Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Ag water negotiations Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District Water Conservation Coordinator Liz Block has produced colorful magazines for young students that explain where Tehachapi area water comes from and how to be a good steward of the resource. Block worked with consultants on "Project Wet" to provide teachers with the magazines and other water conservation materials. The magazines – one written for the second-grade level and the other written for the fifth-grade level – introduce the...
The ceiling tiles of the Tehachapi Replacement Acute Care Hospital are laid in, and that's a good milestone, Senior Project Manager Lisa Polansky of SHP Project Development, the hospital project manager, told the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District board of directors. "It means that the overhead utilities are signed off," she said. The complex labyrinth of pipes, conduits and wires above the ceilings are as deep as the walls below, she said. Covering them up means a tough job has been...
Tehachapi Kiwanis serve Pasta Fest!...
On the evening of Thursday, October 13, 2016 a Candidate Forum will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Golden Hills CSD Board room at 21415 Reeves Street. The Kern County League of Women Voters will moderate the forum for the six candidates running for three open positions for director of the GHCSD. The League of Women Voters procedure for the evening will start with 2- to 3-minute candidate Opening Statements regarding the candidate’s background, reason for running, and plans. Questions submitted by the public will be screened by t...
Tulare resident, Don Searcy, entered his first century cycling race when he rode Tehachapi's Gran Fondo on Sept. 17. He was riding to raise awareness of Rett Syndome, a rare genetic disease which attacks mostly girls in their first few years of life. Searcy's five year old granddaughter, Scarlett Parks, was diagnosed with the disease at the age of two. Rett Syndrome was identified in 1966 by Dr. Andreas Rett. It occurs spontaneously, is not hereditary, but still affects one in every 10,000 to...
Bunch your earnings If you believe that all of your retirement benefit in one year will be withheld due to excess earnings, you may be able to bunch your earnings for that year in order to avoid affecting your benefits the following year. Example(s): Consider the following case: Situation: Allen receives a monthly Social Security retirement benefit. When he is 63, he opens his own painting business and, by September, has already earned $30,000 more than the retirement earnings test exempt...
This morning I stepped out my door and immediately turned back inside to grab a jacket. It seems like Fall is here, and we’ll be turning the clocks back in just a few weeks. My favorite clue is the California buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum). The flowers that have covered the shrub in white all summer have turned a rich rusty or chocolaty brown. Your lawn grasses are starting to respond to the cooling weather, growth has slowed way down. The green leaves will start to change to gold as the grass goes dormant for the winter. The lawn d...
At the Sept. 19 City Council Meeting, Mayor Susan Wiggins shown here with Mary Van Blake and Theresa Fassbender, proclaimed October, 2016 as Breast Cancer Awareness Paint Our Town Pink month. Fassbender and Van Blake represented the Links for Life, Lace it Up cancer walk event that will be held in Tehachapi on October 1....
Tech Trek is a math/science camp sponsored each summer by American Association of University Women. The Tehachapi Mountain Branch sent three local girls to a week-long camp this past summer. It costs $1000 per girl and the branch had sponsors for two of the scholarships. They funded the third campership by a conducting a quilt raffle. The winning ticket was drawn at the September Membership Luncheon, and Nancy Romero became the new owner of the beautiful quilt which was made by AAUW member...
Those of you who read my column know I almost always write a piece from my Mother Marion Deaver's "archives" digging through her old files to find some subject to which I can give new life. Last week I had the pleasure to ride in historic railcars with other city and county leaders, from Bakersfield to Tehachapi on a route now dubbed the Tehachapi Trade Corridor. The tour was to showcase the nearly completed double tracking project which offers a 63 percent capacity improvement on the major...
They’re still out there, the fake tech support people. I know, and you know, nobody from Microsoft will ever call you to tell you there’s something wrong with your computer. It just won’t happen. The people who do call you aren’t from Microsoft and all they want to do is get your money. Don’t give it to them. Don’t talk to them and just hang up the phone. The same is true of any page that pops up on your computer telling you to call immediately so they can “save” your computer. There isn’t any...
What exactly is connective tissue disease? Connective tissue diseases are referred to as a group of medical diseases. A connective tissue disease has a primary target of the connective tissues of the body. The connective tissues are the structural portions of our body that essentially hold the body together. These tissues form a framework for the body. Because many connective tissue diseases feature abnormal immune system activity with inflammation, the disease targets one’s own body tissues (...
A Zombie Apocalypse is coming again to Tehachapi on Saturday Oct. 22 Come out and support the 3rd Annual Zombie Run fundraiser for Gateway Connections, a local non-profit organization helping families with special needs. Come and check out the Craft Fair, and the Special Needs Resource Fair from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free kids' craft and goodie bag at 2:30 (while suplies last), and the grand finale is the Zombie Run at 3 p.m. (runners check in starting at 2 p.m.). Held at the GHCSD, 21415 Reeves...
Since her pre-teen years, Charmène Vega has been cooking and preparing meals from scratch without formal recipes. Her mother, a hematologist, and her father, a businessman, expected her to have meals prepared from scratch when they arrived home from work. Her mother would call her from work providing her with instructions allowing enough time between calls for the next step. The meals by today's standards would be considered gourmet; definitely not fast food. Some of the dishes were:...
