Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The Tehachapi Farmers Market on Green Street in Downtown Tehachapi will begin on May 10 this year, and will continue every Thursday through Aug. 16. Market hours will be 4 to 7:30 p.m. with a focus on more food vendors, produce, and gourmet food trucks. Come out and stay awhile for a date night or bring the kids, listen to live music, and enjoy the food from the vendors! There is always plenty of fresh produce and baked goods and the Downtown restaurants will be open. Many of last year's...
Members from two Rotary Clubs, Tehachapi and China Lake, went on a weekend trip April 7-8 to support the Ninos de la Promesa Orphanage in Tijuana. Chris Naftel represented the Tehachapi Rotary Club and Vince Avalos represented the China Lake Rotary Club. Vince's brother Tony Avalos, who lives in Tehachapi, also went on this trip to support this effort. The main goal of this trip was to install new artificial turf, which was purchased by the Rotary Clubs for the children to use for sports and...
The Build-a-Plane project for high school students in Tehachapi is looking less like an assortment of sheet metal parts and more like an airplane that will fly. The Tehachapi Society of Pilots (TSP) and Valley Oaks Charter School-sponsored project has been making consistent progress since January. The participating students are increasing in their skill and knowledge, and the fact that the airplane is taking shape is proving it. Students meet for classroom instruction one day a week, and in the...
We know we have a topic when the same subject comes up repeatedly. In the past week three families have asked me, "What is the more strategic house to buy? Which one will be easiest to sell for a profit?" None of these transactions is a first-time home purchase, so these clients know what it's like to see home values rise and fall. What they're trying to get at is a plan to have the best return on the eventual sale of this next home. "Equity" is what we call the difference between any...
Come play with us! Spend the day with old friends or make new ones as you create fantastic works of art, participate in fun and engaging games, learn new sports skills, and travel to exciting destinations. Each week is planned based on a central theme. Summer Adventure Camp will utilize the Park District's fields and facilities to facilitate all indoor and outdoor activities. Monday–Friday will be organized play and activities. Out-of-town field trips will be on Friday every two weeks. B...
California State Park's Antelope Valley Indian Museum State Historic Park and Friends of the Antelope Valley Indian Museum will host a performance of the "Owl and The Bear", based on Ted Garcia's version of a traditional Chumash story, under the sky from 6 to 9 p.m. on Saturday, May 5, 2018. The play is performed outdoors at the "Little Theatre of the Standing Rocks" by local Antelope Valley kids. The "Owl and The Bear" is a cautionary tale about the perils of vanity in which Muhu the Owl's...
Don't miss this rare opportunity to hear Luther Girado, the last fluent-speaking Kawaiisu Indian man, tell stories and engage in discussion in Nüwa, the language of the Tehachapi Indian people. In an event co-sponsored by the Tehachapi Heritage League and the Kawaiisu Language and Cultural Center, Luther will be telling traditional Kawaiisu stories, with English interpretation provided. Luther will be joined by his daughter Julie Girado Turner, Jon Hammond, and others involved in the on-going...
Contractor Scott Crooke and his wife Susie bought Tangleweed Farm in Golden Hills last October. The couple had been living in Orcutt, on the Central Coast, and was looking for more room to raise a family and their two boxers, Sunnie and Summer. Scott had been coming to Tehachapi for years. He has a friend living in Paradise Valley, near enough to Tehachapi Mountain Park to hike there. About two years ago the Crookes bought a piece of property in Alpine Forest thinking they would build there....
On April 18, the Tehachapi Police Foundation announced the names of their 2018 honorees. The four will be honored on Thursday evening, May 17, at the second annual Honoring the Thin Blue Line banquet to be held at Rose Garden Estate in Cummings Valley. The Tehachapi Police Foundation, a 501(c)3 tax exempt non-profit corporation, was formed in 2016 as a means to receive grants and raise funds to be used for the department's nonbudgeted items. "It is a great way to build a bridge between the...
For the American Legion Auxiliary Tehachapi, Unit 221, April is Children and Youth month. What better month to honor fabulous young members of our community then this month. On April 21, the Unit hosted a Good Deed Award ceremony. In attendance were seven of the eight youth being honored along with District 2 County Supervisor Zack Scrivner, Benjamin Stark representing Jean Fuller, and Tanner Dyrness from Vince Fong's office. Representing the American Legion were Eddie Orozco, District 15...
Tehachapi Valley Wrestling Club took part in the KCWA Salute to Veterans on April 14 at North High School. "We feel it is important to honor our Kern County Veterans and we do this with this tournament," said KCWA Director Curtis Nelson. "We selected nine veterans that we presented, thanking them for their service to our country, with a special trophy. TVWC Coach, Gabe Medina was one such honored Veteran." TVWC had 19 wrestlers competing in various age groups and weights, bring home Individual...
Gene Stirm's wonderful mixed media art will be featured at Gallery 'N' Gifts for the month of May. The First Friday artist reception will be from 5 to 8 p.m. May 4, 2018 at the Gallery, 100 W. Tehachapi Blvd. "The Mixed Media Art of Gene Stirm" he explains, "is visual art which is made up of more than one medium. In an art gallery show, it is when art of different mediums is shown together. This show is both." "After a career in art, the mixing of different media became natural and at times...
May First Friday at Tehachapi Treasure Trove will feature Judith Campanaro, artist, teacher, and writer. Judith teaches several classes at the Treasure Trove including Youth Painting and Drawing, Mixed Media, Art Journaling and Adult Painting. She also does face painting on special occasions. Join us to meet with Judith, listen to music by Art Larsen on clarinet, enjoy some food and wine. Judith's statement from the heart regarding her work: "My mission is to facilitate empowerment through...
