Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The 8th Annual Valentines Wine Walk and Chocolate Tasting, sponsored by Main Street Tehachapi, is scheduled for February 14. Its 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 22 host businesses will all provide appetizers, so you can make an evening of it. The selection of wines includes a range of whites, reds, dessert, and sparkling wines that will be perfectly paired to compliment with...
Sylvia is TCT's newest main stage production, opening Friday, January 30, 2015 through Valentine's weekend. This play is about relationships – a man, his wife and the stray dog (Sylvia) he finds in the park and falls in love with. The man's affection for Sylvia costs him his job and almost his marriage. Sylvia is an adult comedy, but first and foremost it is a heartwarming love story, and TCT is sure we all have a Sylvia of our own. Send TCT the cutest photo of your dog for the "Show Us Your Syl...
Take time now to review your financial health. Investigate some of these ways you might re-arrange your financing to save money this year and beyond. Refinance your home loan for a lower interest rate or lower monthly payment. Change your adjustable rate mortgage to a fixed rate, or combine your first and second mortgages into one loan. Move credit card debt into your mortgage payment. Take a new shorter-term loan and pay off your home sooner. Address family matters, whether you need to buy a...
After spending most of their lives in Bakersfield, Chris and Carla Sheldon wanted to raise their family in the clean air and natural surroundings of Tehachapi. They finally made the move along with their four children, who are all under eight years of age. The couple runs an oil equipment company in Bakersfield that deals with valves and hydraulic controls. Carla was born in Bakersfield and comes from a family that has been involved in the oil equipment business for 40 years. Before becoming a...
Rather than writing about local history that my mother recorded, I decided to write about history in the making – in 2015. Last week I attended a meeting of the East Kern Economic Development Alliance, a group of East Kern movers and shakers, who meet every other month to discuss how to improve the cities and communities in Eastern Kern. The group’s logo is East Kern – Innovation rising. Each time the group meets, a different topic is discussed to provide information to those present on how t...
www.theloopnewspaper.com the start off the lovely evening, pouring their “Sparkling Legacy” champagne at the glass pickup point. Your wine glasses, map and ten tasting tickets are to be picked up at the Tehachapi Depot Museum, on the corner of Tehachapi Boulevard and Green Street. Glass pickup begins at 6 p.m., and the event goes on until 9 p.m. Tickets are $25 each in advance, and $30 on the day of the event. Advance tickets may be purchased at Get Dressed Boutique; Tehachapi Flower Shop; Mercury Graphics/ Main Street Office; and the Gre...
I'm a service dog trainer in the habit of naming pups-in-training after people whose hearts have helped shape mine. The first was Fred, after Mr. Rogers; the current one is Betty, in honor of the inestimable Betty White. The day I picked up this precious two month-old lab with the eyes of a sage and a sweetness just as deep, I determined I would find a way for us to meet Betty's namesake. On December 19th, 2014 – via too many synchronous cosmic forces to count or effectively sort out – my dre...
Kern County has much to be proud of - especially the people that live here. Chelley Kitzmiller of Tehachapi is one of those people we can all be proud of. Chelley is diligently working to make one of our county's worst statistics much better - that of unnecessary animal killings because of the severe pet overpopulation problem we have in our communities. Chelley is the founder of Have a Heart Humane Society based in Tehachapi. Chelley and Have a Heart have been providing low-cost spay and...
Welcome back and Happy New Year to all my beloved readers! As the question in the title asks, “Why champagne on New Year’s Eve?” Savvy champagne producers have managed to associate their bubbly with life’s highest moments. Winning the Formula One race or Wimbledon tennis championship, launching a boat (my personal favorite), a baby, a marriage, or the New Year. Several hundred years ago top champagne houses, many of them run by young women who were widows, sent cases of their bubbly to royal cou...
In lieu of retirement, Duane Moats, CPA has decided to merge DR Moats and Company with D. David Hebebrand CPA. The new firm will be Moats & Hebebrand CPAs and will be located at 212 West F Street (where Duane Moats has maintained his CPA practice since 2000). David Hebebrand has been a licensed CPA for 29 years, has lived in Tehachapi for 11 years, and recently sold his CPA practice in Porterville, Calif. as he was tired of the 90-mile-one-way drive to Porterville. Duane is looking to reduce his work load and Dave is looking for additional tax...
One can almost predict what people are going to say when they mention the quake of ’52. They usually just say, “Oh, really, you were there? My, my,” and that’s it. It’ll never be “old hat” to those of us who weathered the shake and the suffering and death it brought to some. But going through some old news items at the local museum, I found many eye-catching columns. There were interesting articles and a few of them completely exaggerated in parts due to the imagination of visiting news...
Being blind or having a visual impairment can be very financially taxing. Not only are there direct medical costs, such as doctor visits, medications, nursing home care and guide dogs, but there are also indirect costs, such as the inability to work and generate an income. The lack of income, added to mounting medical expenses, can cause financial difficulties to spiral quickly out of control. Fortunately, in some cases, Social Security Disability benefits can alleviate some of this financial st...
Miracles and Christmas stories come in multifaceted varieties. Some earth shattering, some seemingly miraculous, and some quietly slip into our lives, all being of great value to those affected. This Christmas story began 44 years ago and came full circle this past December. It began during the Vietnam War. Yes, I know, there are those wanting it referred to as a "conflict". It was not. Ask the men and women who were part of that so-calledconflict and you will hear the word, war. Paul, as an...
