Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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On Sept. 14, Lehigh Cement dedicated a new cycle park on Tehachapi Blvd. across the road from the Lehigh Cement plant towers. It was constructed completely by plant management and employees. The park will be one of the rest stops for the Sept. 16 GranFondo. Lehigh has a 39 member cycling team that will be riding in the Fondo. For details on the GranFondo, and other local events, look for The Loop newspaper's Autumn Fun Guide. On stands and online now. Pictured from left is Danny Valencia, park...
We have a sharpener in town. Those who shop at Pioneer True Value Home Center know Mike Zanghi. He just completed training on the proper techniques to sharpen scissors, beautician and barber shears, and all kinds of knives from pocket knives to swords and quilters, he also sharpens fabric scissors! He also learned to sharpen axes, lawn mower blades, and other garden tools. He came home from his 30 hour class with the custom built machine specifically designed for sharpening scissors and the...
Whole grains reduce our incidence of stroke, heart attack, diabetes, and lower cholesterol. But what are whole grains? All grains start off life as whole grains. In their natural state growing in the field, whole grains are the entire seed of a plant. This seed has three edible parts – the bran, the germ, and the endosperm. The bran is the outer skin and contains important antioxidants, B vitamins, and fiber. The germ is the embryo which has the potential to sprout into a new plant. It c...
This article is taken in its entirety from www.consumer.ftc.gov/blog/2017/09/equifax-data-breach-what-do. If you have a credit report, there's a good chance that you're one of the 143 million American consumers whose sensitive personal information was exposed in a data breach at Equifax, one of the nation's three major credit reporting agencies. Here are the facts, according to Equifax. The breach lasted from mid-May through July. The hackers accessed people's names, Social Security numbers, bir...
On Tuesday, Sept. 11, members of the Thunder on the Mountain Car Show Committee gathered in Central Park to present checks to thirteen local charities, scholarships, and community groups. Thanks to the generosity of the community and the hard work of the committee, they were able to donate $22,100 in proceeds from the 2017 car show that was held in August during Mountain Festival. Thunder on the Mountain presented a fun car show in downtown Tehachapi where 333 cars were on display, with some...
If you were wondering what goes on at the Tehachapi Apple Festival taking place on Oct. 7 from 10 til 6 p.m. and Oct. 8 from 10 til 4 p.m. on Green Street in the heart of downtown Tehachapi, let me just say A LOT! Admission to the Festival is FREE. Besides the more than 80 vendors featuring any number of things from great food, wonderful desserts, excellent drinks, and all variety of products including clothes, accessories, toys, educational books, purses, jewelry, food rubs, spices, aprons,...
The American Legion Auxiliary will be holding their fall Quarter Auction on Saturday, Sept. 30 beginning at 11 a.m. at the Veterans Memorial Building located at 125 F Street. Tickets are $10 which includes lunch and 1 bidding paddle. Additional paddles are available for $1 each. The lunch begins at noon with the auction immediately following. There will be a large assortment of items available, many that would make nice holiday gifts. So come out and join us, have fun and win some cool prizes....
This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor. Mother's Day and Father's Day may get more attention, but National Grandparents Day, observed on Sept. 10, has gained in popularity. If you're a grandparent, you might expect to receive some nice cards, but if you want to make the day especially meaningful, you may want to consider giving some long-lasting financial gifts to your grandchildren. What might come to mind first, of course, is helping your...
Column time – what to write, what subject? My bi-weekly dilemma as I dig through my mother Marion Deaver's files to find a gem. I had found a couple of possible subjects and was ready to compose when I got a call from my brother Bill Deaver, who sent me an article he received from Mojave aircraft enthusiast Cathy Hansen. The X-15 – a test plane/spacecraft that flew 199 times and led the way for future space flights with research for the SR-71 Blackbird, the space shuttle, and the reusable spa...
"It's a small world, isn't it?" You hear people say that all the time but it was my meeting Dan and Ruth Schopen that brought true meaning to that statement. I asked Dan where he was born, he said Evanston, Ill. I said, "Me too". He said he was raised in a suburb of Chicago named Wilmette, I said, "Me too." He asked me what street I lived on and he grew up on the street right behind where I grew up. We left Illinois when I was eight, a little before his time, but who could imagine finding someon...
What is it? From the middle of May through the end of June, a data breach at Equifax allowed thieves to steal 143 million people's names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and, in some instances, driver's license numbers. They also stole credit card numbers from about 209,000 people and dispute documents with personal identifying information for about 182,000 people. While they were in the system, they grabbed personal information of people in the UK and Canada, too. Am I...
On Monday Aug. 28 Tehachapi Mayor Pro Tem Susan Wiggins was joined by City staff members at the Kern County Association of Cities quarterly meeting held in Shafter. Wiggins is the current President of the KCAC....
