. He works in several army roles including mail service emergency hospital room and as a typist clerk while performing jazz rock country funk and more with the Berlin Brigade Band. The band promotes esprit de corps and community relations with Germans French and British through festivals parades and friendship concerts traveling to France Belgium Holland and northern Germany. He plans to return to Shafter Jan 6 to prepare for his Jan 12 wedding to Regina Westbrook.
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Robert Waldron
Shafter
298Th
Berlin
West Germany
Dale
Edna Waldron
Robert
Ing
Prit de Corps
France
Belgium
Holland
Germany
Regina Westbrook
Pismo Beach Band Review and Street Show Set for Nov 10
California marching bands from junior high to high school levels will compete in the 1984 High School Band Review and Street Show in Pismo Beach. Wasco Union High School participates with nearly 3,000 musicians expected to perform. The 9:30 a.m. start is on Hinds and Cypress, with a 3:00 p.m. awards ceremony at the pier parking lot near Pomeroy Street. The event anchors the four day 38th Pismo Beach Clam Festival running November 9 to 12, drawing large crowds.
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Pismo Beach
California
Wasco Union High School
Hinds and
Cypress Street
Pomeroy Street
AAUW meeting on antique dolls in Bakersfield setting
The Shafter-Wasco-Satellite Branch of AAUW will meet at Eliza's Bebes 167 H St Bakersfield to view antique dolls and reproductions including a back-room and fantasyland displays. Members assemble at Ione Lollar's 729 Manne Shafter at 6 45 p m to carpool to Bakersfield for a 7 30 p m start with hostesses Louise Hyer Elizabeth Waite Claudine Saulsbury.
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Shafter-Wasco-Satellite- Branch
AAUW
Santa
Eliza
H St
Bakersfield
Wasco
Elizabeth Waite
Gene Bailey
Ione Lollar
Manne In
Shafter
Eliza’s
Louise Hyer
Claudine Saulsbury
RSVP
Louise
Lone
Betty Petrie
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Bill Rintoul
Stephen Sloat
Richland Primary
Ed Barger
Bakersfield Believers Church
Mary Martin
Trinity Broadcasting Network
Ras and
Wee
Wood's Shoe Store
Central Ave
Missy
Shafter Police Dept
Stringhams Shafter Drugs
Ski Club
Pine
Justin, Clayton
Nate Siemens
Waldron
Shafter Napa Parts & Supply
South Shafter Ave Shafter
Ita
Erie
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