Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The opening of the new hospital in Tehachapi on Nov. 7, 2018 marked the culmination of a long, bruising battle to see the project to completion. "I had many sleepless nights," said Dr. Sam Conklin, 82, board member of the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District, which built and owns the new hospital, now operated by Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley. The old hospital on West E Street, completed in 1957, was outdated 50 years ago, Conklin said, when he arrived in Tehachapi to open his family practic...
November 7, 2018 The day the old Tehachapi Hospital closed and the new one opened in a carefully timed sequence, Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley President Jeff Lingerfelt spoke to staff at both locations and prayed with them that the patients, the staff and the new building be blessed. For Seventh-day Adventists, good health is a spiritual mission. The Adventist Loma Linda University teaching hospital is recognized as one of the finest medical facilities in the world. "[W]e believe God calls...
Mailee Stevens, 8, a student at Slice of Life Enrichment School is in their Little Sprouts Art Program. Slice of Life Enrichment School is opening "Worlds of Discovery and Culture," through supplemental instruction in the areas of music, languages and art. Slice of Life is located at 48771 W. Valley Blvd. in Tehachapi. For more information please call (661) 733-7409....
Ha's Apple Farm on Steuber Road is becoming well-known locally for their apples, pears, peaches, plums and grapes as well as their fruit based preserves, dried fruit, juices and vinegar. However, also available at Ha's are some lesser-known fruits that are known for their medicinal properties. Though relatively unknown in Tehachapi, these fruits are very much in demand throughout the Asian community. Pomegranates are probably the best known of the medicinal fruits and are considered one of the h...
While I was working on my Aerospace Engineering degree at Auburn University, I was enrolled in a work/study program with NASA. For four years I spent summers and winters in Hampton, Va. on work assignments for NASA. I made friends with a lot of amazing people in the Hampton area, especially through a local snow skiing club. A group of us would go on ski trips during winter weekends and play a lot of sports and go on beach trips during the summer months. One of the people that I became friends...
Sometimes we all just need a little reassurance in our lives. This past week those of us at City Hall and in the community got that reassurance with the results of our City election and the opening of our new hospital. In government, as well as in many of our personal lives, we certainly don't hear enough of the positive feedback. It's the naysayers that command attention, they often times have the loudest voice, spin the most lavish tales and are the first to find fault in every situation. I'm...
Tehachapi resident Richard H. Burns passed away on Nov. 5. Richard was born February 14, 1945 in San Bernardino to Mary and George Burns. Richard attended high school in North Hollywood before beginning his career as a film slicer for MGM Studios. He moved to Tehachapi in 1989. His family said his favorite thing about Tehachapi was its beautiful four seasons. In his spare time, he enjoyed visiting the beach, refinishing furniture, watching football and playing pool. He was also an L.A. Chargers...
It was over a year and a half ago that Dr. Sheryl Haggerty began looking for a home in Tehachapi. The physician had been practicing in Palmdale for over three years in the field of occupational medicine when she was offered a job in Bakersfield that she just couldn't refuse. She knew what she wanted in a house and was willing to make the hour and a half commute each way until she found what she was looking for. What appeared was her dream-come-true in spades. She knew she wanted owned-solar...
Surgery came back to Tehachapi for the first time in two decades when Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley medical center opened its doors on Nov. 7, thanks to support from the Guild of Tehachapi Hospital, which gifted more than $734,000 to purchase state-of-the-art equipment this year, including a $180,000 commitment in late October. The Guild donated more than $584,000 in the spring to outfit two operating rooms with top-of-the-line Stryker towers to perform laparoscopic surgeries. Guild members...
It is important both in our personal and professional lives to really focus on what matters. Often we're distracted with the imperfections around us, the bumps in the road, the details of the journey, that we forget about the moments, the defining moments that make us, that make our community. In our personal lives those moments could be things like our first day of school, our first car, first job. Graduating high school, leaving for college, marriage; all these moments woven together provide...
Tehachapi resident Richard H. Burns passed away on Nov. 5. Richard was born February 14, 1945 in San Bernardino to Mary and George Burns. Richard attended high school in North Hollywood before beginning his career as a film slicer for MGM Studios. He moved to Tehachapi in 1989. His family said his favorite thing about Tehachapi was its beautiful four seasons. In his spare time, he enjoyed visiting the beach, refinishing furniture, watching football and playing pool. He was also an L.A. Chargers...
The other day a friend sent me an email with "questions that can't be answered" and some of them made me laugh out loud. Like the first one: Who was the first person to look at a cow and say, "I think I'll squeeze those dangly things there, and drink whatever comes out?" I've often wondered about things like that. We take milk from cows for granted, but someone, somewhere, had to be the first person to milk a cow, and that's the sort of thing that's never in the history books. I wish it was. I...
