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  • Ehlers-Danlos syndrome: Can I qualify for benefits?

    Diana Wade|Apr 11, 2015

    Ehlers-Danlos syndrome (EDS) refers to a group of inherited disorders that involve your connective tissue. Mainly, it affects your skin, joints and blood vessel walls. Your connective tissue refers to the structural parts of your body. The cells of your body are essentially held together by your connective tissue. They form a framework, or matrix for your body. The specific listing connective tissue refers to is in 14.06 that states: 14.06 Undifferentiated and mixed connective tissue disease....

  • City Council to consider new water regulations

    Pat Doody, Welcome Hostess|Apr 11, 2015

    In response to the California State Water Resource Control Board’s newly expanded water regulations, the Tehachapi City Council heard the introduction of a new Water Shortage Contingency Plan for Tehachapi at their April 6 meeting. It is up to individual communities to find ways to meet the new goals. The state’s July 28, 2014 plan for a 20% reduction in water usage has fallen short of its goal and produced only enough water for 1.96 million homes, prompting the new mandatory program. Ten years...

  • City applies for Active Transportation Program grants

    Pat Doody, Welcome Hostess|Apr 11, 2015

    On Wednesday evening, April 1, the City of Tehachapi hosted a public meeting held at the Tehachapi Police Department’s community room, located at 220 West C St. The city was asking for public input into several grant funding opportunities provided by California’s Active Transportation Program. The program focuses on promoting non-vehicular transportation such as bicycling and walking in a safe and healthy manner. The city had been successful in obtaining around 2.5 million in grant funding fro...

  • Kiwanis Club hears about Renaissance Fairs

    Phyllis Belcher|Apr 11, 2015

    Renaissance Fairs have become popular events and are held in various places, but the original one began years ago in Topanga Canyon, Calif. Jonathan Hall explained the history and development of the fairs when he recently spoke to Tehachapi Kiwanis members. Hall has been participating in Renaissance Fairs for over 30 years. To prepare for the event he spends four weekends in preparation where participants learn the history of the Renaissance, practice dialect, and learn roles. Then the fair goes on for another four weekends. Hall has often...

  • Remembering Christopher Wenning May 24, 1991 – April 13, 2013

    Apr 11, 2015

    Son, the strength of your spirit continues to warm my heart and the very thought of your smile lights up my life. I am grateful for the gift of your presence for twenty-one years and will love you forever. ~Mom...

  • Kern Audubon Society Tehachapi meeting

    Apr 11, 2015

    Our local bird club is having their next meeting: Tuesday Evening, April 28th at 7 p.m. in Golden Hills Elementary School Cafeteria at 20215 Park Rd Guest Speaker: Karen Pestana Karen Pestana is a local biologist, who for more than ten years has managed our bluebird nest box monitoring program here in Tehachapi. She and a number of die-hard volunteers have maintained and monitored over fifty boxes, collecting data and submitting it to Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Nest Watch program. In 2011 the...

  • Souza adds another Medal to their Collection

    Apr 11, 2015

    The newest winner at the 11th annual San Joaquin Valley Wine Competition is the Souza's 2012 Primitivo Zinfandel. They won a Silver Medal and couldn't be more honored! This competition is exclusively all California Wines with an expert panel of judges from all facets of the wine industry. These include esteemed winemakers, sommeliers and wine educators. One more feather in the cap of the Tehachapi wine growers....

  • Donation presented to S.T.O.P.

    Apr 11, 2015

    Celebrity Bartender, Linda Clough spent March 22 at Souza Family Vineyard raising money for Save Tehachapi's Orphaned Pets (S.T.O.P.) Bob and Patty Souza presented a check from the event....

  • Ribbon cutting at Bottomline Bookkeeping Service

    Nick Smirnoff|Apr 11, 2015

    Chamber Ambassadors Tina Larson and Pat Doody, Chamber board members, Jim Wallace and Cathy Carey joined with Greg Garret and Michelle Vance from the City of Tehachapi to cut the ribbon of a new bookkeeping service called Bottomline Bookkeeping. Owner Kathryn Ortiz was joined by husband Michael and several other community members on April 8. Congratulations Kathryn Ortiz in your new business located on the corner of Tehachapi Blvd and Robinson in historic downtown Tehachapi....

  • GOLDEN QUEEN MINE to produce gold, silver by year end

    Tina Fisher Cunningham, The Forde Files No 93|Apr 11, 2015

    By the end of 2015, an old technology coupled with new environmental safeguards will begin to yield up gold and silver that is locked within ancient veins slicing through Soledad Mountain near Mojave. The mountain -- adjacent to Hwy. 14 and looking like a nondescript rocky lump of desert -- has been mined by individuals and companies for a hundred years, but never on such a scale. The Golden Queen Mining Co., LLC, a British Columbia-based company under the leadership of President, CEO and...

  • Eggcellent egg hunt!

    Gina Marie Keeler|Apr 11, 2015

    My family and I moved here from Ventura to this beautiful mountain town one year ago this Easter. We have not regretted a single moment and we continue falling in love with this place because of days like Saturday. Saturday, April 4 was a beautiful day with perfect weather for an Easter egg hunt put on by Tehachapi Valley Recreation & Park District! The sun was bright and warm while the breeze had a coolness that was just right. Wonderful for cooling off the many children that would soon be scra...

  • Run & Ride With the Wind

    Apr 11, 2015

    This year cyclists will be included! See ad below for details....

  • Graduation day for unwanted dogs

    Apr 11, 2015

    Imagine the unique challenge hospice workers face of enriching quality of life for those whose lives are tangibly nearing their end. Next, imagine an animal rescue whose goals include not just saving dogs' lives, but empowering them to thrive as contributing members of society. Now, imagine a creative partnership between two innovative organizations, joining forces to fulfill and evolve their respective missions. From within this vision, a very special dog will be trained as a therapy dog for...