Shafter Press highlights 1954 community events and fires
The Shafter Press notes a $10,000 fire damage at Shafter Wasco Ginning Co. Dr Frank Jensen becomes Kiwanis president at a harvest season, and Harvesting of the 1954 rice crop continues in Buttonwillow. Other items cover school milestones, local trips, birthdays, and civic activities in Shafter and surrounding areas.
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Shafter Press
Shafter - Wasco Ginning Co
Frank Jensen
Shafter High
Kiwanis Club
Buttonwillow
Water Authority to meet in Fresno for 1985 conveyance update
The Mid-Valley Water Authority will hold its annual meeting at the Hilton Hotel in Fresno on Friday at 10 a.m. with David Houston of Sacramento, regional director of the U S Bureau of Reclamation, as principal speaker. He will discuss the San Joaquin Valley Water Conveyance Investigation and status of interim water supply contracts for federal projects in California. The authority, organized in 1982 to negotiate for the Mid-Valley Canal, has funded and allocated funds for studies and in-kind services, involving Madera, Fresno, Kings, Tulare, Kern County, Hanford, Corcoran, and 22 other water agencies.
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Mid-Valley Water Authority
Hilton Hotel
Fresno
David Houston
Sacramento
U.S. Bureau of Reclamation
Houston
San Joaquin Valley
California
Mid- Valley Canal
Congress
Bureau
Shasta
Madera
Kings and Tulare
Kern County Water Agency
Hanford
Corcoran
AARP Shafter-Wasco Chapter 2809 Opens Season Warmly
AARP Shafter-Wasco Chapter 2809 began the 1984 85 season with 119 members and 12 guests enjoying a potluck on September 17. Four members received appreciation certificates for bench projects at CALM. A tour to CALM on October 17 was announced, with future trips listed including Solvang in December.
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Shafter - Wasco
American Association of Retired Persons
AARP
John Notley
Steve Furman
Harlan Wilson
John Peterson
California Living Museum
Jack Frost
California
Sacramento
Mary Epp
Hart Park
Mary
Solvang
Anna Mettler
Catherine White
Dick Ruther
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Robert G. Mettler
Aduel Mettler
Bender, Ave
Shafter
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Raymond Herold
Weir Child Guidance Clinic
Bakersfield
C.J Vignolo
Manuel Ave
Crane
C.F. Crane
Texas
Edgar Crane
Edgar
Edward
Little Eddie, Jr
Lee Stover
Gregory
Sandra
Wasco
Shafter Farm Station
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Shafter High School
Wilson M. Stone
Janice Straube
Henry Penner
Evelyn
Carolyn Siemens
Kathleen Buhler
Kathy Hinton
Bonnie Heinrichs
Janice Balzer
Nancy Engel
Marilyn Warren
Henrietta Loewen
Lela Kelley
Karen Wiens
Nadia Nevarov
Erlene Enns
Karen Nickel
Ruth Wittenberg
Carol Becker
Lana Lachenmaier
Frances Johnson
Rhoda Reimer
Vonnie Enns
Arline and
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Lydia
Albert Penner
Kirby Shoe
Richland School
Leonard Gaede
Bruce Crawford
Gaede
Reg Hammond
Triangle Jeffries Brothers
Richland Pta
H.W
Voth
W.C. Handel
Emil Kirschenmann
Adolph Kirschenmann
W.T. Richards
Sally
San Francisco
S.S. Monterey
New Zealand
Lee Bergen
Kathy
Lawrence Handel
Eugene Handel
Indiana
Kenneth Nicol
Maple Area
Dale
Carolyn
Mildred Bailey
San Jose
Shafter Republicans
Goldwater
Central Valley Highway
Central Avenue
Leonard Thomson
Taft
Assembly
J. Williams
Jack Kennath
Shafter Young Republicans
Dorothy Eckmann
Kern County Committee
Greg Channeson
T.N. Anderson
Shafter Future Farmers
United California Banking
State Bureau of Agriculture Education
Shafter Ffa
Steven Morrison
Harold Clayton
Freddie Hutchison
Burley Dooley
FFA
Fike
Wildcats
the Shafter Press
Kathy Chernabaeff
Kern County
Ceramics and China Department
Edith
Ray Proctor
Weleetka
Oklahoma
Veterans Hall
Highland
Supt
Ingwer Ketelsen
Maple Board of Trustees
Pete Goertzen
Don
Judy
Napa
Rose Lopez
Jennifer Dobbs
Juan Salvidor
Anna Prendez
Richland Primary School
Mexico
Mike Byrd
Emil
Jack) Frost
University of California Journalism Department
Western Newspaper Foundation
Community First Bank
Ford
Rutherford
H” Street
Stan
Nancy Wilson
the Wilsons
Great Britain
Scotland
Wales
Nancy
U.S
Door
Bill Walker
Sylvia Baughman
Jerome Mettler
Alice Kern
Lorna Goehring
J.C. Penner
Alice Hamman
Dorothy Dalke
Eula May Gray
Walter Becker
Boy Scout Hall
Veteran's Memorial Building
PTA
Richland
Frances Sperling
Janice Singer
Jeanie Firkins
Jennne Rekosh
Sheryl Harris
Pam Huckabee
Jerry Nixon
Shirley Fowler
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John T. Watson
Kem Crest Manor
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