Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Halloween in Tehachapi is a wonderful time of year for all the ghost and goblins leading up to and on the day of Halloween. BooKay, Oct. 26 The Tehachapi Pops Orchestra (TPOPS) will offer musical tricks and treats in two hour-long performances at 4 and 7 p.m. on Oct. 26. The BooKay is a fundraiser for both TPOPS and TCT. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and are available from Mountain Music, Fiddlers Crossing, Tehachapi Treasure Trove, Tehachapi Furniture, members of the orchestra...
The eclectic boutique intriguingly named Twisted Sisters Revival! has recently changed ownership. The new owner, Merry Hineline, purchased the shop in April 2019 and re-opened the doors in June 2019. Merry was born in Los Angeles and grew up in Los Angeles and San Diego. She relocated to Bear Valley Springs with her husband and dogs 3.5 years ago when her husband became employed with CalSpan, a test pilot school which operates at Edwards Air Force Base. In getting to know her new community, she...
Ed Miller, well known to the vehicle repair shops in Tehachapi, is the new owner of the NAPA Auto Parts Store (dba Kern Auto Parts, Inc.,) located at 20633 South Street. Ed grew up in Lake Isabella and still resides there; he is married and a father of six. Ed's personal history with NAPA Auto Parts is one of years of hard work and dedication, which were eventually rewarded with remarkable success. He began at the bottom, employed as a delivery driver at the age of 23. Over the years, he worked...
Fiddlers Crossing is proud to present Irish master fiddler Kevin Burke on Friday, Nov. 8, in Mountain Bible Church. When the concert's engineer, Peter Cutler, asked Burke's agent what kind of back-up musicians would be playing with him, he was told: "When you're Kevin Burke, you don't need any back-up!" The concert will be comprised of one man with a fiddle, alone on the stage, completely filling the air with some of the best Irish fiddle playing you're likely to hear in your lifetime. Kevin...
Halloween is upon us again, so 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...
Historically, landlords and tenants have been on opposite sides of the fence. Thankfully, the Fair Housing Laws define the rights of both, as well as all aspects of housing transactions from rental, sales, realtors, management companies, insurance, etc. This column is designed to bridge the gap between the two. With the current mandatory power outages, a new issue has arisen and some tenants are trying to make the landlord responsible. Let me explain. When a landlord rents out a home, there is...
Bill and Beth Chaney arrived in Tehachapi in September from Clovis, Calif. where they had lived for ten years. Bill said there are things about Clovis they will miss like being able to walk to Old Town Clovis from their house but moving to Tehachapi was a compromise. He wanted to move to Texas and she wanted to be closer to grandchildren. The grandchildren won. Bill and Beth are both pastors of the Foursquare Church. Bill supervises 160 pastors located from Frazier Park to the Oregon border, as...
When it comes to osteoporosis, milk doesn't always do a body good. That's the news from a Harvard University study that followed more than 77,000 women for more than a decade. Researchers found no reduction in the risk of arm or hip fractures in women who drank three glasses of milk daily. As an orthopedic surgeon in the Adventist Health Physician Network, I hear it from patients frequently: "I can't have osteoporosis. I drink plenty of milk." It's one of the greatest perpetuated myths when it...
Question: I am a 57-year-old woman with Multiple Sclerosis. MS forced me to stop working seven years ago but I was able to manage my symptoms most of the time. I have had MS since I was in my late 20s. Right now, I have cramping, difficulty walking, inability to rapidly change motions, involuntary movements, muscle paralysis, muscle rigidity, muscle weakness, problems with coordination, stiff muscles, clumsiness, muscle spasms and sometimes overactive reflexes. There are times I have to use a wa...
As the school year progresses, Tehachapi High School Seniors are preparing for their futures and planning for their college careers. Many organizations provide scholarships to help deserving seniors in our community. We at Have A Heart Humane Society have offered two scholarships for the last three years to honor our founder, Chelley Kitzmiller who was a published author and, of course, an animal lover. One scholarship is to encourage creative writing and the subject matter prompts of the essay will deal with a human/animal connection or...
A few suggestions for parents to consider before your ghouls and goblins go out on Halloween: • Make sure costumes are flame-retardant and tell your children to stay away from open flames or burning jack-o-lanterns. • Keep costumes short to prevent trips, falls, and other bumps in the night. • Use make-up instead of a mask. Masks can reduce or obstruct a child’s vision. • Make sure the costume has bright reflective colors so they can be seen. • Plan a safe trick-or-treat route. • Trick-or-trea...
Wi-Fi is a technology that uses a high-frequency radio signal to connect devices without wires. Because WiFi uses public radio frequencies, there must be standards and specifications. In 1997, a committee at the International Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) created the technical standards for a section of public radio bandwidth. The numerical designation of these standards was 802.11. In 1999, a trade association formed to hold the many patents needed to make WiFi work. This...
