Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The third Monday in January, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service. People of all racial and ethnic backgrounds celebrate the holiday by performing individual acts of kindness through service to others. In recognition of the holiday, Tehachapi Mountain Democratic Club spent the morning picking up trash along Tucker Road and Valley Blvd. Wearing masks and bright vests, members picked up lots of plastic bags and discarded masks. This is a...
Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District is working hard to offer community activity in our upcoming year. As we enter 2021 a lot has changed for the park district and what we are able to offer to our Tehachapi community. Here are some things to be on the lookout for in the coming weeks and months. Brite Lake: The stay-at-home order has now been lifted for all campgrounds. As of Monday, January 25, overnight camping will once again be allowed at Brite Lake. For reservations, please call...
Admit it, there are some films that you watch again and again not for the actors, dialogue or even the plot, but simply because they feature some of the coolest cars ever to hit the silver screen. In celebration of this simple truth, here's a list of five of the most iconic movie cars of all time. 1. "Back to the Future" – 1981 Delorean DMC-12 How many movies can claim to have single-handedly resurrected a forgotten automaker? When the producers of "Back to the Future" chose a 1981 DeLorean D...
Country Oaks Baptist Church will present its next Grief Share course from 6 to 8 p.m., Tuesday, Feb. 9 through May 11. The course is free to the public and will be held at Country Oaks Baptist Church, 20915 Schout Road. “I’m excited about God’s ‘emergency room’ starting up soon,” said Ruthie Bailey, course instructor. Grief Share is a confidential, non-denominational Christian-based ministry to aid the community to process and deal with grief associated with loss of family and loved ones. For more information, call (661) 822-1379....
Every year, the Internal Revenue Service announces cost-of-living adjustments that affect contribution limits for retirement plans and various tax deduction, exclusion, exemption and threshold amounts. Here are a few of the key adjustments for 2021. Estate, Gift and Generation-Skipping Transfer Tax • The annual gift tax exclusion (and annual generation-skipping transfer tax exclusion) for 2021 is $15,000, the same as in 2020. • The gift and estate tax basic exclusion amount (and gen...
John Martin Hayes was born in Bakersfield on December 1, 1948, to Margie Mary Hayes and John McConnell Hayes. After graduating from Foothill High School in 1966, John joined the U.S. Army, serving in Germany during the Vietnam War. After his term of service, he attended California State University, Bakersfield, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology. John married Charlotte (Margo) Wilson in 1974, and several years later they moved from Bakersfield to Atascadero where John worked for a...
We have had several new cases of COVID-19 in our community recently. Several individuals have been fortunate enough to get their vaccines as well. Hopefully, we are on our way to lessening the impact of the virus and life can get back on track a little. It would be wonderful for the children and teachers (and the parents) if school classes could resume. Several precautions would need to take place for that to happen. The Association has announced, with deep regret, that the dining room at the...
A virtual change of command ceremony took place Monday, January 25, at the Tehachapi Composite Squadron of the Civil Air Patrol. In the ceremony Lieutenant Ruben R. Del Portillo assumed the role of squadron commander from the present squadron commander, Captain Sharon Agold. Captain Agold has been the Squadron Commander since 2016 and has served both Civil Air Patrol and the community in an exemplary manner. Under Captain Agold's leadership, the squadron grew and participated in activities...
Sharon Lee (Laymon) Hicks, age 77, died January 17 at Adventist Hospital with her husband and daughters at her side. A memorial service will be held at a later date to be announced. Sharon was born March 24, 1943 in the city of Riverton, Wyoming to Preston and Frances Laymon. She lived in Wyoming, Nevada and spent her high school years in Susanville, California. November 23, 1961, she married Peter Francis Hicks, the love of her life. They lived in Susanville for several years and then moved to...
