Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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From June to September, Souza Family Vineyard hosts the Dog Days of Summer. Once a month people and their furry friends come out and show their support to a nonprofit organization which helps dogs (and cats). Souza then donates a portion of the wine sale proceeds to the organization. The Dog Days for 2017 are June 23: Guide Dogs of America, July 21: Save Tehachapi's Orphaned Pets, August 25: Have a Heart Humane Society, and September 8: Canine Companions for Independence. Dinner is available...
On Thursday June 1, the kindergarteners from Golden Hills Elementary delighted their parents, families and friends with a "Dancing with the Stars" event at Jacobsen Middle School's gymnasium. Six different kindergarten classes with their respective teachers dressed up in themed outfits and put on a dance performance for about 150-200 audience members, consisting of family and friends. The kids performed several dance numbers, and everybody had a great time enjoying the performances....
Sailplanes of all sizes and colors gathered at Mountain Valley Airport over Memorial Day weekend for the 2017 Western Vintage Sailplane Regatta. The perfect weather brought out flight enthusiasts to watch and ride the sleek long winged aircraft. Sailplane owners competed on Sunday morning in the spot landing contest. The sailplane is towed into the air, released and the pilot must bring it back to earth as close as possible to a spot on the runway. The winner of this year's contest was Vern Fues...
Souza Family Vineyard just received confirmation that they have won two new medals in the Los Angeles International Wine Competition for 2017. They are so proud and excited to put Tehachapi in the news by competing internationally and walking away with two new awards. Their 2010 Tehachapi Wine & Cattle Co. Primitivo won a Bronze Medal and their 2011 Tehachapi Wine & Cattle Co. Primitivo won a Silver. To date Souza Family Vineyard has been winning awards starting with their First Crush in 2005...
They knew there just had to be a better, safer way to grow their client's money. Ron Mejia and Laura Asbill of Gold Star Financial spent 3 years searching for the answer. Somehow, consistent, respectable growth had to be available in all market types. No reaching for the moon...but no crushing losses, either. Gold Star Financial's 30 year solid reputation was on the line. They found the answer with Horter Investment Management of Cincinnati. Drew Horter had long ago realized that steady,...
Really, he was trying to help. Knowing that he needed a clean paper trail for the money they’d use to buy a house, he opened a new account. Since the bank puts holds on checks for the first month, he cashed his paychecks at the old bank to put cash in the new account. Then he met me and the fun began. These days when you’re buying a house, we get super nosy about where your down payment is coming from. When your bank statement shows deposits that aren’t payroll, we want to know where those...
It’s been said that a government’s budget is its most clear policy document. For the City of Tehachapi, the budget adopted by the City Council on June 5, 2017 should demonstrate that the City’s policy priority continues to be fiduciary responsibility of taxpayer funds. With projected General Fund revenues of $6.58 million and General Fund expenditures expected to total $6.48 million, the City is continuing its tradition of positively balanced budgets, just as it did throughout the reces...
Houchin Community Blood Bank's 11th annual Community Wide Blood Drive is taking place until June 17, 2017 to ensure there are sufficient blood supplies for Kern County as summer kicks off. Nine groups scheduled mobile blood drives as part of the effort. Four are open to the public in Bakersfield, and three are scheduled throughout Kern County. Thanks to sponsors Adventist Health Community Hospital and Kaiser Permanente, donors at the blood bank and on all mobile units will be entered to win a...
In honor of Father’s Day I’d like to honor my father, who passed away in 2000, by telling you a little bit about him and how he lived his life. My dad, Thomas C. White, MD, was born and raised in Southern Iowa. The oldest of seven kids, he was a dirt poor farm boy during the Great Depression, proud of his roots but destined to forge his own path in life. His path would allow him to pursue his many interests and make use of his many talents, taking him on several new adventures and allowing him...
Mike and Lisa Monahan had lived in Chino Hills, part of the Inland Empire of San Bernardino County, for 35 years. They raised their two children there. Both of them worked for Southern California Edison, Lisa in IT and Mike was a purchasing agent. Lisa said that her job was eventually outsourced, so it was time to think about retiring. Their son, Jason now works for Kern County Fire and lives in Bear Valley Springs with his wife and two children. The lure of grandchildren and living in a...
Here’s how to stop them: • For Chrome: Get the Disable HTML5 Autoplay plugin • For Firefox: Use the FlashStopper add-on • For Safari: there isn’t a plugin, but you can do it using Terminal. Quit Safari, go to /Applications/Utilities and open Terminal. Type this command into the window: • defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1 • Press Return and wait a few seconds • For Internet Explorer: While it’s technically possible, it breaks other functionality, so this is just anot...
Today, We Honor The Overall Man Classic Bill Mead Reprinted with permission. Last week for no particular reason I thought about my Lost Island summer, reaching back nearly 50 years and a couple of thousand miles. Old men so that a lot, I’m finding out. Lost Island Lake is in northern Iowa. It isn’t very big, perhaps two square miles, but it looms large in my memory because it is where Dad and I reached a turning point in the way we felt about each other. Under straw hats, we discovered that we w...
