Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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I have been thinking a lot about the Marines and the aircraft they flew, when they served here during World War II. I sense their presence every time I walk into the Administration Building or Building One at Mojave Air and Space Port. At least thirty-two United States Marine Corps squadrons are believed to have trained at Marine Corps Auxiliary Air Station (MCAAS) Mojave, and a number of squadrons were actually formed here, including Marine Fighting Squadron 225 (VMF-225) commissioned January...
Local Tehachapi racer Jenee Dugan is putting together a team to race on the dirt tracks of Bakersfield, Calif. Jenee is a veteran fan, going to the Okie Bowl at Bakersfield Speedway since she was a kid. Her husband Tom Dugan is a racer himself in the Hardtop Class where Jenee now lends a hand. She hopes to be racing in this class very soon. I have personally found the racing community in general is very helpful. Jenee met car owner Brad Peshech and became friends while buying one of his cars...
Alicia Garver has been teaching art classes in the Antelope Valley for 20 years. She is now teaching in Tehachapi at Slice of Life on Wednesdays. Her students have won county, state, and national art competitions. Eleven of her High School students have won the Congressional Art Competition and had their art hang in Congress for a year at a time representing California. Some of her high school students have won scholarships to the Academy of the Arts University (San Francisco) and Otis (LA)....
The 11th Annual Valentine's Wine Walk and Chocolate Tasting, sponsored by Main Street Tehachapi, is scheduled to take place on Saturday, Feb. 10 from 6 to 9 p.m. This is 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. Twenty-three host businesses will be providing appetizers in addition to the large selection of chocolates, so attendees can really make an evening of it. The wine selections will...
This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor. By most measures, 2017 was a pretty good year for investors. But what can you expect in 2018? It's difficult to precisely predict the immediate future of the financial markets. However, many signs point to improved global economic growth and rising corporate earnings – both of which are important drivers of stock prices. In the United States, economic growth may be more modest than in other regions, w...
I found an old Mojave newspaper article from May 17, 1956 with a headline proclaiming "Wonder Acres Grow with Mojave Area." An adjacent photo showed a photo of a newly drilled well in Wonder Acres. I thought to myself this would be great, I didn't think I had ever written a column about the area situated between Mojave and California City. However, as I read the article, which had no byline, it began by extolling the virtues of the desert and finally ended by discussing Wonder Acres future...
"We Serve" is the motto of all Lions Clubs. Not only does the Tehachapi Lions Club serve our community by doing service projects and giving back, but it also has a main mission of vision and hearing health. The Lions have been long supporters of Canine Companions for Independence and were very excited to have Melissa Billingsley as a guest speaker at their Jan. 18 meeting. Canine Companions for Independence is a non-profit organization that enhances the lives of people with disabilities by...
I've been a fan of Google's Chrome browser for years. When it first launched, it was fast and very configurable. The sync feature made it easy to have the same bookmarks on both my desktop and my laptop, and there were lots of extensions that made it better and safer than browsing without them. Lately, though, Chrome has started helping itself to more and more of my system's RAM. Because Chrome is currently the most used browser worldwide, websites are starting to show up that are 'optimized'...
The Tehachapi Humane Society recently donated a cast iron bench to the Mojave Animal Shelter for their outside meet and greet area. The teakwood bench donated to the shelter in the 90s by THS members, Ridge and Thelma Friedel had deteriorated. THS also recently donated some dog toys and treats to the shelter. Their next donation to the shelter will be dog beds for small dogs and whatever the Mojave shelter employees think the cats need. Tehachapi Humane Society still gives out spay/neuter...
A low-carb diet can cure diabetes and lower cholesterol. Dr. Susan Hall knows this because of her personal and her family's experiences. She spoke about healthy eating at a Kiwanis meeting, citing statistics from Robert Lustig's book, Fat Chance. In the last 35 years Americans have increased their caloric intake by more than 335 calories a day. They have increased their intake of sugar and decreased their intake of vegetables, fruit and fiber. This has resulted in higher rates of obesity,...
The season of Lent can be rather somber. Within the church, the prayers, liturgy and hymns are written to evoke deeper contemplation, as people symbolically walk with Jesus from Galilee to Jerusalem and to his death. Lent begins on Ash Wednesday, February 14, this year. All are welcome to attend a brief lunch-time service that day from 12-12:30 p.m. and receive ashes to mark the beginning of your Lenten journey. Often we avoid talking about the inevitable outcome of death, especially our own....
Social Security identifies a traumatic brain injury (TBI) under Listing 11.18. A TBI may result in neurological and mental impairments with a wide variety of post-traumatic symptoms and signs. The rate and extent of recovery can be highly variable, and the long-term outcome may be difficult to predict in the first few months post-injury. Generally, the neurological impairment will stabilize more rapidly than any mental impairment and is why the look back period is 3 consecutive months. Sometimes...
