Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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March has 31 days and each day of this month is a good day to celebrate women getting healthy – and that includes "No More" week, which is held with the hope of ending domestic and sexual violence. This year, while many are focused on women getting healthy, local author Kathleen M. Kline has chosen to release her memoir, "My Life in the Dark: A Marriage Built on Lies." "My hope is to celebrate, inspire and encourage women to include getting safe in their plan of good health," Kline said. "My Lif...
Kathleen Kline, local writing coach, author and editor, is joining efforts with the Tehachapi Cancer Foundation, Inc., to help give caregivers, survivors and current warriors a voice. “I will be holding a two-day writing workshop in which I assist this group of wonderful people in learning to express their experiences in writing while supporting their willingness to speak up,” Kline said. The Writing Workshop is scheduled for March 23 and 24. “I love this idea. I suggested we do this workshop online as it would be easier for all involved and m...
"COVID caused a delay of many things including the award of these plaques to some of our dedicated volunteers," Kern County Tehachapi Mountains Search and Rescue Captain Dan Gates said. Recently this was rectified. "Thank you, Dory, for your 30-plus years of continued service to our community. We continue to look to you to share your skills with us and those new coming into this unit," Gates said. Dory Kline responded, "It's been my honor to serve so many others." Carl Gehricke was presented...
While many would like to avoid the subject of drug overdoses, it has been estimated by the California Department of Public Health that in 2021 there were over 21,000 drug overdoses, 7,175 of those reported overdoses ended in death. Keeping that in mind Cornerstone Center for Counseling and Discipleship on J Street in Tehachapi has, in their dedication to its community members, become a trained distribution center of Narcan. “Narcan is a medication that can be administered by anyone with a little training, especially with the nasal spray that w...
The Stallions Springs Community Center (SSCC) is proud to offer a chance for locals to expand their interests. "We are lucky to be able to offer our community members classes in many things, and we are excited to be able to offer things for more than just the kids in our community. We are now about to offer a set of writing classes by an author, writing coach, editor and publisher with over three decades of experience," Nicole LLere, Stallion Springs Parks and Recreations Coordinator said. "And...
Fifteen years ago, David Berval began his dedication to giving back to his Kern County neighbors as a member of the Tehachapi Mountains Search and Rescue unit. During this time, Berval has done double duty with 10 years on the Bakersfield SAR team and 6 years on the Air Support unit. "I was one of a handful of SAR members who got additional training. We were considered Rescue Specialist #2. We were hoisted up and down from the Huey [helicopter] back before the hoisting rescues went to the fire...
Are you 18 or older? Do you like the outdoors? Do you like doing something worthwhile for others? Then Tehachapi Mountain Search and Rescue, an all-volunteer unit would like to invite you to join us. “If helping your community members sounds like something you would be interested in while enjoying the great outdoors, please join us at our monthly meetings where like-minded men and women gather to help others,” Volunteer Captain Howie Long said. The unit members are trained in the art of man-tracking, some rappelling/high angle rescue, sea...
On Sunday, November 8, Dorner Family Vineyard, in Cummings Valley, is hosting another local author, Kathleen Kline. Kline is an author who started working in the magazine industry and worked her way into the newspaper and blogging industries while writing and editing for others world-wide. Her published credits span 29 years. Stories of Kline’s have been included in online publications like “Stories That Lift(.com)”, and in print publications such as “Tales of Our Lives”, “What’s Your Story? A...
February's First Friday will see something special. Local author, Kathleen Kline, will be doing a reading of some of her short stories at Olde Vineyard Charm. Olde Vineyard Charm will be open for First Friday, as usual, and will be hosting this local author. "I enjoy playing with words while bringing joy to others while providing entertaining escapes when you have only a little time to yourself," author Kathleen Kline said. Inside the pages of Kline's booklet "When You Only Have Time For A...
National Mental Health Month – May of 2019 – will not be going by unnoticed by those in Tehachapi. Cornerstone Center for Counseling and Discipleship will be hosting a fundraiser on May 19 from 3 to 6 p.m. at The Shed (aka The Apple Shed). “This will be a time to speak openly to others about mental health, how it is associated to and with addictive behaviors which leads to why we are working to open a counseling center here in Tehachapi,” said Joshua Pierce, pastor and founder of Cornerstone CCD. The importance of mental health, and its rel...
Tickets are now available to 2nd Amendment fans for the 14th Annual Tehachapi Friends of the National Riffle Association fundraising dinner and auction. "The event has been put back on it's regularly scheduled date - Saturday, August 6," said Mike Barrett, co-chairman of Tehachapi Friends of NRA. "And while we will be holding it, once again, at the Benz Corporate headquarters here in Tehachapi, on Goodrich, we will only be able to sell 250 event tickets because space is limited." Purchasing a...
The thirteenth annual Tehachapi Friends of the NRA fundraising dinner and auction was held Aug. 8, 2015 and enjoyed by many. “Our numbers were a little down this year, largely due to a printing SNAFU that meant that a good number of folks did not get their event notices, but the generosity of the attendees to support the second amendment rights of all was still strong,” Dory Kline co-chairman of the TFNRA said. The evening was started with a presentation of the American flag by local Boy Scout Troup 3 with Christopher Lawson playing Ame...
Neeco “The Rooster” Macias, shown above in the green trunks, now 24 years old, has been boxing for years now. Of late he has fought eight bouts, winning all of them with 4 knockouts to his credits. “Necco will be signing with Golden Boy Promotions shortly,” Al Macias said as both his proud trainer and father. But that is not the only Macias “who is turning pro,” Al added. Chazz Macias, now 18, is “following in [his] brother’s footsteps,” Chazz said with a sparkle in his eyes. The youngest Macias will be the first professional boxer who is still...
