Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The year is coming to a close. The election will be over by the time you read this. Meanwhile, we keep forging on, dealing with COVID-19 restrictions and repercussions. The CSD Board had two seats to fill and with five contenders, the race is on! Meanwhile, good news from the CSD management. Bear Valley was able to obtain a grant for generators to aid in case of a Public Safety Power Shut-off. The value of that grant is $155,000. The grant came from Kern County Environmental. Last year, some households without water tanks had no water service...
The Whiting Center in Bear Valley Springs filled with holiday music on Sunday, Dec. 8, as the BVS Cultural Arts Association hosted the 10th annual TPops concert. We were blessed with decent weather-only rain, as opposed to the snow that disrupted Thanksgiving for so many. This year, well-known local musician, Jim Peck, conducted the orchestra. It opened with a medley of popular Christmas songs. A sing-a-long with Christina Scrivner and Christian Walker led us into such favorites as "Rudolph the...
The Bear Valley Springs Cultural Arts Association has awarded music scholarships the past few years. This year, the club received a recommendation from Gayel Pitchford, the music teacher and founder of the Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra, for one of her students whom she has deemed worthy. The scholarship award is $1,500. Pitchford introduced the young recipient, Sarah Frias, as a talented violinist, but also a tenor saxophone player in junior and senior high school. Pitchford indicated that Frias...
The recent PSPS events certainly had a lot of our community in an uproar and disrupted services. On top of that, the schools were closed causing, at a minimum, great inconvenience to working parents, plus meals and a warm, safe place for children who depend on those services. As well, people who needed power for medical devices were put at risk. Hopefully a better solution can be found in the future. At the November CSD meeting, discussions were held on preparing for possible future outages. A warming (or alternately, cooling) center, as well...
Since the Tail Waggers Group was founded in Bear Valley Springs by Molly Mackin and others, they have reached out in many ways to help the community. One of the most interesting branches of Tail Waggers is the Alliance of Therapy Dogs, which is associated with a national organization. Therapy dogs are not the same as the well-known “service” dogs. Therapy dogs are owned by members of Tail Waggers and the national association and they pay visits to schools, senior rest homes and hospitals to brighten the lives of patients, residents, and sch...
On Saturday, Oct. 5, the dedication of the historic Fickert Cemetery in Bear Valley Springs was held at the Oak Tree Country Club and attracted an audience of over 100 people. This has been a long time coming. The cemetery is off on a little cul-de-sac and has never actually been groomed or really recognized, but it holds the graves of many members of the Fickert family who ranched the valley for a hundred years – from the 1860s to the 1960s. Fred Fickert and his wife, Mary Glynn Fickert, w...
The BVS Association meeting of Sept. 17 had a large attendance, due in part to the introduction of the public liquor license the Board is introducing. Up until now, we have been under a private liquor license. The difficulty with it is that if a non-member who is not accompanied by an Association member is served alcohol in the saloon, the dining room and the Mulligan Room could lose the license, which would affect many of us and severely impact the income of the above amenities. Wine, beer and liquor are some of the main profit making...
The Bear Valley Springs Cultural Arts Association is offering its second annual bus tour throughout the Tehachapi area, with commentary by Tehachapi’s own historian/naturalist, Jon Hammond. Prepare yourself for a fascinating and extensive tour through Tehachapi’s history, culture, and geography. Jon knows pretty much all the history we have available for the area and he presents it well. This event will take place on Sunday, Oct. 6, and we will meet at 10 a.m. at the Cummings Valley Elementary School parking lot. The tour will take three hou...
Well, the issues with the new gate seem to be mainly resolved. I know my RFID has worked like a charm and it’s worth it, Bear Valley friends, to spend a dollar a month for this benefit. Where else can you get this great value for one dollar a month? The movies at the lake are done for the season and now it’s time to move into autumn sports. Good news, water aerobics will continue through September. Thank you, Marti Sprinkel and Debbie Papac. The cost will be the same, $30 for the month or $3 per time. Sign up for Kimberley Clow’s in-se...
The biggest deal right now in Bear Valley is the new procedures for the gate. It has gone electronic. A few hiccups have happened, as can be the case with new technology, but it will get worked out. Go to the CSD office with any questions. One of our directors from the Association Board, Larry Thompson, is resigning and moving away with his wife, Beverly, a previous high school principal. They both will be sorely missed. The community wishes you the best in your new home, Larry and Bev. Meanwhile, the Association Board has been looking for...
