Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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"Red Shoes and Blue Mustard," featuring Gary Mazzola and his music, backed by Blue Mustard - play live at the beautiful Beekay Theatre at 7:30 p.m. on Saturday Oct. 22, and again on Sunday, Oct. 23 at 2 p.m. Be there. "Red Shoes and Blue Mustard" will be Gary Mazzola's fifth musical performance at the Beekay Theatre, following his sell-out shows, "Night of the Crescent Moon," "Get back to Eden," "A Night to Remember" and "Mr. Moonlight," but this time he's invited local blues/rock band, Blue...
The Day of the Dead Festival to benefit the Old Tehachapi Cemetery is one of the most far reaching events the Heritage League has ever sponsored. Local dancers, crafts people, students and business owners will all come together to celebrate the lives of the earliest settlers in this area. The hard working pioneers that were mailmen, tavern keepers and black smiths are buried on a dusty acre in Golden Hills. The purpose of the benefit is to raise awareness and funds for the maintenance of the cem...
It’s important to have a monthly housing budget in mind when you shop for a new home. The on-line calculators you see on web sites are interesting, but don’t account for everything that might be included in your monthly payment. We’re finding surprises these days in the property tax portion of new house payments. Municipalities often have “extra” taxes for any given area, in the form of bond measures for hospitals, schools, or sanitation. Generally, you can guess that your new annual property...
Halloween is upon us again. Let's talk about your skeleton. What a magnificent piece of bio-engineering is the bunch of bones we call our skeleton. It holds us up against gravity, it allows us to bend and twist through an amazing range of motion and it is extremely strong. There are 206 bones in the body and about half of them are in the hands and the feet. There are "long" bones, and there are "flat" bones. Long bones are those that are mostly in your arms, legs, hands and feet. Flat bones are...
This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor Halloween is almost here. When you’re passing out candy, you’ll see many “scary” costumes that will probably just make you smile. But in real life, you can easily find some things that truly are frightening – such as bad investment moves. Here are a few that you’ll want to avoid: Chasing after “hot” stocks – Many so-called “experts” – not to mention your friends, neighbors, relatives and co-worker...
Ryan and Megan White moved to Tehachapi in July from the Kern River Valley. Megan said that they moved the week after the start of the Erskine Fire. She said that on the first few days the fire was headed right toward their home but fortunately for them, the winds changed and the fire headed in another direction. For the White family, moving to Tehachapi satisfied two important goals; one, to expand their business to a new community and two, to find better schools for their nine year old son,...
Sometimes a person’s memories come in snatches of information and when telling a story it’s hard to know where to begin. Occasionally someone will come into the local museum and say they have heard of a café in town that has lots of local, historical photos of Tehachapi. “Sure, Kelcy’s Café !” I tell them. That’s an easy question. Stepping back several decades back to the forties, will find this writer, as a teenager from good old Tehachapi High School, entering the portals of the café when it...
I found a file marked Rosamond history that was marked in my mother Marion Deaver’s handwriting and it was a sort of mishmash of articles and handwritten notes. One article was written by Glenn Settle, Eastern Kern historian of sorts, and another was written out on typed sheets and I cannot make out the name on the return address. It looks like M. Kilchry, but I cannot be sure, and as always my mom did not include any dates on anything. Settle’s article seems to be from the early 1960’s, and the...
Get your Halloween Spirit going at the Audubon-Tehachapi meeting Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. in the Golden Hills Elementary School Cafeteria, 20215 Park Road. Don Richardson, Animal Curator for the California Living Museum (CALM), and Erika Noel, Biological Field Leader for McCormick Biological, will be our featured speakers covering bat ecology, conservation, and the bat rehabilitation efforts at CALM. The primary goal of CALM, a permitted wildlife sanctuary in Bakersfield, is to rehabilitate and...
According to a recent press release from The AABB Interorganizational Task Force on Domestic Disasters and Acts of Terrorism, Hurricane Matthew has forced the cancellations of many blood drives along the Southeast coast of the U.S., impacting the nation's blood supply. The task force is urging eligible donors across America to give in the coming days and weeks to help meet these needs. "We are asking all potential donors, both current and first-timers, to roll up a sleeve and make a commitment...
In case you missed it, late last month Yahoo! reported that in 2014 thieves broke into their servers and stole information on 500,000 Yahoo! email users. The information stolen included names, email addresses, phone numbers, birth dates and some security questions and answers. If you haven’t changed your yahoo.com, sbcglobal.net, or att.net password since 2014 you should put down this paper and change it right now. Really. While we’re changing passwords, go ahead and change your password on the...
The Stallion Springs CSD welcomes a new Administrative Secretary, Judith Quijada, (she prefers to be called Judy), to the district office. Judy joined the staff on Sept. 19 and is off to a great start. She is a local area resident and previously worked with Kern County Probation. She indicated she would not miss the drive to Bakersfield every day. Come in and meet her. Octoberfest, held on Oct. 1, was a rousing success with attendance up considerably over previous years with beer flowing...
As most of you have noticed, it’s election season, which is hard to avoid unless you live on a deserted island. As with most campaigns, those who are running want to be elected to the office which they seek. Everyone has their own mantra and claim that choosing them in November will be the best choice. When all this rhetoric begins and then rumors get added in along with it, it is hard to see the “forest for the trees.” Most of you know that I am currently the mayor of Tehachapi and I have...
