Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Did you know Taco Samich is open for breakfast? They have a great selection of breakfast burritos with choice of ham, sausage, charizo or bacon (or have more than one meat for an additional charge) from 9 to 11 a.m., and a fresh salsa bar to compliment it. Pictured is Taco Samich's Sausage Breakfast Burrito with fresh red and green salsas from their salsa bar....
Highlights From Around Town. If you have pictures to share with us for The Loop's 'The Local Scene' please email them to [email protected]...
The 2014 Tehachapi Relay for Life has kicked off and teams are needed! Teams make Relay, and it is the Teams who raise funds for research so that we may have more Survivors on the track and in our lives. Relay is a Team Event sponsored by the American Cancer Society. For 24 hours teams of one to 100 walk the track at Jacobsen Middle School in honor of or in memory of all those who have fought cancer; cancer never sleeps and neither do the teams. Today, two out of three cancer patients will...
Tehachapi Valley Arts Association recently learned how little funding for art is available for the local schools. With this information at hand TVAA's mission was to put art back in the classroom. They began by collecting "wish lists", from art teachers and had a phenomenal response. After hours of online shopping and several days of transit time the TVAA storeroom looked like Christmas in the spring. Tables were overflowing with gallons of tempera paints, glue, sets of oil pastels, crayons, mar...
Tehachapi is well-known for its compassionate community. Rain or shine, our community steps up to the on-going needs of some of Tehachapi's residents. Thrift shops abound: some have a designated end for the monies they raise and others "reinvest" their donations right back into their stockpile of help available. Sharing and Caring, in its current location at 203 South Pauly for about three years, is one of the latter. "We have a variety of needs to meet," shared Ada Snapp who, in her words,...
Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District has some fantastic community events coming in April and May. The annual Brite Lake Fishing Derby is April 19, 2014. Fishing begins at 7 a.m. with weigh-in at 1:05 p.m. This year's fish prizes include $250 and $500 tagged fish, big fish, small fry, and five line stringer prizes. The Fishing Derby is brought to you by Bank of the Sierra, RST Cranes, Airstreams Renewables, Amaysing fish attractants, Albertson's, Kmart and Solar City. Bring your family...
The Pacific Crest Trail, the Mexico to Canada footpath flows wild and rugged, while turning and twisting atop the backbone of the mountains of the American West. She calls so clear and loud. She calls: "Join me". Since my last article, I trekked south to the San Gabriels for a fun 16 mile jaunt. For my journey, I started at trail mile 403 to the Mill Creek Ranger Station at mile 418, where my Angel picked me up. I took a hard look at my 40 plus pound backpack: lifted it to my knee, put my left...
Moessner Farms offers jams and jellies made from their fruit orchard. They are famous around here for their German cookies and pastries too. Each summer you can find them participating in our Thursday Market, this year from June 12 to Aug. 14. During their off season, you can also find these items in their store, located just off of Bear Valley Road (heading towards to Bear Valley Springs). Yum! [See their ad below]....
The completed works of many artists from many different disciplines will be featured this Saturday April 12 at the 30th Annual Bear Valley Springs Cultural Arts Association Art Show and Sale. Opening day reception will be held in the Oak Tree Country Club in Bear Valley Springs tomorrow. In past years fine art was displayed, all by local artists, in mediums such as Painting, Fused Glass, Ceramic Sculptures. Metal Sculptures and Photography . Hours for Saturdays Reception are 4 to 6 p.m. Viewers...
Yep, interest rates are higher than they were this time last year, and those who have already refinanced might have caught the market at a good time. It’s about more than just a rate. The structure of your loan merits attention, too. Does your current loan have mortgage insurance? That’s the monthly amount you pay on behalf of the lender in case of your future foreclosure. If you had less than 20% equity at the time of your loan, or if you took an FHA loan, you are probably paying MI. Check you...
Gladys Ennis has come to the Tehachapi area from Camarillo, Calif. where she had lived for fourteen years. Although she enjoyed coastal living, she decided to join her daughter Jackie and family in the mountains. Everyone pitched in to help Gladys unpack her three Pods. Gladys has an extensive business background is real estate. She spent 30 years working with Southern California real estate developers as a sales manager and, at one time, she even managed a tract in Bakersfield. Gladys was born...
One of the best things about being the City Manager of this great city is that I have seen the improvements we’ve made over time. I can be proud that we’ve delivered projects that, I believe, have increased the quality of life for the residents of Tehachapi. What’s more, our team is working every day to develop future improvements that I know we will all be proud of as we continue our community’s forward progress. In the last decade, we have designed, funded, and constructed over $20 million in...
When I was in school, and perhaps today also, the students figure out clever, witty and often a stupid simile to fit our initials or to create a rhyme. I was Pat Davis, so I was named Police Department or Patty Watty. My daughter was Ellen Gracey, so she was "Ellen, Ellen, watermelon." How about "Tony, Tony, macaroni!" How about "Silly Lilly?" It could probably be termed as abuse today, but in my day it was just what we did. Students were also identified by their accomplishments; sometimes loose...
