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The Shafter Kiwanis Club held their monthly Terrific Kids luncheon last week, recognizing selected students for their outstanding performance in and out of the classroom. A different character trait is featured each month, with students exhibiting those traits honored for their achievements. Representing Richland Junior High at Wednesday's lunch, Dean of Students Mylum Nicholson presented awards to students Isaiah Madrigal and Brooklyn Allred. Students Mathias Torres and...
A Coffee Collaborative event was held at Shafter's Tin Cup on Saturday, giving local shoppers a chance to get a variety of items all in one place. These events have grown in popularity in the last two years, being a big bright spot in the years of the pandemic. At the Tin Cup event, there were over 30 vendors on hand, selling a variety of items, including home décor, clothing, baked goods and homemade beauty products. Haley Plaza managed an active spot at the event. Her busine...
The Shafter High Generals football team concluded an amazing season on Dec. 10 with a hard-fought State Championship game performance, showing the grit and determination that this team had played with the entire playoff run. The team became the school's first Valley Champion in football since 1955 and became Shafter's first Regional Champion, on their way to the State Division 5A runner-up. Coach Jerald Pierucci recently commented on the Generals' outstanding season, as well...
The Shafter Depot Museum hosted Santa Claus on Saturday, giving visitors a chance to get their picture taken with the jolly old fellow. Santa greeted the children and sat with them for a picture as he asked them what they had on their Christmas wish list. Attendees were also treated to an array of refreshments. The attendees also had a chance to wander the museum, looking at the variety of exhibits, as well as the entries in the museum's Christmas Tree Contest, where clubs and...
Shafter Animal Control would like local residents to meet their beautiful girl Mandy. She is a 2- year-old brindle hound mix and has shown shelter staff that she is good with other dogs and just wants to be a lap dog. Mandy is a little timid at first but when she warms up to you, she is super sweet. She is strong, so they would recommend a strong handler. Some obedience training would be a good idea. Mandy has passed all of her Safer Dog Evaluation tests and is ready to be...
With the Shafter Generals in the news with their remarkable run to the State Championship game, there was also another Kern County football team in the hunt. Liberty High School in Bakersfield made an outstanding run in the playoffs, including a rematch with Clovis-Buchanan, a team that beat them during the regular season in a game that was called in the fourth quarter because of lightning. A Shafter youth, Matthew Jude Maldonado, was a part of the Liberty team taking the...
Maple School is offering a special program that is giving its students a head start in preparing them for possible careers in the engineering and mechanical fields, by participating in Chevron's Project Lead the Way program. This program has been helping Shafter High students get prepared for technical careers as they learn all aspects of the challenging fields in the STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) areas of learning. At Maple, Jan Cranfill is heading up the...
Lavender has become a big passion this year, with the fragrant plant being used for many things, including perfumes, lotions and culinary items, as well as a tool for pollinating other crops and plants. The Lavender Garden in Lost Hills has announced its opening of a new gifts shop and Dinosaur Park just in time for the holiday season. This popular attraction has been delighting travelers for quite some time now, with its fragrant acreage and varieties of products made from...
The Shafter Christmas Store was held last weekend, a return from the online store that was available last year, with parents participating in a program that enables parents to buy presents for their children at heavily discounted prices. This program has been helping Shafter residents have a merrier Christmas for a few years now. Began in 2017, the idea was born out of a desire by the City of Shafter's Brittney Neal-Soberanis to change a Christmas program that she was...
ORLAND -- The clock struck twelve on the Shafter High Generals, ending their playoff run as they lost to Orland High in the State Championship game 20-7 on Saturday night. The game was played on Orland's home field, which was not a playing field as much as a mud bog. Shafter struck first in the game in the first quarter, with the offense struggling to move the ball on the soggy field. Christopher Espinoza put Shafter up 7-0 with a four-yard touchdown run. The Trojans answered...
Mayor Cathy Prout and Gustavo Olvera have won the two open seats on the Shafter City Council, according to final numbers at the Kern Elections Office. The results will be made official by Dec. 16, 2022. Prout outdistanced her nearest competitor by 500 votes, getting 1,171 votes. Olvera narrowly beat incumbent Cesar Lopez by 35 votes, collecting 24.3% of the vote, 1,186 ballots, compared to Lopez's 1,186 votes, 23.6%. The race has been tight for the two candidates since...
Being an SHS graduate of 1981, I have spent the last 41 years watching the Shafter Generals football teams compete on Friday nights, giving us a great time, with a lot of highs, and yes, a lot of lows as well. But, as Principal Shipley says, “Once a General, always a General.” We love our Generals, win or lose. Well, this year, we received an early Christmas present, able to watch this year’s Generals win the first Valley title in 65 years. This year’s team isn’t the most...
Marcona Preserve will be the newest addition to Shafter's south side, joining Gossamer Grove. The City Council approved the name change for the new housing development located off of Seventh Standard Road, from its original Heritage Ranch. Another change is the removal of provisions for a gated, age-restricted neighborhood with privately maintained infrastructure. Lennar Homes is also removing the swimming pool and private recreation building that was in the original plan....