The Tehachapi Friends of NRA have booked the date for their yearly dinner and fundraising event for 2015. “We will be holding it on Aug. 8 at 5 p.m.,” Co-Chairman of the TFNRA Mike Barrett said. “And we are lucky enough to be holding it, again, at the Benz Corporate office complex here in Tehachapi at 1401 Goddrick Drive.” As usual the TFNRA will be offering an evening of fun as they hold a live auction, a silent auction, have special drawings and a tasty dinner for 250 of our local 2nd Amendment appreciating friends. “Dinner and event tic...
Denise Talvitie, of the Golden Queen Mining Company LLC, in Mojave, a 30 plus year mining professional and an 18 year member of Women in Mining introduced mining to about 40 kids on June 25. The kids, ranging in age from eight to junior high school, are attending Mojave’s Summer Science Academy. Through the Women in Mining’s educational division, Talvitie, using chocolate chip cookies, was able to present mining and much that goes into mining to the children who excel in science. “We give them a piece of graph paper, a cookie and a tooth...
The Seventh Annual Tehachapi Mountains Search and Rescue (TMSAR) Sporting Clay Shoot, held April 11 at the Kern County Gun Club in Bakersfield, hosted 10 teams this year. "We are pleased to have been able to not only host 10 teams of shooters, but to enjoy a nice day, pay tribute to one of our 20-plus-year members who lost her battle to cancer earlier this year, have a fun time, a good lunch and raise a little bit of money to help keep this all-volunteer unit to stay afloat and keep running, so...
She exuded a less than a subtle essences of elegance with her perfectly painted long manicured fingernails (she had them painted red most often for decades), and her professional colored and styled hair that classically mimicked her younger years. Then there was her never inexpensive clothing, accented by the 1-carate diamond stud earrings she sported. I don't think she had taken them off since my father said, "It's not much of an insurance policy, so purchase something to remember your father...
The warmth that comes with spring brigns increased sightings of Rattlesnakes in Kern County. "Although snakes generally come out when it is 78-82 degrees to hunt and mate, I am already seeing snakes out as temperatures are reaching 66 degrees," snake hunter Elliot Grimshaw said. Sightings of road-kill snakes have been reported to Grimshaw in California City and rancher Dory Kline, of Kline's Harem Arabians found a 3-½ foot, 10-rattled rattlesnake under his house just before Easter. "I...
With the annual Brite Lake Fishing Derby scheduled for April 18, the Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District sought out the restocking of Brite Lake with fish that make fishing exciting. Although the Fish and Game Department is restocking the lake, as it does each year, there are additional Rainbow Trout being added to the lake, especially for this year’s Derby. “We checked with the Rec. Department up at Lake Isabella and they were stocking their lake with ‘Nebraska Tailwalkers’, so we contacted a fish hatchery in Nebraska and now we...
The Tehachapi mountains hold many paths for recreation and fun, but sometimes the fun goes wrong. People get separated while hiking; take a fall while out enjoying the mountains; and then there are times some folks, old and young alike, wander off from their homes. Others go out hang-gliding by themselves, or a plane goes down, and the Kern County Sheriff’s department needs help finding these folks. This is where the Tehachapi Mountains Search and Rescue unit comes in and helps their community members. The TMSAR is an all-volunteer unit of civi...
The date has been set for the 7th Annual Sporting Clay Shoot, hosted by Tehachapi Mountains Search & Rescue. "We are glad to announce that April 11 we will be holding our annual Sporting Clay Shoot at the Kern County Gun Club," Robin Jackson, TMSAR member said. Shooters can sign up as individuals or in teams of four. You can even request being added to a team if there are spots open. The cost of the entry is $75 per person, or $300 per team, "only if you book prior to March 30," Jackson said....
Mojave – Jan. 22, 2014 Golden Queen Mining Company LLC officials were on hand as the clean-up of four lots, on the northwest corner of Panamint and K St., began. The land was officially transferred via donation to the Mojave Chamber of Commerce back on Dec. 13, 2014. The Southern Pacific Railroad caboose that was formerly parked in the parking lot of Mike's Roadhouse Café (now closed) on Sierra Highway will find a new resting place on the lots across from the Golden Queen Mining Company's of...
Tehachapi – Jan. 24, 2015 a black and white theme set a classic stage for the Installation of the Greater Tehachapi Chamber Board of Directors and the honoring the 2015 Tehachapi Citizen of the Year, and 2015 Tehachapi Small and Large Business of the Year, at Villa La Paz at the National Chavez Center. Master of Ceremonies Pete Sturn helped introduce the 2015 office inductees for the Chamber’s Board of Directors. Mayor Wiggins swore in Marty Pay of Marty Pay Framers Insurance, a previous chairman and director, as the Chairperson of the Boa...
The long awaited seasonal reopening of the Tehachapi pool at the Dye Natatorium is coming in February. It all starts with the Annual Penguin Plunge fundraiser Jan. 31, 2015. All are invited to join other Dye Natatorium staff and fans for a dip into the pool. Registration begins at 11:30 a.m. at the Dye Natatorium located at 400-B South Snyder, Tehachapi. Hot drinks, cookies and t-shirts will be on hand, as well. Following the Penguin Plunge, the Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Parks District is offering classes for students ages 16 on up in...
Tehachapi Community Theatre is proud to announce its “Tickets For Charity” partnership with Have A Heart Humane Society (haveahearthumanesociety.org) for opening night Friday, January 30 of their new adult comedy Sylvia. TCT has donated 42 tickets, a total value of $630, to Have A Heart for them to sell as a fundraiser. Tickets have a face value of $15, but all of the money raised from ticket sales will be kept by Have A Heart Humane Society. If you’d like to donate more, please do so. To buy the tickets please contact Have A Heart at havea...