This season, as our culture focuses on bunnies laying chocolate eggs and the festive reflections of springtime, is a powerful reminder of hope. It emerges to bless any soul in need of healing, including our warriors touched by the challenges of combat operations. In the course of our lives; any one of us can face personal trauma. For our veterans, trauma from combat brings the conflicting feelings of grief, anger, embarrassment and pride. The grief and anger often comes from the loss of fellow...
About 14 billion years ago the universe came into existence with the Big Bang. Early in process the universe was too hot for matter to form and the was a fairly uniform “glow”. As the universe expanded it cooled. You can think of compressed gas in a can being released, like spray paint or cooking spray, as the gas expands it cools off. After a while things cooled down so that matter could start forming. That “glow” is still around. It too has cooled off, to just a few degrees, but it comes f...
Enjoy music? Ever give any thought to driving on a musical road? Probably not, yet our neighboring city of Lancaster has boasting rights to just such an attraction. There are musical roads in Japan, South Korea and Holland but Lancaster, to date, claims fame to the only one in the United States. The summer of 2008, a commercial sponsored by Honda Motor. Co., Inc. built the musical road on Avenue K in Lancaster. Grooves were cut in the road on a quarter-mile strip. The cuts were engineered to...
Family Life Pregnancy Center of Tehachapi has exciting news! Through an anonymous donor our Center has been pledged up to $12,000 in a Matching Fund Grant towards obtaining an Ultrasound Machine. This means that every dollar you donate and earmark for ultrasound in the next 90 days (by June 30th) will be doubled up to the $12,000. The cost of this machine and the training needed to use it runs upwards of $50,000. That means every dollar counts! Research has shown up to 92% of women who see...
Ahhhhh, the renewal of spring, don’t we all just love it! I’m back out on my beloved deck listening to the incessant chatter of at least a dozen varieties of birds mixed in with the hum of a leaf blower and the growl of a lawn mower. Spring is here and I love it. I’ve missed my deck; we had quite an affair going last year. I’d sneak out every morning to my special place with my steaming cup of coffee to greet the world in my favorite way. Every morning when I sit on my deck overlooking Stallio...
A fellow animal rescuer and friend of mine asked a poignant and thought-provoking question. His text message read, "At the end of the day with all you do and all you see and the stories you hear, how do you sleep at night?" The short answer is that after all we do and all we see and the stories we hear in a day's work with Marley's Mutts Dog Rescue, we are utterly exhausted. The longer answer explains how I believe it is that we are able to go to bed exhausted, but not defeated. How we are able...
It’s springtime – time for you to take stock of your surroundings and get rid of the dirt and clutter that you’ve accumulated during this past year. In addition to typical spring cleaning tasks, you may want to take this time to focus on your finances. In particular, now may be as good a time as ever to evaluate your debt situation and try to reduce and/or eliminate any debt obligations you may have. The following are some tips to get you started. Determine whether it makes sense to refin...
Larry Barrett of Coldwell Banker Best Reality was the guest speaker at the March 25 meeting of the Stallion Springs Property Owners Association. Barrett noted that Stallion covers approximately 16.5 square miles, has the only Covered Bridge in Kern County, and one – of only two in the world – mega ramp for skate boarding located at Woodward Center. Real estate in the area is selling for an average of $105 per square foot and is trending upward. Seven homes have sold in Stallion since Jan. 1, 2014. Police Department The first group of six vol...
As a child, I always looked forward to the carefree joy of summertime. I remember the long days of playing outside at a nearby park until I needed to come home for lunch. Unfortunately, many of our nation’s children do not experience the simple joys of summer. In fact, far too many are left worrying where their next breakfast or lunch will come from when schools are dismissed for summer break. During the school year, about 31 million American children receive school meals through the National School Lunch Program and School Breakfast Program e...
Plans are underway for the Main Street Farmers Market, to be held at Railroad Park, to begin on June 5 and running for twelve weeks, until Aug. 14. Farmers and local growers will again be the focus, with additional vendors who sell handmade, local, and other related items. Food vendors will provide tasty treats and local musicians will provide the entertainment. Many participants from the previous years will return again this year. Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District (TVRPD) and the...
Greetings my fellow pet lovers. I'm the Pet Nanny and I am so delighted to share a unique story of Buddy, the Bichon-Poo, and his best friend Molly, a tiger and white striped kitty. Buddy's tale begins at a busy intersection in Valencia, Calif. He was darting frantically in and out of traffic. Suddenly, a pet rescue worker happened to be driving by and spotted him. Buddy was horribly matted, covered in dirt and only weighed nine lbs. His weight should have been 18 lbs. Incidentally, that very...
Our mission is to enhance the quality of life for people with special needs through a family resource center that symbolizes professionalism, dignity, compassion, and respect. We share the vision to be instrumental in the development of a community that is more comfortable with, and accepting of, people with special needs. Last week we had a special event, on Tuesday, April 1. For our monthly support group we did a Teacher Appreciation Night. Families nominated teachers who have shown...
