Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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New businesses were front and center at the Tehachapi Planning Commission meeting on Feb. 10 beginning with The Village Collective that will be located on South Green St. at the corner of F St. Mountain Top Real Estate Holdings, LLC submitted new architectural designs for the business that at one time held the St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store. The original architectural design changing the building to a restaurant with outdoor dining and office and co-workspace was approved by the Planning...
On Friday, Feb. 7, State Senator Shannon Grove held a Town Hall at the Slice of Life Enrichment School in Tehachapi. The purpose of the meeting was to address the Public Safety Power Shutoffs during the autumn of 2019. Also taking part were representatives from Southern California Edison; Laura Lynne Wyatt of Kern County Board of Supervisors; Tehachapi City Officials Greg Garrett and Key Budge; Kern County Fire Department; Deputy Michael Dorkin and spokesperson Megan Person of the Kern County...
While driving home from Bakersfield on the back way (Bena Road) between Edison and the Arvin Cutoff this week, I noticed that the earliest wildflowers to bloom in our mountains were beginning to show their first yellow color. These unique and interesting plants are Bladderpods. The extremely drought-tolerant Bladderpods begin flowering on the San Joaquin Valley floor, and then follow spring as it moves upslope. With egg-shaped green globes dangling from the stems, beautiful yellow flowers and...
It was late August, 1966 on a very hot afternoon when my husband and I pulled into Tehachapi for the first glimpse at our new community. In Colorado earlier that summer we had interviewed with the Tehachapi Unified School District superintendent about teaching jobs in Tehachapi. Yes, he said, they needed a math teacher at the junior high, and yes, he said, Tehachapi has skiing and fishing very close, and yes, it is the top of a mountain pass. We signed our contracts with eagerness and excitement...
A fire at Bear Mountain destroyed much feed and valuable timber. The fire started near Sycamore last Saturday and was not under control until late Tuesday afternoon. Many sections of dry feed on the west side of Bear Mountain were destroyed, the loss falling almost entirely on F. W. Fickert. The fire fighters experienced many hardships during their three strenuous days and nights on the mountain, often without food or water for many hours at a time and sometimes surrounded by the roaring,...
I lived in Cummings Valley with my family. I was born on my Grandfather Ocana's ranch on December 21, 1907. My Dad was Anselmo Campos and he was a cowboy for the Hill Ranch. When we went to visit family in Bakersfield, we went in a wagon over the Sheeptrail. You could make it in a day if you wanted to – a long day. We didn't have a radio – we didn't even know what one looked like. My family had a Victrola with one of those big horns on it. Then they had those little rolly things [wax cyl...
The Tehachapi Treasure Trove is open Monday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. and Sunday, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Stop by and see our collection of uncommonly eclectic and unusually unique stuff. We carry an extensive line of art, craft and scrapbooking supplies, as well as artist services in addition to local arts, handcrafts, jewelry, collectibles, music, yarn, gift items and more. Visit us online at www.tehachapitreasuretrove.com and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TehachapiTreasureTrove or call us at...
Nearly twenty years ago, (2001) I was asked to help with a special Air & Space Exploratorium at the Antelope Valley Mall. 'Women in Aerospace – Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow.' I was delighted to ask my WASP (Women Air Service Pilots) friends, Ty Killen, Irma 'Babe' Story and Flora Belle Reece to represent our Women in Aerospace of Yesterday. All three women were wonderful role models with a high spirit of adventure, love of aviation and outstanding resolve to accomplish their goals. All three o...
I received a call from my good friend, Del Troy, who was looking for some specific information about a former San Canyon/ Tehachapi resident: Edward H. McDaniel. I had lots of information but did not have the specific facts for which she searched. We had a nice telephone conversation and since it was five years ago that I wrote about Ed, I'd like for you to meet a fine person who passed away some forty one years ago. He was a good man who was instrumental in helping Professor Orris Imhof institu...
I used to suffer greatly from a condition known as FOMO – Fear Of Missing Out. I wanted to see everything, do everything, be in on everything. As a child I hated bedtime, because if other people were staying up longer than me, I just knew I might miss something fun. My nightly whine became "I'm not tired and I'm not sleepy" in the hopes that I would be allowed to stay up a little longer. (I actually used that line through college and beyond, with friends as well as with my parents; it worked m...
The Antelope Valley (AV) Fair has won the Fair Industry’s most coveted award, given by the Western Fairs Association (WFA) underscoring the local Fair’s leadership and commitment to community excellence. The Fair’s inaugural 2019 “Kids Feeding Kids” program took home the prestigious WFA Merrill Award, named in honor of the WFA founder Louis Merrill. The “Kids Feeding Kids” program was recognized for its community outreach, education and youth advocacy, during WFA’s Annual Industry Awards Celebration on Jan. 22 in Reno, Nevada. The Merrill Awa...
