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As December 7 approaches, I am reminded of how some people think we should push the memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor out of our minds and just get on with our lives. I totally disagree. We should never forget! Tell the families of the 1,177 men who lost their lives aboard the USS Arizona on December 7, 1941 to forget the past. Tell my friend, Mary Hockensmith, to forget the bullets hitting the ground next to her and her 6-year-old sister, as they ran to their mother in Honolulu...
After participating in an arduous campaign for the last four months I am finally able to breathe again and get back to the things that I love to do, including writing this column about East Kern history, as told by my Mother Marion Deaver. This time I choose to write about two desert field trips taken by some members of the East Kern Antelope Historical Society. While the articles my mother wrote about the explorations are not all that informative I would like to point out some of the...
This week's Grassroots Tehachapi, looks at an actual "grassroots" project ... through the eyes of young students. The groundbreaking for the new sixth grade building at Jacobsen Middle School took place Nov. 15. Representatives and ASB leaders from the community's elementary schools were at the event and even got to help dig some of the first holes. The new building is said to be 13,175-square-feet and will hold 10 classrooms. I spoke to some of the students, and their enthusiasm for the project...