Assistant to the City Manager, Corey Costelloe, outlined a new mandatory Commercial Organics Recycling program at the April 16 Tehachapi City Council meeting. The program is the result of the 2016 California Assembly Bill 1826 requiring mandatory organic waste collection from businesses and multifamily properties. Organic waste refers to food waste, green waste, landscape and pruning waste, nonhazardous wood waste and food-soiled paper waste that is mixed with food waste. From January 2016 to Ja...
Scott Spielman is a Kern County Assistant District Attorney who has seen numerous cases during his career where families have been devastated when loved ones have died as a result of drunk driving. During the last year there were 4,000 DUI arrests in the county and probably more that eluded arrest. Many teenagers have been involved in accidents where drinking was a factor. Spielman wanted to help prevent senseless deaths so he joined an organization called A Life Interrupted. He became a volunte...
Anyone who was in elementary school in the mid-Twentieth Century will remember the autoharp. In those days, we all sang every day in our classrooms, and autoharp was the most ubiquitous instrument for accompaniment. Being picked to play it on any given day was an honor. We learned a basic strum and the three buttons to push for chords in a particular key. Bryan Bowers, one of the foremost masters of the autoharp, has taken it far from the schoolroom. On Saturday, May 5, at 7 p.m., Bowers will...
New Board member welcomed Amanda Stewart has been appointed to fill the Board of Directors opening left by the resignation of Clydell Lamkin, who has moved from the area. Stewart was selected from a field of three candidates at the March 20 Board meeting. She is the General Manager of Woodward West. Stewart said she looks forward to, "Being a voice at the table in supporting future experiences for the entire community, primarily the youth and their families. We have many other opportunities in f...
The Tehachapi Symphony will perform on Sunday, May 6, 2018 beginning at 4 p.m., at Country Oaks Baptist Church, located at 20915 Schout Road, Tehachapi. The Tehachapi Symphonic Chorus and director Kathy Kelly, as well as the Antelope Valley Master Chorale, will join the symphony for Haydn's Te Deum. Kathy Kelly, Conductor of the Tehachapi Symphonic Chorus, has always had a passion for music, beginning both piano lessons and choral singing at age five. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Music...
The World Premiere of "Warfighter" will be on May 9 at 7 p.m. at the Hitching Post Theaters, 201 S. Green St., Tehachapi. Tehachapi was chosen as the world premier location of "Warfighter" because of starlet Hannah Strategos. Hannah is a young teen that lives in Tehachapi and plays an unforgettably heart touching role in the movie. Hannah is a courageous survivor of brain cancer and is a beacon of love for our community! Come out and share your support for Hannah, our military, and the...
Discussions about your gut microbiome, essentially your gut ecosystem, are all the rage today. The trillions of organisms in your gut ecosystem make up that biotic community. Probiotics are the live bacteria found in and on food or supplements. Prebiotics are the food for these bacteria, mostly in the form of fiber. And from fiber, our gut flora produce short-chain fatty acids, which are an important energy source for the cells lining our colon. So, we feed our flora with fiber, and they in...
Pacific Crest Trail hikers, having conquered 566 miles from the Mexican border to Hwy. 58 (or 558 miles to Tehachapi-Willow Springs Road), and eager to begin the next leg into the southern Sierras, can camp at Aviator Park at the Tehachapi Municipal Airport for $5 and take a shower at a portable facility. Aside from landscape watering on Monday, Wednesday and Friday (8 -10 a.m. and 8 -10 p.m. – no wonder it's so green) and the unfamiliar train whistles, it's likely a pleasant stay. The p...
May is the month of several National month topics that overlap: National Month of Family, National Month of Children and National Wellness Month, not to mention that special day for mothers, Mother's Day. For this article, Mother's Day is being presented as the umbrella day with the other three topics as concepts that intertwine with the established social understanding of what Mother's Day embodies. Family When family gathers together with Mom at meals, it matters not if the reason is...
My earliest childhood memories are of my lying in bed listening to the Mojave wind hitting the house. That Mojave wind is stronger than our Tehachapi wind. Now, the Tehachapi wind is no slacker (breezy, breezier and darned windy), but the Mojave wind likes to blow motorhomes and trailers over. It means business. During World War II my father operated a gas station/truck stop in Mojave on the corner of Highway 14 and Barstow Highway 58. Customers stopping by to buy gas would ask, "Does the wind b...
Dalton and David SteeleReed of Tehachapi and Rachel Newkirk of West Golden Hills have taken the concept of Tehachapi hiker hospitality to a new dimension with the opening of their Hiker Depot in a house at 115 S. Mojave St. At the house, named "Wits' End," Pacific Crest Trail (PCT) hikers can relax, make connections, use the wi-fi, recharge their devices, collect and send packages of supplies or grab a snack. "This is a new thing for Tehachapi," Dalton SteeleReed said. "We are open 8 a.m. to 4...
SB 54 prohibits police, sheriff deputies from cooperating on most ICE actions Law enforcement jurisdictions in the Greater Tehachapi area are upholding the California state law that prohibits them from assisting federal authorities in most illegal immigration enforcement activities. "It's not a big problem. It's no problem at all," Tehachapi Chief of Police Kent Kroeger said to Forde Files. "There is extensive policy regarding immigration violation. If there is a request for information from...