Tehachapi High School is hosting its third annual Tehachapi First Team robotics challenges for all students from first grade through 12th grade. The age-appropriate challenges are divided up into four age groups so students can participate at a level that's right for them, and that they can excel in. For the 1st through 3rd graders, teams of kids, aided by THS student volunteer mentors, will build a LEGO model and a LEGO WeDo robot, and get to share their work with industry professionals....
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Greetings! I am writing this just as Hurricane Irma is set to grind up the state of Florida while Texas and Louisiana are still recovering from Hurricane Harvey. Caribbean Islands are bracing for another Hurricane, Jose. My thoughts and prayers are with people whose lives are in turmoil from these storms. Perhaps some of you will feel called to lend a hand in the coming years. Volunteers will be needed to reconstruct homes and communities for quite a while to come. After Hurricane Katrina...
The one major issue addressed by the Tehachapi City Council at their Sept. 5 meeting was a letter that the City received on July 24 from Kevin Shenkman of the law firm Shenkman & Hughes located in Malibu, Ca. representing the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project. The letter asserted that the City's at-large election system for City Council members violates the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA). It claims that the system dilutes the ability of minority residents, particularly Latinos...
'More than one' voting rights complainant For supplementary coverage of this topic, read City Council forced to change election process on page 11: http://www.theloopnewspaper.com/story/2017/09/16/local-news/city-council-forced-to-change-election-process/3867.html...
On Wednesday, Sept. 6, Hall Ambulance Founder and CEO Harvey Hall presented Tehachapi with three new four-wheel drive ambulances. The presentation was made at Hall's Post 11 on Pinon St. Two of the units will be placed in town, with the third at their post in Golden Hills. The 4x4 capability will allow greater access throughout the Tehachapi Valley particularly during inclement weather. Manufactured on Ford F450 chassis, the ambulances were built to Hall specifications by Leader Ambulance,...
Fiddlers Crossing will celebrate Autumn on Friday, Sept. 29, with the return of Flagship Romance from Jacksonville Beach, Florida. The couple, Jordyn and Shawn Fisher, call their music, "harmonic alternative folk" but it is much more. They are part of a resurgence in popular music of well-crafted songs and solid, soaring harmonies. They display a passion and intensity in their performance reminiscent of a young Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Mac. When she was 3 years old, Jordy...
Research for this article includes information from the book, "Basques to Bakersfield", by Mary Paquette, published in 1982 by the Kern County Historical Society and original materials in the Tehachapi Heritage League archives. The Basques, coming from the mountainous areas of the Pyrenees in both Spain and France, came by the thousands to America, many finding a home in various parts of the western United States. The mountains surrounding Tehachapi reminded them of the Pyrenees and so a...
Your chances of requiring some sort of long-term care increase as you age, and long-term care insurance (LTCI) can help you cover your long-term care expenses. Although tax issues are probably not foremost in your mind when you buy LTCI, it still pays to consider them. In particular, you should explore whether your premiums will be deductible and your benefits taxable. You may be eligible for an income tax deduction You may be able to deduct all or part of the LTCI premiums you pay for...
It was "impromptu exuberance" that prompted Scaled Composites test pilot Mike Melvill to roll SpaceShipOne as it glided back to earth on Sept. 29, 2004 to claim the $10 million Xprize for the first privately funded suborbital spaceflight. On the way up, the vertical ship had rolled uncontrollably 29 times, beginning at 160,000 feet. "Engineer Jim Tigh predicted it [the rolls] would happen," Melville, 76, told Forde Files after he spoke at the Tehachapi Society of Pilots Celebration of Flight...
High school students will build an airplane – The Arts, Science and Technology Education Corp. of Tehachapi (AST) and its anonymous angel donor from The Foundation for the Carolinas has given $85,000.00 to the Tehachapi Society of Pilots (TSP) to fund student construction of a kit airplane. The check, presented at the Tehachapi Society of Pilots Celebration of Flight, Sept. 9, 2017 at Tehachapi Municipal Airport, will purchase a Federal Aviation Administration-certified airplane construction k...
The Tehachapi, Brite's and Cummings Valleys are all sheltered with surrounding mountains which seem to protect us from the sweltering desert on one side and the heat from the great San Joaquin Valley on the other. In past years when someone would say to me, "Oh it has never been this hot !" or "It has never ever been this cold before!" I always answer, "Yes it has." It's true. There's not too much new in weather around here that hasn't happened before. This past summer with its consistent hot...
Each year, Lions clubs around the world proudly sponsor the Lions International Peace Poster Contest in local schools and youth groups. This art contest for kids encourages young people worldwide to express their visions of peace, tolerance and international understanding. This year will be the 30th year of the Lions Peace Poster Contest. Millions of children from nearly 100 countries have participated in the contest over the years. The theme of this year's contest is "The Future of Peace"....
