Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Tehachapi is going to have a new music store. Located on Green Street across from the BeeKay Theater, Encore Music Services will initially sell, service, and rent pianos, as well as offering lessons for piano and violin. Encore owner, Craig Janssen, said he has plans to eventually be a source for all instruments and a center for instruction. Janssen has had a business plan for a music store since 2003 but it rested on the sidelines while he was pursuing other ventures. Tehachapi residents may...
Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) Chapter 1000 and the Tehachapi Society of Pilots (TSP) members provided flights to young adults ages 8 to 17 on Saturday Oct. 3. This is part of the EAA's "Young Eagles" Program. The prospective flyers must be accompanied by a parent who will be required to sign a waiver. Twenty-minute flights were provided free of charge. Last year 13 rides were provided and this year there were 39 rides from 12 planes....
It should be no surprise that the harvest moon shone down as the first Triassic crop of 2015 (Viognier) began its journey from vine to bottle the last weekend of September. The earliest members of the harvesting crew started at 7 p.m. Saturday and continued at 5:30 a.m. Sunday, using headlamps to augment the moon's glow while they removed the netting in anticipation of the arrival of the pickers. This is the first year that Triassic has used the netting to prevent extensive damage from the...
New mortgage disclosures became effective this week. Consumers will now be given a Loan Estimate at the beginning of their loan process. This form combines several earlier forms into one format. You'll be told your loan amount, interest rate, payments, and detailed closing costs, just like before. There's one new field, though, that is likely to blow everybody's mind. In the comparisons section, you'll now see the Total Interest Percentage, or TIP. This figure is "the total amount of interest...
Susan Showler had moved from Minnesota to Valencia, California in 2014, but she loved the mountains of Tehachapi and the change of the seasons so in the spring of this year, she packed up and moved to Tehachapi. She said that the mountains here are “crazy beautiful”. Susan came to California as a contractor in marketing, communications and graphic design for Donaldson, a global industrial filter manufacturer; a job that she was able to bring with her from Minnesota. However, after her move to...
I have three new friends from Armenia, Haiti, and Uganda that I am invested in. They don’t know me, but through Kiva’s micro-lending program, I have fronted each of them $25 to assist their small businesses and to move them out of extreme poverty. There’s a taxi driver in Armenia, whose only possession is his broken taxi, so getting it running again is critical for his livelihood. A young mother in Haiti, has a small business of selling soft drinks and snacks to beach sunbathers. She needs...
Brodie, a little red Chihuahua mix, who was born without eyes, is to be the new spokesdog for Have A Heart Humane Society, replacing the founding spokesdog, Oscar, who crossed the Rainbow Bridge this summer. The emotional announcement was made Saturday, October 3, at 10 am, just before the Gone To The Dogs 5K Fun Run/Walk began at Meadowbrook Park in Tehachapi. Have A Heart's founder/president, Chelley Kitzmiller, remembers the tearful phone call from Brodie's former owner whose divorce was...
The next Tehachapi Humane Society Fix Your Pet (FYP) clinic dates are planned for Nov 11 & Dec 10 with Dr Billingsley, and Oct 28 with Tehachapi Vet Hospital. These clinics are for very low income individuals residing in Tehachapi. Co-payments are $20 for canines and $10 for felines which includes the pain meds, rabies shots and DHLPP for dogs and FVCRP for cats if needed. Pets will be kept overnite and picked up the following morning by the owners. No pets over the age of six, no cryptorchid or pyrometra pets. No one will be seen without appoi...
I was at a home earlier this week doing a consultation for the homeowner who wanted to remove some lawn and take advantage of the turf removal rebate. Her lawn looked really healthy – and she only watered once a week. I hope one thing we are learning from this drought is that lawns DO NOT need to be watered every day. That’s just plain wasteful (not to mention against the drought emergency regulations). We know with scientific accuracy how much water fescue lawn needs. A watering schedule to keep your lawn healthy would look like this: • Once...
This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor. What’s the biggest obstacle to your ability to invest successfully? Is it the ups and downs of the financial markets? Political events? The fact that you weren’t born rich? Actually, the chief hurdle you face is something over which you have control: your own emotions. Your emotions can lead to a variety of ill-advised investment behaviors, such as these: • Cutting losses – Declines in the financi...
TEHACHAPI - Second District Supervisor Zack Scrivner announced today all veterans are welcome to speak to a Kern County Veterans Services representative via teleconferencing at his Tehachapi office on the first Tuesday of every month, which started on Oct. 6, 2015. "I am happy to provide my Tehachapi office to those Eastern Kern vets to speak with the county Veterans Services Department to explore any and all benefits they may be entitled to. Using the teleconferencing at my office will save...
How do I tell if it’s a fake tech support or printer driver site? Here’s the best way to tell: If you’re looking for something from Dell or HP or anyone else, their company name will show up in the link BEFORE whatever you’re looking for. For example support.hp.com or www.dell.com/support. The fake sites will have what you’re looking for AFTER their site name. Examples of this look like gethuman.com/phone-number/Dell-Tech-Support or iprint.io/hp-officejet How do I tell if a viral video, Facebook post, or image on social media is true? The...
