Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Voyager aircraft designer, Burt Rutan and Voyager pilot, Dick Rutan, gathered with many of the Voyager project volunteers and supporters on Saturday evening, Dec. 17, 2016 to honor the 30th anniversary of the milestone non-stop flight around the world, unrefueled, at a dinner hosted by the Mojave Transportation Museum. The many contributors made this celebration possible in the beautiful MASP Event Center and we warmly thank – Title Sponsors: Mojave Air & Space Port; Hartzell Propellers, Inc. (o...
The 10th Annual Valentines Wine Walk and Chocolate Tasting, sponsored by Main Street Tehachapi, is scheduled for Saturday, February 11 from 6 to 9 p.m.. It's the perfect time to join friends and sweethearts at the most romantic time of the year for a fun evening and a stroll around Downtown Tehachapi. The nearly 20 host businesses will all provide appetizers, so you can make an evening of it. The selection of wines includes a wide range of whites, reds, dessert, and sparkling wines that will be...
Although The Shed officially closed on a snowy day, Dec. 24, our most loved and honorable chef, Mano Lujan will still be preparing a specially designed gourmet dinner at The Shed to go with the delicious wines from Burbank Ranch Vineyard and Winery at the scheduled Rotary Wine Pairing Dinner on Saturday, Jan. 28 at 6 p.m. This is the 4th Annual Wine Pairing Dinner being hosted by The Rotary Club of Tehachapi and, as is expected, both the wines and the food are of the highest caliber and each...
Happy New Year. Have you been getting a bunch of mailers about refinancing your current home loan? Me, too. Is it really a good time to refinance? Only “maybe.” Many factors come in to play when evaluating a mortgage financing offer. Rate is only one of them, but in recent months it’s become a biggie. Let’s have a quick look back to see what has happened since Fall. The Freddie Mac weekly interest rate survey is flawed in that it only considers a perfect borrower with 20% equity and no other l...
Each New Year allows an opportunity to reflect on the past and set new goals for the future. What are yours? Is there some meaningful transformation you long for? January is my favorite month. I like to slow down, read, and just be. Fortunately, Santa brought me a good book this past Christmas, “When the Heart Waits: Spiritual Direction for Life’s Sacred Questions”, by Sue Monk Kidd, the author of the bestseller, The Secret Life of Bees. The book is about transformation - finding and becom...
Stallion Springs Directors Clydell Lamkin, Ed Gordon and Leslie Wellman were sworn in as Directors on Friday, Dec. 2, by a notary for a four year term ending in 2020. During the Dec. 20, meeting, the Board elected Ed Gordon to serve as President and Vince McLaughlin as Vice President for a two year term, 2017-2018. Vanessa Stevens was designated as secretary to the Board. The Board approved a Proposition 218 Water Rate Study to be performed by Provost and Pritchard. This will be used as a basis...
Chabad of Bakersfield lights public menorah in Tehachapi Chanukah (also spelled Hanukkah) is a happy eight-day Jewish celebration of the victory of the Maccabees over the Syrian Greek army in 165 BCE. The opposing army had left the temple in Jerusalem a wreck, breaking the jugs of holy oil, and only one day's worth of undefiled lamp oil could be found. The lamp miraculously burned for eight days until more holy oil could be installed. Rabbi Shmuli Schlanger of the Jewish outreach organization...
Five years of tough negotiating by California legislators has resulted in the inclusion of provisions in a new federal infrastructure Act that will give drought-devastated, environmentally hamstrung Central Valley farmers relief at last. Senate bill 612, the “Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act” (WIIN Act), which the Senate approved 78-21 on Dec. 10, 2016 and President Obama signed on Dec. 16, includes a section devoted specifically to California. The section mandates that wat...
Two snowstorms blanketed the Tehachapi area like holiday bookends a week apart at the tail-end of 2016 -- one starting just before Christmas Eve morning and one on New Year's night, ushering in both festive days on a palette of dazzling white. Rather than being light and dry and forming a winter-long base, the Tehachapi area snow typically is wet and, in the absence of sustained freezing temperatures, melts quickly. According to the weather web site Mountainbase.com, located at Oak Knolls in...
