Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The American Legion Auxiliary recently was the recipient of a grant from the Bank of Sierra. The grant will go towards their award winning "Feed Our Veterans" project, which assists Veteran Students attending the Air-Streams Wind Turbine Training program in Tehachapi, Calif. Students come from all over the United States to get the special certifications from the 6-week training program, which enable them to get into the wind, oil and telecommunications industries. Every quarter Bank of Sierra...
For more than 20 years, Links for Life has been serving Kern County women and men who find themselves face-to-face with that nasty "c" word ... cancer, more specifically breast cancer. From humble beginnings in Bakersfield, over the years Links for Life has proven to be an invaluable resource for thousands of women, young girls and even men, endowing them with education, support and loving, understanding volunteers who literally have walked a mile in their shoes. Breast cancer is no respecter of...
This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor. It probably doesn’t happen as much as you’d like, but from time to time, you have some extra disposable income. When this happens, how should you use the funds? Assuming you have adequate emergency savings — typically, three to six months’ worth of living expenses — should you pay off debts, or fund your IRA or another investment account? There’s no one “correct” answer — and the priority of these...
Post by The Loop newspaper....
Under the guiding hand of trip organizer Marlan Woodside – a member of the Tehachapi Loop Railroad Club and Friends of the Tehachapi Depot who is a dedicated promoter of rail travel – a group of Tehachapi residents on a recent Saturday boarded a Green Line Metrolink double-deck view car in Lancaster to spend the day poking around downtown LA, eating at a classic eatery near an old railroad yard and attending a film, sponsored by the L.A. Conservancy, at the grand Orpheum Theater on Bro...
In asking the Tehachapi City Council to approve the placement of a half-cent sales tax increase on the November ballot, City Manager Greg Garrett said the municipality is not desperate for the money and it's a good time to plan ahead. "We're lean and mean and at some point we need to build capital," Garrett told the Council on Aug. 4, 2014 at the Wells Education Center board room. The members voted 5-0 to place a measure on the November 4, 2014 ballot that would increase city sales tax from 7.5...
School enrollment up – Tehachapi Unified School District (TUSD) Superintendent Susan Andreas-Bervel reported to the district Board of Trustees on Aug. 12, 2014 (the day before school started), that projected student enrollment in the district is up. She said that Cummings Valley Elementary is up three students, Golden Hills elementary is up 14, Tompkins Elementary is up 31, Jacobsen Middle School is up 58, Tehachapi High School is up 86 and Monroe Continuation High School is up 24, for a t...
(Continued from the August 2, 2014 issue.) In my husband’s stories involving some tales of the Old Corps, I ran onto an article about a simple galvanized steel G.I. bucket that was standard equipment for a Marine Boot. I recalled they were part of our furnishings in the Quonset Huts also. How could I have left that out of my story? I never used ours for when it was filled with water it was too heavy for me to lift. I surfed the internet looking for a good photo but they all look flimsy and the s...
