Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Local firefighters will be walking the corners of Valley and Tucker in Tehachapi on November 12th during the "Heroes & Helmets for Hope" drive that is sponsored by Make-A-Wish Central California. From 7:30 a.m to 2 p.m. they will be collecting donations that will go towards granting the wishes of children with life-threatening medical conditions who live in the Tehachapi area. One of the local beneficiaries of Make-A-Wish is five-year-old Braylon who suffers from a rare neurological disease...
When you apply for financing, we’ll likely ask you for your last two bank statements. Here’s a quick run down of what we’re looking for. Many single people have put their parents on title as joint owners of their account, just to be sure someone can get to the money in case of emergency. We need to know the money used for closing is actually “yours”, so your co-owner will be asked to sign a statement that you have 100% access to all funds in the account. I know it’s awkward for grown adult...
Irene and Rory Fox love the mountains. They met in Mt. Baldy, California, 12 years ago. Irene was teaching school and Rory was and still is a contractor. Their move to Tehachapi brought them back to the mountains from Canyon Lake, near Lake Elsinore in Riverside County. They had lived in that gated community for six years but the lure of the mountains and friends who were already living here made them think that Tehachapi might be just the place to retire. They found a house in the mountains of...
Adopt a Pet at Edwards Team (APET) Rescue got its humble start in the summer of 2001. The rescue was originally developed to support the Base Animal Control Facility in rehoming animals that were found as strays and to assist military personnel in rehoming their animals if they were unable to take them when the family transferred. Before the rescue was established, all of these pets were sent to Kern County Shelters. While our facility is located at Edwards Air Force base, we do not receive any funding from the Air Force or the Federal governme...
Keeping an eye on Bundleware Sometimes a program you’re installing will sneakily install other software. This ‘other’ software is known as bundleware and can be hard to prevent if you’re not a Marine sniper and can’t uncheck that tiny box way down at the bottom of the screen. There’s a utility called Unchecky that’s great at catching and stopping bundleware. Unchecky runs in the background and keeps watch while you’re installing software. By default Unchecky will not only notify you of bundlewar...
The benefits of canine intervention in so many activities with children are well-documented. Dogs in library programs motivate kids to open up and read aloud, lending soft, nonjudgmental ears; service dogs help children with autism and other disabilities or illnesses navigate their world with a sense of comfort and connectivity; facility dogs become part of incentive-and-rewards systems at schools, motivating kids to practice exceptional behavior; and comfort dogs provide loving security to chil...
This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor. You may be quite willing to plan an investment strategy for your retirement years. After all, it can be enjoyable to think about traveling the world, pursuing your hobbies or participating in any of the activities you’ve associated with an active retirement. However, once you do retire, you’ll need to “shift gears” somewhat to focus on your legacy. Specifically, to protect your loved ones and ensure...
I recently saw a program on PBS about an opera that was performed in 2013 at the Los Angeles Union Station. It wasn’t that long ago that we’d gone down to Union Station using the Metro Link and had a tour, so there was a lot in the show that we’d seen. The “story” was based on the book Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino and adapted as an opera by Christopher Cerrone. It showed an imaginary conversation between Marco Polo and Kublai Khan. The show was performed inside and in the courtyard...
I tell my nutrition students that food is VERY personal to everyone. This might explain the reaction to the announcement by the World Health Organization (WHO) that eating processed meats and red meats can be related to certain cancers, especially colorectal cancers. The question then becomes: After eating hot dogs and grilled meats all summer, am I doomed? What can I eat? What the WHO actually released was that after looking at the studies already performed, 22 experts from 10 countries found that those folks who ate more processed foods,...
At the October 27 meeting of the Tehachapi School Board, Superintendent Susan Andreas-Berval introduced Lori Raineri, President of Government Financial Strategies, a Sacramento company that has been engaged to establish a need assessment of the district's Facilities Master Plan. The plan which is dated December, 2014 itemizes all of the potential needs for each of the district's schools. Ms. Raineri proposed a process for prioritizing the huge list of needs and finding the best way to meet...
Tehachapi can look forward to a new recycled waste plan. Assistant Director of Kern County Public Works, Nancy Ewert, made a presentation at the November 2nd City Council meeting regarding the 2015 Amendment to the Kern County Source Reduction and Recycling Element (SRRE) and the new state regulation mandating the recycling of commercial organic waste (AB1826). As of April 2016, any business, public entity or multi-unit residential dwelling of five units or more and producing more than eight...
On Oct. 25th at the Tehachapi Veteran's Memorial Hall, Assemblywoman Shannon Grove hosted a Town Hall Meeting featuring a panel of experts from California Department of Fish and Wildlife. Stafford Lehr, Chief of the Anadromous Fisheries Branch, began the meeting with an overview of the department's Mission Statement. Their twofold mission is to first protect fish and wildlife and their habitats and secondly to provide for the continued public use and enjoyment of activities like hunting and...
The Tejon Rancheria was a good home for Andres Campas and his family. Anselmo and his brother, Julio, received kind care and a good education in the work of a cowboy. Fort Tejon and the Rancheria were part of four Spanish land grants; all who would be purchased by Gen. Beale. From 1854 through 1864 the Army protected the people of the surrounding areas from conflicts between settlers and Indians but mostly guarded against outlaws and cattle rustlers; a constant problem. The residents on the...
