Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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If you’re in the market for a new vehicle, you may have your eye on an electric vehicle (EV). Maybe you want to reduce your environmental impact or simply save money on gas — or you just like the look of the new Tesla and you’re sold. But then you hear that nagging voice, “Are electric cars worth it?” Before deciding on going fully electric or not, you want to understand the benefits of electric cars. Read on to review electric cars pros and cons to help make your decision easier. Benefits of el...
[Editor's note: This is the conclusion of the article from our July 9, 2022 issue.] In 1990, Dan Kurzman's "Fatal Voyage" took a comprehensive look at the Indianapolis story. After reading a San Francisco Chronicle article about the book, Young reached out to Kurzman. According to a Jan. 30, 1991, article in the Chronicle, Kurzman had several conversations with Young and concluded, "I believe that what Young says is true." Kurzman rewrote a passage in the paperback edition of his book, adding...
Just under two hours north of Tehachapi is the lovely valley of Kennedy Meadows. At 6427' elevation this area is referred to by the Pacific Crest Trail hikers as the area where the desert meets the Sierra. As a trail angel in Tehachapi, I heard about this place from the hikers who stayed with us at Hippie Hiker Haven and I found myself intrigued by it. The hikers had just covered over 500 miles of desert and they were anxious to get out of the desert and into the Sierra. Kennedy Meadows is...
Global economic growth is projected to drop from a 5.8% rate in 2021 to 3.3% in 2022, as the world grapples with repercussions of the Russia-Ukraine war and ever-changing conditions wrought by the pandemic. Growth forecasts of 3.3% for the United States and 2.4% for the euro area in 2022 (down from 5.6% and 5.2%, respectively, in 2021) reflect the prospect of supply constraints along with rising inflation and interest rates. China's growth is projected to slow to 5.1% in 2022 from 8.1% in 2021...
Pepe and I have spent most of the 2021-22 winter months with Cruise Ship cruises along the Mexican Riviera. Our ships sailed out of either Long Beach or San Pedro ... a short 3-hour drive from my home. Depending, of course, on traffic. Driving through the heart of Los Angeles during rush hour traffic can be challenging. The last 4-months have been aboard the Royal Caribbean MS Navigator of the Seas which sails weekly around Baja, California for 3-, 4- and 7-night cruises. Sometimes the ship stop...
I'm not very good at making up puns, but I love to hear or read them. Here are some more fun puns I've come across in the last few months: The Black Eyed Peas can sing us a tune but the chick peas can only hummus one. Dad, are we pyromaniacs? Yes, we arson. The man that invented the Ferris Wheel never met the man who invented the merry-go-round. They traveled in different circles. She was only a moonshiner's daughter, but I miss her still. You really gotta hand it to short people ... mainly...
On June 28, 2022, with family at her side, Ann Elaine Lehman was ushered into her eternal home and was granted her ultimate desire: "I want to know Christ - yes, to know the power of His resurrection and participation in His sufferings, becoming like Him in his death, 11 and so, somehow, attaining to the resurrection from the dead.... 14 I press on toward the goal to win the prize for which God has called me heavenward in Christ Jesus." Philippians 3: 10, 11, 14 NIV Ann loved spending time with...
Garry Gene Parrott, 69, born May 20, 1953, in California, passed away July 11, in Tehachapi, California. He had been a resident of Tehachapi where he was employed as a school teacher for Tehachapi Unified School District for 25 years. Throughout his life, he went to various Boys and Girls Clubs as a youth and worked his way up to become an assistant director at the Boys and Girls Club of La Habra. He became an on site director of a Boys and Girls Club camp of Santa Barbara and then worked for...
On July 14, 2022 we lost Captain Brian Falk, a beloved member of the KCFD fire family. Below is his official obituary, written by his family: Brian Falk was born in Bakersfield on Dec. 28, 1974. He went to be with the Lord on July 14, 2022. He died while on active duty at Kern County Fire Department Station 23. Brian loved sports and participated in athletics from the time he was in elementary school. He attended North High and excelled as a three-sport athlete, participating in football,...
