Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Hundreds of Tehachapi residents turned out at the Save Mart parking lot on Saturday, Jan. 16 to attend a community fundraiser and Celebration of Life for Aaron Abbott, a long-time Save Mart employee and friend to so many Save Mart shoppers. Abbott had grown up in Tehachapi, attended Monroe Continuation High School and has recently passed away leaving only one remaining family member. Mano Lujan, owner of the Red House BBQ, said that over the years he had talked with Abbott discussing...
At their Jan. 6 meeting, Tehachapi Rotarians welcomed Daniel Wolcott, Adventist Health's President of Kern County Care Delivery. Wolcott oversees the operation of the three Kern County AH hospitals located in Bakersfield, Delano and Tehachapi. He came to Kern County from Adventist Health Lodi Memorial in San Joaquin County, where he had served since 2015. Wolcott is a Californian by birth. He was born in St. Helena and grew up in Northern California. He received his bachelor's degree in...
During the next three months, the City of Tehachapi will be holding redistricting meetings for the five City Council districts according to state requirements. Cities and counties from all over the country will also be realigning their government districts. Redistricting studies are required every 10 years or when there is a census as there was in 2020. These districts must be redrawn so that each Council district is substantially equal in population. The City has hired USgeocoder to conduct the...
On Dec. 20, 2021, representatives of the Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District and the City of Tehachapi were joined by members of the Chamber of Commerce to cut the ribbon for the new Ollie Mountain Sports Park located at 410 W. D Street. Waiting behind the ribbon were about 100 individuals waiting to use the new steel ramps. In October of 2020, TVRPD closed the Ollie Mountain Skate Park and removed the ramps. The original wooden ramps had deteriorated, become unsafe and needed to be...
Rick and Mara Workentine arrived in Tehachapi from Colorado Springs in June when Rick began work at Edwards Air Force Base. His new position at Edwards is Environmental Compliance Permitting Manager. According to Mara, Rick, a chemical engineer, tells people he is basically responsible for taking care of the bugs and the bunnies on the base. Actually, he is responsible for air and soil testing to be sure the base is in compliance with state regulations. Mara also added that Rick has a cousin...
Residential curbside organics collection In April 2021, the Tehachapi City Council sent a letter to Sacramento supporting an amendment to SB1383, the law that would require a mandatory residential organics recycling program and a third collection barrel to begin in January 2022. The amendment took into consideration public concern about the hardship of rate increases caused by a third barrel collection at a time of financial burden brought about by COVID-19. The amendment delays penalties for...
At the Dec. 14, 2021 Tehachapi Unified School District Board Meeting, Superintendent Stacey Larson-Everson told the Board that the District’s lease agreement with Cerro Coso Community College will terminate on June 30, 2022 and the district is considering whether to continue the lease. Larson-Everson suggested that the district would like to use the facilities located at 126 S. Snyder, once known as Monroe High School, to house the Tehachapi Adult School and the Tehachapi Independent Learning Ac...
The Village Grill is one of Tehachapi's long-lived restaurants but few are familiar with the man who has owned it for the last 14 years. Born and raised in Zacatecas, a municipality located in north-central Mexico, Juan Rodriguez moved to the United States in 1971 and settled in Orange County where he began working as a line cook, an occupation he has proudly held to this day. Looking for a better place to raise his four children, he bought his first house in Palmdale in 1984. In September 1991,...
It was last April that Terry Albert moved to Tehachapi from Poway, a small town not unlike Tehachapi in northern San Diego County, where she had lived for about 20 years. Her life in Poway, much like her life here, was focused on her art and her four Icelandic horses. She had friends here and the lure of Bear Valley Springs and its active horse community were a real draw. Terry was born in Texas but grew up in Long Beach, California. She said she always loved horses beginning with a collection...
At their annual organizational meeting held in conjunction with the December School Board meeting, the Tehachapi Unified School Disctrict School Board selected a new slate of officers. Board President Jeff Kermode announced that he would be stepping down as president because of other commitments, but he will remain on the board. By a unanimous vote, Nancy Weinstein, current Board Vice President, was selected as the new Board President, Joe Wallek was selected Vice President, Jackie Wood retained...
The Tehachapi Planning Commission met on the evening of Dec. 13 at the Tehachapi Police Department Community Room to consider several projects. The only completely new project approved by the commission was a proposal by Caltrans to build a maintenance station at the intersection of Industrial Parkway and N. Curry St. The facility will contain three parcels totaling 5.66 acres and will be made up of a crew building, a mechanics building, two equipment canopies, a wash rack, fuel island, brine...
Cal Rossi from Southern California Edison (SCE) spoke to Tehachapi Rotarians at their December 9 meeting. Rossi has been the SCE government relations manager responsible for our area since 2009 when he began his relationship-building efforts with local leaders, a position which became more important recently with the policy of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS). His territory covers an area from Bakersfield to Mammoth and includes Kern, Inyo and Tuolumne counties. Rossi began by thanking the...
