Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The guest speaker at the Feb. 9 Rotary luncheon was Gregory Matheson, the retired director of the Los Angeles Police Department Criminalistics Laboratory where he had worked for over 30 years. Matheson emphasized that he is a criminalist and not a criminologist. A criminologist uses science to study crime and criminals. A criminalist collects and analyzes forensic evidence from a crime scene and is court qualified in toxicology, serology, crime scene investigation and the examination of...
The Tehachapi Arts Commission will be celebrating its third nationally recognized art show, Art 2023 Tehachapi, on the weekend of July 21-23 at the Aspen Builders Community Center located at 410 W. D Street. This year 49 artists will be participating in Art 2023, many returning for a third year. The featured artist of 2023 is Junn Roca, the artist who won the Best Landscape award at Art 2022 for his painting "Covered Bridge." Roca was born in the Philipines and has been an artist for over 50...
Rotary President Judy Trujillo happily presented Pastor Chris Frost of Mountain Bible Church with a check for $500 as a thank you for allowing Rotary to use his meeting space to put together the 12 Days of Christmas food boxes for seniors during the holidays. Supporters could deliver the food and care items to several locations in Tehachapi including the The Loop newspaper, City Hall and Mt. Bible Church to be packaged and delivered to needy local seniors before the Christmas holiday. This is...
Stallion Springs Parks and Recreation has gone online with RecDesk. Sign-ups are available from the CSD website. Families can sign up on www.stallionspringscsd.com. Look for “activity sign ups.” All registrations for events, activities and pool access will be done through this site. Stallion Springs Church is now offering a food pantry drive-thru distribution. The next available dates will be on Saturday, March 11 and April 8 from 10 to 11:30 a.m. It is open to all, with no income ver...
The Tehachapi City Council meets on the first and third Monday of the month at 6 p.m. They are currently meeting at the Police Department Community Room, 220 W. C St....
Since its inception, the Tehachapi Arts Commission has had the mission, "to establish Tehachapi as a destination for representational fine artists and collectors," and with their third nationally recognized art show and sale happening in July, they are realizing their goal. On May 11-14, 48 plein air artists from all over the country will come to Tehachapi to spend several days exploring the town and countryside and begin the paintings that will be submitted for acceptance to Art 2023, the...
At the Jan. 19 meeting of the Golden Hills Community Service District (GHCSD), the new Board honored Marilyn White for her years of service to the GHCSD Board. White had served on the Board of Directors since 2014. New member Scott Wyatt was elected to the seat in the November election. During this first meeting of the year, the GHCSD Board also approved the water rate study performed by Provost & Pritchard of Bakersfield. The study is necessary to assure that any proposed water rate...
Want a fun summer job? Stallion Springs Parks and Recreation announced that they are looking for lifeguards for the pool this summer. Those interested should contact Nicole Ilere at (661) 823-7883. Candidates will need to take the lifeguard certification class offered by TVRPD. The class includes videos, group discussions and hands-on practice. They also teach teamwork, rescue and surveillance skills, First Aid and CPE/AED. Completion of the course results in a two-year certification in Lifeguar...
Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce President Jeanette Pauer surprised Tehachapi Rotarians at their Jan. 19 meeting by only touching on the upcoming events planned by the Chamber of Commerce before launching into a fascinating program on a subject dear to her heart: Shumla Archaeological Research and Education Center in Comstock, Texas. Pauer explained the difference between the petroglyphs (rock carvings) that can be found locally in Ridgecrest and pictographs (rock paintings) that were found at the...
On Saturday, Jan. 28, 19 people from Tehachapi met at the Palmdale Metrolink for an excursion to and tour of Union Station in Downtown Los Angeles. The group consisted of representatives from Friends of the Depot, Tehachapi Heritage League, Tehachapi Loop Railroad Club and Tehachapi Tourism Commission....
The Board of Directors of Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District (TVHD) announced the appointment of their new CEO, Peggy Mendiburu. Mendiburu will join TVHD on Feb. 6. She will be leaving her position as administrative assistant at Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley. "I am happy and excited to have been chosen for the CEO position at Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District. I am looking forward to my new role and working with the District Board, staff and this community," said Mendiburu in a...
It was 43 years ago in June 1980 that Tehachapi's best known insurance agent, Marty Pay, joined the Farmers Insurance Group and opened his own office in the San Fernando Valley. The office was located on Van Nuys Blvd. over the world-famous Hamburger Hamlet. His prior insurance training had come from the seven and a half years he spent with the Auto Club where he had worked since 1972 following his release from the Marines. Having his own office was a whole new world. His work experience after...
On the evening of Jan. 3, 2023, the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District appointed their new 2023 Board of Directors. From left are Treasurer Dwayne Moats, President Mike Nixon, Secretary Lydia Chaney, Vice President William Steele and At-Large Carl Ghericke. TVHD owns the building occupied by Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley in Capital Hills and is planning a new facility to be located on the site of the old hospital located at E St. and Curry St....
