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Westside Restaurant and Entertainment Guide Your Guide To The Best Restaurants and Entertainment on the Westside
Asian Experience
Asian Food and Pizza Lunch and Dinner Tuesday - Friday 11 am - 2 pm 4 pm - 9 pm Saturday 4 pm - 9 pm 215 Center Street, Taft 763- 1815
Sagebrush Annie’s Restaurant and Wine Tasting Tasting Sat. & Sun. 11:30-5 pm Dinner by Reservation 4211 Highway 33, Ventucopa (661) 766-2319 Taft Crude Coffee House Coffee House and Deli Monday – Friday 6:30 am to 5pm. Saturday 7 am to 2 pm Sundays 7:30 am to 1 pm 1010 6th Street, Taft 763-5156
Tumbleweed Café and Steakhouse
Steak, Seafood, Wild Game, Full Bar Monday – Friday 6 am to 2 pm Saturday – Sunday 7 am – 2 pm Dinner Hours Friday and Saturday 6 pm to 9 pm 24870 Highway 33, Derby Acres 768-4655
Paik’s Ranch House Where Everybody Meets Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Open 7 Days Mon. Tues. Thur. Sat. 6 am-8:30pm Sun. Wed. Fri. 6 am - 9:30pm 765-6915 200 Kern St. Taft Hot Stone Pizza Pizza, Subs, Ice Cream Family Arcade Sunday-Thursday 11am-10pm Friday and Saturday 11am-11pm Lunch Buffet Monday-Friday 11am-2pm 407 Finley Dr. 765-6424
Westside Entertainment Taft Crude Coffe House
Chilled & Grilled
Full Service Coffe House Fresh Sandwiches
Saturday May 23rd
763-5156 1010 6th Street
BeerPong at 7pm sign ups at 6pm $20 per player!
765-2000 621 Center Street Food and Pizza Asian ExperienceAsian Lunch and Dinner Sagebrush Annie’s Tuesday - Friday The Place 11 a.m. - 2 p.m. 4 p.m. - 9 p.m. Wine Tasting Dinner by Reservation
“The Place to- Go in Saturday 4 p.m. 9 p.m. Ventucopa” Live Music Saturday Nights
OPEN 7 Days Friday and Saturday Nights 766-2319 Ribeye Oak BBQ and 4211 Highway 33, Ventucopa Sweetbreads Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner 215 Center Street 763-1815 Everything Homemade Cali’s Restaurant 766-2660 4414 Highway 33, Ventucopa 101 B Street 765-7610 Award Winning Wines
Mon, Wed, Thurs, Fri 10:30am to 9pm Closed Tuesday Breakfast Served Sat. and Sun. 7:00am to 10:30am
Always Fresh! Mon. - Thurs. 10am - 5pm Friday Dine In or We Deliver 10am - 3pm 765-4143 700 Kern Street
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TAFT INDEPENDENT
Editorial
Westside Watcher Juana Espinoza and Kimberly Rahe were the big winners at Honors Night Thursday May 14th. To the applause of an auditorium full of her peers and their parents and friends, Espinoza, a Taft Union High School senior, walked off stage with $18,950 in college scholarships, $12,000 of which was from the Confidence Foundation, originally Whittier Oil. She also received $1,500 from Berry Petroleum, and $1,000 each from Holmes Western Oil Corp., Petroleum Production Pioneers, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. Rahe received $11,200 toward her college education, including $10,000 from the Masonic Foundation Scholarship. Altogether, 62 students received 248 scholarships from 69 donors totaling $154,900. The Taft College Merit Scholarship was the biggest donor, chipping in $29,400. Other big winners were: —Loren Kolb with $5,950, including $1,500 from the Class of 1952 and $1,000 from Holmes Western Oil Corp. —Dakota Bailey with $5,850, including $4,000 from the George & Helen Stewart Memorial Scholarship. —Jaime Valdez with $5,450, including $1,000 each from Holmes Western Oil Corp., Petroleum Production Pioneers, and the Society of Petroleum Engineers. —Blaine Reich with $5,250, including $1,000 each from the Class of 1950 and the Mathew Dragoo Memorial Scholarship.
