Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Kern County Director of Public Health Matt Constantine appeared at the Dec. 2 Tehachapi City Council meeting to present a new program being sponsored by the Health Department in 2020 called “Know Your Numbers.” According to Constantine, Kern County residents are among the highest risk in the state for heart disease, diabetes and obesity. The “Know Your Numbers” program is a free six week program to make people aware of the numbers that show up in tests in the doctor’s office and what they mean...
On Dec. 7, at 6 p.m., Mano Lujan of Red House BBQ will present "Jazz by Candlelight," the first fundraiser for Layla and Milo's Soup Kitchen – a local soup kitchen that's open most Sunday afternoons at 4 p.m. at The Shed, 333 E. Tehachapi Blvd. This semi-formal event will be held at The Shed and will feature the jazz stylings of Grammy nominated Barbara Morrison and the John Stephens Big Bluzzzy Band. Enjoy a fabulous date night with live entertainment and a four-course handcrafted dinner c...
A lot of people may not realize the importance of our wine walks to our local businesses. One obvious reason is fundraising for the historic downtown Tehachapi area. Then there is also building community, supporting downtown businesses and providing something fun for the 21+ crowd. The wine walks, although held downtown, benefit the Greater Tehachapi area. For example, the Ugly Sweater Wine Walk benefits not only the downtown businesses by bringing in visitors and shoppers but the local wine gro...
Palmdale residents Darek and Dena Galloway have had a dream to move to Tehachapi since 2007. They loved the natural setting of the mountains and the easy-living lifestyle. It took until 2019 to make that dream come true; they had lived in Palmdale for 17 years by the time they finally made the move. Dena still works as a social worker in Palmdale for the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health, where she works with the homeless. Derek was born in Los Angeles as was his father. He is an...
American Legion Post 221, American Legion Auxiliary Unit 221, Sons of the American Legion and American Legion Riders Chapter 221 of Tehachapi will host ceremonies in Philip Marx Central Park on Monday, Nov. 11. The celebration will begin at 11 a.m. with a flag raising, guest speakers and a performance by the Tehachapi High School Choir. TVRPD has planned a fun family afternoon following the ceremonies. They will host a kids bootcamp obstacle course for ages 3 to 10. The military-style course wil...
A gorgeous white abstract marble statue aptly named "Serenity" was installed in the garden of Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley on Tuesday afternoon, Nov. 4, with her creator Laura Wambsgans overseeing the installation. Also in attendance was local mortgage broker Tammy Engel who had purchased the statue and donated it to the hospital. Engle said that when she first saw the piece she wanted it for her home and then realized that it needed to be in a place where everyone could enjoy it and feel...
Simply put, Days for Girls is an international nonprofit organization that distributes sustainable menstrual solutions to girls in third world countries. The concept for Days for Girls was born in 2008 when Celeste Mergens, an American woman, was traveling in Nairobi, Kenya. She discovered that for lack of feminine hygiene products, young women were having to stay out of school during their monthly periods. They would stay inside, sitting on cardboard that was used to absorb the flow. Mergens'...
By now, most of Tehachapi has heard about Milo and Layla's Soup Kitchen operating at The Shed, 333 E. Tehachapi Blvd., on Sunday afternoons starting at 3 p.m. This labor of love came out of questions asked of Mano Lujan, owner of Red House BBQ, by his children Milo and Layla. They wanted to know where the extra food and vegetables went from Red House. Mano told them he made stock from the leftovers but was never able to use all of it. Milo and Layla then wondered if they could use the stock and...
On Saturday, Nov. 2, the community group known as Smart Growth Tehachapi Valleys held their annual meeting in the conference room of the Benz Building located on Goodrick Dr. near Tehachapi Airport. The public was invited to attend to learn more about what is going on in the community. About 50 members from the community attended. Presiding over the meeting was President Terry Warsaw. The Smart Growth organization nationwide deals with planned economic and community development that attempts to...
In the hills at the west end of Cummings Valley, hidden between Stallion Springs and Bear Valley Springs, is the rather isolated gated community of Hidden Oaks. About 10 years ago, Los Angeles architect Shanon Drayton and her husband, contractor Rick Arreola, found a gorgeous lot at the top of the mountain in Hidden Oaks quite by accident. A dirt bike accident near Tehachapi sent Rick to the local hospital. They met a realtor who wanted show them a piece of property. Of course, they bought it....
At the Nov. 4 City Council meeting, Councilman Phil Smith requested that the City of Tehachapi send a letter of support for three highway projects Smith feels are critical safety and congestions relief projects in the Central Valley. In September, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed an executive order directing the state's transportation department to push gas tax funding from road repairs to rail projects. Caltrans has recommended that funding for these projects be retracted and diverted to the high-speed...
On Nov. 7, Rotary's past president Chris Naftel made a slide presentation from his underwater exploration trio to the Dutch island of Bonaire during July and August of this year. The 24-mile-long island's primary industry is the production of salt. While there, the Tehachapi underwater photographer dove in 33 separate locations, photographing exotic underwater sea life. Naftel said this was his fifth trip to Bonaire and he spent 91-and-a-half hours under water diving to a maximum of 63 feet. He...