The internet. Billions and billions of devices loosely connected by copper wires, fiber optic cables, satellites, microwaves and radio frequency networks. All these devices, whether doorbells, smartphones, thermostats, desktop computers, security cameras, laptops, streaming devices or tablets, send and receive digital information through these networks. We know about wires in our neighborhood, WiFi routers and modems where we live and work and cell phone towers. We may even know that the term...
Town Hall Meeting There will be a Town Hall Meeting at 9 a.m. on Feb. 29 at the Community Center to discuss solid waste issues. The Solid Waste Surveys are available at the CSD Office. The surveys will be tallied and the results will be presented. A number of important issues such as: Handouts that update and address a number of questions and issues received in response to the survey. A discussion regarding the existing set up and proposed set up for solid waste. A better estimate of costs...
TK Pizza expands again, adds outdoor patio There has not been a shortage of investments from the owners of TK Pizza & Pasta, the local Tehachapi favorite since the business was purchased by Tyler and Wesley Shryock in 2013. Located at 640 W. Tehachapi Boulevard adjacent to the former Kmart building, the investments continue, despite the anchor tenant closing up shop a few months ago. Since taking ownership of the business in 2013, the Shryocks have transformed the once-struggling Tehachapi...
Leaders in Life (LIL) is pleased to announce that its 21st annual conference will be held on March 12 from 8:30 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. at the Mechanics Bank Convention Center in Bakersfield. Leaders in Life is a youth conference planned by teens for teens and has impacted thousands of young lives over the past two decades. The purpose of this event is to give local youth a positive environment to discuss and evaluate issues they face daily. These issues will be addressed in workshop sessions throughout the day by adult and youth facilitators with...
Plasterers continue to put finishing touches to the exterior of the Stray Leaves Tasting Room at the intersection of Green St. and F St. in downtown Tehachapi. Owner Cliff Meridth said in December, during the Ugly Sweater Wine Walk, "We plan to open in mid 2020." The building is across the street from the Hitching Post movie theater and once housed a bank....
Demolition have been hard at work removing interior walls and plumbing in the old St. Vincent de Paul Thrift Store at the corner of Green St. and F St. in the downtown area of Tehachapi. The building will be converted into office suites and an eatery with outdoor patio with seating facing Centennial Plaza. The rear wall was opened up for expansion into the old loading dock area of the building creating more remodeling space. See Planning Commission Update on page 14 for more information on this...
Beppe Gambetta Plays to a packed house at Fiddlers Crossing on Friday night on Feb. 7. The full house enjoyed his fantastic musical stylings. Beppe lives in Genoa, Italy and he travels throughout North America every year. He has performed in the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas, MerleFest in North Carolina, the Kerrville Folk Festival in Texas and festivals in Winnipeg and Edmonton. He has appeared on the radio programs All Things Considered and eTown. For more information and future...
Top honors including the Best of Show award for the 15th annual Winter Photo Contest at Gallery 'N' Gifts went to Todd Sherwood. Todd's photo was chosen by a panel of judges from a field of a little over 100 entries in seven different subject categories. Todd took his photo in an area of Nevada known as the Valley of Fire. "I actually saw the image possibility the day before and knew I wanted to shoot the location as the sun rose the next day." Returning the next morning before dawn, he and his...
New Year Resolutions are always made with the best of intentions. People typically want to get healthier, lose weight and start working out. Unfortunately, it's around this time each year that people begin to forget about those resolutions either because they don't see immediate results, or their goals are too rigid and unrealistic. They don't have to be. As a registered dietitian who sees this happen annually, I invite my clients to rethink their resolutions and shift from rigid goals – like l...
One of the benefits of being City Manager is interaction with the public and more importantly with the local organizations that support our City with their work and services to the residents. One of those groups is the Tehachapi Senior Center, an organization that provides a multitude of services to our senior citizen community. Through a partnership with the City of Tehachapi they operate the Senior Center located at 500 E. F St. The first Wednesday at noon every month they have a board...
College students spend more than $1,000 on books and supplies every year, according to a 2018 College Board study, but a program at Cerro Coso Community College is making those costs less daunting. Open Educational Resources (OER) allow students to save money on textbooks by providing free online resources. Cerro Coso was one of 26 California Community Colleges and 19 CSUs to receive a grant to save students money by empowering professors to adopt high quality, free, and open educational resources for course materials. The second round of AB 79...
Tehachapi High School Robotics First Team 585 will be having their annual Chili Cookoff on Saturday, Feb. 29 from noon to 3 p.m. at the THS Cafeteria, 801 Dennison Rd., Tehachapi. Sample the chili and check out the silent auction....