On June 13, of this year, 2017, St. Malachy Church will be celebrating one hundred thirty years as a parish. Long years ago on that date in 1887, a Bishop from the Monterey-Los Angeles Diocese trekked to the small mountain community to designate the small church as a parish. The little white frame building had been constructed by members of the community, of all denominations, who were anxious to help by "pounding a few nails" with the Catholics; their neighbors and friends. St. Malachy Parish...
An after school program provided by the Salvation Army was explained to Kiwanis members by Kyle Yates, Community Center Coordinator and Luke Thompson, Youth worker The pair described a place where students from grades 6th through 12th may gather after school between noon and 5:30 p.m. It is located at the corner of Tehachapi Blvd. and Snyder Ave. There are 25-30 students who come each day to do homework, take a class in sewing, learn to play the guitar, or play games. The staff makes each...
Article by, Kathleen Romig Find it online at www.cbpp.org/blog/presidents-budget-would-hurt-people-with-disabilities President Trump’s 2018 budget would make it harder for millions of people with disabilities to afford the basics — food on the table, a roof over their heads, and access to health care. It cuts $72 billion over ten years from disability programs, including Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) and Supplemental Security Income (SSI). And it would gut Medicaid, food assistance...
As a PCT hiker myself, I know how nice it is to come into one of the few towns along the trail to eat something other than dehydrated food and perhaps sleep on a mattress for a change. As Tehachapi residents, my wife and I have helped out many PCT hikers over the years providing rides to and from the two local trailheads and Tehachapi. The two things that strike me most over the past few years is how the PCT has become more and more an international attraction and how much of an economic benefit the trail has become to trial towns like Tehachap...
Volunteers are already preparing for the 20th annual Thunder on the Mountain Car Show. The fundraiser event will be held on Sunday, August 20 during Mountain Festival Weekend in downtown Tehachapi. The Thunder on the Mountain Car Show Committee raises money from car show registration fees, the sale of raffle tickets and tee shirts, and trophy sponsorships. Raffle tickets and tee-shirts went on sale Memorial Day weekend and will be available for purchase throughout the summer until the drawing...
At the May 23 Board of Supervisors meeting, my colleagues and I proclaimed the month of June as “No Kill” Effort Awareness Month in Kern County. This awareness month will be the first of an annual awareness drive throughout the county. Back in December of 2015, Kern County Animal Services made a goal and commitment to the citizens and animals of Kern County to be a “no kill” animal shelter by 2020. Since 2015, the euthanasia rate has gone down from high of 6,600 animals to a projected 4,000 d...
(From CALDA, California Association of Legal Document Assistants) In this the last of our probate series, we will list the forms necessary to file the various types of propbate discussed in parts one and two. The forms used for summary administration are: If the estate contains real property and is worth less than $50,000, you need these forms: • Affidavit Re Real Property of Small Value (DE-305) • Inventory and Appraisal (DE-160) • Inventory and Appraisal Attachment (DE-161) • Transmittal Lette...
Other types of risk Here are a few of the many different types of risk: • Market risk: This refers to the possibility that an investment will lose value because of a general decline in financial markets, due to one or more economic, political, or other factors. • Inflation risk: Sometimes known as purchasing power risk, this refers to the possibility that prices will rise in the economy as a whole, so your ability to purchase goods and services would decline. For instance, your investment mig...
Enjoy great food, fine wine, craft and home brewed beer while you raise some cash for charity at Cheers to Charity 2017! Saturday, August 12 is the date for Tehachapi's fund-raising celebration under the stars. Cheers to Charity benefits local nonprofit organizations and features live music, delicious tapas, scrumptious wines and skillfully made craft and home brewed beers - beneath the canopy of a Tehachapi starry sky. Dancing music, choice cigars, a silent auction, coffee, desserts, a...
Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley is happy to announce its 2017 Daisy Award winners: Debbie Cummings and Kim Mapes. The Daisy Award is an international recognition program for nurses that was established in 1999 by a family of a patient who received skillful and compassionate care during an eight-week hospitalization. The family wanted to say "thank you" to nurses everywhere through The Daisy Award. Today, more than 2,500 healthcare facilities in all 50 states and 15 other countries, committed...
As you might have noticed, Tehachapi is the hub for international and domestic hikers right now. The world is walking into our amazing community from the Pacific Crest Trail, a hiking trail starting in Mexico and ending at the Canadian border. The trail is over 2600 miles long and usually takes hikers over 6 months to complete. The current hikers have been hiking for weeks, sometimes months, when they come into our town. Without a shower, they can be rather grubby, but it is hard to ignore...
We are a few weeks away from Relay for Life 2017 on Saturday, July 8 at Meadowbrook Park, sponsored by "Adventist Health." Thirty teams to date are preparing their booths, to provide fun activities and prizes! Behind these activities are deeper reasons why people Relay! Tehachapi has been hit hard by cancer. Too often, we hear of someone being diagnosed. One in three people will be diagnosed and one in two people will be affected. No longer do you have to have a family history. Scary...
Alex Wood is nearing his goal of becoming an Eagle Scout. As a result, The Tehachapi Depot Railroad Museum is benefitting by having an interactive display set up in the baggage room of the Depot. As an Eagle Scout "capstone" project that benefits the community, Alex has planned, designed, fund raised, built and assembled a simulator that will enable guests of the depot to have a hands-on opportunity to drive a train through the Tehachapi Loop, of course via a simulator! We are thankful that...
