Shafter calendar items mix time change and events
Sunday marks DST end with clocks back one hour as homecoming events in Shafter are rescheduled to Friday October 27 for the Generals against Arvin. Shafter Public Health shares September clinics at 329 Central Valley Highway with an immunization clinic open without appointment and other services requiring calls for appointments. A senior resource fair on October 28 offers free flu shots for the first 250 seniors. Also notes 40th class reunion for Shafter High Class of 1966 on November 4 with contact options.
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Central Valley Highway
Kern County Aging and Adult Services
Kern County
Aging and Adults Services
Truxtun Avenue
RSD struggles to meet AYP and API targets under STAR testing
Richland School District details STAR program components CAPA Aprenda and state standards for ELA math and history. District and schools report AYP and API results with Golden Oak Redwood Sequoia Richland Junior High showing mixed proficiency and declines in overall API. District aims for API 800 as benchmark.
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Richland
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United States
Golden Oak Elementary
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Richland Junior High
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Redwood Elementary
Sequoia Elementary
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California Department of Education
California propositions overview for Shafter voters
The Shafter Press outlines 13 propositions on the November 7 ballot with details from easyvoter.org. Notable measures include Prop 1A on transportation funds, Prop 1B bonds for transit, Prop 1C housing bonds, Prop 10 for school buildings, Prop 83 and 84 on crime and water, Prop 85 parental notification, Prop 86 tobacco tax, Prop 87 clean energy oil tax, Prop 88 parcel tax for education, Prop 89 public funding of campaigns, and Prop 90 property rights protections. Visit w ww.casvoter.org for full details.
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Shafter Press
Shafter
Easyvoter.org
California
Central Valley
Haven Counseling Center highlighted at Shafter meeting
Priscilla Acosta, Haven Counseling Center coordinator, spoke at Shafter Collaborative at Redwood Elementary School library. She notes more than three million U.S. child abuse cases last year and over 80,000 in the Central Valley. Haven offers parenting classes and counseling for families facing abuse and stress. For more, visit havencounselingcenter.org.
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Bakersfield
Priscilla Acosta
Shafter Collaborative
Redwood
Shafter Healthy Start
Acosta
United States
Central Valley
Havencounselingcenter.org
Shafter Council Approves Development, Contracts Oct 17
The Shafter City Council approved an assignment of agreement between Suburban Land Reserve and 7" Standard Ranch Investors for phase one development. It also signed a two year contract with the Central California Association of Public Employees, granting 4.5 percent retroactive COLA and 2.5 percent for 2007 plus opt-out health benefits. Ordinance 06-587 introduced to set a $60 daily salary for council and planning commission members.
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Shafter City
Suburban Land Reserve, Inc
Standard Ranch
Central California Association of Public Employees, Correctional Officers Unit
City Council
Planning Commission
Seat Belts Factor in Fatal I-5 Crash Near Buttonwillow
A San Diego man, 18 year old Jose Manuel Garcia, was killed after being ejected from a 2003 Volkswagen on Interstate 5 near Buttonwillow on October 17. CHP Officer Rick Jorgensen reported the fatal crash and the seat belt factor.
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Buttonwillow
California Highway Patrol
Rick Jorgensen
Jorgensen
Jose Manuel Garcia
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