Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Tehachapi businesses hiring but face challenges Hiring continues in the City of Tehachapi as businesses start recovering from the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. While the job opportunities are out there, attracting employees back, many of which benefitted from state and federal aid while not working, continues to be a challenge nationwide and Tehachapi is not immune to that challenge. Searches on job boards such as Indeed.com, Monster.com and ZipRecruiter.com show a wide-variety of...
I was caught in a moment the other day when my son received his first baseball uniform. He is one of hundreds of 4- and 5-year-olds returning to the T-ball fields after a year-long hiatus and it is his first time playing the game. He immediately threw on his ball cap and proudly clutched his jersey as we walked back to the truck. It hit me at that moment: his baseball journey has officially started. I have spent a good portion of my life around ballplayers. My older brother was really good, I...
While their high schools elected not to play football due to COVID-19, players from Tehachapi and Boron High Schools have joined forces to create "Mountain Elite", a club football team that competes in Bullhead City, Arizona. The team posted a 2-0 record in their first two weeks of competition. The squad is coached by local members of the football community not affiliated with Tehachapi High School....
Tehachapi High School baseball is one of the sports taking the field of competition this spring as part of a modified attempt at bringing back prep competition. Still limited, thanks to the Kern High School District's refusal to allow Tehachapi to compete against their normal league counterparts as the result of a short-sighted nonsensical approach from KHSD that bans competition outside of the district. Please note that Tehachapi; they want our involvement during the good times but when we...
Water: An important resource for economic development in the City of Tehachapi TehachaPod interviewed our local public works leaders on how this resource is obtained, used and maintained in the Tehachapi Valley and why that is important for business, residents and our local economy. Listen here www.iheart.com/podcast/263-tehachapod-62392602/. Tacos El Superior adds breakfast items/hours Tacos El Superior has been open less than a year in Tehachapi, but recently expanded their hours of operation...
For the first time since 1930 a full calendar year will have passed without Tehachapi High School Football. As a result of the Coronavirus pandemic that shuttered the fall '20 season, there was some hope that a season would be salvaged in early 2021, but at least for Tehachapi's sake that won't be the case. It was made official a few weeks ago with letters to parents that despite being given clearance by the State of California, the Tehachapi Warriors would not be playing a shortened five-game...
NCAA conference basketball tournaments, although radically modified this year, are underway and in most cases completed across the country as the field for the NCAA men's and women's basketball tournaments get completed. Obviously, things are different this season with nearly all conference tournaments canceled or stopped mid-way last year because of COVID-19 mandated lockdowns and stay-at-home orders halting play and eventually the NCAA basketball tournament in 2020. A year later we are still...
Success in first week of Small Business Loyalty Program The City's Small Business Loyalty Program exceeded expectations in the first week with over 30 participants claiming gift cards. The program accounted for nearly $6,000 in redeemed receipts from purchases at locally-owned businesses. For more information see article "Early success in the Tehachapi Small Business Loyalty Program" on page 10. Frosty Frills & More opens in former Baskin Robbins location After just a few weeks of vacancy...
A tad of shoddy carpentry caused a shelf containing some of my memorabilia to come crashing down in the home office the other day. Among the objects that came raining from the heavens were several baseballs, a collection of sorts, each with its own story, some having not seen much light over the last few years as their shelf position was not ideal for attention. The large shelf is actually a section of the original bleacher seating from the Icardo Center at Cal State Bakersfield. I procured a se...
Small Business Loyalty Program begins March 1 At the February 16 meeting the Tehachapi City Council unanimously approved the "Small Business Loyalty Program" aimed at incentivizing purchases at small businesses in the City of Tehachapi. For more information see article "Small Business Loyalty Program" on page 27. TehachaPod cracks top-100 in "Government Podcasts" on Apple Recent episodes include a conversation with Tehachapi Unified School District Superintendent Stacey Larson-Everson and...
Demographics and Economic Opportunity Dashboard Launched The City of Tehachapi and eImpact have completed a new "Demographics and Economic Opportunity" dashboard that is now active on the city's website www.LiveUpTehachapi.com . The demographics report includes spending habits of consumers within the City of Tehachapi and serves as a tool for both current and potential business owners along with developers and site selectors considering the Tehachapi market for investment. This updated study...
Thank you to all who wrote emails or sent other correspondence expressing your appreciation for the typo-inspired column about the late Coy Burnett, the namesake of our football stadium. It was nice to hear some reassurance about the man and his rightful place on the sign adorning our facility. I had mentioned in that piece about the move in the late 1950s from nearby Imhof Field that had previously served as the home of the Warriors prior to Burnett's generosity. Here it is another day and...
In a memo to parents attempting to distance themselves from a recent "Let Them Play" rally, the Tehachapi Unified School District made what appeared to be an innocent typo, claiming the gathering at "Cory(sic) Burnett Field" was not sanctioned by the District in the officially released document. Of course, most of us know the home field of the Tehachapi Warriors is "Coy Burnett Field," minus the extra "r" inserted by the president of the school board who in haste autographed the memo without...
