Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Chris Naftel, former president of the Rotary Club of Tehachapi, presented a video of underwater dives he did in June and October 2021 during a trip to the Caribbean island of Bonaire. The dives were among the Bonaire reefs and the video featured various types of fish and other creatures. The Rotary Club of Tehachapi is a volunteer service organization with the motto, "Service Above Self." The club meets on Thursdays at noon. For more information about Rotary Club, you can visit their Facebook...
On Jan. 6 the Twelfth Night Celebration was held at St. Jude's in the Mountains Anglican Church in Tehachapi. Pictured, on the altar performing the ceremony is Father David Brown (left), Wendy Clare (far right) on violin accompanying singer Erin Clare. Twelfth Night coincides with the Feast of the Epiphany on Jan. 6, marking the end of the Christmas festivities and celebrating the arrival of the Magi to see the Christ Child....
Bear Valley Springs is a great place to live and it is the only area in all of Greater Tehachapi with its own Santa Claus! BVS has Jorge Melendez and his brilliant imagination to thank as well as his exceptional supervisor, Karolyn Hartmann, for the last several years of gatehouse decorations for various holidays and for their own private Santa. Jorge and his wife, Elizabeth (his "Princess Charming" as he calls her), moved to Bear Valley Springs about six years ago with their daughter, Alyssa,...
Meadows Field Airport in Bakersfield has recently welcomed aha! airlines. Aha! stands for "air, hotel, adventure." Aha!, through ExpressJet Airlines, has launched operations at the Reno-Tahoe International Airport, initially flying to 10 West Coast destinations but planning on expanding to 20 destinations within the next several months. Aha! flies ExpressJet 50-seat Embraer E145 aircrafts, with two seats on one side and one seat on the other, which leaves no one in the "dreaded" middle seat. The...
The Rotary Club of Tehachapi celebrated the formal induction of two new members at their November 18 lunch meeting: Adriana Garthwaite, new owner of the Tehachapi Christian Store with her husband, Peter, and George Green, new owner of the Radio Shack. Jennifer Palakiko of Edward Jones has gone through the final vetting process and should be inducted into the Club soon. The Club is delighted to add new and younger members to their ranks. The featured speaker, Justina Engen of the Tehachapi...
The dream come true, the Pine Ridge School. Beverly Lara completed an iconic project of a rendition of a 19th century schoolhouse on her property in Oak Knolls in August 2020 after many years of research and preparation. The building conforms to current building codes and is also wheelchair accessible. When she is working in her yard or glancing out of her home's windows, Beverly has noticed many vehicles driving by slowly looking at the schoolhouse. If she sees them when she is in her yard,...
The September 21, Houchin Community Blood Bank mobile blood drive was the 25th blood drive held in the Tehachapi area since the COVID-19 lockdown began. Over the past 18 months approximately 850 pints of blood have been donated in Tehachapi, with many residents having donated multiple times. According to Key Budge, Community Engagement Specialist for the City of Tehachapi, these donations account for approximately 2,500 lives impacted; one pint of blood can help save up to three lives. Locals...
During the 2020 pandemic a small group of high school juniors started their own organization, Teens with a Purpose. This is their umbrella organization for many cause-driven projects. Layla Lujan, 2020 Tehachapi Citizen of the Year with her brother Milo, and her friend Trinity Madden, a local beauty queen, organized Teens with a Purpose in April of 2020. Teens with a Purpose is a volunteer-based platform designed to inspire children of all ages to be more active in their community. It is the...
On June 19, Crown for a Cause partnered with Houchin Community Blood Bank to operate their third in a series of five Tehachapi mobile blood drives. The Crown for a Cause blood drives are organized by Tehachapi resident Tiffany Rea, Miss United States. The drive had a total of 32 people registered and 26 units of blood were able to be used by Houchin. Between the blood drives sponsored by the City of Tehachapi and TVRPD and Crown for a Cause, the Tehachapi community continues to be very generous...
Mojave River Academy (MRA) is a free public K-12 independent study charter school organized through Oro Grande School District. The Academy has 12 different campuses located in San Bernardino, Riverside and Kern counties. The goal of the Academy is to promote the academic success of every individual student and to provide a safe, nurturing, intellectually rigorous and relevant educational experience. Tehachapi's local Mojave River Academy campus is located at 20948 Sage Lane. As the independent...
A British Afternoon Tea was held May 22 at St. Jude's in the Mountains Anglican Church in Tehachapi. Afternoon tea was introduced in Britain in the early 1840s. It evolved as a mini meal to stem the hunger and anticipation of an evening meal at 8 p.m. At the St. Jude's Afternoon Tea, various types of tea were served from lovely teapots and the typical afternoon tea menu of dainty sandwiches (usually cut delicately into "fingers"), scones with clotted cream and jam, sweet pastries and cakes were...
#LoveTehachapi's third volunteer event took place on April 24 at the former Aspen Meat Market parking lot. More than 100 volunteers from local churches, community volunteers and the City of Tehachapi pitched in to serve their Tehachapi neighbors and help with spring cleaning in the neighborhoods near the Meat Market. Volunteers spread out to serve approximately 85 households, hauling wagons filled with boxes of food, gifts and fresh plants. Several individuals, with the aid of many large trucks...