The primary item addressed at the Jan. 9 Planning Commission meeting was planned new construction by Tehachapi Liquor. Owner Albeir Rechied and Jennifer Duke of Duke Engineering applied for preliminary approval of the architectural design and site plan of a new 5,416 square feet retail building to be located 20 feet from the current Tehachapi Liquor location. The address of the new building will be 838 Tucker Rd. and will include three tenants with the majority of the space dedicated to...
On Dec. 19, Councilman Michael Davies was sworn in as the new Mayor of Tehachapi, serving a two year term ending with the last December Council meeting in 2024. Davies was first elected in 2018 for a two year term to fill the vacancy created by the death of Councilman Ed Grimes. He was subsequently reelected in 2020 to a 4 year term representing District 3. He had served as Mayor Pro-Tem since December of 2020. Davies has been a Tehachapi resident since 1981. He has worked in the community with...
British photographer and noted authority on railroad operations around the world, Colin Marsden of Dawlish, Devon, England, has been coming to Tehachapi for over 50 years to write about and photograph the trains that travel the Loop and other lines throughout Southern California. On this trip, Marsden will be staying with friends in Tehachapi until early January. He has a new book, "Railways of Southern California," that is now available at the Depot Museum gift shop. Marsden has also brought...
All branches of service were represented at two Wreaths Across America ceremonies held at Freedom Plaza on Saturday, Dec. 17. Representatives of each branch of service placed a wreath in front of the Freedom Plaza monuments. From left are Bill Chavez - Army, Lynn Eckert - Marines, Ronald Miller - Navy, Carrie Morgan - Air Force, Nate Burious - Space Force. To the right out of the photograph were Eric Purdy - Merchant Marines and Matt Guggemos - POW/MIA....
At the Dec. 5 City Council meeting, Public Works Director Don Marsh reported to the Tehachapi City Council that the city's Wastewater Division leases approximately 81 acres located on the north side of the airport from the Airport Fund. They use the wastewater effluent to grow fodder crops and alfalfa to be sold locally. The operation and maintenance of the project has been performed using city employees for years. Over the years the city had been approached by farmers and ranchers making...
Barbara Ferrante, owner of Jake's Steakhouse, located at 213 S. Curry St. in Downtown Tehachapi, has announced that the restaurant is now open for lunch Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., featuring a special menu that will change seasonally. As always, Jake's is open for dinner seven days a week from 4 to 9 p.m. Barbara wants everyone to know that Jake's will also be open this year on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve for dinner featuring a special menu, yet to be released. "Reserva...
Terri McKeehan moved to Tehachapi in July 2022 to marry her high school sweetheart, Sam, who works at Edwards Air Force Base and is commander of a local VFW chapter. Her parents and her sister are also nearby so she was familiar with the area from family visits over the years. Terri was born in Upland, California and lived there through high school. She remembered Sam from the first time he winked at her in high school. They married other people but kept track of each other over the years. She...
Winter Skate Day, Dec. 28 Join us for "Winter Skate Day" at the Stallion Springs Community Center, Thursday, Dec. 28. This fun-filled day of indoor skating will begin at 10 a.m. and end at 3 p.m. The cost of $3 for kids and $5 for adults is payable at the door. Rollerskates and rollerblades only. All participants will be required to sign a waiver. Snacks and hot cocoa will be available for purchase. General News The Stallion Springs CSD reminds residents that when streets are plowed, residents...
Surrounded by friends and family, Tehachapi resident Hale Grover celebrated his 100th birthday on Dec. 7 with a huge party at Jake's Steakhouse. According to Jake's owner, Barbara Ferrante, Grover and his family had booked the back room months ago in anticipation of the event. Grover's son Jeff and his wife Kathy came from Arizona to host the affair. According to Jeff, Hale had finally given up playing golf about a year ago and had just been able to renew his driver's license for another five...
Councilwoman Christina Scrivner submitted her resignation from the Tehachapi City Council on Dec. 5. On Nov. 8, Scrivner was elected as the east Kern County representative to the Kern Community College District. She has represented City Council District 2 since March 2020, first as an appointee and then elected to the position in November 2020. From left in the photo are Mayor Pro Tem Michael Davies, Joan Pogon-Cord, Scrivner, Mayor Phil Smith and Susan Wiggins. The Tehachapi City Council meets...
On Dec. 10, the Tehachapi Police Foundation hosted 17 local children at their annual Shop with a Cop event. After enjoying pizza from Hungry Howie's at the Tehachapi Police Department, the children rode to Walmart in police vehicles, sirens blaring, for a shopping spree. This year the Police Foundation was joined by Bear Valley Springs Police, Stallion Springs Police, California City Police, Kern Country Sheriff's Office and California State Parks Assn. The children that were chosen to shop had...
On the evening of Oct. 22, the 30th Anniversary Celebration of the International Combat Hapkido Federation was held in Chattanooga, Tennessee. At this event, Tehachapi martial artist Ivan Jadric was one of five United States honorees and the only one from California to be elevated to 9th Dan Grandmaster in Combat Hapkido and one of two to be elevated to 9th Dan Grandmaster in Tae Kwon Do. The awards were presented by Grandmaster John Pellegtini, founder of the International Combat Hapkido...