4 Economic Development quick recap Despite the challenges in 2020 presented by COVID-19, the City of Tehachapi continued to see small, medium and large business investments as economic development efforts continued. The City of Tehachapi saw $6 million in new commercial permits and commercial improvements/renovations in 2020. This included a new Panda Express Restaurant as well as remodels to four additional new restaurants that opened in previously vacated spaces in 2020. Those were Tacos El...
As recent events would suggest, and as some of us forewarned, 2021 isn't all sunshine and roses, and it is painfully obvious we are in need, now more than ever, for the distraction and unifying comfort of local sports. Unfortunately, as we enter the time for restarting those contests as planned out by the California Interscholastic Federation months ago, that vision is not reality. Instead, parents and coaches are having to explain or at least attempt to justify the "guidance" out of Sacramento...
This column is simply historic. Cherish these pages for it is my hope that something like this will never happen again. It's the first issue of a new year and normally I would be recalling the greatest local sports moments of the previous 12 months with eyes on the future. But, for the first time in modern history, nothing happened in local sports in 2020 due to the COVID-19 lockdowns of sporting events. It's hard to pick a best moment out of a lot of nothingness. The year 2020 gave us about...
Panda Express opens Tehachapi restaurant The lines were long, as they are when any new business opens in Tehachapi, even Panda Express, food most residents have sampled elsewhere. But as with anything it just tastes better when it is produced at home. After six months of construction Panda Express opened their doors on December 10, culminating years of relationships with the City of Tehachapi and commercial developers. This new location is the fifth new restaurant to open in the City of...
As COVID-19 shifts the way many fans watch sports, I must admit I have adopted a new guilty pleasure. In case you were not aware, we are in the midst of the 2020-21 Premier League soccer season and I feel it's important to recognize one of my new favorite teams, Tottenham Hotspur Football (or soccer for us Americans; don't worry there are a lot of those terms to keep track of). Not sure why it took me this many years to actually cheer for a Premier League Club, but thanks to Amazon's "All or...
Deco Du Jour opens Tehachapi store Gina Dumania has lived in Tehachapi just shy of a year after relocating from Southern California last January. Upon getting acquainted with the community, she recognized a lack of offerings in an area she happens to specialize in, furniture and home furnishings. Gina, her mother Dorothy Dumania and Shawn Bineau decided to come together and partner in Deco Du Jour, a retail store offering popular styles from Los Angeles showrooms, including farmhouse rustic,...
Thanksgiving is a banner day and one of those holidays that just seem to stick out in my days covering sports. While the optimal day is relaxing with family and friends, maybe assisting in the meal preparation itself and being simply thankful for all we have, this holiday was always important to me, especially given my life on the road. When I was a basketball announcer this was the beginning of the very-busy travel season. My time at Cal State Bakersfield meant plenty of November/December road...
I am sure that most of you have heard the testimonials of various athletes who credit athletics for getting them out of a situation. Whether that be a socioeconomic, academic, criminal or other challenging situations, the value of athletic competition is oftentimes the gateway for many young people seeking to better their lives. It should not be lost on any of us to just compartmentalize that concept to those that have benefited financially from the games they play as well. Too often the...
Panda Express hiring for Tehachapi Location Panda Express, a subsidiary of Panda Restaurant Group will held a hiring event on Friday, October 30 for their Tehachapi location set to open within the next few months. Construction on the project started mid-summer and the new location on Tucker Road is moving briskly through the construction process and now staffing the new restaurant is becoming a priority. Panda Restaurant Group hosted a "Virtual Interview Day" for their nearly 40 positions that...
In the coming weeks, an important landmark in my career will be destroyed. Call it progress, call it redevelopment, call it the future, but for now I will simply call it a heartbreak. While we are currently located four hours north of this landmark, many understand the importance of a stadium and remember the moments they shared inside its walls, this landmark is Qualcomm Stadium, also known by its original moniker of "Jack Murphy Stadium" and last known as San Diego County Credit Union Stadium...
What does a dusty box left behind by a retired Hall of Fame coach really hold? Turns out a lot of history and an opportunity for a unique archiving project for one of our town's greatest assets, Tehachapi Warriors football. When he retired from Tehachapi High School, former football coach Steve Denman left behind a box of game films, in many different formats, with a series of games from the mid-1980s through the early 2000s. Instead of throwing it out, his successors have asked me for a favor;...
Normally this time of year I would be happily writing about the upcoming Tehachapi Warriors football game or sharing a story regarding the latest from our volleyball squad; you know, something typical in September in the world of prep sports. But we all know this is 2020 and COVID-19 changed all of that. As announced in July the California Interscholastic Federation (CIF), the governing body for high school athletics in the state, changed the seasons of sport in response to our current...
