Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Massachusetts' loss is California's gain. Having had enough of the harsh Boston area winters, Kim Giannopoulos and her husband, Louie began looking for a milder climate in which to live and work. As Kim travels to many of her wide-spread accounting clients, they began looking all along the Atlantic seaboard. However, Kim hates humidity so they began looking to the west. She discovered Tehachapi online. It was close enough to the ocean and close enough to the city with the added bonus of a...
I would like to personally offer my greetings from Encore Music Services, your locally owned and operated full service music store, opening soon right here in Tehachapi! We will carry a full assortment of instruments, ranging from pianos to band and orchestra, carrying brands including Selmer, Bach, Gemeinhardt, Conn, and Jupiter, just to name a few. Additionally, we will also offer piano tuning, moving and restoration services, bringing a solid technical training background combined with extensive experience, to keep your instrument running...
Time for a quick snapshot of our market’s affordability. Interest rates are still low, and homebuyers will be pleasantly surprised at how that affects a monthly house payment. The usual disclaimers all apply: Not everyone who wants a home loan will qualify, and terms and conditions vary per program and per lender. Having said that, here is a rundown of how much home you might buy for a monthly house payment around $1500. For those using the FHA or USDA loan programs, spending $1500 per month c...
It was July when Hugh, Miriam, Dustin and Collin Shane arrived in Tehachapi with a black lab named Ashes and two cats (Duke and Duchess). They moved here from Colorado Springs where Hugh had been a contract engineer for MITRE Corporation. Now employed by Scaled Composites in Mojave, Hugh is an engineer on the Stratolaunch project. Miriam said that Tehachapi was a natural place for the family to settle as they were used to mountain living with Colorado Springs at 6200 feet and similar high...
Animal control professionals and humane educators agree that teaching children compassion, respect and responsibility for animals at an early age is far more effective in preventing animal cruelty and irresponsible pet ownership than trying to correct these issues in adults and teens through law enforcement. Have A Heart Humane Society is excited to announce that Build a Bear Workshop and the Build a Bear Workshop Foundation have awarded Have a Heart Humane Society a $10,660 Youth Humane Education Grant to provide more humane educational...
The TCT Production Committee will be reviewing plays at The Pitch, Sunday, Nov. 1, only. The Tehachapi Community Theatre is taking proposals for plays to be produced in the next season (2016-2017) and the public is invited to come and give us your input! This will be an exciting opportunity for the public to watch and take part in our selection. Everyone attending will be allowed to ask questions about each of the proposed plays and we encourage your participation. We will take these proposals in the classic form of “The Pitch.” We invite all...
Well, I guess the "dog days" of summer are over now, but there's still good news to share and great stuff to do here in Tehachapi! First, I would like to thank all the humans who bought raffle tickets at my booth at the Gran Fondo. The lucky raffle winner, and now the proud owner of a Tehachapi Dog Park/Cash the Wonder Dog paw print jersey, is Scott Detillo of Chino Valley. I am grateful that so many people bought raffle tickets, and I also appreciate the people who just made a donation for the...
Miracle Mutts is Marley's Mutts Dog Rescue's Outreach and Education division, and involves the community at many levels. First of all, we offer dogs with the right temperament -- who are able to pass the Canine Good Citizen and Community Canine tests through the AKC -- a spot on our Miracle Mutts Therapy Dog team! Marley's Mutts is the first and only dog rescue sanctioned by the American Kennel Club to certify therapy dogs through their titling program! In order to be eligible for the title...
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...
"We can be in acceptance or fight against what we fear. change will still occur." ~ Jacqueline Garza Jacqueline Garza advocates for social justice and social change so underrepresented communities can live with dignity and peace in the world. Her groundbreaking workshops shed light and offer solutions on issues such as human trafficking, domestic violence, gender identity, sexual orientation, child advocacy, addiction/recovery, and Native American concerns. She’s helped advise the development of protocols for law enforcement and community agenc...
Jessica won the pie baking contest at the Apple Festival Oct. 11. We asked her if she would share her recipe and she was thrilled. Thank you Jessica and congratulations from the Loop. This is altogether a pretty classic apple pie recipe, but utilizes some baking techniques that make it really great. No special skills needed here, but maybe just a little patience (allow for about 4-5 hours total time, 1-1 1/2 hands on). It starts with the crust, which is so simple (made with a stand mixer!) and...