As an aviation buff, I have always had a great interest in the aircraft produced by the North American Aviation company. My father was an aeronautical engineer and had involvement with many of the WW ll fighters and bombers produced between 1939 and 1944. He is probably the only man that sat in, ran up and signed off on all twenty four B-25B bombers for the Doolittle Raid in April 1942 in which sixteen were used. As a teenager, I was told the stories of the X-15 at Edwards AFB and a new mach 3...
IRAs The longer you delay retirement, the longer you can contribute to your IRAs, up to a point. If you have a traditional IRA, you have to start taking required minimum distributions (and stop contributing) once you reach age 70½. If you fail to take the minimum distribution, the IRS will assess a 50 percent penalty on the amount that should have been distributed. If you have money in your current employer's retirement plan, as long as you are not a more than five percent owner, the required mi...
The Celtic musical duo, Men of Worth, will offer an evening of authentic traditional Irish and Scottish music Saturday, Nov. 21, at 7 p.m. in Fiddlers Crossing. Their tunes and songs are so closely connected to their heritage, that Scotsman Donnie Macdonald sings some in his native Gaelic and Irishman James Keigher performs songs saved from the centuries-old oral traditions of his native County Mayo. "Our music has its history in the crofting life of my Hebridean homeland and James' western...
Today UPS pulled up to the curb in front of Gallery 'N' Gifts with a multitude of giant boxes for one of Tehachapi Valley Arts Association's favorite events. The annual "Put Art Back in the Classroom" campaign. Over the past four weeks TVAA has been collecting wish lists from local teachers for art supplies desperately needed. Today those supplies arrived and were delivered to various classrooms in five local area schools. Mark Caldwell, a former TVAA art scholarship recipient, volunteered to...
The Open Enrollment Period for 2016 Covered California health insurance plans is here. It starts Sunday, Nov. 1, 2015 and ends Sunday, Jan. 31, 2016. All plans are Obama Care or Affordable Care Act compliant. Covered California was created to help you get health coverage to protect yourself and your loved ones. Having insurance can ensure your access to medical care if you get sick or are injured, so that you can keep your body healthy, but it also protects your peace of mind, because you can...
My husband, Al, and I always enjoy learning something new about little known aircraft from the past. Recently I came across a photo that I took at the September 2012 Plane Crazy Saturday Two at California City Municipal Airport of a 1946 Commonwealth Skyranger 185. Originally, this aircraft was built by Rearwin Airplanes and the company manufactured 80 airplanes before World War II stopped production of civilian airplanes. (In all, only 275 Skyranger 185s were built.) Rearwin was reorganized in...
Marie Wyman Marie Wyman, an award-winning dollmaker for 40 years, creates reproductions of antique dolls in porcelain, complete with era-appropriate garment design, fabrics, lace and ribbons. She makes one or two of a kind and sells them all over the world. When she isn't working on dolls, she makes aprons and table runners for her Lutheran Church sales, quilts and hats for the Madera Children's Hospital and dresses for children in South Africa. "Everything gets used," she said. "I use stray...
A two-year resident of Tehachapi, Lauren Jaimes has been making clay dolls for four years. She transforms the clay, which she bakes in a dedicated toaster oven, into individual humans with their own personalities and characteristics. Her dolls feature expressive eyes and they exude sweet innocence. She places them in theme vignettes. She found that creating dolls makes her happy. "The art comes from the fun and joy of it," Jaimes said....
When Ludwig Van Beethoven premiered two symphonies and other works at a four-hour concert at Vienna in 1808, the musicians grumbled for lack of rehearsal time and one critic described the event as "a cart rolling down the hill with no horse." At Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra's Nov. 1 concert at Country Oaks Baptist Church, which featured one of the symphonies performed that night in Vienna as well as the artistry of guest violinist Mischa Lefkowitz, there was no grumbling and no runaway cart....
Watch it! Hospital video tour – Click on "take a tour" on the web site TVHD.org for a four-and-a-half minute video tour of the new Tehachapi Replacement Critical Access Hospital. Senior Project Engineer Ana Vlad is the tour guide. Residents of the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District who have supported this project and have twice voted bond measures to build it will be happy to see the construction progress on this outstanding facility. KMC on its own – Kern Medical Center CEO Russell Judd told...
Two Tehachapi community service superstars have announced new plans. Houchin Blood Bank Account Manager Christina Scrivner will leave that post on Dec. 31 to dedicate herself to her busy household. Scrivner has been instrumental in the success of numerous blood drives for the Bakersfield-based non-profit blood bank. At the Nov. 4, 2015 meeting of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council (GTEDC), Houchin CEO Greg Gallion announced Scrivner's departure, praising her "enthusiasm, energy,...
A brief Veterans Day ceremony will take place on Nov. 11 in Philip Marx Central Park. Sponsored by local American Legion Auxiliary, Unit 221, the ceremony will begin at 11:11 which commemorates the time of the signing of the Armistice which signified the end of World War I in 1918. The ceremony will consist of keynote speaker Full-Bird Colonel Betty Demus (see her story on page 24), flag raising, gun salute, benediction and taps. Members of the community are asked to bring their own chairs....