The answer depends on your filing status, your age and the type of income you earn. Each person is allowed to earn a certain amount of income before they are required to file a tax return. Each individual is allowed a personal exemption of $4,050 and a standard deduction of $6,350 for 2017. Hence an individual can have $10,400 of taxable income before being taxed if under age 65. If age 65 or over, an additional $1,550 standard deduction is allowed, so the filing threshold increases to $11,950...
The City of Tehachapi has released our "2017 Year in Review". This is an annual project we started several years ago to showcase the accomplishments of the City, our various departments and the citizens over the previous calendar year. This year we focused on the theme "We The People" with each section of our City operation being addressed under one of the core principles found in the Preamble of the United States Constitution. We firmly believe that "We The People" of Tehachapi, live up to the...
Born and raised in Coalinga, Calif., Molly Sherman moved to Tehachapi in 1967 and has resided here ever since. She studied massage therapy at the Institute of Holistic Studies in 1988 and opened her massage practice in 1989. Molly grew up with a natural health background. Says Sherman, "Back then everything was organic. That's the way things were grown. My mother taught us about helpful remedies and about foot reflexology." Many years later Molly started doing reflexology on friends and family....
The Tehachapi Lions Club was pleased to honor two outstanding young men during their Student of the Month dinner meeting on Jan. 18. Brock Moore was selected by the staff at Monroe High School. Brock recently enrolled at Monroe High School for his senior year. He has experienced a rather rough road lately in his life, however, he is very focused and is working diligently towards receiving his high school diploma at Monroe. He is a very polite and respectful young man. He is determined to turn hi...
Trinity Madden made history on Jan. 27, 2018 as she was the first-ever Junior Miss Tehachapi to win the prestigious title of Junior Miss Antelope Valley, where she competed against eleven other communities. In addition, she was also awarded the titles of Miss Community Spirit and Miss Photogenic. She represented the community of Tehachapi with confidence, grace, and poise. Trinity is a 13-year-old eighth grader at Jacobsen Middle School, where she is currently dual enrolled in community college...
Taxes can take a big bite out of your total investment returns, so it's encouraging to know that your employer-sponsored retirement savings plan may offer a variety of tax benefits. Depending on the type of plan your employer offers, you may be able to benefit from current tax savings; tax deferral on any investment returns you earn on the road to retirement; and possibly even tax-free income in retirement. Lower your taxes now When you contribute to a traditional retirement savings plan, such...
Welcoming a new member to a company that is built with determination, aspirations, and care is always a choice that is carefully and thoughtfully made. That is why today Bellissima Medical Aesthetics would like to welcome our new headquarters manager Amado Verastegui. His extensive knowledge of the beauty industry is what made this company realize his potential and the impact he can have on us and our customers. Being in the industry nearly 15 years gives Mr. Verastegui an advantage in...
I've been on a Southern food kick lately. There's something comforting in the cuisine. Maybe that's why it's called "soul food". This recipe couldn't be any more Southern if it tried. Take a humble vegetable and cover it in mayonnaise and bacon. My twist is to kick it up with something sweet and something crunchy. And, of course, it needs to be vegan, after all, I'm crazy, but not insane. Items marked with an asterisk (*) are available at Taylor's Provisions, 208 S. Mill St., Tehachapi. You can...
A fortunate and lively group of high school students from the Tehachapi area is taking advantage of a special class in building a small airplane. This is a hands-on project in which the students attend a once-a-week classroom instruction session, and twice-a-week shop sessions where they will build an actual airplane. About half the students are from Tehachapi High School and half from Valley Oaks Charter School. Sessions have been underway since early January, and their first shop project...
The cast was deep into rehearsals of "The Importance of Being Earnest". I was following along with the script when I thought I heard an unknown voice chuckling at the back of the BeeKay Theatre. I turned around, then quickly back again, not wanting to believe what I was imagining. I'd read all about our famous playwright's, love for the paranormal, but was Oscar's ghost now actually seated at the back of the BeeKay? I sipped on my extra strong latte, then turned around again. Oscar was still...
The city of Tehachapi is run as a business. "We are a non-profit business," City Manager Greg Garrett told members of the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi on Jan. 31 at the Tehachapi Police Department Community Room. "The trick is keeping the lights on," he said. The city operates the water and service utilities and owns, among other properties, the train depot museum, the BeeKay Theatre, the police department building and the wastewater treatment plant. "We have highly trained professionals," he...
The city of Tehachapi has rejected a citizen's petition that would have required the City Council to rescind its Dec. 4 ordinance establishing district-based elections. According to the city, mistakes in content and wording invalidated the signed forms that resident Peter Graff delivered to City Hall on Jan. 2, 2018. The forms bore 565 signatures, which were more than the ten percent of the city's registered voters (436) needed to validate the petition and trigger a referendum on the November...
Last year about this time I wrote about my experiences marching in Los Angeles in the Women's March, along with some 750,000 other people. This year I'm writing about the same kind of event, but this time I was marching with several thousand people in Bakersfield. Two very different experiences, and yet also very much the same. The Women's March has become an annual global event, and last year a few cities in California hosted marches. A friend and I opted to go to Los Angeles via MetroLink,...
