Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The speaker at the Sept. 27 Rotary meeting was David Brust, organizer of the Tehachapi Beer and Wine Festival. Before his talk on Measures J and K, Brust presented the local Rotary group with a check for $1,500 for their volunteer help with the Beer and Wine Festival in July. Many Rotarians signed up to help serve beer and wine at the event. Aside from being the organizer, along with Linda Carhart, of the Beer and Wine Festival and the Apple Festival, Brust is a member of the Kern County Board...
There's a new dry cleaner in town. Mother and daughter team Tanya and Jeanette Joham have just opened Joe's Dry Cleaning at 979 E. Valley Blvd. Suite 4, behind Fastrip and next to Liberty Tax. The official Grand Opening will be held on Oct. 24 from 4-6 p.m. and the public is invited. The official Chamber of Commerce Ribbon Cutting will be at 4:30 p.m. Jeanette mentioned that refreshments will be on hand for all visitors. Tanya moved to Tehachapi two years ago after living in Las Vegas for 20...
How many Tehachapi residents have driven Steuber Rd. between Tehachapi Blvd. and Highline Rd. and noticed a little sign on the east side of the road that said "Ha's Apple Farm" and wondered, " are they ever open?" Starting on Sept. 28, Tehachapi's best kept secret will be open every weekend for local residents to sample the products that have represented our area in Los Angeles and the rest of Southern California for over 30 years. According to owner, David Ha, it is not unheard of for a Los...
On Wednesday evening, Sept. 19, at the Depot Museum, Cheers to Charity organizer Mary Beth Garrison and her committee handed out checks totaling $40,000 to local nonprofits and the organizations that assisted with the event. With Garrison were Barbie Herziger who organized the desserts, Becca Dillenbeck who scheduled the volunteers, Marcia Thompson who handled the insurance, Lydia Chaney who handled the printing and Curtis Nelson who was in charge of set up and take down. Over 750 people attende...
In the final minutes of the Sept. 17 City Council meeting, Councilman Phil Smith mentioned that, after his many years on the Kern Council of Governments (Kern COG) and his appeals to Caltrans for truck climbing lanes on Hwy 58 between General Beale Rd. and Tehachapi, there recently has been movement from Caltrans. Not just movement. Smith additionally reported that Caltrans District 9 Director Brent Green and his senior staff met with City of Tehachapi officials on Thursday, Sept. 20. City...
McKenna and Danielle Ryan moved into their Tehachapi home at the end of August. They had been living in West Lancaster and really wanted a change of environment. The natural setting and seasonal changes of Tehachapi appealed to them. Both of them said they were trying to downsize but it was harder than they thought. It took them a while to find the right house, but when they did, they didn't hesitate. McKenna was raised in Downey, Calif. Her folks came to California from Rhode Island. She...
The Tehachapi City Council voted unanimously to approve a Verizon Wireless cell tower ground lease agreement on Airport Hill, better known as the Rock Pile, located at the rodeo grounds. The original request came from Verizon in July, 2017 but had to be sent to the FAA for review as they wished to approve any non-aeronautical uses of airport land. The FAA requested that the City hire a consultant to assess the fair market value of the lease. Airwave Advisors, LLC was contacted and their...
How many Tehachapi residents have driven Steuber Rd. between Tehachapi Blvd. and Highline Rd. and noticed a little sign on the east side of the road that said "Ha's Apple Farm" and wondered, " are they ever open?" Starting on Sept. 28, Tehachapi's best kept secret will be open every weekend for local residents to sample the products that have represented our area in Los Angeles and the rest of Southern California for over 30 years. According to owner, David Ha, it is not unheard of for a Los...
Ninety-five year old WWII Veteran Jimmy Weldon drove himself all the way from Burbank to Tehachapi on Sept. 16 to give a history lesson to students, veterans and members of the community. Weldon has made a career out of speaking before groups about the lessons of American History. The event was sponsored by the local Rotary Interact Club and RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) recipients Faith Ellms, Aiden Woods and Riley Amato. Ellms had heard about Weldon and had sent him a hand written invi...
The Tehachapi Rotary Club had the pleasure of hearing from local artist Donald Towns at their Sept. 13 meeting. Towns, who has been chosen by Adventist Health to be the Artwork Coordinator for the new hospital, has lived in Tehachapi for 18 years with his wife Karen. The fine arts painter was also the featured artist at Gallery 'N' Gifts this last July. Towns is probably best known for his work as background artist for Disney Studios where he worked on such notable films as "The Little...
Michael and Michelle Wedekind arrived from Okinawa, Japan in August just in time for Michael to begin his job as a procurement specialist at Edwards Air Force Base. They had lived in Okinawa for about five years while he was working for the Department of Defense. By the end of August, their furniture still had not arrived and they were sleeping on a huge air mattress in the middle of the living room floor with no idea when to expect their belongings. Michelle said that they really hated to...
