Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Before the completion of Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley hospital, interim-President David Eastman appointed the Art of Healing Committee to secure works of art to be placed throughout the hospital. Artwork has been proven over and over again to be beneficial in the healing of hospital patients. Among the many works secured by the committee are the butterfly mural located in the interior courtyard and the welcoming angel in the hospital entry hall. On March 18, the remaining members of the...
Coral and Chris Holland moved into their Tehachapi home on Dec. 21, 2021 just in time to host a whole family for Christmas. The couple came to California from Boston earlier in the year and settled in Silver Lakes which is in the middle of the desert. A few weeks of 108 degree weather was enough to convince them that they needed a slightly cooler climate. Tehachapi was perfect. Coral is retired after spending 47 years in the management of elder care facilities. During that period, she was...
On March 24, Ashley Sodergren, director of the South Valley Regional Office of Make-A-Wish and a Tehachapi resident, spoke to local Rotarians about the needs and operations of the organization and specifically the Bakersfield office. Sodergren said that a child is diagnosed with a critical illness every 20 minutes. Wishes that are granted by Make-A-Wish give hope to children with critical illnesses, as well as those with terminal illnesses. There are currently 102 children waiting for wishes to...
Friends of the Tehachapi Depot gathered on March 8 to celebrate the transfer of ownership of the caboose that is currently located next to the Depot. Joining FOTD were members of Tehachapi City Council, City Manager Greg Garrett and former caboose owner Hans Kahl. FOTD had wanted to buy the caboose for many years but owner Kahl, who also owns the Gold Coast Station train store in Tehachapi, wasn't ready to sell it. This year Kahl approached FOTD saying he had received another offer but...
Ashmore Motors has been Tehachapi's only auto sales location since 2014 when Marlon Ashmore and his son Brandon opened their lot on South Street. Now, almost eight years later, their lot is still full of various makes and models of used cars and, more and more often, recreational vehicles, including large motorhomes. "We thought about expanding before COVID," said Marlon, "but the pandemic short-circuited that idea. The large motorhomes are difficult to maneuver on our lot so we recently...
One of the reasons Tehachapi is a great place to live is the people that make up our community. On Thursday, March 3 the Kern Council of Governments (KernCOG) recognized the volunteer group known as #loveTehachapi for Regional Award of Merit for Community Involvement at their annual banquet held in Bakersfield. KernCOG is a regional planning agency made up of local government agencies with multi-jurisdictional plans in air quality, transportation, water quality, energy and housing. #loveTehachap...
Tehachapi Police Chief Kent Kroeger was the guest speaker at the March 10 meeting of the Tehachapi Rotary Club. Chief Kroeger told Rotarians and guests that he was just 40 days from retirement with all paperwork completed when he was asked to continue as chief of the Tehachapi Police Department. He added that his wife had actually purchased a community brick for him inscribed with the years 2014-2022. He has agreed to serve the city for another two years. Kroeger said that within the City of Teh...
The second Saturday of every month at Tehachapi Airport is airplane display day, and many hanger owners open their hangers to the public to show off the aircraft. Currently this is the only day when the airport is open to the public. On March 12, Todd Schultz and his family partnered with the Tehachapi Society of Pilots to open Hanger H on Commercial Way which they hope will become an air museum. The hanger will be open on display day until they can complete the required paperwork for the city...
The Tehachapi City Council began their March 7 meeting by recognizing Tehachapi's community service organization #loveTehachapi, which received the Regional Award of Merit for Community Involvement from the Kern Council of Governments (KernCOG). The group had been nominated for the award by the City of Tehachapi. Read the full story on page 3. Approved by the Council was an airport dust mitigation agreement with the Eastern Kern Pollution Control District for a grant to control dust at the east...
On Monday, March 14 the Tehachapi Planning Commission approved three new projects in Tehachapi. The first is a Capital Hills retail center and gas station to be located at the intersection of Capital Hills Parkway and Magellan Drive. The project will include a non-commercial gas station with five pumps, a drive-through restaurant, convenience store and retail suite. The center will have entrances from both Capital Hills Parkway and Magellan Drive. Owner/architect Nadal Azzi was present to...
At their Feb. 17 meeting, Tehachapi Rotarians were treated to a talk by KGET Morning News Anchor Maddie Janssen. Janssen has been with KGET for 13 years and has been the morning anchor for 11 of those years. Janssen, who lives in Tehachapi, said that it is still dark when she gets to the studio. She has 20 minutes to do her hair before broadcast time and completes her make-up between segments. She said you can see the progression if you watch the broadcast. Janssen said she started college as a...
Since the close of their first very successful art show in Tehachapi in 2021, the Tehachapi Arts Commission has been working steadily on Art 2022 Tehachapi. The public art show will again take place at the Aspen Builders Activity Center located at 410 W. D Street on July 23-24 with a VIP Reception taking place on the evening of July 22. Forty-three artists have applied to be part of this year's event which will kick off on May 13-15, when the artists arrive in Tehachapi to spend the weekend...