Robert J. 'Bob' Gilliland has logged more experimental supersonic test flights above Mach 2 and Mach 3 than any other pilot. He was the SR-71 project test pilot for and personal friends with Kelly Johnson, at the Lockheed Skunk Works. Bob made the first flight of the SR-71 Blackbird on December 22, 1964 from Plant 42 in Palmdale, Calif. The flight lasted one hour, at a speed of over 1,000 mph. Bob was present at all of the SpaceShipOne launches in 2004, and told me, at the Rutan Brothers...
Blocking and reporting spam calls Are you getting tired of getting spam and scam calls on your cell phone? You know; those calls about elections, solar panels, IRS problems, dubious charity donations, energy retrofits, health insurance and all the rest. Current cell phone technology offers ways to block these calls. Of course, the spammers know this and have adapted. Almost all scammers and robocallers use "number spoofing" to make it hard to block them. Just because a number starts with 661,...
Greetings! Recently, a woman from Tehachapi, Judy Hewitt, shared with me and a few others the story of her 26-year-old nephew, Zach Heglemeyer, who died this past year from a surfing accident. He was on vacation in Bali, Indonesia, doing things he loved, especially surfing. Two days before he died, he wrote an inspiring message that I think would be good to read every day. Below is what he wrote. I and his aunt hope it inspires you. Blessings, Pastor Nancy Zach's Message Friends, take this to...
Slice of Life Enrichment School celebrated their first year in Tehachapi with a piano recital on Oct. 29. The recital theme was movie music and the 25 students who performed were encouraged to dress in costumes that matched their musical selection. They even walked a red carpet to the piano. Slice of Life owner Susan Minor said the kids enjoyed playing this type of music and the break from their standard classical music lessons. Some of the students who performed have been playing for about...
Tehachapi resident, Christopher Fulton has come forward for the first time to give the country and the world answers. Fulton had possession of the closest physical evidence to President Kennedy's fatal head wounds and was the first person since Robert F. Kennedy to listen to JFK's secret Oval Office recordings. In his unprecedented book, "The Inheritance: Poisoned Fruit of JFK's Assassination"-coauthored by his wife, Michelle Fulton-he has unlocked some of the mysteries that have haunted our...
The Apple Festival was meant to be family and especially kid-friendly. When streets are closed and the environment feels safe, parents are comfortable letting their kids go and have fun. That is what we hoped to accomplish at this year's Apple Festival. Our best estimate is that at least 2,100 kids enjoyed the bounce houses. The Tehachapi Wrestling team, lead by Curtis Nelson, kept that area safe and organized. At the far end of Green Street, thousands of prizes for games were gone in the blink...
The Tehachapi Treasure Trove is open Monday - Saturday 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Sunday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit us online at www.tehachapitreasuretrove.com and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/TehachapiTreasureTrove or call us at (661) 822-6794. We are located at 116 East Tehachapi Blvd., across the street from the Water Tower. Stop by and see our collection of uncommonly eclectic and unusually unique stuff. Remember we carry an extensive line of art, craft and scrapbooking supplies, and provide artist...
Derby Downs Cart Races The Stallion Springs Police Activities League held the Derby Downs Cart Races on Saturday, Nov. 3. Thirty children between the ages of 5 and 14 raced down a quarter mile hill on Stallion Springs Drive to see who would have the fastest time. After three full runs it came down to the final race between the eight fastest drivers. Morgan Mumby won the day with a time of 31.16 seconds, James Cole finished second and Blayden DiCicco finished third. The winners all received a...
On Saturday, Nov. 3, Tehachapi teens helped solve a murder mystery in the library, Sherlock Holmes style, during the Teen Fandom Club event. Clues were given, scavenger hunt style, throughout the library, which the young sleuths had to put together to solve. Next Fandom Club will be Saturday, Dec. 1, the theme is “Once Upon a Time....
On a beautiful and crisp fall evening, dancers came to Tehachapi from Frazier Park, Lancaster and Bakersfield to help the Tehachapi Gandy Dancers celebrate 40 years of square dancing during the October Harvest Dance. Bob Jones came to call for the square dance, providing a number of songs referencing anniversaries for the dancers to enjoy. Gary and Susan McLaughlin cued for the round dance portion, providing several waltzes and ballroom-style dance opportunities for round dancers. The next...
Halloween in Tehachapi...
On Saturday, Nov. 3, the Tehachapi Branch Library celebrated Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) with a festive event. Attendees enjoyed dance performances by Baila Folklorico, crafts where kids could make masks and decorate cookies, learned how to research their ancestors with family history consultants and altars paying tribute to loved ones....
