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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 16, 1987
Page
7
Shafter Adult School offers a one semester course titled Parenting Skills and Child Development. Open to adults and parents, the class meets Thursdays at 7 p.m. in Room 23, Shafter High, with instructor Nancy Christensen. Activities include art, storytelling, music, science, self-expression, self-image, and nutritious snacks.
A memorial service is planned for Lester R. Smith on September 25 1987 at 2 p.m. at Shafter Congregational Church. He died July 18 at his Carpinteria California home. Graveside rites were conducted by Rev Sam Robertson of Carpinteria Community Church and Wasco Lodge 583. Survivors include daughter Linda Hammack of Wasco and son Stephen Smith of South Windsor Connecticut, plus four grandchildren. Donations to Lester R. Smith Scholarship Fund in care of Wasco Community Scholarship Association.
Leon Dale Parks 68 of Shafter died Sept 8. Services 10 a.m. Sept 16 at Peters Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. John Davis officiating. Interment at Shafter Memorial Park. Survived by son Larry in Porterville, daughter Lynda Mourton in Porterville, two brothers, and grandchildren. Wife Yallie predeceased in 1964 and son LeRoy in 1986. Parks & Daniels Custom Sprinklers partner from 1965 to 1975 before moving to Shafter. Born Oct 20 1918, moved to California in 1940.
Dorothy Marie Trout of Shafter died Sept 8 1987 after a long illness. Funeral held 2 p.m. Thursday at South Shafter Church of God with Rev. Fred Whited and Boyde Shepherd officiating. Interment at Shafter Memorial Park. Survivors include husband David daughter Janice Trout sister Linda Gardner and granddaughter Madison Snively.
Cornelius Albert Al Unruh 81 died August 29 in Bakersfield. Born in Marion SD he moved to Shafter in 1920 and Bakersfield in the late 1950s. A WWII Army veteran, he worked as a potato farmer, farm equipment dealer, and later a bartender. Survived by three sons three daughters a sister and many grandchildren.
The World of Poetry announces a $1000 grand prize in its New American Poetry Contest with over $16,000 in prizes total and no entry fee. Entrants may submit one poem up to 21 lines on any subject, deadline October 15, 1987, with winners notified by December 15, 1987.
A Shafter Branch list highlights new arrivals across genres. Mysteries feature When Rich Men Die and Blood Lake among others. Science Fiction includes Disaster and The Soul of Viktor Tronko. Fiction lists Weep No More My Lady and The Pilgrimage. Non fiction covers Call Me Anna and Everything to Gain.
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