Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Look for construction to begin on a new Tehachapi hotel in the coming months. At their Jan. 14 meeting, the Tehachapi Planning Commission approved the architectural design, site plan and the environmental impact report for the TownePlace Suites by Marriott. The three story, 82 room hotel will be located on the southeast corner of Magellan Drive between Capital Hills Parkway and Athens Street. The project was originally submitted to the Commission by Tehachapi Lodging, LLC of Bakersfield at...
At their first meeting of 2019, the Tehachapi School Board approved a Memorandum of Understanding between Tehachapi Unified School District and Sandy Hook Promise Foundation (SHPF) to educate TUSD middle school and high school students about the Foundation's no-cost Say Something-Anonymous Reporting System (SS-ARS). The program is completely funded by the Sandy Hook Promise Foundation which is based in Newtown, Conn. Basically, the SS-ARS will instruct students, educators and administrators on...
Walt and Tina-Marie Bayer moved to Bear Valley from Mission Viejo in November accompanied by their two cats, Mini and Pepper. Walt retired last May after 28 years with Experience Marketing. He traveled around the country setting up auto shows for the company. Following Walt's retirement, they started thinking about the possibility of leaving Orange County. Every year in May, the couple would go on a trip to celebrate their anniversary. This year they visited friends who had a condo in the...
Founder of the Tehachapi Cancer Foundation, Jim Wallace, told the Rotary Club of Tehachapi about the mission of the organization that was established by Wallace and his wife Tammy who passed away from the disease shortly after the organization received its 501(c)3 status. The focus of the organization is to assist cancer patients and their families with some of the unexpected hardships and expenses that accompany the treatment of cancer. Wallace said that even the amount of gas needed to get...
It was a long time from start to finish, but in November Tom Gates and Nydia Aguero finally made the move from Huntington Beach into the house Tom had been designing and dreaming about since 2002 when he bought the Stallion Springs property. For 24 years he lived in Huntington Beach and had planned to build a home in Tehachapi for over half of that time. Tom said that he originally had Fairview Ranches in mind until he found the lot in Stallion Springs that would be perfect for his all concrete...
After a long and somewhat contentious election campaign season, the newly elected City Council members were sworn in at the Dec. 17 City Council meeting. Mayor Pro Tempore Susan Wiggins and Councilman Phil Smith were both reelected by their districts and Michael Davies was elected to complete the at-large term of the late Mayor Ed Grimes. The other new member to the Council, Joan Pogon-Cord, was out of town and will be sworn in at the Jan. 7 meeting. A recount held prior to the Monday night...
On the evening of Dec. 10, Tehachapi GranFondo ride coordinator Michelle Vance presented checks totaling $25,000 to 20 volunteer organizations that donated their time and efforts to help put on the 5th GranFondo on Sept. 15. Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District were the new organizers for the successful event and their December Board Meeting was the perfect venue for the presentation. The groups honored were Bear Valley CERT, Sand Canyon FOR-CERT, Bear Valley Volunteers in Police...
All TV screens in the Police Department Community Room were playing the cartoon "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and all that could be heard were the excited voices of the 22 boys and girls who knew they were going to have a pizza dinner and then go Christmas shopping at Kmart with their law enforcement escorts. The Dec. 13 event was held for the fourth year here in Tehachapi and the seventh year all across the country. The Tehachapi Police Foundation was the primary organizer of the local...
The long rumored Red Apple Pavilion came closer to becoming a reality when the Tehachapi Planning Commission approved the architectural design and site plan at their Dec. 10 meeting. Tehachapi City Planner Trevor Hawkes presented the concept drawings for the 120,455-sq.-ft. multi-tenant commercial center to be located on the 14-acres on the southwest corner of Tucker Rd. and Red Apple Ave. The project is to be completed in two phases. Phase I: about 33,000-sq.-ft. will be completed first and...
After 24 years in Santa Clarita, in a house that overlooked Saugus High School, Robin and Kathe Rich purchased a home in Bear Valley with room for horses. They had always wanted to be able to have their horse at home and now they have room to add more horses if they desire. The Santa Clarita area grew too much said Kathe and they found Tehachapi a beautiful peaceful place to live. Fortunately, Robin does not do a daily commute to work. He is the Facilities Manager of the West Los Angeles...
In March of 2017, The Loop published an article documenting the life of famous Hollywood manager and current Tehachapi resident Dick Baxter. Baxter is best known for his many years in Hollywood as the personal manager of Dale Evans, Roy Rogers, Kathryn Grayson and many other talented performers. However, most people don't realize that he is also a very talented song writer. During that 2017 interview, Baxter talked about one Christmas song that he had written many years ago and had been looking...
At the Nov. 8 meeting of the Tehachapi Rotary Club, local historian and authority on everything Tehachapi Jon Hammond spoke about the historic development of flora and fauna of the area. Hammond talked about the Tehachapi mountains and how, as a transverse mountain range, it supplied a corridor for the animal population to travel from east to west leading to the unique variety of wildlife that was at one time found here. According to Hammond, grizzly and black bears were actually found here...
