Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Do you have a great looking RED car? This year the Apple Festival is sponsoring a Red Car Show on the first day of the Festival (Saturday, October 8). Let's start with what the Apple Festival is. On Saturday, Oct 8 and Sunday, Oct 9 from 10 til 4 p.m., we will celebrate apples in Tehachapi. There will be approximately 75 vendors, many of which are food vendors, each will feature something apple. There will be apple drinks, plain old apples, candied apples, caramel apples, apple pie, apple...
High school students Christian Douglas, 15, and Cody Hayes, 14, have recently graduated from the Kern County Devil Pups Youth Program, which took place over the past ten weeks at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. "I heard about the Devil Pups at school over the announcements," says 15 year old Christian Douglas, "When I heard it was at Camp Pendleton I couldn't sign up faster." The Devil Pups is a 62-year-old organization that trains high school students like marines. It was founded by Marine...
The Center for California Real Estate has released a report about “Roadblocks to The American Dream.” In it, they cite current challenges facing home buyers. Here are their findings: 29% have trouble saving for a down payment. 27% can’t find a home in their desired neighborhood due to limited inventory. 22% can’t get access to credit and funding. 19% hold too much personal debt. 3% are too shy to tell us exactly what their roadblocks are. We’ve got solutions! For those having trouble saving fo...
This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor During your working years, your primary investment goal is generally growth – you need your money to grow so that you can eventually afford the comfortable retirement lifestyle you’ve envisioned. But when you retire, should you change course and adjust your investment strategy from “offense” to “defense”? Actually, it’s not quite that simple. To begin with, even while you are working, you don’t want yo...
Each version of Windows adds features and sometimes new ways of doing the same old things. But Windows doesn’t do everything by itself and probably never will. Here are a couple of utilities I use and recommend for certain tasks. Reducing file size for pictures Digital cameras and smartphones take great pictures these days and those picture are huge in terms of file size. To email your pictures to family or friends, you need to reduce the file size so you can send more than one or two pictures a...
The Horse Thief Women's Golf Club in Stallion Springs held their annual Club Championship Golf Tournament on Tuesday and Wednesday, August 9 and 10. The winners were honored at a potluck held at the home of Sandy Bineau. Club Champion for 2016 was Judy Theriault who recaptured the title that she won in 2015. Other winners included: First Flight: first gross, Linda Cross, second gross, Christin Cox. First net - Dianne Cooper, second net – Kathi Dyer. Second Flight: first gross, Aurelia L...
In the fall of last year, Fantan-sy Calocci (pronounced Fanta-shay) found herself making a move to Tehachapi from Inglewood, California. When her mother passed away, Fantan-sy inherited her mother’s RV which had been kept here in Tehachapi. She said that once she arrived, she decided to stay. Tehachapi had been one of her mother’s favorite vacation spots as was Wrightwood in the San Bernardino Mountains. Fantan-sy said that years ago her mother would trailer her horses to Tehachapi in order to...
Tehachapi Idol is in its fifth week, and the show is still going strong. Over the weeks, contestants have been voted off, narrowing it down to six: Lily Seymour, Destiny Boswell, Ashley Bishop, Brinley Marks, Aubrey McDonald, and Josh Schwartz. The past few weeks have seen the elimination of Ken Yule, Haylee York, and Hannah Clare from the contest. The competition of local singers has undergone themes like oldies, Disney, and country. This week, contestants sang songs all about love, songs that...
First in a series on Deeds (From CALDA, California Association of Legal Document Assistants) This series will help you understand about California deeds, including the different types of deeds and available options, when transferring real property interests. We will try to answer many of the most frequently asked questions about assignments of title in California, provide a basic understanding of simple terminology relating to real property, and explain the function of the most common deeds utilized by California real property owners. Grant...
Jose Luis Gutierrez passed away suddenly on July, 22nd 2016. Having had Jose work for me over the past 25 years, it would be easy to write a book on just how much he has meant to me, not only as my gardener, but as a trusted friend. Jose never let me or any of his many other customers down, whether they were here in Bear Valley, Cummings Valley, or within Tehachapi. Jose never once said a job was too hard for him or that he just couldn't do it. In fact he did things most anyone would not even...
Today, We Honor The Overall Man Classic Bill Mead Reprinted with permission from Tehachapi Lifestyle Magazine, July 2014 issue. I’ve complained before that our house is turning into a pharmaceutical warehouse. Between my wife and me, we take a total of 13 pills daily. Mine are to lower my blood pressure, slow my heartbeat, dissolve cholesterol, thin my blood and increase my vitamin intake. After the nightly news, I occasionally take a tranquilizer. One of my wife’s pills is to lower her blo...
Over the last year, the Tehachapi Unified School District joined other districts statewide in developing their Local Control and Accountability Plan (LCAP). The plan, which is tied to state funding, was mandated by the state of California in July of 2014. School districts, county offices of education and charter schools were required to develop, adopt and annually update a three year plan that addresses eight areas that have been identified as state education priorities. During the last half of...
Wherever I drive in our beautiful valley, I’m forever looking at landscapes. Lately I’ve noticed an increase in yards that have opted for that bare dirt look. The best thing about a dirt yard is that it needs no irrigation! Another increasingly common drought-induced landscape fashion is the weed lawn. You all are doing a wonderful job of conserving water, but I always wonder what happens next, and I always hope the yards don’t end up going right back to thirsty green lawns sometime in the future. What if you could have a green lawn that needs...