A special board meeting of the Tehachapi Unified School District was held by teleconference on Zoom, April 29. The primary reason for holding this special board meeting was a proposed Five Day Blended Learning Schedule. This blended schedule, involving in-person instruction and virtual, is designed for the remainder of the 2020-2021 school year, not the 2021-2022 school year. The Superintendent commented that Kern County is currently in the orange tier; the soonest Kern County can be assigned...
As revealed in a previous article, because Kern County did not move from the purple tier into the red tier until the end of March, the Calgonquin 25k and 50k Trail Races scheduled for April 17 were postponed by the race organizers until 2022. Although a virtual race option is still available for the month of April, a few stalwart athletes showed up Saturday, April 17 to run the distance, if not the exact course, of both the 25K Calgonquin and the 50K Calgonquin trail runs at the TMTA Lehigh moun...
The FiP Calgonquin 25K/50K Training Group met on February 13 for a soggy training run at the TMTA Lehigh trails....
Tony Marion, owner of Stockdale Tile and Flooring Center, has a long history of charitable and altruistic activities over the many years he has been in business. As his wife, Lori, states, her husband gives to "family, friends and foes." Many of Marion's charitable ventures have taken place in Bakersfield; however, recently he has branched out into Tehachapi, although in the past he has been a sponsor for the Tehachapi Mountain Rodeo. On February 3, he hired P-Dubs Brew Pub to cater the morning...
#VertandDirt, the Calgonquin 50K and 25K, is scheduled for April 17, 2021 at the TMTA Lehigh Trails, come rain, snow, sleet or shine. Alex Kosich, Therese Luther and photographer Georgette Theotig are a stone's throw from The Top. One member of the team descended on the Geronimo Trail. The switchbacks on this trail make the Tehachapi Loop tracks seem straight!...
It was a great day for training for the first ever West Coast Dirt and Vert at the TMTA Lehigh Trails. The Calgonquin 50k and 25k will be April 17, 2021. Located in the beautiful rolling hills of Tehachapi, lots of elevation change and a few serious climbs. Beautiful golden autumn hillsides at this time of year and incredible windflower displays in April! #VertandDirt...
Thanks to all who donated blood to the Gerard Lozano Memorial Blood Drive held November 30. An article on this blood drive appeared in the November 21 issue of The Loop Newspaper. Two other blood drives will be held by the City of Tehachapi through Houchin Community Blood Bank on December 8 from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m. and December 18 from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m. Both blood drives will be located at 490 West D St., also known as the parking lot for the Aspen Builders Community Activity Center. The...
Christine Marie, 20 year combat Army veteran, Army medic, now a nurse, repertory theater performer, opera vocalist, writer, who also creates her own line of jewelry, took to the streets of Tehachapi Friday, October 30, walking 19 miles to raise funds for Wreaths Across America and Blue Star Mothers. She walked alone dressed in her fatigues, carrying the American flag. Wreaths Across America honors Veterans every year in December by laying wreaths on their graves in a ceremony meant to Remember...
Sunday, October 25, the 40th Anniversary celebration of Moessner Family Farms, the first farm to table restaurant in Tehachapi, dawned as a rare foggy, drippy day, the only such weather day of that type in several weeks, as it turned out. Despite the gloom, the celebration drew a steady stream of guests, amounting to a few hundred people, over several hours. Among the festivities were a pumpkin patch where guests could pick their own pumpkins, a pumpkin carving station, several independent...
With the cancellation of the usual Halloween events, Tehachapi business owners came through for trick or treaters young and old on Halloween evening. The brainchild of Michele Borquez, owner of Go2Girlz, a Halloween Candy Walk modeled after the Main Street Wine Walks and Ugly Sweater Walks, was conceived and several other businesses on Tehachapi Boulevard and adjoining streets jumped on board. At last count, over 20 small businesses elected to stay open from 5 to 8 p.m. Halloween evening to...
"The two most important days in life are the day you are born and the day you find out why." – Mark Twain At the United States National Pageant, held October 11-15 at the PGA National Resort and Spa in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida, Tehachapi's very own Tiffany Rea was crowned Miss United States! She won the title Miss California United States on August 9 which allowed her to proceed to the national Pageant. The Pageant was originally scheduled to take place at the SouthPoint Hotel in Las Vegas, N...
The 11th Annual T-Town Rumble took place on a beautiful warm, sunny, clear day Saturday, October 17, at Country Oaks Baptist Church. The event had been postponed from its original August 22 date because of poor air quality due to the California fires. The annual T-Town Rumble is one of Heritage Oak Christian School's premier fundraising events. The cars, trucks and trailers ranged in age from those built in the late 1920s to 2019. Some participants arrived even before 6 a.m. to set up their...
CalTrans District 9 officials hosted a half hour digital public meeting on October 6 outlining the Rosamond-Mojave Rehabilitation Project slated to begin construction on Highway 14 in late October/early November. Members of the public were encouraged to ask questions and voice their concerns about the project. The managing parties of the Rosamond-Mojave Rehab Project were introduced and a general overview of the project presented. SB-1 transportation funds are financing the project. The eight...