A Shafter mother and daughter have taken a leap of faith, opening a booth in a popular antique shop in Bakersfield. Michelle and Adrianna Pompa have a display at the Timeless Antique Shop, 1415 19th St. The duo offers a great variety of items, from timeless décor items to homemade items that are created by Adrianna. Adrianna, who works for the county superintendent of schools, has had her own business for a few years now, creating her own soaps, scrubs, loofahs and earrings....
The City of Shafter held its annual Tree Lighting Ceremony on Monday night, lighting up the night downtown in the gazebo area. Mayor Cathy Prout welcomed the crowd, and, with assistance from Shafter's Distinguished Young Woman Faith Bazaldua, lit up the Christmas trees surrounding the gazebo. Also on hand at the event were representatives of the Shafter Library and Learning Center, giving away books and information about their for students and adults. Refreshments including...
Mayor Cathy Prout has expanded her lead in the newest update done on Dec. 3. Prout leads her nearest competitor by around 500 votes. Gustavo Olvera maintained his lead over incumbent Cesar Lopez, getting 1,218 votes, compared to Lopez’s 1182 votes, a lead of 36 votes. In other area races, David Valadao is ahead of Assemblymember Rudy Salas in a tight race for the Congressional 22nd District, and is projected to take the seat by The Associated Press. Valadao was beaten by S...
The Shafter Lions Club, together with sponsor The Wonderful Company, held their annual Shafter Christmas Parade on Friday night, with entries coming down Central Avenue from Mannel Park. Hosted by Angel Jimenez, who does the sound for the majority of special events in Shafter, welcomed the large crowd lining the streets, awaiting the entries of floats, cars, trucks and bands. The Shafter High School Band was on hand, playing seasonal favorites, as well as putting on a...
The Shafter Generals football team continued their historic run in the playoffs, earning Shafter's first shot for a state championship in the school's history. The Generals traveled to Walnut High School and beat the Mustangs, 20-16, in the Southern Regional Championship game. It was another come-from-behind win from a team that has earned the moniker "The Kardiac Kids." It was a replay of the Valley Championship game in Caruthers, with the Generals coming out in the first...
The Shafter Mennonite Brethren Church held their annual Takedown Tournament recently, drawing 160 competitors, the largest field in the tournament's history. Pastor Pat Coyle, along with a team of volunteers, put on the tournament, the season-opening event for most of the wrestlers. The tournament is affiliated with the Kern County Youth Wrestling Association, helping it draw wrestlers from all over the county and the Central Valley. Wrestlers came from as far as Selma,...
The Minter Field Air Museum will be getting a special visitor on Saturday morning, and they are preparing for the VIP. Santa Claus will be landing at Minter Field in an airplane, giving his reindeer a rest, as they prepare for the long trek on New Year's Eve. Santa will be accompanied by Mrs. Claus and will be handing out stuffed animals to all children attending the event. The stuffed animals are courtesy of Pets Smart on Ming Avenue in Bakersfield. According to Minter Field...
The Shafter Lions Club will be holding their annual Shafter Christmas Parade on Friday December 3 at Mannel Park. The event will begin at 4:30p.m., with a bounce house, food, music, and other activities for the kids. There will also be a Christmas Tree raffle. At 6:30p.m., the Christmas Parade will take center stage, full of floats, cars, trucks, and of course, a visit from Old St. Nick. At 7:30 p.m, the festivities at the park will continue, with the addition of Santa Claus,...
There is an adage that has been around Shafter High throughout its history, “Once a General, Always a General.” This adage is no more evident this past week with the Shafter High Generals football team bringing the school’s first Valley championship since 1955. The city is full of Generals, young and old, rejoicing the victory. From store clerks, students, teachers, business owners, everyone is a proud General. The win has touched the entire city in a very positive way, givin...
In the race for the two open seats on the Shafter City Council, Mayor Cathy Prout has kept her large lead in Nov. 8’s election, gathering 34% of the vote for a total of 1,682 votes, easily outdistancing all of the other candidates But, the race for the remaining seat has tightened since the last update. According to the Kern Elections Office, incumbent Cesar Lopez has closed the gap with Gustavo Olvera, with only 31 votes separating the two. After the previous update, O...
The Shafter High Generals, for the first time since 1955, are Valley Champs in football. The Generals pulled one more victory out in their incredible playoff run by beating Caruthers, 41-35, on Friday night. Freshman quarterback Ezekiel Osborn had another outstanding game, going 22-37 for 372 yards in passing, with three touchdowns. Maryon Sloan, just one of a slew of weapons for Osborn, led the corps of receivers with 199 yards with 10 receptions. This included a 65-yard...
The Shafter High Generals are bound for the Valley Title Division IV game with an overtime win over the Matilda Torres Toros on Friday night, 42-41. The Shafter defense, which had trouble stopping the Toros in the second half, came up big and stopped Torres on a two-point conversion in overtime, giving the Generals the win. The No. 8 seeded Generals upset the top seed, Liberty Madera, last week to get a place in the semifinals. In the first half of Friday's game, Shafter used...