In August Duke Littlejohn gave up his life in Lake Elsinore and moved into his grandmother’s log cabin in Sand Canyon, accompanied by his son Duke Jr., his daughter Chloe and two dogs named Oreo and Brutus. Liz Kachmar and her husband Andy built the 1,600 square foot cabin from a kit with their bare hands in 1974. They were among the first full-time residents of Sand Canyon. Following the death of her husband in the 1980s, Liz continued to live there alone until her death in 2020. Local w...
The Tehachapi Arts Commission has announced Art in the Park, a project that will eventually place life-size works of art in each of Tehachapi's parks. In 2022, the Commission plans to begin the project with a donation to the new Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District Skate Park. Local sculptor Dwight Dreyer will be donating his time to design a life-size bronze statue of a young girl on a skateboard. Proceeds from the Art 2022 VIP Reception in July will provide the funding for the creatio...
Laura Lynne Wyatt, Tehachapi’s assistant to Supervisor Zack Scrivner, announced at the December 1 meeting of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council that East Kern will remain two districts instead of becoming one. The Kern County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 at their November 9 meeting to keep East Kern as two districts. Supervisor Leticia Perez had proposed a new map which would have made East Kern from Ridgecrest to Rosamond one supervisory district....
Tehachapi's business community came together on November 30 to bid a final farewell to Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce President Ida Perkins. The Celebration of Life was held in the chapel at Wood Family Funeral Home. Along with her family, speakers included State Senator Shannon Grove, State Assembyman Vince Fong, County Supervisor Zack Scrivner and City Councilwoman Susan Wiggins. Prayers were lead by Pastor Kevin Caudle. A reception followed at Woods Pavilion with friends sharing fond...
Now retired, Tim and Mauriene Landry settled into their new Tehachapi home in June. Tim retired last December after 25 years as a Disney Imagineer and Mauriene as an innkeeper. While Tim spent his weekdays in Burbank, Mauriene operated the couple’s bed and breakfast that was located in Three Rivers. They bought the three-story, 4,800 square foot home in 2003 and turned it into a bed and breakfast in 2008. It was rated number one on hotels.com. Mauriene said that she was the one who cleaned the B...
In the absence of Mayor Pro-Tem Michael Davies, the Tehachapi City Council voted unanimously but reluctantly to approve a new six-year agreement between the city of Tehachapi and Kern County Fire Department. The new agreement included an increase in the annual fee paid to the county for fire services. This agreement would increase the total charged for fire service from $749,846 in 2022 to $2,249,866 by 2028. This amount would include an increased amount from the City’s General Fund from $...
At 11 a.m. on Nov. 11 members of the American Legion and Legion Riders raised the American flag in Philip Marx Central Park. The eleventh day of the eleventh month in 1918 was the day and time of the signing of the armistice ending World War I. It was renamed Veterans Day in 1954 and honors the veterans of all branches of the military. Veterans groups set up booths throughout the park, a model encampment was set up and a mini-boot camp was available for kids to try their skills. The veteran-run...
The Tehachapi Heritage League will hold a couple of special Christmas events this year. To help celebrate the holidays, they will again be publishing their “Christmas Around the World” booklet. This year, the booklet will feature traditions, customs and recipes from the United Kingdom. It will include the winning sketches from the Christmas sketch contest held by the Heritage League in October. “Christmas Around the World” booklets will be on sale at the Tehachapi Museum and Errea House Museum...
The Tehachapi Arts Commission has announced that Eleinne Basa will be the featured artist for the Art 2022 Tehachapi Art Show. Basa was a participant in Art 2021 Tehachapi where she won the award for Best Landscape Painting with her work "Tehachapi Evening." Classically trained as a child, Basa immigrated to the United States in 1994 while still in her 20s. She currently makes her home on the East Coast. After graduating from college, she began taking workshops to further her art career and...
Taylour and Amir Arami moved to Tehachapi in September from Bakersfield. Both are special education teachers. Amir began teaching math two days a week in the Tehachapi Unified School District last year and then decided the couple should move here. Taylour began teaching for TUSD this year in two different schools. The couple had lived in Bakersfield for three years following their marriage. Amir was working as an ADA therapist in Lamont. Taylour and Amir met in Los Angeles four years ago on...
Brews on the Mountain held at the Ed Grimes Ball Field on Oct. 23 was a resounding success. In spite of the cold and wind, the park was packed with people. Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District teamed up with local Westlane Brewing to create the event, which featured 14 breweries and two wineries. “We would like to give a big thank you to all our sponsors,” said Brenda Cavalos, Recreation Specialist for TVRPD. “This would not have been possible without their support! We hope that all w...
On Nov. 1, the Tehachapi City Council updated the rate it charges developers for water rights. Since 2007 the Tehachapi Municipal Code has provided a fee mechanism to collect funds from new residential developments to assist in the procurement of long-term water rights. New developments can either secure their own water rights or provide an in-lieu fee to the City for the needed water. The fee was last updated in 2020 to $3,148 for a base size dwelling unit and usage of the fees was clarified. T...
On Oct. 19, TVRPD honored Tehachapi Rotary Club and Interact students for volunteering to paint the gazebo in Philip Marx Central Park. From left are Rotary President Paul Kaminski, TVRPD General Manager Corey Torres, Interact VP Nicholas Aldava and Nena Thornburg....
