Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The Tehachapi Lions Club held the 81st Annual Student Speaker Contest at the club level on February 15 at the Tehachapi Senior Center. The topic this year is, "Integrity and Civility Play What Role in Today's Society?" Lion Eva Hebebrand was this year's contest chairman. The only contestant this year was Deanna Alvarado. Alvarado is a junior at California City High School. Contest judges this year were Nick Altieri, Harriet Clendenin and Vickie Harp. Alvarado gave an outstanding speech and won...
The children from Wednesday's Art for Kids at the Treasure Trove are so excited. Their artwork is on display through the month of March at Kohnen's Country Bakery, 125 W. Tehachapi Blvd. Ste. D. Participating in the exhibit is James Mangelsdorf, age 7, Phillip Mangelsdorf, age 12, Bentley Hecht, age 7 and Daniel Palmquist, age 7. The boys have been learning acrylic painting and drawing. At Phillip's request they are working on perspective. Phillip said he wanted to learn perspective because he...
I'm sure that many readers remember seeing F-4s parked at Mojave Airport to be transformed into full-scale aerial target drones for the Department of Defense. This transformation process produced a most impressive air-to-air training machine for our fighter pilots in the U.S. Air Force. When finished, the drone was capable of taking-off, navigating to designated locations, flying programmed flight profiles with evasive maneuvers and, in many cases, surviving the dogfight to return to its origina...
On Feb. 26, I took another trip to Tehachapi Municipal Airport to check in on the progress of the airplane building project. Things are progressing rapidly. The beginnings of a fuselage, wing and tail sections are taking recognizable shape, and the students were working with great concentration on moving toward their goal. Project manager Paul Nafziger, motioning to some of the adult mentors on site, said that these are men who have many years in the aviation industry and who know the strict...
This is an article I wrote a few years ago, and recent events have brought the subject to the surface again. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) had known about the problem for years and nothing seems to have been done about it. There are so many prescription drugs advertised to the general public on television these days, there seems to be a need for regulatory control by the Federal Drug Administration. Cigarettes and alcohol cannot be advertised on network television, but prescription...
Now that we have had a little bit of winter weather, we might get some green this year, after all. But there will be plenty of green, anyway, at Fiddlers Crossing on St. Patrick's Day, Saturday, March 17. A concert of Irish songs and tunes will be presented by some of our local musicians at 7 p.m., March 17, with doors opening at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $15. Performing in the concert will be the Bear Mountain Boys, who usually are heard around town playing bluegrass gospel. The quartet has dusted...
The Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District board of directors has appointed former district employee Christine Sherrill to fill the board seat left vacant by Don Napier. Sherrill took the oath of office at the board's Feb. 20, 2018 meeting at district headquarters, 305 Robinson St. During 16 years with the district, Sherrill worked as quality and risk manager, health information manager, acting compliance officer and privacy officer. She will fill the seat until the election in November, at which...
