Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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KEENE, Calif. – U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Service's (USCIS) Fresno Field Office presented a naturalization ceremony on Oct. 8, hosted by the Cesar E. Chavez National Monument. The legendary civil rights icon spent his last quarter century there, in the mountain town of Keene, near Tehachapi. Twenty people were sworn in on that day. The Fresno Field Office of USCIS serves immigrants living in 10 central California counties. All who apply to naturalize usually have to drive to Fresno for t...
If you have not had a chance to check out the recently opened used car, motorcycle, and RV sales lot on South Street near the Mobil Gas Station in Old Town, Tehachapi, you should plan to do so. The lot is owned and operated by the father and son team of Marlon and Brandon Ashmore. Both Ashmores have lived in Tehachapi for the past 20 years. Their business officially opened on July 7, 2014 with approximately 35 used units in inventory. "We hope to fill a void in the auto, motorcycle, and RV marke...
Three Veteran buyers have recently used their Certificate of Eligibility to relocate to Tehachapi. Using a VA loan is a nifty way to use maximum financing to buy your primary residence. Here’s how it worked out for them. Buyer M owns a house elsewhere but was moving here to be closer to his job. Since he had not used his VA loan entitlement to buy his current home, we could use it here. His price exceeded $250,000, but with proper planning he only spent $1,200 in cash at closing. The P Family s...
After three years of living in California City, Travis, Tonya and Grady Gidner have moved to Tehachapi. They said the feel of community really attracted them as well as our seasonal weather. They came to California from Madison, Wisconsin, as the result of Travis’ work on life support systems at the Air Force Test Center and then at the NASA Test Center in Mojave. Travis was born in East Lancing, Michigan, and graduated from Michigan State University. He remembers that while he was in school t...
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...
Do you have a dog or a cat that needs to be spayed or neutered? How would you like to pay just $20 or $25 instead of $150 or more? Have a Heart Humane Society is one of 38 non-profits chosen from a nation-wide pool to participate in the eBay Giving Works Campaign For Your Cause program. The pet rescue's goal is to raise $10,000 for the TEHACHAPI FIX YOUR PET PROJECT through an eBay auction, which will run from Oct. 22-29 on eBay. The more items we sell, the more money we have to put toward...
Tehachapi – Have a Heart Humane Society will be hosting their 9th low cost spay & neuter clinic on Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014. The organization is partnering with Tehachapi Valley Parks and Recreation, who is making the West Park Activity Center on “D” Street available to house pets, before and after surgery. This clinic is being funded by a private donation (not taxpayer money) from New York Times Best-Selling Author Fern Michaels, a true animal lover. Michaels has authored more than 100 novels and visited Tehachapi some years ago for a book...
CSD The districts Waste Water plant Operating Permit was renewed on October 9. The new permit will go into effect December 1 giving the CSD five years to upgrade the waste water plant to tertiary treatment without violation or penalties. Water production was down by 15.9 percent from August 2014 and 10.9 percent from September of 2013. Waste water flow was down by over 500,000 gallons over August 2014. The Water Conservation Coordinator, currently funded through grant monies, has implemented several programs including a toilet rebate program,...
Wine is basically magic, right? A cure-all elixir that makes the fountain of youth look like a warm can of Coke. At least that’s what the barrage of news reports, advertising promises and countless online headlines tell you. The fact is, wine is a boon to your body in several ways, but the benefits are far smaller in scale than we have been led to believe. Can this be true? Bob the Wine Guy, is minimizing some wine fact rather than embellishing it. Will wonders never cease? Well, boys and girls,...
As a group, I would hazard a guess that ex-military, or perhaps fishermen, tell the best darn stories of their exploits. Since I grew up within the storytelling influence of Grandpa Frank, I was weaned on stories of the railroads. My only regret would have to be that I was much too young to fully appreciate all of the wondrous stories that gentle man had to tell. Over the years most of these stories have stayed safely tucked away within the confines of my now aging cranium. Before some malady co...
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, as I was, 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...
Mojave – It may have been the first High Desert Jazz and Blues Festival, but many are hoping it is not the last. The evening at the Stuart Witt Event Center located at the Mojave Air and Space Port started with the Lori Andrews Quartet playing their set of upbeat jazz pieces. No smoky rooms and sultry sounds, no. Andrews surprised many with her lively and jazzed up harp playing. "I am known for a slap bass technique," Andrews explained. It is a technique she has developed over her 30 plus y...
