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Newspaper
Shafter Press
Location
Shafter, California, United States of America
Date
Sep 17, 1986
Page
9
Sandy Armstrong shares a Thursday essay and a trio of fall recipes, highlighting apples as Johnny Appleseed's birthday nears. The piece includes crustless apple pie and apple wedge cake, plus a quick chicken and rice bake, with requests for more reader recipes and contact details.
Flora Nichols reports Elizabeth Peters spent two and a half weeks in Canada from July 29 to August 17 for the Willems family 60th anniversary. She stayed with cousin Mildred Fisher in Saskatoon, visited Waldheim, taught in Hepburn and Waldheim 1927 31, and viewed Saskatoon landmarks before returning to Shafter via LAX.
Suzanne and Silas Stricklind were in Shafter to visit Suzanne's mother Helen Pennell. The couple, residents of Soquel and house parents to six delinquent teenage boys, also visited Silas's parents in Bakersfield. Suzanne attends the University of Santa Cruz.
Tickets for the benefit barbecue to aid Gene Butch Tillman, a Shafter hay harvester with aplastic anemia, remain available at City Hall and from organizers. The event will be Tuesday September 23 at 4 30 p m in the Shafter Airport hangar at Minter Field. Tickets cost 15 dollars.
A chronicle of local events including museum hours at Shafter Depot, Fort Tejon living history tours, a Hawaii island tour, Liberty statue exhibit at Kern County Museum, California Suite stage dates, classic film screenings, Fort Tejon Civil War re-enactment, Frankenstein at Great American Melodrama, Narayama film by FLICS, a benefit barbecue for Gene Tillman, Kern County Fair highlights, Shafter AARP Surprise Trip, Fall Frolics Dance, and the 25th annual Antique Show at St Pauls Episcopal Church with contact details and dates through late October.
The Shafter Branch Library announces weekly shipments of current best sellers and special orders. Open hours are Monday and Sunday 12 to 8 PM, Tuesday Thursday and Friday 10 AM to 6 PM, and Saturday 10 AM to 2 PM. New titles span Mysteries, Fiction, Westerns, Non fiction, and Reference with authors such as Tom Clancy Anthea Fraser Bob Cook Susan Minot Joan Lunden and Louis L Amour among others.
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