October is supposed to be fall, or so I thought for years. Now I think that this September just took over and has kept us, and much of the rest of the country, in warm weather. Due to lack of water, many of the trees in the western half of the US are bypassing their usual fall array. Sad when even the aspens are loosing their leaves before turning copper and brass. Or perhaps the colors of fall are just late. I miss them. We are back from our annual trek to Minot, ND for the Scandinavian...
Everyone’s seen those cards around, you know the ones, with the bulldogs on them. They are called “Bulldog Cards” and they are amazing! They could save you hundreds of dollars! Who doesn’t like savings? They make great gifts, and we all know how it feels to be short a few presents. Simple and cheap to buy, they only cost two $5s, ten $1s, or just a simple $10. They have discounts for some of the best places in town, and let’s not forget, by buying one, you’re supporting your children, your children’s friends, your friend’s children – let...
Probably 90% of the clients that come to me for massage are looking for relief from pain in their upper traps, neck and shoulders. As I palpate their upper traps and in between the shoulder blades, more times than not, I find dense nodules that cause the client pain when I press into it. I get asked all the time as I work on a knot, "What is that?" What causes that?" A simple explanation: it is a tight ball of muscle (muscle spasm) that has developed from an over worked muscle. Contrary to how...
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...
The Tehachapi Lions Club successfully completed their 3rd Annual Apple Drop during the Tehachapi Apple Festival. Due to the generosity of others, the Lions will be able to donate funds to Christmas for Seniors in Tehachapi and the Lions Diabetes Foundation. The Lions would like to thank the community of Tehachapi for their support as well as Albertson's and Kmart for allowing them to sell tickets in front of their stores. Our generous sponsor, BSE Equipment Rental, played a huge part in the...
Hope for Angola was the message George Wolfe delivered to the Kiwanis Club. He retired this year from working in the oil business in that country. In 2007 he was promoted to Turn-Around Coordinator in Angola where he worked a rotating shift of one month on and one month off. His job was planning shut downs of oil platforms for repairs and maintenance. After four years he retired, but was asked to return to be in charge of operating procedures. So once again he worked in Angola and continued...
Program Provides Career-Path and Self Sufficiency Supported by friends and family members, nineteen recruits from Class 30 of the Hall EMT Academy graduated Oct. 13, 2015 at the Hall Ambulance Community Center in Bakersfield. Over 1,800 people applied for a spot in the EMT Academy with those accepted into the program coming from diverse work histories including food servers, a fitness advisor, data entry clerk, and four having served in the military. One goal of the program is to provide an achievable career track that puts them on the path to...
Isaac Reister from Leavenworth, Washington, has been on the Pacific Crest Trail since June 29th when he left Harts Pass near the Canadian border and headed south. He said that he got kind of a late start but figured that he would be done before bad weather started. He was almost right. He hit blowing snow with a bit of lightening when he got near Bishop but it was Tuesday, Oct. 13, about one day out of Walker Pass, that the skies grew really dark and he could see lightning off toward Mojave. He...
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 thirds of the voters would provide a $50 per parcel tax for police protection services within the Stallion Springs CSD. The funds would be used to pay for police protection, personnel and other necessary police related expenses. No funds will be used for other purposes. Beginning in 2017 the tax will be levied on each parcel within the district. This tax will mak...
Google is just one of millions of places on the Internet. Think of the Internet as being a big huge giant place and are lots of other places to go once you get there. To get to the Internet on your computer/phone/tablet you have to use a Browser. If you have a PC then your PC came with Internet Explorer as your Browser. If you have a Mac then it came with Safari as your browser. You don't have to use the browser they put on your PC or Mac. Some of the other browsers you can get are Google...
We've gone to the dogs...well one dog in particular, little Abbe Normal, a wonder dog you might say! Thanks to celebrity bar tender Abbe Normal, her amazing owner Loree Gracey and Souza Family Vineyards, we launched our outreach campaign to raise awareness of our need for more Platelet donors! On Oct. 4th Abbe, Loree, and Bob and Patty Souza hosted a wonderful event to raise financial support and awareness for the increasing need for platelets by patients nationwide. Platelets are needed to...
Question: I’m Alex. My Check Engine Light came on in my vehicle. I’ve tried several things to make it go off but nothing has worked. What should I do? Answer: Like Alex, most of us in have experienced a check engine light coming on suddenly. We’re frustrated because we don’t know why. Of course that’s perfectly understandable: There are hundreds of reasons for the check engine light to come on – and there’s only one light. Alex said she tried several things to get the light to go off – but it didn’t work. Her goal was to get the light to turn o...
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