Local childcare needs affirmed at Latchkey Committee meeting
At a September 17 gathering with 18 attendees from agencies and government, childcare need was affirmed. Librarian Judy Knox described after school library use, while Peter Casarotto cited 1200 J&P workers during peak season. A countywide Phone Friend program shows rising calls from young children and seeks an 800 number. Community leaders discuss space, cost, funding, and coordination with parks and recreation to expand services.
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Latchkey Committee
Judy Knox
Shafter
Pete Casarotto
Jackson & Perkins
J&p
Wendy Wayne
Community Connection
Bakersfield College
Bakersfield
Phone Friend Project
Frank Christensen
John Birkhauser
Richland
Delano
Shafter Council readings support fair aid hotel grant and transit needs
Two proclamations opened the meeting with praise for the Kern County Fair and support for a Sept. 23 benefit for Gene Butch O Tillman and the Aplastic Anemia Foundation. A public hearing heard calls for transit to Bakersfield beyond the elderly and handicapped, while a grant for Hitchcock Hotel restoration was approved pending city‑society agreement. The Hitchcock project seeks 169 510 with a 10 percent admin fee. a waiver of $100 in variance fees was denied. Ordinances 365 and 366 were read for first time tackling school bus unloading zones and related traffic steps.
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Shafter
Kern County
Gene “Butch O' Tillman
Pat Bryant
Bakersfield
Hitchcock
The
Shafter Historical Society
Hitchcock Hotel Committee
Gretchen Kirk
Pat Wilson
Art Kadel
Lerdo Highway
Schnidt
Atlantic Avenue
RSD
Classified ad deadline notice effective Sept 29
Deadline changes set for displays and classifieds. Copy for articles due by 9 a.m. Monday. All ad submissions must arrive by 10 a.m. Monday. Officials remind readers to submit early to ensure inclusion in upcoming edition.
MFAD wrestles with proposed toxic waste site at Minter Field
MFAD's meeting centered on locating a contamination containment area at Minter Field Airport operated by Inland Crop Dusters Inc. Soil testing began mid September to meet State Water Quality Control Board rules. Board discussed contracts, inmate labor with Kern County Sheriff's Dept, GAIN labor, and a future hangar project while planning standard leases.
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Minter Field Airport
Percet
State Water Quality Control Board
Martin
Aviation Aerospace Week
Deukmejian
Wayne Lemeaux
Wally Ryker
Lemeaux
MFAD
Tom White
Minter Field
Noel Wilson
Kern County Sheriff's Department
Tom Almberg
White
Wilson
3D Celebrates 50th Anniversary Barbecue Meeting at Research
At the Research and aecac tion, 3D marked a 50th anniversary barbecue with keynote remarks on the establishment of the Research Station in 1922. Dr H B Cooper and others highlighted cotton industry growth in Kern County and worldwide. The meeting discussed seed shortages, funding mechanisms, irrigation, pest control, and ongoing genetic work in cotton, with leaders rotating to new CPCSD officers.
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Jack “Avenue
Shafter
Menting Stilewine
Feabalance Research Station
Kern County
California
H.B. Cooper
Turner
Cherry
CPCSD
Jack
Steve Oakley
John Doube
B. Cooper
Oakley
Anderson
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Lerdo
Dick Moon
Birkauser
Moon
Wayne
Wade McKinney
Diane Williams
Community Evangelical Congregation Church
CECC
Nina Leigh
Shafter Recreation and Park District
Leigh
Diana Williams
Ray Davis
Seaise
Tom Cherry
San Joaquin Valley
John Turner
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