Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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If the summer heat drives you to distraction, the last thing you need is a malfunctioning air conditioning (A/C) system when you’re on the road. Checking your vehicle’s A/C annually will help you keep your cool when temperatures soar, says the Car Care Council. “Getting stuck in traffic is stressful enough, but getting stuck in traffic during the heat of summer without a functioning A/C is the pits,” said Rich White, executive director, Car Care Council. “It is important to always have the A/C system properly maintained to keep it in tip-top s...
Celebrate Mothers with food and family Do you know how Mother's Day started and how we have now veered away from its original intent? If you do, great, if not, keep reading. Mother's Day preceded the Civil War and was started as "Mother's Day Work Clubs" to teach local women how to properly care for their children. After the Civil War, mothers gathered with former Union and Confederate soldiers to promote reconciliation under the name of "Mothers' Friendship Day". In 1873, a push was made for a...
We are very excited for Tehachapi's 2nd Annual Spring Festival coming up on Saturday, May 13 from 11 to 4 p.m. at the Country Oaks Baptist/Heritage Oak School campus located at 20915 Schout Rd. This festival celebrates our beautiful mountain community with a day full of family-friendly fun! This event will showcase some of Tehachapi's favorite businesses, come and shop for mom for Mother's Day! There will be delicious food, games for the kids, raffles, workshops, photo booth, music, face...
In 2003 I wrote an article about a certain road, originally an old mining road in the area, and its history. Not ancient history but recent history. I chose a road that is straight as an arrow, well paved, lots of dips and mighty dangerous. That road, in years past, after the high voltage power lines were installed, was called The Pole Line Road. When I got married in 1950 I left it with its original name. Suddenly it became High Line Road. Don't know who changed it but it seems "the minute my b...
One thing the 28 organizations represented at Tehachapi's April 26 Non-Profit Showcase at Jacobsen Middle School gymnasium have in common – in addition to the free chocolate and pens at the booths – is the donation of thousands of hours of time. Volunteers from the organizations donate their time training service dogs, working with children, feeding the hungry, staffing the Tehachapi, Depot or Errea House museums, running service clubs, scheduling hikes to Tomo Kahni State Historic Park, rai...
Do you like movies? Ever seen Star Wars? How about the television show Cheers? Have you ever seen a commercial featuring the "Marlboro Man"? These three names are just a small part of the works that Nick Smirnoff, now of Tehachapi's Bear Valley Springs, has made during his career that has lasted more than 42 years. If you want to learn more about the man behind the camera, and the director's right hand man, call Jeanette at (661) 972-2344 to make a reservation for the free Insights Program talk...
Much activity on Monroe campus Monroe Principal Steve Bsharah assisted by Jaime Lopez and Brittany McCalman updated the School Board on the year's activities at the Monroe campus including Monroe Continuation High School, Tehachapi Independent Learning Academy (TILA), the Adult School and Cerro Coso Community College. All programs operate out of the Monroe facility. Monroe is focusing on attendance this year, using letters and the School Resource Officer to meet with parents. They have had guest...
Back in 2015 I prepared a chapbook, drifter, which is still available on Amazon (or from me). What is a chapbook some of you might still be asking? Well it is typically a small book, about the size of a folded over piece of 8.5”x11” paper. (The same size as programs at the BeeKay.) And currently chapbooks are typically poetry, though some might be prose. (Some historical pamphlets might be considered chapbooks also.) Last year I didn’t have another chapbook, at least in part due to spending so m...
Terry Schroepfer of Provost and Prichard Consulting Group presented a report to the Stallion Springs CSD Board of Directors on the Water Rate Study at the April 18 meeting. The study covered the revenue requirements from utility rates to recover operating and maintenance expenses, a capital improvement program, satisfying bond covenants and policy objectives. One of the major new costs for water is the requirement for water banking and the associated costs. Following the report, the board...
Steve Lee was the guest speaker at the Tehachapi Lions Club's April 20 meeting. Lee owns a video production service, Eagle Sky View, which is located in Golden Hills. Lee uses drones for aerial videography and photography. Lee has been professionally flying drones for two years. As retired Air Force, his passion for flight led him to the possibilities of what drones could do for everyone. The Lions learned about the wide range of uses offered by drones and would like to thank Steve Lee for his...
