Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Tehachapi Valley Art Association hosted their annual Chalk on the Walk in Downtown Tehachapi on Aug. 14. Take a stroll through Downtown to enjoy the wide variety of these creative, yet temporary works of art....
The 2021 Thunder on the Mountain car show was held during Mountain Festival Weekend in Downtown Tehachapi...
Local celebrities, fun floats, horses, clowns and more delighted crowds along the parade route on Aug. 21....
During Mountain Festival weekend the Gem and Mineral Show was held at the Tehachapi Senior Center....
Christian Life Assembly held a Worship in The Park at Central Park before Mountain Festival on Sunday, Aug. 22....
The band Boogie Shooz played in Central Park during Mountain Festival. Featuring Mike Fleming on guitar and vocals, Roger Bailey on saxophone, Rodney Armstrong on bass, Roger Hoinacki on drums and Tracy Peoples on lead vocals and guitar....
My parents were married in 1927 and lived through the Great Depression. My father learned at an early age to fix things and keep them working: tractors, cars, vacuum cleaners, washing machines or whatever. It was a work ethic that he and my mother passed on to my brothers and me, and I tried to pass it on to my children. When you have something of value, you take care of it and make it last. I remember having great difficulty in understanding the whole idea behind the "cash for clunkers"...
Recently released episodes of TehachaPod feature interviews with the Tehachapi High School Booster Club, and a conversation with Tehachapi Valley Recreation Parks District (TVRPD). In episode 94 of TehachaPod, Corey Costelloe becomes the interviewee as a THS alumni and member of the Warrior Board of Directors. Corey gets into detail about how the Booster Club supports the THS student athletes throughout the year. He explains how they could use community volunteers and how we all can support the...
Tehachapi Treasure Trove is pleased to be able to open again for First Fridays and we look forward to seeing our regulars and newcomers for more laughter and camaraderie every month. As usual, on September 3 from 5 to 8 p.m., we'll be offering beverages and snacks and a place and a time to reconnect with old friends or meet new ones, plus we'll be featuring the wonderful music of Art Larson. We're also excited that classes have started back up at the Treasure Trove and are continuing through...
• There are 442 newly reported confirmed cases in Kern County, bringing our total confirmed cases to date to 121,299. • There are no new deaths being reported today, August 24, but there have been 1,448 COVID-19 deaths since the start of the pandemic. • The 14-day case rate is 32.35 per 100,000. • As of August 22, 707,955 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine have been administered to Kern County residents. 336,455 or 44.6% of Kern’s eligible population have been fully vaccinated against COVID-19. • As of August 23, Kern County had 236 COVID-19 re...
If you're getting close to retirement, you're probably thinking about the ways your life will soon be changing. And one key transition involves your income – instead of being able to count on a regular paycheck, as you've done for decades, you'll now need to put together an income stream on your own. How can you get started? It's helpful that you begin thinking about retirement income well before you actually retire. Many people don't – in fact, 61% of retirees wish they had done better at pla...
Cerro Coso Community College (CCCC) announced on August 17 that it will require all students and employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 by November 1, 2021 and masks are to be worn at all times in its facilities. The announcement follows the Kern Community College District’s Board Resolution 2021-01 on August 12 directing the chancellor to take any and all actions necessary to develop and implement a COVID-19 vaccine requirement for District employees, students and others who access District facilities at any District location. T...
On August 19, from 7:30 to 9:30 a.m., the City of Tehachapi hosted the first Coffee with the Mayor event of this year at The Coffee Mill. The last time the Coffee with the Mayor event was held was December 2019. “It’s great to have Coffee with the Mayor back again, the opportunity to talk to the residents is so important for me as well as for City staff. I enjoy listening to the feedback and ideas, and it’s nice to just have a chance to talk with everyone,” said Mayor Phil Smith. The Coffee with the Mayor gathering was designed to create...