The new Tehachapi hospital will open when the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) says it can open. "There is no exact day," David Eastman of Adventist Health, the hospital operator, said at the Jan. 4, 2017 meeting of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council. "The best estimate is the second half of this year." Eastman said there is a time lag between the time the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) signs off on the building with a Certificate of...
When Jim and Cheryl Wilson were ready to retire and leave Anchorage, Alaska to be closer to his children and grandchildren in the Lower 48, they knew the kind of a city in which they wanted to live. "We wanted a small town with no freeways," Cheryl said. "It would be a town we could embrace and would hopefully embrace us back." Jim went on a reconnaissance tour. "I gave it all to Jim," Cheryl said. "He respected the fact that it would be difficult for me to leave Alaska." Southern California is...
As a dog trainer, I find my job is both freshly challenging with each new case, and simultaneously, somewhat predictable. While each individual dog and dog guardian are unique and different, similar issues tend to arise in households across the board, such as, "Our dog goes crazy whenever anyone comes to the door, and won't stop barking and jumping!" I believe what causes this kind of issue – and the remedy for fixing it – are two sides of the same coin: Individuals' behavior is, in part, the...
Last July, Emily and Paul Sandholdt moved to Tehachapi from a small country town in Central Illinois called Loda. The adventure came about when Paul, who had spent the last five years with GE Wind, was offered a job with them in California. It was not an easy decision as both of them had grown up in the Midwest ; however they had friends in Los Angeles and Paul had two sisters who had moved to Northern California 15 years ago, so west they came. Emily says that Tehachapi reminds her of the rural...
Here we are at the beginning of the New Year. I was just reflecting on the past year, thinking of all of the good things that were accomplished, and now, as I prepare for 2017, I’m thinking of all the ways I can make it the best it can be by taking full advantage of the moment created by a year finished strong. Some of the keys to building a successful business are effective time management, self-discipline and working a goal-oriented and effective game plan. Add to that self-confidence and exci...
It’s another new year. So I guess it’s time to tally up my score for last year. I think I did pretty well. As a writer I need to track where I submit things to and what the outcome is. I keep a database which makes it easy to count up some of my important statistics. I was rejected 64 times this last year. While it might seem odd that I’d lead off with my rejections, it’s not that unusual for a writer to remember them. JK Rowling was rejected 12 times before her books about Harry Potter were acc...
Several hundred people gathered Dec. 30 to pay their final respects to Richard (Dick) Johnson, a dear friend and respected member of the community. His 88 years were filled with his accomplishments and service to community as well as presenting his "never met a stranger" personality to all who met him. He will be remembered. Dick was born in Banning, Calif., the youngest of six children. His father, a veteran newsman, published the local Banning newspaper. He was to move to Tehachapi when the...
The Tehachapi Lions Club would like to take this opportunity to offer a public, heartfelt thank you to all of the supporters of their Apple Drop Fundraiser. Due to your generous support, the Lions were able to provide Christmas to 40 low-income or homebound senior citizens, some of whom are veterans or veterans' widows, in Tehachapi. The Lions purchased "Wish List" items for the seniors and their pets with funds raised from their annual Apple Drop which was held in October. The seniors also rece...
You all know the drill –I scrounge through my mom Marion Deaver's stuff and I find something of hers to write about in this column. Sometimes it can be a little more complicated than that. I found an article from January 24, 1958. My mom wrote about the opening of Burton's Tropico Gold Mine & Mill Tours in Rosamond. I was eight that year. I found the article and remembered a photo Mom took one day that announced the beginning of the dream to open a mine camp at the base of Tropico Mine and c...
The Tehachapi Gran Fondo was named "Champion of Economic Impact in Sports Tourism" by Sports Destination managment magazine in their Nov./Dec. issue....
Laurus nobilis is the botanical name for sweet bay or Grecian laurel. Laurus is the Latin word for bay tree and nobilis refers to renowned. The early Greeks weaved crowns of bay leaves called laurel wreaths to honor priests, kings, soldiers, scholars, and athletes. They were awarded to athletes at the first Olympics in 776 B.C. and again in 2004 in Greece. The term poet laureate is derived from the custom of presenting a crown of laurel leaves to the outstanding poet of the day. Bay is the...
