Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Butterflies are symbols of transformation, and that's exactly the sentiment a trio of local artists wanted to illustrate when they began conceiving a colorful mural in an inspired setting: the new Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley hospital. Following more than a year of planning and painting, artists Donald Towns, Otto Sturcke and Monica Lindsey unveiled their work – a sprawling piece featuring butterflies emerging from a tree of life and soaring toward a full moon, complete with iron art b...
Audriana Coogle's legs felt heavy. The 11-year-old woke one morning to find they were swollen and red. She couldn't stand up or walk. She couldn't get out of bed. Doctors chalked it up to the then-11-year-old playing too hard and told her parents to ice her legs and keep her home from school. A pediatrician suggested it could be arthritis. But that didn't make sense. Audriana didn't have just swollen legs – her stomach was upset, and she was spitting up blood. "We had no clue what was going o...
Around the holidays, when Angela Newton reflects on her childhood in Paradise, Calif., she thinks about the home her family built. The one with the light blue siding and wraparound decks. The one where her mother hosted formal dinner parties with fine china for friends and family on holidays. The one where she worked alongside her daddy in the garage to change the clutch in her first car. The one she helped build with her own hands, digging leach lines and laying floors, helping transform a...