Wallace Kleck shared his knowledge of geology with the Kiwanis Club when he spoke to them about oil. He called it "black gold" because of its importance to the world. Using a power point presentation he explained how oil was created in oceans when plants and animals died, mixed with sand, and "cooked" for thousands of years. Man has been using oil for four thousand years, scooping it up where it seeped up from the ground. About 150 years ago, they learned to drill for the oil erecting wooden...
TVWC has been busy competing in the Kern County Wrestling Association tournament schedule. The CSUB Roadrunner Bash was held April 1 at Centennial High School. There were 570 wrestlers competing in ages 5-18 in various weight classes. TVWC wrestlers had 3 wrestlers earn 3rd place medals; Bantam Division 60Ibs Kayden Gonzales, Intermediate 55Ibs Stephen Meek and Levi Hart Novice 80Ibs. Jairdan Medina Novice 75Ibs and Elijah Graves Schoolboy 105Ibs placed 4th. Others competing were Rookie Jordan...
Last month I focused our eyes on the many exciting manned space activities underway this year. However, there's a great deal of action in the unmanned space arena, as well. Space exploration is a primary NASA mission; and nothing has been a better return on investment than our interplanetary space probes. Working from the sun outward, Messenger ended its mission at Mercury last year after giving us high-resolution images of nearly the entire planet. Japan is exploring Venus with its Ataksuki...
This year, 2017, marked the 75th anniversary of the Doolittle Raid and I make a point to remember the 80 brave men who flew the B-25s off of the USS Hornet on April 18, 1942. I have wonderful memories of meeting General Doolittle on several occasions. Once at the 8th Annual Barnstormers Reunion, with Pancho Barnes and Max Stanley, Northrop YB-49 test pilot as speaker, at the old Antelope Valley Fairgrounds in the late-1970s. Doolittle's wife, Josephine, was there too. She was delightful to talk...
For the past few weeks, you may have seen stories about ISPs being able to sell your browsing history to advertisers. Let’s clear up a few things. First off, ISP stands for Internet Service Provider. ISPs are companies like AT&T, Verizon, Comcast, Spectrum, and others, that provide internet service to their customers. To connect your computer to a website, your ISP has to know where your computer is – your Internet Protocol (IP) address. Then the ISP finds the IP address of the website you wan...
This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor. If you’re a certain age, or getting close to it, you might hear something like this: “Now that you’re older, you need to invest more conservatively.” But what exactly does this mean? For starters, it’s useful to understand that your investment preferences and needs will indeed change over time. When you’re first starting out in your career, and even for a long time afterward, you can afford to i...
Lifetime residents Jon Hammond and Kawaiisu basket weaver Janice Williams display non-industrially made cooking utensils and baskets. Woven tight enough to hold water, these plant based pots would be filled with a liquid and by the addition of a hot rock would then be heated....
On April 19, Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce members assisted Sammi Irvin and her family and friends at the Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting for her new business, Trailhead Insurance. Photo by Ida Perkins....
Tehachapi American Legion Auxiliary Unit 221 host Harriet Clendenin and crafter Judith Campanaro, are busy making 3x6 foot sleeping mats for the homeless from recycled plastic bags. The finished mats are then given to local churches for distribution to the homeless....
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In her new role as Office Manager, Adonae Faris presented RE/MAX Tehachapi Agents their well deserved awards from the calender year 2016. It was a fun afternoon of celebration at the Veritas Wine Bar where the awards were given out to the top producing agents. Congratulations to these hard working agents!...
The answer is emphatically not sagebrush! This bush is in fact not salvia (sage) at all but an artemisia. The misnomer is probably because the scent is similar. I have not found an explanation for this naming error. Please let me know if you have. There are hundreds of artemisia species. The A. tridenta is the sagebrush we are so familiar with. Like most, it has a strong aroma and bitter taste due to its terpenoids and lactones. Some artemisia species have historically been used in Chinese medic...
