Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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On Oct. 25th at the Tehachapi Veteran's Memorial Hall, Assemblywoman Shannon Grove hosted a Town Hall Meeting featuring a panel of experts from California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Stafford Lehr, Chief of the Anadromous Fisheries Branch, began the meeting with an overview of the department's Mission Statement. Their twofold mission is to first protect fish and wildlife and their habitats and secondly to provide for the continued public use and enjoyment of activities like hunting and...
Massachusetts' loss is California's gain. Having had enough of the harsh Boston area winters, Kim Giannopoulos and her husband, Louie began looking for a milder climate in which to live and work. As Kim travels to many of her wide-spread accounting clients, they began looking all along the Atlantic seaboard. However, Kim hates humidity so they began looking to the west. She discovered Tehachapi online. It was close enough to the ocean and close enough to the city with the added bonus of a...
It was July when Hugh, Miriam, Dustin and Collin Shane arrived in Tehachapi with a black lab named Ashes and two cats (Duke and Duchess). They moved here from Colorado Springs where Hugh had been a contract engineer for MITRE Corporation. Now employed by Scaled Composites in Mojave, Hugh is an engineer on the Stratolaunch project. Miriam said that Tehachapi was a natural place for the family to settle as they were used to mountain living with Colorado Springs at 6200 feet and similar high...
Tehachapi is going to have a new music store. Located on Green Street across from the BeeKay Theater, Encore Music Services will initially sell, service, and rent pianos, as well as offering lessons for piano and violin. Encore owner, Craig Janssen, said he has plans to eventually be a source for all instruments and a center for instruction. Janssen has had a business plan for a music store since 2003 but it rested on the sidelines while he was pursuing other ventures. Tehachapi residents may...
Susan Showler had moved from Minnesota to Valencia, California in 2014, but she loved the mountains of Tehachapi and the change of the seasons so in the spring of this year, she packed up and moved to Tehachapi. She said that the mountains here are “crazy beautiful”. Susan came to California as a contractor in marketing, communications and graphic design for Donaldson, a global industrial filter manufacturer; a job that she was able to bring with her from Minnesota. However, after her move to...
It was his work as an aircraft mechanic that brought TJ Fargo, his wife Roni, and their three children, aged nine months to fourteen years, to the Antelope Valley from Vacaville, California. They lived in Littlerock for less than a year before the lure of the mountains, the change of seasons, and friends in Stallion Springs prompted them to make the move to the Bear Valley area of Tehachapi. According to Roni, since they made the move they have had company almost every weekend. That’s what h...
Development Services Director Jay Schlosser asked the City Council to award the long awaited Freedom Plaza Project to Cal Prime, Inc. in the amount of $498,000.at the Sept.21 City Council Meeting. This project proposes to construct a public space on the one-half acre lot in downtown Tehachapi located in the southwest corner of Tehachapi Boulevard and Curry Street. The plans for the plaza include decorative colored concrete, brick paving, monuments to honor our military, landscaping, a parking...
After spending four years in Aviano, Italy, Vince and Janine Laluz and their 16 year old daughter, Dora, have settled into Bear Valley. Vince is now assigned to Edwards Air Force Base. His field is precision measurements and he told me that he deals with mathematical conversions with increments as small as “parts per million”. “At that level,” he says, “accuracy is extremely important.” Vince has been in the Air Force for 18 years and admitted that he and Janine had tried to avoid Edwards for...
Bill and Erika Elliott moved to Tehachapi in June from San Leandro, which is in the San Francisco Bay Area, where they both were teachers. It was Tehachapi’s seasonal mountain setting and the fact that Erika’s daughter lives in Bakersfield that lead them to look in this area for a place to retire. Bill had lived in the Bay Area his entire life. For the last 17 years he has taught high school science in the Newark (California) school district. He has a brother who lives in the little town of Pion...
John and Lynn Rastaetter had lived in Ojai, California, for 27 years. However, the beautiful little resort town near Ventura was becoming too crowded and too expensive. They had looked for a place to retire for five years before finally deciding on Tehachapi where they loved the seasonal weather changes and the open spaces. However, it wasn’t until this year when Lynn decided it was time to retire from her 26 year position of Administrative Assistant for the well-known Ojai Presbyterian C...
David and Carol Faber moved to Tehachapi this spring from Paso Robles where they had lived for 20 years. They told me that it had just become too crowded. When it came time to retire, they decided that it was time to make a move. Four of their grandchildren were in Bakersfield so they thought Tehachapi would be a great choice. They brought Carol’s mother and sister with them as well as Molly, their twelve year old Basset/Lhasa Apso mix. Both David and Carol had worked for the Department of C...
Mayor Susan Wiggins presented at Certificate of Recognition to retiring Community Development Director, David James. James had been with the city since December of 1996 and had served as Economic Development Director and City Planner prior to assuming his last position. The letter of recognition noted his "exceptional dedication, work ethic and a positive professional attitude." James was instrumental in the implementation of the RDA Development Plan, the Downtown Master Plan and the Downtown...
Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Parks District General Manager, Matt Young, announced his resignation from the district at the July district meeting. He will be leaving on August 28 to take the position of Assistant Director of Recreation and Cultural Affairs in Gulf Shores, Alabama. Young said that he had actually received the final offer for the position the day before the district meeting. Gulf Shores, located on the Gulf of Mexico, is a well know recreation and tourist area. One of the...
After living in Palmdale for a few years Jean Morgan and Gary Katz have moved to Tehachapi. It seemed natural since Jean’s family lives here and Gary saw a need in Tehachapi for his skills. Gary is a third generation horologist. He repairs clocks of all kinds at his home in Bear Valley. He started in the 1970s with his dad and uncles. His family was, at one time, the world’s largest importer of clocks. They owned Ted’s Clock Emporium, a business located in 14 malls all over Southern Calif...
City Manager Greg Garrett updated the City Council on the many current projects in which the city is currently involved. He reported that the city is looking to recruit two new police officers, a sergeant and a utility manager. Work has begun on the drainage project at the corner of Valley Blvd. and Curry St., and work will soon begin on the new islands at Curry and Pinon streets. The Developmental Services Department is in their new building at the corner of Robinson and F streets. The city...
At the City Council meeting on July 6, Tehachapi City Council unanimously appointed Michael (Mick) J. Williams to the Planning Commission, replacing Sonja Wilson whose term expired on June 30. Williams' term will continue until June 30, 2019. Williams and his family have been members of our community for two years. He graduated from M.I.T. with a degree in Civil Engineering and received a Master of Systems Analysis from the Naval Post Graduate School. During his 20 years in the military he was...
Like many from Bakersfield, Sarah and Steven Settlemire longed to raise their family in the natural setting of the mountains. They had friends in the area so Tehachapi seemed a great place to settle. At the beginning of this year Steven, Sarah and one-year-old Levi found a home nestled in Bear Valley. Both of the Settlemires were born and raised in Bakersfield. Sarah has an older brother in Taft and a younger sister in high school and at home with her parents. Until she married, Sarah worked in...
Norman Haughness was unanimously appointed to the Tehachapi Unified Schools District’s Board of Trustees at the board’s regular meeting on Tuesday, June 24. Mr. Haughness has had a long career in education including authoring several books on educational theory and processes. He will fill the Area 3, Seat F vacancy created by the recent resignation of Naylan Bender. The Board voted in May to fill the vacancy for the remainder of Bender’s term by provisional appointment rather than hold an expen...
For the last couple of years, the Tehachapi Unified School District has been looking to expand its home-based study program. With the June 24 board approval to hire a dean for the Tehachapi Independent Learning Academy in the 2015-2016 school-year, that expansion appears to be becoming a reality. According to the plan, the position will at first be a half time position that can be expanded as the program grows. The current independent study program services about 60 students who meet with their...
At the end of last year, Lara and Chris Martin moved to Tehachapi from Palmdale where they lived for the last five years.They dreamed of raising their children in the natural surroundings of our mountain community. They had actually been visiting Tehachapi off-and-on for the last two years before they finally decided to make the move with their two children. Active Lily is a three year old fairy princess, loves tea parties and being older sister to six-month-old Quin. Chris originally came from...
On Wednesday, June 17th Marty Pay Insurance celebrated his 35th Anniversary. Pictured with his wife Laurie Aldrich-Pay, Marty says, “Thank you all for your support and for those who where able to come by the office for the party (over 150 people)! It's because of you we've been able to be here with Farmers Insurance for 35 years! I've been fortunate to have a great staff and a great book of clients! Thank you all for making it possible!...
After being closed for six months, the restaurant on South Street has reopened under new ownership featuring a classic Thai cuisine. Age, as she calls herself, bought the ten year old restaurant in March 2015, after the prior owner, Manenat, retired and returned to Thailand. It was through a good friend who is related to Manenat that Age found out about the vacant Tehachapi restaurant. She checked it out, bought the restaurant and now lives here as well. She still goes to Los Angeles for...
Johnny's Take and Bake Pizza opened its doors on Jan 1, 1990. The recipes were obtained from Four Boys Pizza. Johnny's founder named it Johnny's Take and Bake Pizza after her brother John. She had a vision of creating the freshest pizza in Tehachapi. Trying to get a hot pizza from Tehachapi to Bear Valley and Stallion Springs is a hard thing to do. With Johnny's Take and Bake you take the fresh pizza home and then bake it when it's convenient . Today the new owners still honor the original recip...
Teresa Magart and Ryan Young moved to Tehachapi in January with their two-and-a-half year old daughter, Skylar. They came from Wrightwood, an area in the San Bernardino Mountains that is known primarily for snow skiing. They had looked for three years for a place that would fill all their requirements. Ryan is a biological consultant and for the last 15 years has been studying the tortoise in the Mojave Desert. He needed their new home to be near his work and be a place where he could pursue...
I first met Laurence Gutierrzez last summer at the Tehachapi Beer and Wine Fest where he had a booth for his business, Blacktop Cyclery. He said that he had plans to move to Tehachapi when he and his wife, Molly, found the right house. They finally found their hilltop retreat by the end of last year and I finally got the chance to visit their new home and meet Molly in March. Laurence was born in Bakersfield and lived there all his life with the exception of 10 months when he lived in Lancaster....