MAY 22, 2009
—Christina Cloud with $5,200, including $1,500 each from the Class of 1952 and Berry Petroleum, and $1,000 from Oxy-Elk Hills. —Jessica Martin with $4,700, including $2,000 from the Class of 1949 and $1,000 from the Class of 1950. —Chelsey Sinden with $4,700, including $1,500 from Berry Petroleum and $1,000 each from Holmes Western Oil Corp. and Oxy-Elk Hills. —Kenneth Neher with $3,500, including $1,500 from Berry Petroleum and $1,000 from Watkins Construction. —Briana Lemmons with $3,550, including $1,000 from the True Grit Scholarship. —Austin Kindred with $3,450, including $1,000 each from the Norman Cooper Memorial Scholarship and Holmes Western Oil Corp. —Cassandra Walrath with $3,450, including $1,500 from the Chevron “Humankind” Scholarship. —Kalyn Valentine with $3,400, including $1,000 each from National Health Services and the WestSide Hospital Auxillary. —Breanna Macaulay with $3,200, including $1,000 each from Holmes Western Oil Corp. and the Association of Energy Services. —Martin Lopez with $3,200, including $1,500 from Berry Petroleum.
FOX THEATER
All shows before 6 p.m. - $7.00 Late Show Child and Senior $7.00 Adults $9.00 www.taftfoxtheaters.com 765-4802 514 Center St.
Soroptimists Recognize, Award Local Girls
by Kayleigh O’Neal The Soroptimist International of Taft feel that they should recognize local students for their excellence, recently meeting to present a “Girls of Achievement” award to 17 girls for their exceptional academics and moral standards. The meeting, held at OT’s restaurant, provided a lunch for the girls, students from seventh grade to college, and their guests. The ceremony lasted only an hour, but it was very informative and personal. The Soroptimists--which mean the best for women-have been fighting for women and their rights for years. They seek to improve the lives of women and girls all over the world. “A lot of women live through nightmares, day after day,” soroptimist Linda Stubblefield mentioned as she addressed the entire room. Her speech discussed the fight and hardships women have gone through, and how they keep fighting for themselves and for others. When the awards were given out, each girl approached the podium and introduced herself and her plans for college and future career. They were each given an award and a boquet of flowers. The girls awarded are as follows: Alyssia Line - Taft College Kaylee Fowler and Alix Cordova - Midway School Leslie Tacza and Sierra Melton - McKittrick School Chelsi Perry and Kaitlin Brown - Lincoln Junior High School Escarleth Herrera, Sheri Frazier, Toni Geer, and Britney Anderson - Maricopa School Kayla Houston and Emily Phillips - Maricopa Elementary School Hadley Pitman, Karla Lopez, Hannah Koerner, and Cassie Walrath - Taft Union High School The Soroptimists also present scholarships to young women. At the upcoming TUHS Honors Night, they will present one girl from the S Club, the high school’s young soroptimist club, with a $500 scholarship, and will award one girl who doesn’t have to be a member with a scholarship as well. They also award a Maricopa student and a TC student with Ranch House Restaurant scholarships.
Paik’s
Pre-Paid Legal Services Brian Houx (801) 710-9889 Because Bad Things Happen to Good People
NOW SHOWING -Terminator Salvation - Star Trek - Angels and Demons SHOWTIMES: Mon-Fri. 7 p.m. Sat & Sun. 1 p.m., 4 p.m., 7 p.m.
“Where Everybody Meets” Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner Open 7 Days Mon, Tues, Thurs, Sat. 6 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. Sun, Wed, Fri. 6 a.m. to 9:30 p.m.
765-6915 200 Kern Street, Taft, Ca.