Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Due to the continued COVID-19 event venue restrictions, the annual 2021 Antelope Valley (AV) Fair & Alfalfa Festival will be postponed until 2022. The recent state reopening announcements, which include permitting California Theme and Amusement Parks to reopen on April 1, under updated guidelines from the state’s health department, do not include large-scale event venues such as the AV Fairgrounds. Traditionally the AV Fair & Alfalfa Festival takes place in late August and requires logistical planning to begin 12 months in advance of the e...
Sixteen years ago, my husband Al and his son Dor helped set up a UH-1B "Huey" for a Vietnam Veteran Memorial at Tehachapi Airport. The UH-1 helicopter was the "icon" of Vietnam. All veterans of Vietnam know the image and the familiar sound of the Huey. The plaque says it all: "This Vietnam War 'Huey' Helicopter is a symbol dedicated to honor all the brave men and women who courageously fought the tyranny and oppression in Vietnam. May their courage and heroic efforts – for which many lost their...
Assemblyman Vince Fong (R-Kern County) honored Kimberly Sandoval as the 34th Assembly District's 2021 Woman of the Year. Kimberly is a nurse manager for Dignity Health Memorial Hospital in Bakersfield. Kimberly oversees 120 employees in the Telemetry Unit. Dignity's Telemetry Unit was transitioned to COVID patients in March of 2020. "When the COVID-19 pandemic hit California, Kimberly responded by transitioning her floor to serve COVID patients," said Fong. "It is important Kimberly is...
Additional farm workers will be vaccinated this weekend at the farm worker movement’s historic “Forty Acres” property just west of Delano after about 1,100 received their COVID-19 shots last weekend. The second of three consecutive weekend clinics was held on March 20 and 21 through a partnership between the United Farm Workers, UFW Foundation, Kern County Latino COVID-19 Task Force, Kern County, Kern Medical and Cesar Chavez Foundation, which owns and manages the grounds at 30168 Garces Hwy. (corner of Mettler Ave.), Delano 93215. Event partn...
Sandra S. Ayers, 76, passed away on Wednesday March 3 in Mojave. She was born on October 19, 1944 to Wayne Leon and Clarice Rowena (Deierling) Veach in Kirksville, Missouri. Sandy worked in aerospace for many years. She started as a fabricator for Lockheed and retired from Boeing as an electrical planner on space shuttles. Sandy enjoyed reading, cooking, fishing, camping and visiting with family and friends. Sandy was united in marriage to Gary L Ayers on December 20, 1978. They enjoyed many...
CSD General Manager Vanessa Stevens and staff member Judy Quijada presented Ed Gordon with a plaque thanking him for his service to the community. Ed was appointed to the Board of Directors in January 2015 and served on the Board until the expiration of his term ending December 17, 2020. During his term he rendered services and council in administration of the District. The Board presented the plaque in appreciation of his services as a director, expertise and council, Board President and his...
Daniel (Danny or Dan to most) Bennett Freng passed away in the early morning hours of March 18 after a short, but brutal, battle with metastatic lung cancer at Antelope Valley Hospital. He was 77 years old. He was born to Frances (Anderson) Freng-Gors and Percy Bennett Freng in Yankton, South Dakota on December 8, 1943. Spending his young formative years on the family farm, Danny developed a love for animals and farm life that would stick with him forever. After his father passed when he was...
If something is wrong with your car, you definitely want to know about it. Still, the sudden and unexpected illumination of the check engine light can create a unique sense of dread. Our fears aside, the car is trying to tell us that something isn’t right, and we’d do well to pay attention when the light comes on. But what if you find your check engine light flashing? Is that any better, or is it worse? Purpose of the check engine light Your car has a system of sensors monitoring different components and activities that is in constant con...
Now that Spring 2021 is well on its way, there is "Spring in the Air." Other than the excitement of getting both COVID vaccinations, life is continuing pretty much very quiet and ho-hum for Pepe and me. Of course it will be a few weeks before the vaccination is fully effective. Then there's the possibility of my falling into the small percentage that is not protected by vaccination. The high percentage of COVID-19 positives that still show up every day, combined with the variant changes of the o...
My husband, Terry Brady, and I moved to Tehachapi in 2006. In 2008 we met Rene Champagne who had been a teacher at Wayside Elementary in Bakersfield for the previous 20 years. It turns out she was teaching not only at my elementary school but actually in my 5th grade classroom. Rene invited us to visit her and her students at my old classroom whenever we would like. We did just that and became acquainted with her students. I told the students I had been in that classroom when I was their age,...
Every year at this time as we prepare to open the ranch, I look back at how far we have come. Our first opening was a two day experiment and we were stunned by the turnout. We tried it one more time and again, the people came. That is when friends got together and formed "The Animal Education Center at Windswept Ranch, Inc.", a nonprofit educational foundation, and things got real. Volunteers got busy and built a picnic area. A playground was added and pens began to get facelifts. The ranch...