The Ridgecrest Chamber Music Society presents the third concert of their 2019-2020 concert series with a concert on Sunday, Nov. 3, with chamber music performed by Minetti Quartett members: Maria Ehmer, violin, Anna Knopp, violin, Milan Milojicic, viola, and Leonhard Roczek, cello. The concert will include music by Joseph Haydn, String Quartet in G Minor, Opus 74, No. 3 "Rider" Hob.III:74; Alban Berg, String Quartet, Opus 3; and Johannes Brahms, String Quartet in A Minor, Opus 51, No. 2. The...
It's been one year since we opened the doors of the new Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley Hospital, and, when I reflect on our time here, I'm humbled. I'm humbled by our community, which has so graciously welcomed us here and trusted us with its care. I'm humbled by our patients, whose determination and will I find inspiring. I'm humbled by our team, who work so tirelessly to care for all of you. I'm humbled to lead an organization that has such passion for the health of this community. At...
This year's Fifth Annual Pancreatic Cancer Fundraiser sponsored by the Major Jason E. George VFW Post 12114, initiated by Pat and Alex Athans on behalf of their daughter, Christina, was a great success. Total funds raised this year was $15,307, coming from donations, the silent auction, which was comprised of over 50 items, and 50/50 tickets sold at the dinner. In the last five years the Major Jason E. George VFW 12114 has donated 100 percent of all proceeds of the fundraisers to the Pancreatic...
At the Tehachapi Audubon’s October meeting, John Rowden will speak to us about Plants for Birds: growing healthy communities for birds and people together. Audubon’s Bird-friendly Communities conservation strategy is guided by the principle of improving communities all over the country by providing birds with food, shelter, safe passage and places to raise their young. Native plants provide resources that support birds in each of those areas and research is demonstrating that even small patches of habitat planted with natives – down to the y...
Ever since I was a little kid, I've been interested in old objects and artifacts from earlier eras, especially if they were used in the Tehachapi Mountains. These are tangible remnants of our history, and though the people who once used them are gone and the places have changed, these humble items have traveled through time and are physical reminders of the past. I joined the Tehachapi Heritage League when I was 11 years old, when the museum was housed in the little old Chamber of Commerce...
"Admiration: our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves." – Ambrose Bierce Ambrose Bierce was an American journalist and humorist who was a contemporary of Mark Twain. Both brilliant and cynical, he wrote a newspaper column for years in which he offered his own definitions to familiar words....
A young lady who sat by President Calvin Coolidge at a dinner tried all evening to get him into a conversation and all she could get was yes, no or a grunt. She finally told him that she had made a bet with her friends that she could get him to say more than three words during the dinner. He merely turned to her and said, "You lose." – President Calvin Coolidge...
"If you're wanting to see trains in Tehachapi or watch a train go around the Loop, don't try it on a Monday, or at least if you do wait until late in the afternoon – Monday is UP's designated minor maintenance day, and the tracks are often closed to rail traffic until the end of the workday." – Ed Gordon Ed is an extremely knowledgeable rail enthusiast and was for many years the helpful and informative owner of Trains Etc. on Tehachapi Boulevard....
"There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir, We must rise and follow her; When from every hill of flame, She calls and calls each vagabond by name." – William Bliss Carman...
"The Kawaiisu set up temporary camps for gathering acorns and pinyons, and these were surrounded by circular brush structures approximately thirty feet in diameter. These bulwarks were very simply constructed of white fir tree branches – puu-gu-SIV-ah – reinforced with heaps of sagebrush about four feet high. They served as windbreaks." – Dr. Stephen Cappanari, 1947 White Fir is one of the main conifer species found in the Tehachapi Mountains. A bed of White-Fir boughs was John Muir's favor...
"In 1978, we had a 100-year flood in Sand Canyon. Then in 1983, we had another 100-year flood. I thought, 'Boy, time really flies. It hardly seemed like a hundred years had passed!" – Liz Kachmar Liz has probably lived in Sand Canyon longer than anyone else – she and her late husband first moved there in 1974....
"I knocked out the last 9 miles of the trail to get to Tehachapi-Willow Springs Rd. at Mile 558 on the Pacific Crest Trail. A mile or two before I got there, while hiking steadily down through the world's largest wind farm, I spied a white truck at a road. My heartbeat accelerated - could it be Coppertone? This roaming trail angel in an RV gives out root beer floats, and is generally amazing. I forced myself to not sprint the last part of the trail, in case it wasn't him. It was him. I inhaled...
"Tehachapi! is not a sneeze, but the name of a mob of mountain peaks and crags that disputed the right of way with the Southern Pacific Railroad. The heights were impractical, the rocks were immovable, and so the train climbed as high as it could, and crept into a burrow like a fox." – Benjamin F. Taylor, 1878...
