Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Well it’s happened; I’ve made it to the middle, the top of the hill, the big five-o. Today is my fiftieth birthday. It seems strange to say it out loud…or in my head for that matter. I was thinking yesterday, my last day of being forty-nine about the things I’ve learned in the last fifty years. Here are a few of them: Sometimes being friends is more important than being right. Possession really is 99% of the law. Life is better with a best friend. Money won’t make you happy and the overwhelm...
We all, on occasion, make a visit to a cemetery and in this time period we find most of them well maintained and lovely. In years past Tehachapi had no perpetual care and both the eastside and westside cemetery locations were in a sad state with weeds overgrown and a real danger of snakes, because of this situation many of the older Tehachapi pioneers are buried in Bakersfield; the families having been unwilling to place their loved ones in such a state of disrepair. There are several small...
As you’re reading this some of your fellow Tehachapi area residents are getting ready to put on a show. Actually eight shows. That’s right, it’s time once again for Tehachapi Community Theatre’s Playwrights Festival. Starting March 7 and going through March 16 at the BeeKay Theatre TCT will be doing world premieres of eight 10-minute plays. These plays were selected from 45 that were submitted at the end of last year. Four of the plays selected were written by Tehachapi Playwrights (Yes, o...
Police Chief Mike Grant presented his 2013 Year in Review report and Strategic Plan for 2014/2015 to support and sustain the department to the Stallion Springs CSD Board of Directors at its Feb. 18 meeting with over 60 residents in attendance. Grant also responded to a number of questions raised by residents concerning the police leaving the jurisdiction to assist other police departments and how they reciprocate by covering for, and assisting our department. He also reviewed the extensive work...
Earlier this week my son, Chris, called and invited me to have lunch with him. Seems that these days, or Tuesdays to be precise, lunch at the Apple Shed involves all you can consume BBQ and Buffalo wings along with their soup and salad bar. This did not take much persuasion on his part. Plus, I am finally old enough to get senior discounts. (I will never forget the utter feeling of despair when I received that first fateful piece of mail from AARP many years ago.) While sitting at the table...
I found an article that my mother Marion Deaver wrote in August of 1974 about the price of gold going up and regulations relaxing, and I thought about the Golden Queen Mine, just south of Mojave. In the article my mother interviewed Glenn Settle, owner of Tropico Gold Mine, west of Rosamond. President Gerald Ford had just approved legislation that would allow U.S. citizens to buy and sell gold. In 1974 the hills that rise above the valley in East Kern were mostly quiet, but some like Settle,...
There is a time that comes once every two years, when the world comes together despite all odds to celebrate athletic greatness. Yes, I am talking about the Olympic Games. I admit, I have loved these games since childhood. From learning about other countries, to experiencing new athletic events, to witnessing athletes in their highest achievements; there is really nothing but positive happiness that comes from witnessing the Olympics every two years. As I’ve gotten older though, I have come t...
The Antelope Valley Board of Trade Annual Business Outlook Conference ventured for the first in 42 years into Kern County, and the county emerged as a star. "The most rapidly growing economy is Kern County," economist Christopher Thornberg told the 1,000 attendees. "Folks, you live in a boom town. This is great!" Kern County, he said, has construction, retail, good local government and abundant energy resources. In Los Angeles County, he said, "The hotels are on fire." Kern County 2nd District...
Greater Tehachapi Crime Watch March Meeting Wednesday, March 5th at 6PM. Tehachapi Senior Center 500 East F Street Tehachapi, California 93561 Join neighbors, law enforcement, and Crime Watch board members for your monthly workshop on crime prevention and public safety. Members from all local communities from Sand Canyon to the City to Bear Valley are encouraged to come and participate. The purpose of our organization is to reduce crime and increase the quality of life in the city and...