When I was growing up in Mojave I remember the local Western Auto, located on K Street. I loved to go in there – they had everything for sale. My dad would go in there when I had a flat on my bike, and he finally bought the thorn resistant ones, because of me riding through vacant lots as short cuts that were full of “goat heads”. Yesterday I had no idea what I was going to write about for this column. I found several articles that my mother Marion Deaver had written that I could choose from, bu...
One Book, One Kern Tehachapi Discussion: FIELD High School Students Share Insights about Immigration. Each year the Kern County Libraries select a book and encourage people to read it, then find a group in Kern County to discuss the book. This year’s book is Enrique’s Journey, written by Pulitzer Prize winner, Sonia Nazario. It tells the story of an unaccompanied minor and his dangerous pilgrimage from Honduras to the United States to find his mother, who went north to support her family. Whe...
Over the last few weeks, I’ve been thinking a lot about the upcoming elections in Tehachapi, and the candidates and issues that will be considered by voters as they cast their ballot this November. As an employee of the City and not an elected official, my role is to manage the day to day business of the City and to avoid political discourse when possible. Instead of engaging in political debate best left to those individuals running for office, my staff and I do our best to provide facts and i...
Sometimes recipes come about in different ways and for different reasons. Some arrive out of necessity, some out of cravings, some due to lack of, or excess of, ingredients. Some are inspired by a certain ingredient, and some come from dreams. The Shrimp Napoli is one of those dishes. It is one of my signature dishes at La Bella, which means it is an original recipe I personally created. I was cooking one evening at the restaurant and surveying the ingredients on hand. I realized that there...
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7 Ford Mustang V-6 with 18,539 miles. 6 speed auto with select shift, MP3, A/C, power windows,lock and mirrors. STK#67066f VIN#1ZVBP8AM835208725. Still has factory warranty remaining. $19,565.00. Must take delivery from dealer stock by Nov. 15, 2014. Call Kelly, today! All prices, plus government fees and taxes, any finance charges, dealer document preparation charge and emission charges....
You may already know that Inkopelli carries bestsellers, new releases, books your favorite movies are based on, as well as used books. But did you know that Inkopelli has a growing selection of collectible, rare and antique books? Currently our largest rare, antique and collectible collections are science, history and religion, but we also have titles in other categories, as well, with more arriving nearly every day. For example, we have an 1879 copy of “Ecce Deus: Essays on the Life and Doctrine of Jesus Christ”; a 1903 copy of Edward Bul...
Moessner Farms offers jams and jellies made from their fruit orchard. They are famous around here for their German cookies and pastries, too. Each summer you can find them participating in the local Farmers Market. During their off season, you can also find these items in their store, located off of Bear Valley Road, just before the Bear Valley Springs gate. See their ad below for store information....
If a community has a local VFW, it truly is a haven for veterans from all foreign wars. Tehachapi is one of those lucky communities which is blessed with two posts: Post 12114, and Post 5948 on Tehachapi Blvd. Post 5948 was chartered in May of 1960 and has been at its current location on Tehachapi Blvd. since 2000. Veterans come in all sizes and ages these days, and currently there are 240 members who call Post 5948 their home away from home. "We have members who served in WWII, Iraq,...
Continued from the October 11, 2014 issue. If possible, save for your retirement and your child’s college at the same time Ideally, you’ll want to try to pursue both goals at the same time. The more money you can squirrel away for college bills now, the less money you or your child will need to borrow later. Even if you can allocate only a small amount to your child’s college fund, say $50 or $100 a month, you might be surprised at how much you can accumulate over many years. For example, if yo...
The battle-scarred Tehachapi Critical Care Replacement Hospital is emerging triumphant as skilled crews give it form and substance. The 66,000-square-foot. $90 million project currently may be $23 million short of funds that will be needed to finish it, but as the shape, vitality, power and beauty of the building present themselves, completing the hospital as planned is the realistic manifestation of a big vision. The community will be proud of this building. While architect Stephen Wen, AIA,...
The Tehachapi City Council formally adopted a major update of the municipal zoning code in a 416-page document that incorporates a hybrid of conventional and form-based elements. The document "is a reflection of us," City Manager Greg Garrett told the Council Oct. 20 at its regular meeting at the Wells Education Center. "We are proud of this document," Garrett said. "It tells the story of what we do and how we do it, all the things we pride ourselves in. It tells a really good story." Council...
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