Aviation historian Giacinta Bradley Koontz recently moved to Tehachapi from Prescott, Ariz. where she worked as a columnist for aviation maintenance magazines, gave occasional public lectures at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University and was commissioned by the city to create a display of local aviation history in the Prescott airport terminal. A former resident of the San Fernando Valley, Giacinta sought to return and be closer to her friends and professional colleagues. She chose Tehachapi with...
With the Christmas holidays just around the corner and parties and get-togethers happening everywhere, we are always looking for just the right hostess gift. Why not put together a box or basket of jams, jellies and dried fruit grown right here in Tehachapi. Add a bow and you have the perfect gift. Ha's Apple Farm located at 20916 Steuber Road will be open throughout the holiday season with all the makings for great last minute gift giving. They have fresh apples almost year-round that mix well...
Ha's Apple Farm on Steuber Road is becoming well-known locally for their apples, pears, peaches, plums and grapes as well as their fruit based preserves, dried fruit, juices and vinegar. However, also available at Ha's are some lesser-known fruits that are known for their medicinal properties. Though relatively unknown in Tehachapi, these fruits are very much in demand throughout the Asian community. Pomegranates are probably the best known of the medicinal fruits and are considered one of the h...
It was over a year and a half ago that Dr. Sheryl Haggerty began looking for a home in Tehachapi. The physician had been practicing in Palmdale for over three years in the field of occupational medicine when she was offered a job in Bakersfield that she just couldn't refuse. She knew what she wanted in a house and was willing to make the hour and a half commute each way until she found what she was looking for. What appeared was her dream-come-true in spades. She knew she wanted owned-solar...
We all know that it's apple season in Tehachapi. Most Tehachapi growers open in September and close near the end of October. However, Ha's Apple Farm will be open longer. David Ha said that the Fuji apple which makes up a large portion of his crop is available almost year-round. He currently hopes to be open until the end of November. In Japan, the Fuji apple is often crossed with other varieties to keep it in stores longer, says Ha. It is also somewhat resistant to mildew. The Fuji is a sweet a...
Yasmine and Shane Swisshelm moved into their Bear Valley home in August. After spending most of their lives in Orange County, they know that mountain living will be a real adjustment but are looking forward to it. It was Shane's work as an engineer that brought them to Kern County. Yasmine said she had lived in La Habra since she was 3 years old. She has a sister living in Lake Elsinor. Shane was also raised in La Habra with his two brothers and one sister. The couple met at work. Yasmine was...
Community members will get their first opportunity Sunday to see the long-awaited Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley Medical Center located at 1100 Magellan Drive in Tehachapi, during a day of public tours starting at noon on Sunday, Oct. 28. The state-of-the-art, critical access hospital has a target opening date in November and will replace the current medical center located in downtown Tehachapi built in 1954. The new hospital will include a 13-room emergency department equipped with trauma,...
As the Bear Valley Springs veterans groups will be celebrating Veterans Day on Nov. 11, the Tehachapi Veterans groups along with Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District will be holding their annual Veterans Day celebration in Philip Marx Central Park on Monday, Nov. 12. American Legion Post 221, American Legion Auxiliary Unit 221 and American Legion Riders Chapter 221 will host ceremonies beginning at 10 a.m. with guest speakers and a performance by the Jacobsen Middle School Chorus. A par...
Ha's Apple Farm has much more than apples. Late summer and early fall is also the time for growing pears in Tehachapi. The history of pear growing in our area is well documented at the Tehachapi Museum. David Ha said that when he came to Tehachapi, there was a line of packing houses down Tehachapi Blvd. The building to the right of The Shed was owned by grower Grant Sullivan who sent his pears to San Francisco. The Shed was the packing house for the Nunes family and the Pattersons owned what is...
Desirable assisted living facilities are in short supply everywhere, including Tehachapi. One such local gem can be found on a corner in Golden Hills. Mountain Vista Senior Care has been operating at near capacity in Tehachapi since opening in March of 2011. Property owner, Dan Hunt has owned the property since 1989 and still lives upstairs. When Dan purchased the house, it was a small 1,460-square-feet. The now-retired associate warden at CCI and father of five began to enlarge the house that...
Jason and Elise Duma moved to Tehachapi in August. They came from a little town called Wildomar in Riverside County. Wildomar is not too far from Lake Elsinore. Jason had worked as a lineman for Southern California Edison for 11 years and had been trying to get a transfer some place close to mountains, the outdoors, four-seasons and camping. Elise said that he had tried to transfer to Bishop but the area is so desirable that someone has to retire before anyone new can get in. He was offered...
A Tehachapi City Development Services Department grant application to the California Natural Resources Agency's Urban Greening Program became a major issue at the Oct. 1 City Council meeting. Development Services Director Jay Schlosser asked the Council to authorize the filing of an application for the Urban Greening Grant Program and assure that, should the City receive the grant, the project would be completed. The program was created in 2016 and Schlosser had sent a grant application, but...
On Oct. 8 the Tehachapi Planning Commission was finally able to give the go-ahead to Rudy Ramirez for the development of the old Moose Lodge at 123 West F St. The Commission had been unable to reach a quorum at their two prior meetings. Ramirez plans to develop the facility as a restaurant, meeting facility and venue for parties and weddings. Ramirez said that the facility will have amplified music at which time he agreed the outside doors will be closed. All events must end by 11 p.m....