A real basket made nearly a century ago by Rosie Hicks, a young Nuwa (Kawaiisu) woman, was the inspiration for a book called The Butterfly Basket. It was written by Sand Canyon resident Cynthia Waldman. She spoke recently to the Kiwanis Club and told how she combined her lifelong love of nature and a keen interest in Native American culture to write this interesting book. The story takes place in the early 1930s in the Tehachapi area and tells of a friendship between two eleven year old...
Debbie Hand-Cutler and Peter Cutler presented an interesting program about women singers and songwriters of folk music to American Association of University Women (AAUW). They talked about the evolution of folk music which began as dance music or "just sitting on the front porch music." When the phonograph and radio came into common use things changed. The Carter Family, led by Maybelle Carter, began performing and making records in the 1920s. Cutler played an original recording of Maybelle...
Getting married is exciting, but it brings many challenges. One such challenge that you and your spouse will have to face is how to merge your finances. Planning carefully and communicating clearly are important, because the financial decisions that you make now can have a lasting impact on your future. Discuss your financial goals The first step in mapping out your financial future together is to discuss your financial goals. Start by making a list of your short-term goals (e.g., paying off wed...
Well bare root planting time is full swing right now till the end of February! Fruit and shade trees, flowering trees and shrubs, lilacs, berries and grapes are available now at great savings over canned prices! 25 to 50% Savings are standard and even greater on the giant shade trees. For those of you who may not be familiar with the term bare root, I will attempt an explanation. Bare root plants are those that come to the nursery without soil around the roots, hence saving money on cans, soil, amendments and labor. This can only be...
This week I saw an article on TV about how good Christy Brinkley looked at the age of 60. The first thing I thought was that she did look good and that she was my age. Next I thought that I wouldn’t mind looking like her. Then I remembered that I have never looked like Christie Brinkley. The point: like many people I know and many of my clients over the years, when the New Year nudges me to take better care of myself, I go to a “memory” of what I was like. Only problem is that it wasn’t a memory as much as it was a wish. How many of us would l...
When that car battery finally gives up the ghost and it's time to replace it – auto owners have options. First, let's be clear that you should always get a replacement battery that meets or exceeds your vehicle manufacturer's specifications. But, you may have some essential special needs. When they first put the battery into your vehicle at the factory, the car maker had no idea where it would end up over its life or how YOU would use it where you drive in California. That battery was chosen t...
Pop singer-songwriter Jann Klose will be performing at Fiddlers Crossing on January 30 at 7 p.m. Jann’s new album MOSAIC is now on almost 100 radio stations, and on iTunes, Amazon, Spotify, and Pandora. He has released a special edition of MOSAIC that includes songwriter demos of favorite originals on the album, plus a new song “Anything,” that was not included on the original release. MOSAIC is a sonic, lyrical and emotional mosaic from an artist known for his multi-cultural roots, a widely-fac...
The Stallion Springs CERT team held its regular monthly meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 6. Sally Lawrence lead a discussion and training seminar on Unit 1 of the CERT Training Manual. For those of you that have not yet completed your initial CERTification, this will count toward your completion as long as you have attended full class sessions for at least 5 other units. This is also a great way to re-CERTify without having to attend the full class. It also serves as a good introduction to others who ma...
Tehachapi Mountain Rodeo Association Chairman Dal Bunn, led this season's first board and general membership meeting. He along with Board Members Jeff Nousch, Bob Helfrich, Diana Osbrink, Heidi Tully, Dale Youngblood and Richard Hudson will comprise this year's board. Announced were the following dates for some of this year's Rodeo Activities: May 30 ~ Dinner Dance July 4 ~ Bad Bulls Rodeo Aug 13-15 ~ PRCA Rodeo Yet to be firmed are the Jr. Rodeo dates. Board Chairman for the Junior Rodeo Dale...
If you’ve ever tried tofu, there’s a huge difference between soft and firm. The soft stuff is nasty to me. What little flavor there is, I do not care for. Places that know how to prepare tofu often bake it or fry it and this makes all the difference in the world. A rib-eye steak or a piece of liver lightly cooked versus well-done radically changes the taste and experience. Intense cooking dries the meat, toughens it, and the flavors can disperse or be harsh. Whereas, a restrained cooking tim...
Back in the 1980s observations of a layer of sediment right when the dinosaurs went extinct led to a hypothesis of an asteroid or comet impact being the cause of the extinction. Like many hypotheses that are fairly radical, it took a while to gain acceptance, yet now it is considered the likely cause of the extinction. There is a saying that when your only tool is a hammer everything starts to look like a nail, and this is true of scientists, too. So, after the dinosaur extinction was determined...
The Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce and the 52nd Annual Tehachapi Mountain Festival® Committee are looking for a theme for the 2015 Tehachapi Mountain Festival®. The Festival will be on August 15 and 16, 2015. Original or unique theme ideas should be submitted to the Chamber by Friday, February 27, 2015 at 4 p.m. The winner will receive a $100 prize, along with V.I.P. treatment and an invitation to ride in the Mountain Festival Parade. Participants are allowed to submit an unlimited number of theme ideas, but only one winner will be c...