It's hard to summarize the long life of this amazing woman, my Mom. She was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, the youngest of nine kids, raised in Buckeye, Arizona, but moved to Southern California at the ripe old age of 17. She married Carl Jordan at 18, worked for the Federal Port of Embarkation, the Federal Immigration Service, Rohr Aircraft, the County of Riverside and the Calif. Dept. of Corrections. She found time for her daughter, me, my husband Ted, her son Dennis, his wife Sue, and...
Highline, a legacy Tehachapi rock band, will be performing at the Oak Branch Saloon inside Oak Tree Country Club in Bear Valley Springs on Friday, July 22, from 7:30 to 10:30 p.m. There is no cover charge. Highline, a band started more than 20 years ago, was named for the landmark road that runs like a ribbon along the higher south side of Tehachapi Valley. They have performed as a Tom Petty tribute band and specializes in rock 'n roll acts like Petty, Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Concrete...
I love day trips, getting away for a few hours and experiencing something different than the ol' home front. Sometimes I go for a learning experience, like when I visit museums or other places of historical interest; sometimes I go for the entertainment, like to ball games or casinos or concerts. Sometimes I go for exercise, like hiking in a pretty place; sometimes I like to go somewhere different just to be in nature and relax. A few people have suggested a great natural relaxing place to me,...
Season 3, Episode 47 – TVAA Gallery 'N' Gifts' Gale Caldwell joins TehachaPod in studio to talk about the different activities, events and contests the Tehachapi Valley Arts Association has planned for the rest of the year. Gale talks about various programs she and fellow artists who make up Gallery 'N' Gifts give proceeds to, how they buy art supplies for children and how the community can get involved. Season 3, Episode 48 & 51 – Clare Scotti from Discover Tehachapi stops in to talk about the...
Robert Lee Slade completed his goal of living to his 85th birthday. Born June 12, 1937, he passed June 12. It's between the dash that makes the difference. Bob was a son, brother, husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He was an awesome friend, Air Force veteran, Los Angeles County Airport manager retiree, Kern County Sheriff reserve deputy retiree and Desert Search and Rescue member. Bob loved life. He was a founding director of Rosamond Exotic Feline Breeding Compound, Edward's...
Did you know Helen Keller dedicated her book, “The Story of my Life,” to the inventor of the telephone? She wrote: “To Alexander Graham Bell who taught the deaf to speak and enabled the listening ear to hear speech from the Atlantic to the Rockies.” She was remarkable and she herself had remarkable and memorable friends. Born with sight and hearing, she lost both to illness during a high fever at the age of two. Many deemed her journey would end there, but instead, Helen reached out to life wi...
We only hear from the world about two or three times a month because our camp is always off far from the ranch. We start in the Owens Valley and work our way down to Tehachapi, where the Angora goats are sheared. Fred (an old ranch hand) comes to it only to bring eatables and to move the camp to another canyon when the feed is all gone. I went to work the first of September and haven't done anything yet except run around over the mountains and have a good time in general, though it is rather...
After the day you just had, once you finally get home, all you want to do is check your email, play some Wordle and maybe watch a movie on Netflix. Except, you've got no internet. Not on your phone, your tablet or your computer. Now what? Getting the internet to your house is a complex undertaking involving global telecommunications corporations, federal, state and local governments, fiber optic cables, satellites, communications towers, data centers, undersea cables and miles and miles and...
The Bear Valley Springs Youth Baseball Camp is offering a fundraising play on the last weekend of July at the BeeKay Theatre in Tehachapi. Whether you love baseball or not you’ll love this play about Hall of Fame pitcher and America’s first true national hero, “MATTY.” Former UCLA pitcher, Eddie Frierson, will stage a one-actor play that will take you back to the early 1900s with the legendary, Christy “Matty” Mathewson. The New York Times called “MATTY” a “Charming! Amusing! Great!” play. The National Public Radio said, “One of the year’s 10 b...
