Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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California State Parks is beginning the spring tour season at Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park in Tehachapi. Although no structures remain on this Kawaiisu Native American village site, the area’s rich history comes alive through the trained volunteer tour guides and the clues that the inhabitants left behind. Tomo Kahni means “winter home” in Kawaiisu, and rock rings mark the locations of many of the kahni, or homes, that were built of juniper boughs. Hundreds of mortar holes in the park tell of a very active past. The tour also includes Medic...
The Stallion Springs CSD will hold a Town Hall Meeting on Saturday May 30 at 9 a.m. at the Community Center. Here’s your chance to get involved. Topics will include: The State of California requirement to reduce water usage by 25%. Join the discussion on how this will affect our use of potable water. Find out what our water availability is in Stallion Springs and what will be available in the future. Find out what you can do to conserve water. The district needs your input and support to meet our conservation goals. Discussions will also be h...
Get ready to read! The Kern County Library (KCL) is taking children and teens on an adventure this summer via the annual countywide Summer Reading Challenge (June 1 – July 31, 2015) by encouraging youth to read what they want over the Summer months – which helps instill a love of recreational reading. Numerous studies show that children who read for fun during the Summer often out-perform other children once back in school. The KCL Summer Reading Challenge helps to curb summer learning loss, by encouraging youth to read a minimum of 10 ite...
May 7, 2015 – Nurses at Tehachapi Hospital are being honored with The DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses. The award is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform everyday. Tehachapi Hospital honored two nurses with the DAISY Award as part of their Nurses’ Week celebration. The first award recipient is Carrie Shultz, RN who works in the Emergency Department. Carrie received the highest number of total compliments through the hospital’s Connect Call-back program. Patient’s comments about Car...
Saida Woolf, a 6th grader attending Valley Oaks Charter school of Tehachapi, competed against over 1,000 other students at the California State Science Fair on May 18-19 with her project entitled “The Quest for the Easy Peeling Egg”. After winning 2nd place for her grade level at Valley Oaks in Bakersfield, Saida went on to win 1st place at the Kern County Science Fair in the Zoology division, presented her project at the Buena Vista Museum of Natural History and Science’s 2015 Spectacular World of Science event, and received a Certi...
Nancy Grecian, age 68, passed away on May 14th, in Tehachapi, CA. Nancy was born to Bill and Marcheta Lockhart on June 20, 1946, in Tulsa, OK. She spent her youth and school years in Craig, CO. She received her teaching certificate with a speech and theatre major from the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley. That’s where she got hooked on theatre while performing the ingénue role in Moliere’s “Tartuffe.” Her teaching career began in Tehachapi in 1969, where she taught English, math, and geography. She joined the Tehachapi Communit...
Former Police Chief of Tehachapi Jeff Kermode, came out of retirement to help Bear Valley Springs fill its recently vacated Police Chief vacancy. Former BVS Chief Rod Walters, retired and moved out of state. While the BVS Board of Directors work to fill the position Mr. Kermode will act as the interim Chief of Police for Bear Valley Springs. Photo By- Nick Smirnoff (NPPA)...
The Tehachapi Police Department is warning the community of several IRS Scam’s that have recently been reported. In these scams, the caller places a phone call to the potential victim and alleges they are calling from the Internal Revenue Service. The victim is told they owe money to the IRS and they could have criminal charges filed against them or even be arrested if they do not pay. Often times the victim is asked to make payment through a pre-loaded debit card or wire transfer. The goal of the scam is to obtain personal identifying i...
Get ready for some yummy pancakes! The Relay Survivor Social Pancake Breakfast is back for another year of honoring our Survivors on June 6 at the Senior Center on “F” Street. This is a great pre-Relay event presented by the American Cancer Society Relay for Life Tehachapi Committee, and sponsored by Chemtool. If you are a cancer Survivor then this is the event for you, and the cost is free! Because part of Relay is Celebrating YOU, and what better way than with breakfast, bingo and other super ways to win some cool prizes. The Pancake Breakfas...
The 3rd Annual Kickin’ Cancer in the Butt Run will be June 13 at Meadowbrook Park in Tehachapi. Sign-ups are starting now and will go through the start of the race! Registration begins at 6 a.m. and the Run/Walk will start at 7 a.m. This year there is a 5k and 10k run or walk. So everyone can come out and enjoy the day by participating in a great event and raising funds for the American Cancer Society Relay for Life Tehachapi event. All funds raised will benefit the teams – so sign-up and sponsor a team. Cost is $35 per runner/walker. Pri...
Have you always wanted to support your local Pregnancy Center but can’t commit to becoming a regular volunteer? Do you want to make a difference touching those in your community by partnering with Family Life Pregnancy Center? Our yearly Baby Bottle Drive is a fantastic way to get involved as a supporter through donation. Start collecting that loose change to make our 2015 Baby Bottle Drive the best one yet! It’s simple, get an empty baby bottle, fill it with bills and change, return your bottle to the Center. Where can you get those empty bot...
“You’re solo out front with 7 miles to go! You have a 30 second gap over the two man chase and one minute gap over the main group,” shouts the race official over the swirling dry clutch noise of his red Ducati street bike as he rides formation with me. He makes eye contact with me for a brief moment sizing me up. I give him a brief smile, then turn my focus back to passing the pavement beneath my road bike as fast as possible. My eyes are facing forward, but my attention is focused inward. I listen intently to every sensation of my body and f...
