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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 24, 1984
Page
6
A personal column muses on whether traits are born or learned, sharing parenting challenges from ages eight to 18 months and advice on avoiding poisons. It includes a home safety note with the poison control number 209 445-1222, a recipe for Sandy’s Apple Cake, and a request for holiday salad replies to a Shafter, California address.
A weekly meal plan lists meals for Thursday to Wednesday. Thursday features barbecued chicken with rice zucchini coleslaw a cookie and whole wheat bread. Friday serves liver and onions with gravy Au Gratia potatoes carrot and raisin salad pears and a dinner roll. Monday offers macaroni and cheese spinach 3 bean salad fruit cocktail and bread. Tuesday provides juice roast turkey stuffing peas cranberry pear Jell O salad pumpkin custard and roll. Wednesday finishes with barbecued beef on a bun Mexicorn coleslaw cake and a bun.
Pascaline Henrard of Thisnes Belgium, on a California trip, revisits the Siemens family in Shafter after three prior visits. She spent summers in 1979 with Dale Siemens and traveled to the Grand Canyon Las Vegas and Yosemite, and in 1983 toured the Redwoods San Francisco Sequoia and San Jose with her mother seeing many California points.
Diane Putler of Fresno and John White of Shafter plan a spring wedding. The bride is a Bullard High School and Fresno State graduate with a bank supervisor position in Bakersfield. The groom, Shafter High and Fresno State alum, led his fraternity and works in Chevron’s public relations in San Francisco. They set March 2 as the date.
Tension grows as elementary and junior high bands prepare for the third annual Shafter Band Review on November 3 at 10 a.m. in Manuel Park. Bands will compete in marching, musicianship and drum cadences with auxiliary units judged on attire and esprit d corps. The event, sponsored by Shafter Friends of the Fine Arts, features local merchants, the Richland Cadet Band and top bands from Clovis. the Shafter High School band will lead off as exhibition. Bleachers, refreshments, and souvenir booths will be available for spectators and potential members at the park.
The National Cotton Council says applications must be submitted by midnight November 9. The 47th annual contest welcomes single women aged 19 to 23 born in a cotton state or with long Cotton Belt residence, 5'5" minimum, never married. The winner tours US and abroad, earning a $10,000 education grant plus wardrobe. Apply via Council, P O Box 12285, Memphis TN 38182.
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