In early November 2021 Catherine and Tom Carr moved from Big Pine, California to Tehachapi. It was Catherine's work that brought them here. Catherine is the East Kern Regional Planner for District 9 of CalTrans (California Department of Transportation) and Tehachapi is in District 9. The Carrs had lived in Big Pine for two and a half years. Tom's word for their stay there was "brutal." He said it was 100 miles to the closest Walmart which also made it a six-hour round trip. However, that is not...
Undergrounding of Valley Blvd. utilities moves forward At their February 7 meeting, the Tehachapi City Council adopted a resolution that created an Underground Utility District. Development Services Director Jay Schlosser said this is the next necessary step in preparing for relocating the overhead utilities along Valley Boulevard between Las Colinas Street and Curry Street to underground and removing the existing telephone poles. The City Council approved the project on January 18 following a...
Hamed Jones, Tehachapi's new Director of Finance was introduced to the City Council at their February 7 meeting by City Manager Greg Garrett. Jones is taking over the city's financial reins from Hannah Chung who recently retired after over 20 years as the city's Finance Director. For the last four years, Jones has been the Administrative Services Director for the Bear Valley Springs Community Services District. Jones and his family have been Bear Valley residents since 2008. Prior to the Bear...
Pat and Lisa Caploe have both spent much of their lives, together and separately, traveling around the world as Christian missionaries. They moved into their Tehachapi home in late September 2021 and said this is the first home they have ever purchased. For the last six years, they were in San Jose in order to be closer to Pat’s dad who was in poor health. Prior to that, they had lived in Bakersfield for 13 years, working with the First Presbyterian Church at H Street and Truxton. It was f...
The board of the Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce announced this week that they have chosen a new president. Jeanette Pauer will take over the reins of the Chamber on February 21, filling the position that has been vacant since the passing of Ida Perkins. Pauer, who had been a local realtor, said that she has deactivated her realtor's license, and is looking forward to working with the entire community and the chamber board. When asked what prompted her to apply for the position, she said it was...
Tehachapi mural artist Lyn Bennett, one of the original artists who painted the Monolith mural located on F Street in Tehachapi, was commissioned to repaint a portion of the mural that was destroyed when an emergency door had to be installed in the side of the new Village Collective located at 122 S. Green St. Bennett said that she had been waiting for a relatively warm day to work on the mural. She will be touching up other areas of the mural that also need repair....
At the Jan. 27 meeting the Tehachapi Rotary Club, builder Kenny Harrison described his new project in Old Town Tehachapi, which will include a bowling alley, brewery, restaurant and two meeting rooms. In an interview format facilitated by Christina Scrivner, Harrison said he is hoping the project can be completed by his 60th birthday at the end of August 2022, if there are no setbacks. The bowling alley is planned to have 16 lanes using string pinsetters, a relatively new technology that elimina...
Netti and Louis Farrar are finally at home in Tehachapi. They bought their Bear Valley home in 2007 knowing that someday they would retire there. In 2007, one of Louis' co-workers in Fillmore suggested that they take a look at Tehachapi and Bear Valley Springs. They took a trip to Tehachapi in April and found the house that became their vacation home on their first trip. Over the years, they would visit about four or five times a year. Netti remembers doing report cards while sitting and...
Before local sculptor Dwight Dreyer could begin the design for the life-size bronze statue of a skateboarder that will be placed at the new Ollie Mountain Sports Park, he needed a model. After some consideration, he chose 9-year-old Jane Scrivner. "Scrivner was thrilled to learn she had been chosen," said Dreyer, "especially when she received a modeling certificate and $20. You would have thought it was $1,000." The bronze statue at the Sports Park will be the first of a series of bronzes...
Rhonda Brady from the Tehachapi Rotary Club reported that the "12 Days of Christmas" senior food drive donations resulted in the distribution of 160 boxes. Rotarians and friends gathered just before the holidays to organize and distribute the donations. Sixty of the boxes were given to the Tehachapi Humanitarian Relief Group for distribution. Brady said that even during the pandemic, the community really stepped up with donations again this year. The Rotary Club of Tehachapi is a volunteer...
At the Jan. 11 meeting of the board of Tehachapi Unified School District, Jacobsen Middle School Principal Eric Loe, as a part of a JMS update, reminded the board that the school has over a dozen empty portables that remained after the opening of the new 6th grade wing, suggesting that the district might find a way to put them to good use. A possible answer came in the form of comments made by former Jacobsen Middle School principal, Paul Kaminski. Kaminski had also acted at Interim...
In December Kelcy Krupicka arrived in Tehachapi to start a completely new chapter of her life. The Austin, Texas native had accepted a three-year internship program at the National Test Pilot School in Mojave where she will be completing her Master of Science degree in Flight Test Engineering and working as a graduate assistant. The offer came following her graduation from Embrey-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Fla. where she earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Aerospace...
Tehachapi Mayor Phil Smith presented retiring Finance Director Hannah Chung with a Certificate of Recognition for her 20 years of service to the City of Tehachapi. Chung leaves behind an impressive legacy of financial records that have been honored three time by the Government Finance Officers Association (GFOA). City Manager Greg Garrett announced that Tehachapi's new finance director will be introduced in February. The Tehachapi City Council meets on the first and third Monday of the month at...