At their August 15 meeting, the Tehachapi City Council voted to unanimously sign an agreement between the City of Tehachapi and the High Speed Rail Authority to track any eligible expenses by the city related to the project and to invoice the HSRA for the reimbursement of those expenses. The agreement was initiated by HSRA as a way for the city to recoup some of the costs for services related to items such as research requests. The agreement is not meant to be an approval of the High Speed Rail...
The American Legion Auxiliary Tehachapi unit 221 would like to thank the seven veterans and their interviewers for participating in the Veterans History Project. This unique project videotapes a veteran interview which will ultimately be sent to the Library of Congress. This important project will be a great genealogical tool for the future as well as a learning experience for the interviewer. The seven Veterans are Winthrop Saville WWII, Paul Doody Korea, Lora Clendenin Operation Enduring Freed...
The beginning of a perfect day at the Old Timer’s Reunion found John Hammond, emcee, greeting everyone with, “Welcome to the ‘umpteenth’ Old Timer’s Reunion!” I cannot really recall just when the Old Timer’s Picnic began. Someone said it was the 57th in number and that’s good enough for me. We called it a picnic then for it was sort of one. Joan Johnson recalls being called to bake a cake for the Old Timer’s gathering each year. Anyway, a feeling of camaraderie prevailed throughout the da...
If you’re like one of the thousands of employees in the oil industry who have been laid off, the big decision you face is what you want to do next. Sometimes, losing a full-time job is the perfect time to think seriously about starting your dream business, especially before you get caught up in the corporate world again. Ask yourself, if you don’t do it now, when will you? A lot of the oil industry workers were victims of the “golden handcuffs,” earning good salaries that prevented them from co...
The Salvation Army Tehachapi After-School Program would like to send a BIG "Thank You" to the Bank of the Sierra Grant Program for their generous grant towards their summer S.T.E.M. class! The S.T.E.M. class is a component of the After-School Program designed around Science, Technology, Engineering and Math. Students are able to learn how such things work while they are in a creative, supervised environment. The program is eight weeks long and takes place during the summer months, allowing the...
In my last column I discussed the news reported in a Rosamond Review from 1959 that I found in my mother, Marion Deaver’s files. This week I want to “review” the many ads that appeared in this 1959 “Progress Edition”. It was the first printing of the publication and was actually printed in Rosamond, with a new press located in a new building for the newspaper. The publication was printed Jan. 8, 1959 and was full of articles and a ton of ads. The paper was 32 pages long – I discovered...
Oktoberfest Stallion Springs Parks and Recreation invites you to the annual Octoberfest Celebration on October 1, from Noon to 6 p.m. at the Stallion Springs Community Center. Everyone is welcome to join in the fun. Food, beer, wine, gifts, and kid friendly activities are just part of the fun for the whole family. No dogs allowed. Vendors are welcome. Contact the CSD at (661) 822-3268 for more details. Weed abatement The CSD General Manager Lori Rogers reports, weed abatement is progressing in...
The Tehachapi Depot Railroad Museum is looking for volunteers to run the depot as Docents and Cashiers. Our Volunteers are museum hosts who welcome our visitors and answer questions about the Depot and our community. If you think you would enjoy meeting people from all over the United States and the World, then this job if for you. The main docent task is opening the Depot at 11 a.m. and closing it at 4 p.m. The stuff in between is fun and simple. The main cashier task is similar to the docent...
Someone just asked me if we had ever been to remote, untouched villages on our travels, and that got me to thinking . . . . and writing! I never thought we would get to Borneo! It is the third largest island in the world and home to three countries: Malaysia, Indonesia and Brunei. While there, visiting our son Tom, we went to a remote village where the native residents lived in longhouses as they have for centuries. Nearby was a huge cave that we explored with a resident guide. We learned about...
Guadagno and Sons Amusements, the carnival that has come to Tehachapi for 20 years during the Mountain Festival, is a fourth-generation operation. Joe Guadagno (gua-DAN-nyo) was in Tehachapi to oversee the setup of 16 carnival rides on the vacant lot bounded by Valley Boulevard and Curry Street. He works with his brother Chris and his father Tony and mother Sharon out of the West Garden Grove, Orange County company headquarters. Joe Guadagno's grandfather John founded the company in 1954. "My...
The California Highway Patrol Mojave Station (Mojave Area/Inland Division) opened its spacious two-year-old facility at 1313 Hwy. 58 (not the weigh station at Cache Creek) to the public on Aug. 6, 2016. Officers were on hand to answer questions and demonstrate their tools, including less lethal shotguns, tasers, drug-sniffing dogs, car seat education and impaired driver education. Lt. John Williams is commander of the Mojave Area, which is recruiting men and women between the ages of 15 and 21...
Big kitchen – Ooohs issued forth from Tehachapi Hospital staffers at the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District board of directors meeting Aug. 16 when Lisa Polansky, senior project manager for SHP Project Development, showed images of the spacious kitchen in the Replacement Tehachapi Acute Care Hospital. The staffers are familiar with the cramped conditions at the existing hospital, where every inch of space is utilized, and offices and services have spilled out into mobile units and old h...
