Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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When the Supervisory staff at CDCR California City came calling, Marley's Mutts was ready. Lisa Porter, our lead trainer and energy specialist, took the point position and worked tirelessly on assembling a training team, and the other components necessary for a successful program. Lisa, who also works at Cesar Millan's Dog Psychology Center, recruited Lia Marques, the interim Director at the DPC, as well as Kim Eriksson to join our team. With Lisa at the helm, we set out to create a curriculum,...
I have been walking through the front doors of Pacino's for the last seven years. I'm proud to have been part of the restaurant and thankful to have been able to do a job I so loved. I have met so many wonderful people from all over the world, from other states, from surrounding cities, and from right here in Tehachapi. Thank you for choosing Pacino's! To all my regulars, thanks for the friendships and laughs we had throughout the years. You made my job fun: Buzz - S.P.S.S, Tom and Nancy G-6,...
If you have been party to any home financing recently, you’ve probably said the same thing: “This should not be anything of concern, as I have very strong credit.” Welcome to my world. Once upon a time, the mortgage process was easy. All you needed was a good credit score and a working pen – we were closing loans within a week. That all ended almost ten years ago. I used to keep track at ML-Implode. com, the site that kept a list of which lenders folded each day. They still list 388 mortgag...
Do a Google search for The Better Halves and the first thing one will come across is the phrase, "Music handcrafted to make you smile". Considering all the stresses and strains in our daily lives these days, a smile, no matter how small or fleeting, is a thing of great value. Suddenly, our concerns are put into proper perspective and we find ourselves truly appreciating our lives the way they are given to us. Anything that elicits that kind of response should be considered great therapy,...
The presidential conventions are over and the vicious campaigning season continues. Lord, help us. We can expect to hear about many issues, but especially about jobs and the economy. I like hearing ideas about good paying jobs. In Central California, faith groups have been conducting listening campaigns with thousands of people and identifying the need for more good paying jobs as the top priority for easing poverty, providing dignity, and building brighter futures for individuals, families,...
Tehachapi Valley United Methodist Church has a new pastor. Reverend Robin Wells began her new assignment on July 1 and the itinerant pastor said that this is her ninth move in ten years. Her prior assignment was Outreach Chaplain at Church of the Wayfarer in Pacific Grove, California, near Monterey. While on the coast she was also Staff Chaplain at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. She said that was where she first heard of Tehachapi, when one of her coworkers was from here. Robin...
The Loop Newspaper: Jay, what motivates you in your role as a business advisor? It all starts with my fundamental belief that the average, hardworking American business owner doesn’t get a fair shake. Everything is stacked against them. And the average small or even mid-sized business generally does not have access to the kind of professional guidance a Fortune 500 company does. I think most businesses are left with few options related to available services. I have made this the focus of my b...
Now that you’ve got your free upgrade to Windows 10, here are some settings you should probably change and why. If you don’t have a touchscreen and never want Windows 10 to run in Tablet Mode, click on Start - Settings - System and then click on Tablet mode about half way down the list. Turn off the touch-friendly setting at the top. Under When I sign in change the drop down box to Go to the desktop and change the drop down box to Don’t ask me and don’t switch under the automatically switch...
The Tehachapi Humane Society (THS) celebrated “Dog Days of Summer” with a Silent Auction at the Souza Family Winery Friday July 15. The Silent Auction was a success bringing in over $1,700 for the Spay and Neuter programs that the Tehachapi Humane Society funds. This was made possible due to the generosity of the Tehachapi’s wonderful big hearted citizens. We had donations of original art work, handmade jewelry, brand new kitchen appliances like pressure cookers, and so much more. It was really fun watching the bidding become heated on some...
John Barnes has been named the new Pastor at Stallion Springs Community Church. Barnes will begin his full time duties on August 14. He is from Texas, but has been a missionary in Haiti for the past few years. He is married to Christi and they have a teenage daughter Tehah, and two adopted Haitian children, Ava and Jordan. Pastor Barnes and his family are excited about moving to the area and looking forward to working with the Community. The search process began in February of 2016 and the...
We’ve been hearing a lot about the BeeKay Theatre lately so I decided to add a few of my own facts. Mine are just tales that if not told would someday be forgotten. Can’t let that happen. The BeeKay Theater was built and opened in 1936; reinforced concrete and strong enough to resist an earthquake! People from Mojave, Keene and Caliente often drove to Tehachapi to view the movies. That year, 1936, was also the year that Green Street was paved for the first time. The rather unique name, “BeeKay...
We’re getting to the really hot part of the year, and lawns everywhere are getting that golden glow. Don’t panic! Fescue grass has a strategy to survive a hot dry summer – it goes dormant. Gold is good, it means the grass has hunkered down and is keeping just a core part of itself alive until the weather cools and the rains come again. We live in a Mediterranean climate, which is characterized by moderate wet winters and hot dry summers (well, moderate compared to Minnesota). Fescue grass is native to the Mediterranean part of Europe, which als...
