Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Debbie Lee's fifth grade class at Golden Hills Elementary may be the most excited students in Tehachapi this week. "The Little Einsteins" took home the trophy from the 2015 Intermediate Space Challenge held at Tehachapi Airport on the morning of May 19. They are pictured above with their prize (photo provided). Twenty three teams of Tehachapi 4th and 5th grade classes participated in the challenge. The participating schools were Cummings Valley, Golden Hills, Tompkins, Carden School and Hope Aca...
Wow! It has been five years, five, cinco anos since Dr. Billingsley's veterinary hospital was finished. Over fifteen years ago, Dr. Beverly Billingsley started her practice as an equine only mobile practice; by the way, she still loves driving to ya'lls ranches. In the beginning, there were the occasional barn cats and ranch dogs to care for while working on the horse. Somewhere during the journey, the practice has morphed into a full service "mixed" animal veterinary clinic. Every day brings a...
The Tehachapi Mountain Rodeo Association is pleased to announce that the 2015 Junior Rodeo season will kick off on Sunday, May 31. This will be the first of six junior rodeos for our young competitors. Our young Cowboys and Cowgirls ages 6 and under will be competing for speed aboard our TMRA wooden steeds for the stick horse racing and stick horse barrels and then try their hand at throwing a rope around a stationary pretend bovine in our dummy roping. Back again this year is the fast paced goa...
I first met Laurence Gutierrzez last summer at the Tehachapi Beer and Wine Fest where he had a booth for his business, Blacktop Cyclery. He said that he had plans to move to Tehachapi when he and his wife, Molly, found the right house. They finally found their hilltop retreat by the end of last year and I finally got the chance to visit their new home and meet Molly in March. Laurence was born in Bakersfield and lived there all his life with the exception of 10 months when he lived in Lancaster....
You’d think that all the new automation in mortgage lending would make things easier, right? Faster? More efficient? It’s not the case, and here’s why. Back in the day, not so long ago but before the internet was widely available, we had to handwrite the four-page loan application data and manually type the final loan docs. The local messenger service came by twice a day because this was even before fax machines. Files got pretty thick because we manually verified everything with mailed forms to...
You know how when you're on a long, intense hike up a steep incline, and your focus is solely on reaching the summit – then, when you finally get there, you have a breathtaking vantage point from which you can see all that culminated to inspire this moment of heightened gratitude? Well, that's how I felt on Thursday night during our 6th session of Marley's "Miracle Mutts" Life Skills class at the Mission at Kern County. As I watched the women handle the dogs they've been paired with – much mor...
This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor, Ben Graham. Currently, the U.S. dollar is pumped-up and powerful. But what does a strong dollar mean to you, as an investor? To begin with, it’s important to understand just what is meant by a “strong” dollar. The U.S. dollar does not exist in a vacuum — its value, from a global perspective, is determined by its changing strength relative to that of other currencies. Let’s look at an example:...
My parents moved to Tehachapi in 1923. Then, in 1926 they moved to Mojave as my father secured employment as a switchman for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Consequently, I was born in the Mojave Desert where rain doesn’t visit often. In fact, when it rained while we were at school they let us go home! It was called a Rainy Day Session. I only remember that happening twice but it was a happy time for the children. It’s strange though that sometimes a desert rain can turn into a flash flood and...
It was the end of another beautiful day in Tehachapi. We had just finished a successful dinner and our family was spending quality time together relaxing in the family room. Suddenly I recalled an article that I had read online the night before about cultivating strong characters in children and equipping them with life skills for happiness. I turned to my husband and said, “It’s not healthy for our children to always be focusing on the negative.” “I didn’t know that they were,” he responded f...
Of all the vitamins needed by the body, the easiest one to get in sunny California is vitamin D because the greatest source of vitamin D comes free of charge in the everyday sunlight. Actually, vitamin D already exists in the skin and becomes active (think “more usable”) vitamin D3 when sunlight hits the skin for about ten minutes daily. Fish, eggs, and cod liver oil, as well as fortified milk, are food sources of vitamin D. In the last few years, there has been more information, and speculation, on what vitamin D does for the body. It has bee...
It is said that the road to hell is paved with good intentions. I’m sure we can all think of organizations and groups, and even individuals that have done terrible things with the best of intentions. On the other hand, I’m not sure where the road paved with donuts goes, but it isn’t hell. Every year in the United States we have National Donut Day on the first Friday in June (June 5, this year). Often this is celebrated by eating an (often free) donut, but the origin of donut day goes back to th...
Most of us remember JFK’s assassination and coverage of his funeral. The image of his two year old son saluting as his father’s casket slowly passed is an iconic moment in American history. Millions of Americans watched via television as one of the two most popular presidents in the history of our country was laid to rest. The other one was laid to rest one hundred and fifty years ago this month. In 1865 millions of Americans watched Abraham Lincoln take his final journey home on a train. Con...
On May 12 the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) hosted a "bear aware" public meeting at the BeeKay Theater in Tehachapi. The presentation on how to cohabitate with our native California black bears was very informative. We were treated to nearly a full hour of slides and insights as to black bear behavior by CDFW biologist Vicky Monroe. Ms. Monroe is known for her research into the native California black bear and its relationship with humans. She informed the audience of how...