On Sunday, Aug. 25, an intimate afternoon of Chamber music will take place at the Oak Tree Country Club, from 3 to 5 p.m. The event begins at 3 p.m. with a short social time, including wine and appetizers. Then, let the music begin. All the composers featured will be female, by an all-female orchestra. Leading them is Soo-Yeon Park, pianist. Park is a faculty member of CSUB where she leads the piano studies, chamber music and opera programs. Audrey Boyle will be on the flute. Boyle also teaches at CSUB and performs with the Tehachapi Symphony...
On Sunday, Aug. 25, an intimate afternoon of Chamber music will take place at the Oak Tree Country Club, from 3 to 5 p.m. The event begins at 3 p.m. with a short social time, including wine and appetizers. Then, let the music begin. All the composers featured will be female, by an all-female orchestra. Leading them is Soo-Yeon Park, pianist. Park is a faculty member of CSUB where she leads the piano studies, chamber music and opera programs. Audrey Boyle will be on the flute. Boyle also teaches at CSUB and performs with the Tehachapi Symphony...
Each year, veterans are offered the opportunity to take a free trip to Washington D.C. to see the monuments. More importantly, this is to honor them for their service to the nation. World War II veterans and Korean War veterans have made the trip, and now they are concentrating primarily on our Vietnam veterans. Two veterans from Bear Valley Springs were awarded the honor this year. On June 17 they were on their way. One of the honorees was Don Bailey. Don enlisted in March 1966 and served...
Bear Valley Springs is a private gated community in which the residents pay an annual Association amenities fee. To participate in the below events, a non-member or non-resident must arrange with a friend or family member in the community for a guest pass that would permit them to engage in the activities. Guest passes will be checked. Time to hit the pool! Do you have health issues that a therapeutic water aerobics class would help? Then the pool is the place for you. Classes are held five days a week, Monday thru Friday, from 10:20 to 11:40...
The Bear Valley Springs Cultural Arts Association is sponsoring one of our annual concerts in the park at Cub Lake on June 23. The musical group, "Hot Foot," is local and has played at the Oak Tree Country Club on occasion. The members of the band are San Man as the lead vocalist, Ron Brem on guitar and vocals, Kim Shropshire on drums and vocals and Rob Saranpa on bass guitar and vocals. The concert runs from 3 to 5 p.m. with a short intermission. Bring along a picnic snack, a folding chair and...
Sonja Bronson has always found that nature excites her. As a child in Minnesota, she recalls hiking with another girl in the woods and coming across a forest floor of buttercups. It almost moved her to tears. She reminisced that after a rain in Minnesota everything was so green you could feel it. After a career in show business, she worked in marketing at different colleges. Sonja went to San Francisco to the Academy of Arts where she saw a wonderful display of photography, which may have been...
The 35th Annual Art Show, sponsored by the Bear Valley Springs Cultural Arts Association, takes place April 14-21 at the Oak Tree Country Club, 29500 North Lower Valley Rd. It opens with a reception at 4 p.m. At the reception, five pieces of donated art by some generous artists will be awarded, but you don't have to be there to win. If you are already a member of the CAA, there is no cost to attend the reception. If you are not a member, the cost is $10. But for $15 you can become a member and...
On Sunday, Feb. 17, the BVS Cultural Arts Association is hosting a Pop-up Book Faire at the Oak Tree Country Club. It opens at 2:30 p.m. and will have a no-host bar. A panel will hold a question and answer period and then several authors will work with the public at separate tables. They have extensive and varied backgrounds so that aspiring authors will have a good cross-section of experience from which to draw – everything from self-publishing to established publishers to even hybrid publishing. These authors are all local. We have a w...
The Nov. 13 meeting offered inspiring speaker Meg Prior, a photographer/film maker who has been deployed to Afghanistan for 10 years in spurts of a few weeks to several months on occasion. Her purpose has been to film the encounters of the armed forces there, and has actually documented all seven branches over that time. Because we are the American Association of University Women, she focused this presentation on the roles women have played during that time. Her first deployment was in 2010,...
Last year the Bear Valley Springs Cultural Arts Association offered a variety of Insight Lectures. This year we are proud to present Bear Valley’s own Dan Bronson in a lecture entitled Chasing the Rainbow. Mr. Bronson has had extensive experience with Hollywood crowd and movie making. People have often asked him just how to break into that rarified atmosphere. This lecture will outline how he did it, with twists, turns and celebrity encounters. He earned his Doctorate at Princeton, and then taught English and American literature at De Pauw U...