I love Spring when so many perennials are blooming: roses, peonies, irises, snow ball bush, candytuft and poppies, just to name a few. But this year I have something new, not in the garden growing but growing right now in our repurposed dog crate. I have four baby chicks, Buff Orpingtons, one month old as of today. With their combination of fluff and feathers, they are looking pretty ratty but Henry, Mabel, Maude and Mildred are getting tamer all the time and provide ongoing entertainment. Our...
On May 20, Larry Tuma, Tehachapi Lodge No. 313 F. & A. M., was honored at a dinner hosted by the Bakersfield Scottish Rite as “Mason of the Year”. The Scottish Rite holds the event annually to honor outstanding Masons from all over Kern County. Tuma was one of eight Masons honored that evening. Tuma was selected by Tehachapi Lodge No. 313 F. & A. M. for this honor, for his outstanding service to the lodge and his exemplification of the ideals of Freemasonry....
So you plunk out your hard-earned money, supply a half dozen pictures (your face or head shot, standing by a tree, celebrating a family outing, etc.), fill out the form and answered the questions. Here’s what you get for your coin of the realm: potential dates (or pen pals for those on the shy side), electronic messaging and the ability to “favorite” ones you want to find again (and invite them to view your profile and pictures) as, after all, there are many more of them than there are of you. Some of my responses from “successful” dates: “B...
Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) announces the graduation of the most recent class of CASA trainees. The Honorable Louie L. Vega swore in the graduates as CASA of Kern County during a special ceremony held at the CASA office in Bakersfield on Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Tehachapi residents Sharon Slaughter and Lorriane Ryan-Bell completed 32 hours of training, which included three full Saturdays in California City and one full weekday of court observation in Bakersfield. These Advocates were always on time and never missed a class! CASA...
The American Legion and Auxiliary Unit 221 were on hand to thank the cub scouts for their participation with the Veteran’s attending Air-Streams Wind Turbine School. Each Scout that entertained the students were awarded with a Good Deed Certificate, which encourages, community service,and humanitarian contributions made by the scouts....
Members of the newly formed Bear Valley Springs Veterans Association held a spring barbeque at the Bear Valley Springs tennis court horse shoe pits. New members signed up and Navy Veteran Jed Hannan did the cooking of hot dogs and hamburgers for nearly 40 guests. Horseshoes were pitched for points by old and young alike. Interested members can contact the association at [email protected] or facebook www.facebook.com/The BV CUB. Photo by Nick Smirnoff (NPPA)...
The story behind the beautiful silver grey barn wood: It was donated to us by our neighbors, Jim and Trudy Kirby, who live on a 20 acre parcel from the original Cummings’ Family Homestead in Cummings Valley. The homestead was originally settled in the mid-late 1800s by the Cummings family. The 20 acres we live on was part of the original homestead also. Our road name is Old Ranch Road as in the Old Cummings Ranch. The wood for the barn facade came from a giant chicken coop that was located on the homestead. We don’t know the date the chi...
Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce joined at Big Papa’s Steakhouse & Saloon for their Ribbon Cutting Celebration on Friday, May 15, 2015. Big Papa’s Steakhouse & Saloon is located at 1001 W. Tehachapi Blvd, C200. For more information call 661-822-PAPA (7272). Congratulations!...
Tehachapi local Kass McQuillen gets second chance on 'Survivor' Tehachapi attorney Kassandra McQuillen, known to fans of CBS' "Survivor" show as Kass, has been chosen to participate in "Survivor: Cambodia" as one of the winners of the "Survivor: Second Chance!" competition where fans of the show voted to allow former participants a second chance to participate in the popular television program. Kass is best known for her aggressive and polarizing strategic gameplay, her sarcastic personality, and her tense exchanges with various contestants....
Greater Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce joined at Chaingang Outlaws Apparel for their Ribbon Cutting Celebration on Friday, May 8, 2015. Chaingang Outlaws Apparel is located at 777 W. Tehachapi Blvd. For more information call 661-822-2800. Congratulations to owners Cliff and Francie....
NASA Chief Pilot Rogers Smith, and NASA Director of Engineering Robert Meyer were crew members of the final flight of the SR-71. Both are avid flight enthusiasts and were pouring wine on behalf of the Tehachapi Society of Pilots High School Scholarships Fund on May 17th at Souza Family Vineyard....
Picture L-R: Betty Gubler, Wilma Sweeney, Kelly McBride, Moriel Johnson and Timaree Torres. Photo provided Gateway Connections, a local non-profit, is excited to announce the recipient of the latest scholarship, funded by proceeds from their recent Pi Day Fundraiser. Congratulations to Moriel Johnson for 6 sessions of equine therapy with Kelly’s Therapeutic Riders....
Great to see Drew Howel. I coached him as a Tomahawk, helped him through injuries in high school, watched him start all four years as an Oregon Duck long snapper and win a national championship. Now he’s home teaching the kids of Tehachapi. Keep it up, Drew! ~ Moe Cramer Jr. of Stone Mountain Physical Therapy....