With April showers and May flowers behind us, summer nights will soon be upon us. This year Tehachapians can look forward to two community star parties where we can get together to learn about the sky, telescopes, binoculars, and especially to share our wonder of the limitless vistas. The annual Brite Lake Star-B-Que will be held on the weekend of July 11-12. The lights will be shut off around the lake, and the parking lot will be full of telescopes and stargazers until dawn. The public is...
Three years into its infancy in 1962, Nat K. Mendelsohn – president of California City Development Company, and main visionary for the desert city of California City – declared that much growth and improvements were indeed taking place there. I found a news release in my mother Marion Deaver’s files, along with part of a brochure for the city listing all of its potential. Mendelsohn said that there were 10,000 residents and property owners in the three-year-old community in February of 1962....
I am delighted to have this opportunity to share my passion for herbs and their eatin’, curin’ and smellin’ benefits. Join me monthly as we explore these amazingly beneficial plants. We will start with some companionable herbs. They will turn your garden into a tasty, healthy and aromatic space by being supportive, protective and complementary to your favorite plants. Organic gardeners have long recognized these plant attributes and many herbs rank high on this list. How do they do this? Well, they are among the first bloomers in spring. With...
During your working years, you’ve probably set aside funds in retirement accounts such as IRAs, 401(k)s, and other workplace savings plans, as well as in taxable accounts. Your challenge during retirement is to convert those savings into an ongoing income stream that will provide adequate income throughout your retirement years. Your retirement lifestyle will depend not only on your assets and investment choices, but also on how quickly you draw down your retirement portfolio. The annual p...
Here we are again, its spring and the Sierra Trout season is in full swing. DFG did their trout plants last fall giving the latest arrivals the full fall and winter to adapt and grow. If you haven’t made the trip yet and you like to fish without crowds, now through early June is the time to make plans and book a campsite or one of the local hotels or motels. I know a lot of you are regular readers and have been following this series for some time but I thought a review might be in order, or f...
The month of May has some significant anniversaries for our World War II Veterans, The Greatest Generation. The 70th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe), was on the 8th of May. The unconditional surrender of Germany took effect ending that portion of World War II on May 7 and was celebrated on May 8. World War II aircraft flew above the National Mall on Friday as part of the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the end to World War II. The day started with a ceremony at the WWII Memorial,...
Local artist Mark Pestana, a member of the American Society of Aviation Artists, and former US Air Force and NASA pilot, has been honored with a 2nd Place award in the ASAA 2015 International Aerospace Art Exhibition at the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force gallery in Savannah, Georgia. Mark was one of thirty-two artists from around the world whose work was selected from over 100 entries. The display opened May 12 and runs through August 28. Mark’s work, titled “Laura’s Preflight”, depicts Second Lieutenant Laura Kurtz, from Lancas...
First Friday Fun Fest will be celebrated at Tehachapi Treasure Trove, on Friday evening, June 5, from 5 to 8 p.m. The featured artist for June will be Flo Sussell. Flo works with paints, inks, and colored pencils to create a variety of vivid images. Join us to greet Flo, enjoy food and wine, and listen to music by Art Larson on clarinet. Flo was born in Stockton, Calif. and was raised in Pittsburg, Calif. She met her husband Jay while working at Space Technology Laboratory living in the Los...
The new Tehachapi Hospital is destined to be more than a building. Architect Stephen Wen of Pasadena has included soothing fountains, a walking labyrinth and a healing garden wrapped in an undulating wall of stone and blocks. The west end of the wall features a cutout that frames the rolling hills of the Loop Ranch for the enjoyment of patients, visitors and staff walking in the garden or dining in the cafeteria (top photo). Photo above, the administration building on the right awaits stone...
Water, water – Brite Lake, also known as the Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District Jacobsen Reservoir, is full to bursting. Shown above, the fishing dock (normally resting partially on land) floats beyond access. In planning for an extended drought, the district ran four wells into the reservoir earlier this year to supplement the imported water supply and began importing water in April as usual. “Then the rains came,” district General Manager John Martin said. While increasing the inflow to the lake, he said, the rain, hail and cold cause...
At the May 12 meeting of the Tehachapi School Board, Superintendant Susan Andreas-Berval had some exciting news to report. The Jacobson Middle School track team, under the direction of coach Amy Lang, did very well in the recent regional meet and will soon be headed to the state competition. Sixth grader Sara Heier set a new school record for the 800 meter race. The old record was set last year by an eighth grader. The Association of California School Administrators (ASCA) for Kern County named...
Kern County, CA - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Cal Fire and Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) announced an “Interagency Declaration for the 2015 Wildland Fire Season” on Friday, May 15. Fire officials, representing all agencies, made the announcement at a press conference held at Kern County Fire Department Headquarters located at 5642 Victor Street, Bakersfield, California. The declaration covers all lands within the following jurisdictions: • Forest lands managed by the Sequoia National Forest locat...
