Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The City of Tehachapi was awarded a $2,090,558 grant from the Caltrans Clean California program for a new one-acre park facility on Valley Blvd. The City of Tehachapi proposed a new park on a vacant piece of land owned by the city located on Valley Blvd. and Linden Ct. The park will include a 5-A-Side soccer field, landscaping, shade trees, benches, bicycle racks, picnic tables and parking. “This is exciting for our community; we can take a dirt field and make it into something children and f...
Since the close of their first very successful art show in Tehachapi in 2021, the Tehachapi Arts Commission has been working steadily on Art 2022 Tehachapi. The public art show will again take place at the Aspen Builders Activity Center located at 410 W. D Street on July 23-24 with a VIP Reception taking place on the evening of July 22. Forty-three artists have applied to be part of this year's event which will kick off on May 13-15, when the artists arrive in Tehachapi to spend the weekend...
Great! Keep reading... Let's face it, "good posture" is something we all strive for, but it's hard when routine activities throughout everyday life can put a strain on our posture. Things such as stress caused by working from home, fatigued muscles form the latest DIY project, the hours spent sitting slouched over gaming with the squad, and even our shoes, impact our body's ability to achieve and maintain good posture. In fact, they actively work against this goal. To maintain good posture, you...
After the wild ride of 2020, the U.S. stock market was relatively calm in 2021, but there was still plenty of volatility. There were 55 days when the S&P 500 index - generally considered representative of U.S. stocks - closed with a rise or fall of 1% or more from the previous day's closing price. And there were seven days with a change of more than 2%.1 The good news for investors is that the trend was generally upward, and the S&P 500 ended the year up almost 27%.2 But no matter which way the...
Per Capita grants have been approved for both Horsethief and Man O'War Parks. The CSD staff is looking forward to starting these projects to better our parks for the community. Projects planned for use of the grant include aerating the lake, new tables, benches and playgrounds at both parks. Parks and Recreation Coordinator, Shawnee Brown, has also been working to give the preschool room at the community center a makeover so it can be used for other children's activities. The CSD has hired a...
In their bipartisan effort to curb dangerous street racing and sideshows, Assemblymembers Vince Fong (R-Kern County) and Jim Cooper (D-Elk Grove) requested $5.5 million for the California Highway Patrol to enforce illegal sideshow activities. "Too many lives have been harmed by illegal sideshows," said Assemblyman Fong, who authored Assembly Bill 3 last year to allow judges to suspense the driver's license of people convicted of engaging in sideshows. "These reckless activities draw crowds that...
Billions of people have email addresses ending in Gmail, Outlook, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL or one of the many others. These email addresses are easy to get and easy to remember. Moreover, those email providers do a reasonably respectable job securing your email, offering industry-standard security like two-factor authentication and encrypting the connection between your computer and their server. So, why would you want to switch to something else? Privacy. You know those big multinational...
Preparing a will has long been a fundamental building block of any estate plan. With a properly drafted will, you can arrange for your estate to be distributed and administered according to your wishes. In your will you can: • appoint an executor to manage your estate through the probate process • appoint a guardian for your minor children or disabled beneficiaries • make specific bequests of property or assets to specific beneficiaries • designate assets to be placed in trust for family members...
Please join the Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce at our March Chamber Networking Luncheon on Tuesday, March 15, noon at Big Pappa’s Steakhouse & Saloon, 1001 W. Tehachapi Blvd. Ste. C200. The guest speaker will be Greg Garrett, Tehachapi city manager. Garrett will give us an update on current projects and programs that enrich the quality of life for Tehachapi and the surrounding areas. Garrett has been city manager for the City of Tehachapi since 2009. Since that time, he has overseen the completion of the City’s General Plan, dir...
After a couple of days of strong winds, rain and blowing snow, Thursday, Feb. 24 was clear, calm and cold. The perfect flight test weather greeted everyone on the ground and at altitude for the important full retraction of all landing gear on Stratolaunch carrier aircraft, the largest aircraft by wingspan in the world – 385-feet. Nicknamed "Roc" as a tribute to the giant bird of Arabian and Persian mythology. Aviation photographers and devoted fans watched from the end of runway 30 at Mojave A...
In early November 2021 Catherine and Tom Carr moved from Big Pine, California to Tehachapi. It was Catherine's work that brought them here. Catherine is the East Kern Regional Planner for District 9 of CalTrans (California Department of Transportation) and Tehachapi is in District 9. The Carrs had lived in Big Pine for two and a half years. Tom's word for their stay there was "brutal." He said it was 100 miles to the closest Walmart which also made it a six-hour round trip. However, that is not...
Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District is in desperate need of lifeguards for the upcoming pool season. The Pool season is slated to open the first week of April, however, at this time TVRPD only has one returning guard able to work. TVRPD needs a minimum of 10 guards in order to open the pool with a limited schedule. There is a lifeguard training course set for March 17-19 for anyone wishing to become a certified lifeguard and work for TVRPD. You must be at least 15 years old at the...