Due to the snowfall in the Tehachapi area during the week of January 25, and potential travel restrictions on Highway 58, the BBQ at Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley hosted by Stockdale Tile owner Tony Marion has been postponed by one week to February 3. The BBQ is for all employees at the Adventist Hospital located at 1100 Magellan Dr., Tehachapi. This is a way to thank and show appreciation to medical personnel for their hard work and dedication during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the summer...
As Pepe and I adjusted early last summer to the challenge of improving our ability to go walkabout for more than just an around the block exercise, I began planning a PCT hike point-to-point on the two nearby PCT Trailheads: Willow Springs Road to Hwy 58 - a distance of about eight-trail miles. With elevation changes and uneven terrain that would require major adjustments to our everyday flatland walkabouts. We would make the hike being prepared for an overnight camp just in case. Then...
In a memo to parents attempting to distance themselves from a recent "Let Them Play" rally, the Tehachapi Unified School District made what appeared to be an innocent typo, claiming the gathering at "Cory(sic) Burnett Field" was not sanctioned by the District in the officially released document. Of course, most of us know the home field of the Tehachapi Warriors is "Coy Burnett Field," minus the extra "r" inserted by the president of the school board who in haste autographed the memo without...
It was a little over two years ago that Keith Sackawitz of Friends of the Depot appeared before a GTEDC meeting and presented the idea of building a viewing platform at the Loop Overlook on Woodford Tehachapi Rd. Over 12,000 visitors a year visit the Overlook said Sackawitz, many in tour buses and FOTD felt the narrow road and limited parking area was difficult and dangerous for visitors. The monument itself is too close to the road and in bad repair. The 144 year old Loop is known worldwide as...
Stallion housing Last year was a busy year for housing and related projects in Stallion Springs. Permits for 32 new homes were issued, 20 new fences and 13 new storage buildings and sheds. Multiple new permits were also issued for tree removal, standalone garages, patios, solar, new roofs and painting. Nine permits were also issued for various other property improvement projects. Did you know we have CC&Rs (Conditions, Covenants and Restrictions) in the community. These CC&Rs are necessary to...
Teams from the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi, Scouts BSA and the Kiwanis Club of Westchester will deliver American flags to subscribers in Tehachapi on Presidents Day, Monday, Feb. 15, the first day of the 2021 Kiwanis Stars and Strips Display the Flag Project. The teams post the big flags in front of subscribers' homes and businesses within the Tehachapi city limits on six patriotic holidays: Presidents Day, Memorial Day, Flag Day, Independence Day (observed on July 5 this year), Labor Day and...
Robert Lee Halasey was the third child to James Christopher Halasey and Linna Aurelia Nicholls (Halasey). He was born in Luverne, Minnesota. Robert passed away peacefully at his home in Tehachapi. He was preceded in death by his parents and siblings, Dorothy Morrell and John Halasey. Robert is survived by his wife of 56 years, Helen, and by his son Michael James Halasey and children Linda Ann Rogers and Frank (Jim) Rogers; grandchildren Kristy, Katie, and Kelsey Nalder, Amber (Eric) Walker,...
On January 15 a group calling themselves "Let Them Play CA" organized rallies throughout California in the hopes that school team sports can start back up. The one in Tehachapi drew a crowd of about 30 people outside Coy Burnett Stadium on Tehachapi Blvd....
This is the seventh article in a continuing series about local military veterans and their service to our great country. John and his twin brother were born on April 17, 1942 in Suffolk, Virginia. His family soon moved to Newport News, Virginia, where his father worked at the famous Newport News shipyard and, in the early 1950s, became one of the first African-American police officers to serve with the Newport News Police Department. As John recalled, "Newport News is a military community and I...
As Valley Strong Credit Union begins building a new full-service branch in Tehachapi, the credit union continues to develop opportunities to build a financial relationship within the community and the surrounding areas. Valley Strong's Tehachapi Branch Manager Kristy Vasquez said that having a full-service branch and an exciting new promotion will help benefit the community in numerous ways. "Not only does it give members extra perks for opening a new checking account, it also helps support the...