The Tehachapi Police Department is proud to announce it will be providing a new online police reporting option for the public. This web based reporting system will allow the public to file certain incident types (minor theft, vehicle burglary, lost property, hit & run, etc.) over the internet at their convenience. The Tehachapi Police Department expects this internet based reporting service to be very popular among citizens who have come to expect police services to be provided immediately and conveniently online. The service will allow the...
California State Parks is beginning the fall tour season at Tomo-Kahni State Historic Park in Tehachapi. Although no structures remain on this Kawaiisu Native American village site, the area's rich history comes alive through the trained volunteer tour guides and the clues that the inhabitants left behind. Tomo Kahni means "winter home" in Kawaiisu, and rock rings mark the locations of many of the kahni, or homes, that were built of juniper boughs. Hundreds of mortar holes in the park tell of a...
At their Oct. 5 meeting, the Tehachapi City Council awarded the East Tehachapi Traffic Signal and Street Improvements Project to Cal Prime, Inc. in the amount of $1,346,000. The project consistes of the installation of traffic signals, curb, gutter, sidewalk, curb ramps, pavement widening, new traffic signs and striping on Tehachapi Blvd. between Steuber Rd. and Monolith St. Including design, environmental impact, construction and construction administration, the initial estimated project cost was $1,390,000. The City submitted a grant...
I have been working professionally with identity theft for over 10 years now. Over the last 10 years I have learned that early detection is vital to our livelihood, our personal freedom, our finances and even our very lives. The purpose of this article is to show that there is an early detection system available to all of us and solution for solving identity theft problems we don’t even know about. The stories you are about to read are true. The names of the victims have been changed to save them embarrassment and to protect their privacy. The...
Medicare has several enrollment periods beneficiaries need to be aware of: Your Initial Eligibility Period (IEP) is a total of 7 months, three months before your birthday month, your birthday month, and three months after your birthday month. For example, if you were born in January, you have the months of October, November, and December, your birthday month of January, and the three months after, February, March and April to sign up initially for Medicare. This is an important time to make...
It often amazes me how many small business owners cannot read their own company financial statements. You do not need a Ph.D. in accounting to successfully operate a small business but any business owner who wants to grow their business should, at least, have a basic understanding. There are two basic Financial Statements that you need to be familiar with, the Balance Sheet, and the Profit & Loss Statement or P & L. Balance Sheet In school, you got a report card grading your performance. In...
Recently I noted that I have been unable to locate my mother’s original copy of the White House Cookbook, originally published in 1887. My mother’s version was revised in 1900, according to documentation she had received about it. But…I couldn’t find it anywhere. I went to my Brother Bill Deaver’s house and went through some of his boxes of “stuff” to no avail. In the meantime I ordered a reprint of the book from Amazon and thought that way at least I could write about it. (not cheap, either...
The Oktoberfest held on Saturday, Oct. 3 was a rousing success. CSD's General Manager Lori Rodgers estimated there were over 1,200 attendees during the six hour period. Brats and beer flowed freely and vendors did quite well at selling their goods. Everybody's looking forward to next year's event. November Election There will be Town Hall Meetings held on Friday, October 23 at 6 p.m. and Saturday October 24 to discuss Measure B on the November Ballot. A "yes" vote on the measure by at least two-...
What are year-end investment decisions? Year-end investment decisions may sometimes result in substantial tax savings. Tax planning may allow you to control the timing and method by which you report your income and claim your deductions and credits. The basic strategy for year-end planning is both to time your income so that it will be taxed at a lower rate, and to time your deductible expenses so that they may be claimed in years when you are in a higher tax bracket. In terms of investment...
Advance team, engineers share progress at community meetings California High Speed Rail (HSR) Authority has jettisoned a proposed track alignment across the Lehigh Southwest Cement 40-year expansion quarry and Oak Creek-area wind farms in favor of a more westerly route through Cal Portland Cement quarry property. HSR engineers have been meeting with Cal Portland executives to work out the better of two proposed routes through their quarry. Much of the HSR track through the property would be...
The Kern County Planning Commission has recommended approval of a 1,876-page Draft Environmental Report (EIR) aimed at streamlining the oil and gas drilling permitting process and improving communication between the people who own the surface of the land and those who own the mineral rights below. The EIR now goes to the Board of Supervisors for final approval. “The state wanted the EIR approved,” Second District Supervisor Zack Scrivner said Wednesday in Tehachapi. “The EIR will be a state...
Wow – Tehachapi is awesome – The Aug. 8 Cheers to Charity event at Veritas (and the entire parking lot) brought in a $26,500 for local nonprofits, including the vital Salvation Army after school community center. The Tehachapi Car Club earned $22,000 at its Aug. 16 Thunder on the Mountain event, distributing all of it to more than a dozen local charities. Tehachapi goes global – An animated Henry Schaeffer, Jr. told the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council (GTEDC) -- meeting Oct....
This herb is definitely for hummingbirds, but bird watchers as well as gardeners seeking brilliant fall color and a delectable pineapple scent will enjoy it too. Pineapple sage (salvia elegans) fills so many "bills" that it is a must in every garden. It was formerly called salvia rutilans so either botanical name will suffice when you purchase a plant. It is rarely grown from seed but tip cuttings taken in spring are easy to start. Grow it in an area where it will get morning sun. Provide good...