The tragic events last week that culminated in the death of Sgt. Steve Owen left the community in shock, and those of us with ties to law enforcement reeling. Long before my husband Mike became a wine maker, he was a Deputy Sheriff with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Steve Owen was Mike’s partner when he worked at the Lancaster Sheriff’s Station. Although Mike retired in 1999 due to an on-duty injury, when the call came in last week about Steve’s death, memories I thought were buried forever deep down inside came flooding back. M...
Strengths You can avoid having part or all of your Social Security retirement benefit withheld By postponing or bunching your earnings in retirement, you may be able to avoid earning more than the retirement earnings test exempt amount. By timing when you first begin receiving Social Security retirement benefits, you may be able to lessen the impact of earned income on those benefits. But see Tradeoffs. Tradeoffs The Social Security retirement benefit you keep may not be enough to offset the...
According to the Guiness Book, Ravensburger's "Wildlife" by Educa is currently the largest jigsaw puzzle in the world. A year ago, a local Stallion Springs group decided to take on the challenge. The group who call themselves the Puzzle Nuts, are made up of Sherri Garrett and her mother Mariana Vancil of Stallion Springs, her brothers Rick Eckel of Washington and Malcolm Eckel of New Jersey and her nephew Corey Eckel of North Carolina. The 18' by 5 1/2 'puzzle of 33,600 pieces was pieced on a...
Today, We Honor The Overall Man Classic Bill Mead Reprinted with permission from Tehachapi Lifestyle Magazine, July 2013 issue. My wife and I feel blessed that all three of our daughters have kept close ties to the old homestead even as they have started their own families. Unfortunately, every silver lining has a cloud. In this case, it's the girls' presumption that all possessions of Mom and Dad are up for grabs notwithstanding the fact the old codgers are still alive and kicking. "Can I have...
C. Daniel Boling has been called "a thinking man's singer/songwriter." While most of his songs and stories are simply about relationships -- with his wife, children, parents and life itself – there is nothing that sounds simple about them. Boling, said one reviewer, is "one of those characters who can keep you glued to his telling about a whole day in his life without your getting bored at all." The award-winning singer/songwriter will be in concert at Fiddlers Crossing on Friday, Oct. 28, at 7...
Have you ever felt special at the doctor’s office? Are there snacks and music, and an aquarium for your viewing pleasure? Is the ambience gentle, and filled with the good memories of the four seasons of Tehachapi? Are you greeted with friendly staff members who like their jobs? And most important, does your provider listen to your concerns? Dr. Susan Hall, MD and I, Terri Steinberg, FNP, believe the adage, “They don’t care how much you know unless they know how much you care”, and caring for our patients is what makes the world go ‘round...
Promise - (prom'is) n. - Assurance that one will or will not do something specified, a pledge.To most people, a promise made is a guarantee that something will happen. A promise carries a lot of weight and sometimes many years pass before a promise can be fulfilled. Back in 1977 David Cord made such a promise at his fathers grave side and his promise was finally kept on August 5, 2006. Born in Loma Linda in 1954, David and his family moved to Mojave in 1959 where they lived for 5 years. In 1964...
You need to have the right mindset to be successful, and it all starts with focus. Many small business owners get off to a great start and then quickly reach a plateau where they quit growing. The reason for this is they have a plan to get started, and that plan keeps them focused for a while, but once they achieved that initial goal, there is nothing to keep them moving forward. There are three things you need to avoid in your business to maximize success. By avoiding these things, you will...
It’s become a tradition in our lovely Tehachapi Valley to begin the holiday shopping…not at the mall or on-line, but at the BVS Whiting Center, where many of the talented artists and artisans in our area will be gathered for the Annual Holiday Bazaar. The festivities begin on the day after Thanksgiving (Nov. 25) from 10 to 5 p.m., and continue Saturday (Nov. 26) from 10 to 3 p.m. Admission is free! Event passes are available at the gate, or call 821-3534 for info. At the Bazaar you will find many wonderfully unique gift items for those you lov...
Third in a series on Deeds (From CALDA, California Association of Legal Document Assistants) Deed of Trust A Deed of Trust is utilized by a borrower (trustor) to convey “bare legal” title to the subject property to a neutral party (trustee), in order to secure an obligation (usually the payment of a promissory note) payable to a lender (beneficiary). The trustee (usually a corporation) gives instructions to issue a Deed of Reconveyance (when the obligation has been paid in full) or to begin for...
The campaign for two seats on the five-seat Tehachapi City Council is a ferocious one this year as candidates Mary Ann Hester and Ken Hetge battle incumbent councilpersons Ed Grimes and Mayor Pro-tem Kim Nixon in a race in which the fundamental nature and direction of the city is in the balance. The Forde Files spoke to each of the candidates. The Incumbents Kim Nixon – Tehachapi resident for 30 years, age 60. Nixon has served on the Tehachapi City Council for five years and is Mayor pro tem. I...
The 2016 Bakersfield Business Conference, sponsored by the law firm Borton Petrini and masterminded by George Martin, of counsel to the firm, delivered an array of speakers on Sat., Oct. 8 that were primed and ready to share their vision in this year of hyper-politics. Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona, 84, speaking to an overflow crowd in the smaller "Political" tent on the 31-acre conference grounds at California State University, Bakersfield, said that when Donald Trump comes to...