Bill and Beth Chaney arrived in Tehachapi in September from Clovis, Calif. where they had lived for ten years. Bill said there are things about Clovis they will miss like being able to walk to Old Town Clovis from their house but moving to Tehachapi was a compromise. He wanted to move to Texas and she wanted to be closer to grandchildren. The grandchildren won. Bill and Beth are both pastors of the Foursquare Church. Bill supervises 160 pastors located from Frazier Park to the Oregon border, as...
On Aug. 7 the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District sent a letter to the Guild of Tehachapi Hospital stating that as the Guild was now raising funds for the new hospital operated by Adventist Health, they would no longer be able to rent them the building located at the corner of Green and F Streets for $1 per month. It was suggested that they could pay rent through Adventist Health. In an Oct. 7 letter to Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District, Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley President Jeff...
Canadian grower SunSelect has been successfully producing tomatoes and peppers in their hydroponic greenhouse in Cummings Valley since 2015. Part of the original purchase by SunSelect was an additional 120 acres adjacent to the greenhouses that until 2019 had been leased to another grower. When that grower gave up the property, it became available for another Tehachapi area "first." In June, SunSelect began planting that acreage with industrial hemp. With the passage of the 2018 Farm Bill, hemp...
The Salvation Army has been providing services to Tehachapi for 19 years and continues to serve local families in spite of the fact that donations to public-benefit nonprofits have decreased in recent years. The organization has had to lay off employees and close branches; however, the San Joaquin and Tehachapi branches are still going strong thanks to the efforts of local branch manager Sandy Chavez and past manager Marget Willer. Willer said that years ago they used to sell things to raise...
At the Oct. 21 City Council meeting, Mayor Susan Wiggins presented Certificates of Recognition to the members of Tehachapi CERT groups who responded to the July 4 and 5 earthquakes in Ridgecrest. The City of Ridgecrest also sent their sincere thanks to the group. Awards were presented to CERT Coordinator Jeannie Taylor, John Nelson, David Shaw, Michael Coughlin, Sally Thoun, Teresa Coatlapeuh (not in attendance), William Fields, Sarah Rose, George Wolfe, Leslie Fields, Rob Dixon and David Cox...
At the Oct. 14 Tehachapi Planning Commission meeting, Senior Planner Trevor Hawkes announced that this would be his last meeting. Hawkes said that since he and his wife wanted to be closer to her family in Northern California, he had accepted a position with Napa County. He admitted that his new job would involve dealing with wineries and mansions. Hawkes came to Tehachapi three and a half years ago after receiving his Masters degree in Urban and Environmental Planning from Arizona State...
Tehachapi's Rotary Club heard from the Bear Valley Springs Tailwaggers Dog Club when several of their members and their well behaved furry friends visited during lunch. The group explained their association with the national program Alliance Therapy Dogs. Tailwaggers President Molly Macklin and her associates said the group will soon be licensed to become patient visitors at Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley Hospital. They will also be starting a reading program at the Whiting Center in Bear...
While it may not be politically correct these days to make generalizations about a particular ethnic group, it appears that some of the most innovative donut shops in Central and Southern California are operated by members of the Southeast Asian community. After creating donuts in Fresno for 15 years, Chantha Sokny Lay and her father John Pe bought Tea Donuts in Tehachapi last year. Chantha pointed out that at the time they moved to Bakersfield four years ago, "about 90 percent of the donut...
When it came time to think about retirement, Nan and Raul Alvarez thought about Tehachapi, a place they had visited many times on family vacations for a period of about 35 years. They came to visit family members who lived on Deertrail in Bear Valley Springs creating fond memories. When Raul retired, he suggested the move, Nan agreed and they moved into their home in July although Nan is still traveling to Biola University in La Mirada, Calif. two days a week where she teaches child psychology....
The City of Tehachapi has finally awarded the construction contract for the ADA and pedestrian improvements to the south side of H. St., including sidewalk, curb and gutter, and the three at-grade ADA compliant railroad crossings at Green St., Hayes St. and N. Dennison Rd. In a 4-0 vote on Oct. 7, the City Council chose DOD Construction to complete the project for $1,426,630. Councilman Kenneth Hetge was absent. The project, which has been in the works since 2015, was slowed by lengthy negotiati...
"God called me here," said Kim Nixon about her 27 years with the Family Life Pregnancy Center, "and He has released me and let me know that it is time to step aside." After 26 years as the organization's executive director, Nixon has decided to retire. Nixon joined the 3-year-old organization as a volunteer in 1992 when it was still known as Crisis Pregnancy Center and located on West J Street in an office behind Home for Less. A year later she was hired as the Executive Director. The name...
There is a new towing service available now in Tehachapi. Located on South Street in Old Town, Tehachapi Towing offers a light to light-medium towing service that can accommodate most towing situations seven days a week and 24 hours a day. The service was started by Jeff Murphy and Emerick Rodriguez, both with years of automotive and towing experience. Emerick has one of the longest towing records in the area, having 17 years of experience while maintaining an impeccable reputation as well....