In 2006, I photographed this odd looking helicopter sitting on the ramp at Tehachapi Airport. It was a Kaman K-Max. This odd looking "heavy-lift" helicopter in the photograph was developed by Charles Kaman. The Kaman K-MAX is the first helicopter designed specifically for the external load/lifting market. Look closely at the picture and you will see there is no tail rotor. The K-MAX "aerial truck," a light-weight craft designed to carry heavy cargo rather than persons was originally designed...
This week I decided to write about Rosamond and I found a Progress Edition from the 1959 Rosamond Review when digging through my mother Marion Deaver’s files. This big edition, published January 8, 1959, may take two columns to cover all of it. The edition, according to co-owner Lou Africa, was the first published and printed in Rosamond. The printing plant was put into operation January 2, 1959. The newspaper was in a four column tabloid format, which was new from the old eight column paper. A...
A fish’s survival depends on its keen senses, including hearing, sight, movement, touch, taste, and smell. Anglers pay a great deal of attention to this sensory world too, such as the visual qualities of lures, size, shape, and color. They also pay attention to sound and movement. However, most anglers do not pay much attention to smell, even though fish respond to scents and utilize these scents as a way to find food and avoid danger. In short, anglers might catch more fish if they were more aw...
Founded in 1997 with five women (under the guidance of the Abbot of St. Michael's Abbey in Silverado, California), the Norbertine Sisters came to Tehachapi in May of 2000 to form a cloistered community on 475 acres off Water Canyon. As the property had been vacant for about twenty years, these women had a lot of work ahead of them to establish and grow their monastery. Since then, they have grown to forty women (as of July 2016), with even more joining in the coming months. With God's grace and...
Trinity Madden (11) has just come home from Virginia Beach, where she competed in the International Junior Miss competition for the title of International Junior Miss International Preteen. Rather than be upset about not winning, Madden is grateful for her time at IJM. "There's a lot of girls who didn't even make it that far. I felt really lucky to have the chance to go there." She doesn't just lose with grace, she loses with outright enthusiasm. "All the preteens are crying because they didn't...
What is risk? In the investment world, risk generally is associated with uncertainty. It refers to the possibility that you will lose some or all of your investment or that an investment will yield less than its anticipated return. Simply stated, risk is the degree of probability that an investment will make or lose money. Every investment carries some degree of risk because its returns are unpredictable. The more volatile an investment is--the more unpredictable its returns--the riskier it is g...
August 1, 2016 was to be the day the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District turned over all of its assets and operations to Adventist Health in a 30-year lease agreement, but the state-run program that administers the Medi-Cal and Medicare programs has delayed in transferring the district's license. Healthcare district CEO Eugene Suksi told the Aug. 3 meeting of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council that the contractor Noridian still has the application, creating "a lull before the...
Changes are on the horizon for the Tehachapi Hospital Guild as Adventist Health takes over management of the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District's old and new hospitals and three clinics. Since its charter in 1975, the nonprofit Guild – by selling used clothing and items at the Guild Thrift Shop – has provided the hospital with hundreds of thousands of dollars to purchase vital medical equipment. Following its founding, the Guild helped keep the hospital afloat. "Had it not been for that gro...
A recent challenge by a newsmaker to "read the Constitution" is a worthy provocation. Orders from Amazon for copies of the document reportedly have risen in the wake of the statement. The more the Constitution is studied, the better. It is remarkably short, clear and direct. The following is a portion of writer Jameson Parker's answer on his blog to a person who disagrees with Parker's position against altering the nation's foundational law. Parker's elegant response resonates with Forde Files....
Zanya Biviano, community outreach volunteer for Optimal Hospice Care, told the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi at its Aug. 3 meeting at Perfetto restaurant that often people who are preparing to die will share confidences with a neutral observer that they never have told anyone. Hospice volunteers, in comforting the terminally ill, may find that the patient needs to talk about long-buried childhood memories or issues. "It may be things that have never been addressed by the patient," she said. "We just...
What is the name of the new hospital? There's a corporate name and a hospital name. The corporation name is Adventist Health Medical Center Tehachapi Valley. That's who the employees will be working for. The official name of the new hospital (the corporation's dba) is Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley. "We knew it was important to the people of Tehachapi to have 'Tehachapi' be part of the hospital's name," Adventist spokesperson Jimmy Phillips said. The clinics will be Adventist Community Care...
Treasure Seekers is an original play by Tanis Galik, a local playwright. It is a family play, based on the beloved children's novels by E. Nesbit, The House of Arden and Harding's Luck. In Treasure Seekers, three British orphans, Edward, his older sister Elf, and Dickie the young con-artist, are transported back in time by a magical giant white mole to hunt for the lost Arden treasure. Instead, they discover that the real treasure has nothing to do with silver or gold. This fun production has a...
The thermostat is an important part of your cooling system. Your vehicle's thermostat performs a similar function to the thermostat in your home. At home, you set your thermostat to maintain a comfortable temperature range. When your home gets too hot, the air conditioning kicks on and when it gets too cold, the heater turns on. Now your engine also has an optimal temperature range: warm enough to run efficiently and not so hot as to cause engine damage. Your vehicle's thermostat is a valve betw...