The Tehachapi Chapter 221 American Legion Riders is inviting all motorcycle enthusiasts to join us on Saturday, September 11, 2021 for our annual Poker Run Fundraiser event. This fundraiser benefits veterans and children. There will be a $500 highest poker hand prize and a $100 lowest poker hand prize. There will also be a 50/50 raffle and opportunity drawings for a variety of donated prizes. Registration for the event will be held from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. at The Coffee Mill on 120 S. Mill...
Many people realized during the long year of COVID isolation in 2020, that pets are a great source of love and contentment in our lives. After a few months home, singles and families flocked in search of fur companions. And those who already had a pet, held them all the more dear. For whether one has a dog, cat, bunny or hamster (birds, turtles and snakes count, too, but are not nearly as cuddly), lending a long suffering ear while listening to your woes and a snuggle soft body to warm a cold be...
Local author Susie Basanda has always had a special bond with animals. In her new book, "Lifetimes Together: An Animal Communicator's Journey Finding Her Three Puppy Angels Again and Again and Again," she shares stories of her adventures as an animal communicator. A lover of dachshunds, the 11-year Tehachapi resident discovered her talent of animal communication in the 1990s. She began receiving answers to the perceived rhetorical questions she was asking her pups. She learned that animals...
This finishes off a thumbnail sketch of the happenings that I once jotted down. It's a mighty long "thumbnail" and I promise NEVER to do it again! Also, "sketchy" is the proper word, for it eliminates years of important happenings; just touching on a few facts. Continuing from December 7, 1941, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor: 1942 – First casualty of World War II, Bob Fraham. Ted Hainline dies in prison camp in Philippines. Lt. Donald Griffin, Army Air Corps pilot, killed in action. A...
The new owner of the golf course, Andri Karapetian, appeared at the August Board of Directors meeting and provided a status report on the progress of revitalizing the course. He indicated he is working with both Kern County and the CSD to bring back the 18-hole course as quickly as possible and even better than it was. Currently there is a bit of a slowdown while awaiting the County to reissue a conditional use permit for the property. That could take as long as three months. Water and sewerage...
Tehachapi Community Theatre (TCT) was looking for a musical that was fun and played to its strengths, hadn't ever been done locally, and would give director Doug Jockinsen – who is also the Executive Producer for TCT – a big project to produce. "Nunsense" fit the bill perfectly. The musical about the lovable nuns has been a crowd-pleaser since it opened in 1985. It ran for 10 years and 3,672 performances, becoming the second-longest-running Off-Broadway show in history and an international phe...
Zack Scrivner, Supervisor District 2 of Kern County recently spoke to Tehachapi's Rotary Club. He began by updating those present on the latest issues surrounding oil extraction processes, policies and controversies in the state of California. He went into some detail about how important the oil industry is in helping poor and uneducated people gain a foothold at the entry level and rise to middle class income levels, a possibility that was freely available to past generations of Americans but...
Also known as feature phones, dumb phones are phones without the smarts of a smartphone. They come in candy bar and flip styles. If you don't need to read a book, look up the word "defenestration," or check the weather on your phone, get a dumb phone. If you want to keep a phone in your car for emergency use but don't need to be reachable 24/7, get a dumb phone. If you need to call people and do illegal things without being tracked by the authorities, get a dumb phone. Wait, no, don't do that....
"Anything north of the 210 freeway is Northern California." – Cal Fire Captain While in town to fight a massive wildfire in Blackburn Canyon, a Cal Fire crew went into a restaurant on Tehachapi Boulevard to eat and said to their server, Megan, that, "This is our first time here – we're from Southern California." When she replied that Tehachapi IS in Southern California, this was his response....
"I wasn't born in Tehachapi, but I chose to live here for years, and that counts for something." – Cactus Jack Cactus Jack was well-known for the beef jerky he used to sell at the corner of Highway 202 and Cummings Valley Road....
"Indian Summer weather in Tehachapi, with warm gentle days and cool nights, can be as sweet as the smile on a sleeping baby." – The Mountain Poet...
"Life is easy; it's music that's hard." – Dave Bouldin Dave Bouldin is retired from the fire service as a station chief but has long been a musician and band leader....