The Outreach Singers under the direction of Jeffrey Haswell will be performing on Thursday, March 17, at St. Jude's in the Mountains Anglican Church beginning at 6:30 p.m. The concert is FREE to the public as a community service. St. Jude's in the Mountains Anglican Church is located at 1200 S. Curry St., Tehachapi. The concert theme is "Irish Eyes Are Smiling" and the music is a celebration in song for the Tehachapi community. Featured songs will be familiar Irish favorites and the audience...
I was fortunate to be able to grow up, during most of my childhood, in the same town with long-time friends. These are people about whom we can say, "we go back a long way." My children, as children of a military man, had to make adjustments when we would change duty stations. They would exchange letters with their left-behind friends and then the friendships would fade. One thing about military children is, they learn to make friends easily. In 1936, a new Tehachapi grammar school was...
Leaders in Life (LIL) is pleased to announce that its 22nd annual conference will be held on March 10 at the Mechanics Bank Convention Center. Two separate sessions will be held, one from 8:30 to 11 a.m. and another from noon to 2:30 p.m. The conference is planned for teens by 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...
• There are 687 newly reported confirmed cases in Kern County bringing our total confirmed cases to date to 237,530. • There are 5 new deaths being reported March 1 and a total of 2,122 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic. • The 7-day case rate is 21.1 per 100,000. • As of February 28, 1,234,094 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to Kern County residents. 55.3% of Kern’s eligible population and 51.3% of Kern’s total population have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. • As of February 28, Kern County had 99...
Born Jan. 6, 1935, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey to Woodrow and Mary Ryan Angevine. William grew up in the South Orange and surrounding area and went to Catholic schools until his family moved to Lake Shawnee in this third year of high school. He graduated from Roxbury High School in 1954. Bill joined the U.S. Army and for two years was stationed in Germany. Upon completion of his military service, he apprenticed to become a Tool, Die and Gage maker at Picatinny Arsenal in Dover, New Jersey. In 1962...
St. Patrick's Day is coming up, and I can't help but celebrate it here in my column. I have a bit o' the Irish blood coursing through my veins, but that is really neither here nor there as everyone is a little Irish on St. Patrick's Day. And why not? If this is a holiday that brings us closer to a feeling of togetherness and camaraderie through green colored celebrations, adopted heritage, and happy words, then I say Faith and Begorrah, let the celebrating begin! And we certainly do need that...
It's that time of year. Every year during February and March the railroad performs maintenance of the tracks in the Tehachapi pass. Railroad maintenance-of-way has long been an important part of railroading. Parked on the tracks, across from the truck stops, was a row of gondolas, open-topped rail cars with low sidewalls, making them ideal for higher-density bulk cargo. Unlike open-topped hoppers, gondolas have no side or bottom release doors and thus cargo must be manually unloaded from the top...
It’s Women’s History Month, and American Association of University Women will celebrate with a special presentation tribute to 16 interesting women who left their mark on the world. It will be in the format of poems and pictures from a book called, “The Lady Was a Champ.” It was written by an Arizona native, Joyce Niprikas, who was born in Phoenix. “These ladies have complicated my life, but I have learned so much from them,” She said. You will too! AAUW Tehachapi Mountain Branch invites the public to join them in recognizing historical...
Recently we visited the Fossil Discovery Center in Fairmead, up in Madera County. This is a small facility outside Chowchilla which showcases the prehistoric life that once flourished here in what is now California. There were fossil exhibits (reconstructions) of smilodon (saber-toothed cats), dire wolves, ground sloths and a huge mammoth. There are other exhibits for smaller animals too, plus some exhibits on the Native American culture of the area. In addition, there is an area for children...
Unfortunately, we will not be able to hold the Calgonquin 25K/50K on the Lehigh Trails in Tehachapi in 2022. The land changed ownership last year and our many efforts to secure permission from the landowners for the event have been unsuccessful. This deeply saddens us as we’ve put in countless hours of preparation for a successful event in Tehachapi. Once it appeared unlikely that the original trails would be an option, we started looking for an alternate location that was close to Tehachapi with similar trails and, of course, lots of vert a...
Did you ever grow anything in the Garden of Your Mind? You can grow ideas, in the Garden of Your Mind. All you have to do is think, and they’ll grow. – Fred Rogers For a wonderful remix song featuring a compilation of the wisdom of Fred Rogers, go to YouTube and search for Mr. Rogers Remix....
One Fourth of July we were sitting there watching the parade go by our old house on Tehachapi Boulevard, and there was actually snow in the air. Bobbi McCullough was the parade queen, and they were throwing bags of potato chips off the float because of all the potatoes that were grown in the area at that time. It was so cold! – Lydia Muro Wheat The Muro family lived in the house near the corner of Tehachapi Boulevard and Robinson Street, across the boulevard from Taco Samich. It is believed t...
A day spent riding the range is a day you hate to see end. Time stops when you get on a horse, and starts again when you get off. – Rex Ellsworth Rex Ellsworth was a famous Thoroughbred breeder who once owned a large ranch in Cummings Valley. He owned Swaps, the 1955 Kentucky Derby winner....