For the second month in a row the Tehachapi School Board meeting room was filled to capacity with those supporting an Agriculture program in the district. On Sept. 11, Highland High School Ag instructor and Tehachapi High School graduate Michael Leishman, along with four of his students, gave a presentation that included suggestions on ways to begin an Ag program here. Lieshman and his students said that there is a real need with local large growers like Grimway Farms, SunSelect, Millenium...
On Sept. 6, Jim Arnold of Triassic Vineyards and the Tehachapi Winegrowers Association told Rotarians that the application for a Tehachapi AVA has been submitted to Washington DC. An American Viticultural Association designation is necessary in order to call local wines "Tehachapi" wines. Until that time, they must be labeled "California" wines. "The decision-making body is a division of the Treasury Department," said Arnold. Julie Bell, a member of the Winegrowers Association, has been working...
It was her new position with Tehachapi Unified School District that brought Lisa Villalpondo and her husband Richard to Tehachapi after having lived in Shafter for many years. They arrived in the middle of summer, just in time to settle in before the beginning of the school year. Lisa is the new sixth grade English teacher at Jabobsen Middle School. Richard is a self-employed General Contractor and, as a result, can work from almost anywhere although for now much of his work is still in the...
Working dogs and pups-in-training all showed up at Tehachapi Wine & Cattle Company on Saturday, Aug. 25....
Dieter and Connie Brehm began visiting Tehachapi in 2016 when their son, Ernie, who is a Kern County firefighter, moved here. During weekend visits Dieter and Connie became acquainted with the Tehachapi area and grew to appreciate its beauty, sense of community and quiet lifestyle. With retirement on the horizon, they considered Tehachapi an option, and began a home search that culminated with the purchase of a property in the Old Town area. They made their move to Tehachapi permanent this sprin...
Two new items of note were brought up before the Tehachapi Planning Commission at their Aug. 13 meeting. Dan Proffitt from Bakersfield presented the design and site plan for a commercial truck wash and repair shop adjacent to the Pilot/Flying J Travel Center on Steuber Rd. Before submitting the project, Pilot/Flying J had to notify all area indigenous tribes of their plan asking about objections and supply a CEQA negative dec. With the completion of the truck wash, Valley Blvd. will be paved on...
Goat Yoga, sponsored by Mullenax Ranch, brought yoga enthusiasts out to Moessner Farms on Aug. 11....
The City broke ground and cleared away the old shed on the property next to Auntie Em's Antiques making way for the new Park and Ride and bus terminal. The lot will include at lease 90 parking spaces....
Sally and Ricky Barker moved to their mountain top home in Bear Valley at the end of May to basically, "get out of Bakersfield." Over the years, the valley pollution had taken a toll on Ricky's health and they felt there was too much violence there as well. They wanted to raise their four boys in the beauty and clean air of the mountains. After having spent 16 years in the oil fields of the Central Valley, Ricky has started a new business washing and detailing cars in Bear Valley. "He loves it,"...
Craig Stewart, Senior Supervisor for Eleven Western Builders, Inc. pulled the final permit for the construction of the Tehachapi Walmart on July 25 at City Hall. Mayor Pro tem Susan Wiggins was on hand along with Developmental Services Director Jay Schlosser. The almost foot-high roll of plans for the project was ceremoniously returned to Stewart stamped with the approval of the City Planning Department. Stewart said that he spent the last year in Ridgecrest where he supervised the building of...
Miracle Mutt Maggie manned the Kissing Booth at Souza Vineyard on Saturday, July 28. The July event was held for the benefit of Marley's Miracle Mutts with music, food and prizes. Tehachapi Wine and Cattle Co. - Souza Vineyard holds Dog Days of Summer events on fourth Saturdays during the summer months. All dogs and their owners are invited to attend....
On July 24 at their regular board meeting, the Board of Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District voted unanimously to place a $43 million bond measure on the Nov. 6 ballot. On hand to answer questions were Jon Isom of Isom Advisors, a division of Urban Future, Inc. who conducted the survey and analyzed the data. It was Isom's recommendation that although slightly shy of the two-thirds vote needed to pass the bond, it was close enough to move forward. Since that survey, TVRPD has held five p...
At their July 26 meeting, Tehachapi Rotarians listened as Dixie King, PhD., from Transforming Local Communities, compared Kern County studies done in 2008 and 2014 that pointed out the increasing use of Methamphetamine drugs in the county over the six year period. According to King, Meth is currently the drug of choice in Kern County. She went on to cite a six year county-wide study. In May of 2008, 37.7 percent of arrests in Kern County were Meth related. In May of 2014 the figure had risen to...
After 27 years of living in Thousand Oaks, Joseph and Cheryl Onesto were looking for more open space, mountains and real seasons. They found a home in Bear Valley and moved into their new home in May. Cheryl is a recently retired Registered Nurse and Joe is a semi-retired real estate broker. Joe said he was raised in the South Bay area of L.A. and like most young men in 1957, he joined the military doing his active duty with the Air Force. Over the years he has held lots of jobs. He said that...
