Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Thank you to all of our volunteers and staff who helped make this annual bridge decorating a success. Debbie and Diego Rodriguez, Denise and David Cox, Larry Heasley, John Stillman, Junior Rodriguez and Rich Brown with Tehachapi Lawn and Garden. A very special thank you goes out to Debbie Rodriguez who brings this Christmas Cheer to our Community. You are an incredible soul and we all love and appreciate you! Parks and Recreation An all new Friday Fit class will be starting on January 7, 2022...
My name is Nicholas Tanaka. I fell in love with movies and studied film in college, but due to my age, I haven't seen many of the classics. I've decided to go back and watch the films that have formed our movie landscape today, and view them with a modern lens. An absolute classic (written and directed by George Seaton), centered around the real Kris Kringle, who finds himself with a job at the retail giant Macy's as a parade and mall Santa. This Santa runs into a busy professional single...
The Saint Malachy's Conference of Saint Vincent de Paul Charities has been serving in the Tehachapi area since 2001. The Conference is able to provide the following types of support for those in need: food, transportation assistance, utilities and rent assistance, financial help for education and employment preparation programs, as well as referrals to other charitable and public agencies in the Kern County area. The society is an international organization of lay people, who practice C...
Bear Valley Springs is a great place to live and it is the only area in all of Greater Tehachapi with its own Santa Claus! BVS has Jorge Melendez and his brilliant imagination to thank as well as his exceptional supervisor, Karolyn Hartmann, for the last several years of gatehouse decorations for various holidays and for their own private Santa. Jorge and his wife, Elizabeth (his "Princess Charming" as he calls her), moved to Bear Valley Springs about six years ago with their daughter, Alyssa,...
I recently went through the McDonald's drive-thru near the corner of Valley Blvd. and Tucker Rd. in Tehachapi. As I emerged I saw a T@B Sofitel teardrop camper hitched to an ordinary car (not a truck), parked with the driver standing nearby, apparently stretching his legs. As a tiny house enthusiast and an admirer of all things mini, I was intrigued. I rolled down my window and called out to the man, "How do you like your little trailer?" "I love it!" he called back. "Do you want to take a look...
On December 4, the Tehachapi Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church officially celebrated the fact that they paid off their mortgage and now own their property and buildings outright. They actually paid off the mortgage last year, but as we all know, 2020 was a pretty tumultuous year and many celebrations were cancelled or postponed. Before the Tehachapi SDA Church was established, Seventh-day Adventists from Tehachapi drove to Mojave to meet and fellowship. But in 1985, they began meeting at the Co...
Paul Eugene Duke, 61, passed away in his home Sunday evening, November 14, 2021. Paul was a resident of Tehachapi for 32 years. Paul was raised by his loving parents Olga and Gene Duke, with his brother Dan in Bakersfield California. Growing up, he participated in Boy Scouts, and was involved in swimming through Junior College. He enjoyed annual family vacations to Yosemite. He always had an interest in aviation and everything mechanical which led him to a fulfilling career in aerospace and...
Cerro Coso Community College will be closed for winter recess from Monday, Dec. 20 through Sunday, Jan. 2, 2022. Online registration will be available 7 days a week, 24 hours a day through the college website at www.cerrocoso.edu. Try this easy and convenient way to register for classes. The spring schedule of classes is also available online. Business will resume at all college locations on Monday, Jan. 3, 2022 and staff will be available to assist in person, via email, phone, and scheduled...
The Tehachapi Mountain Alano Club had a very successful Thanksgiving dinner and marathon meeting event. According to Alano Club president Jim Walker, "It was beautifully decorated" and "very well attended." The food was good and plentiful and the spirit of recovery and thankfulness was alive and well. Too often for alcoholics and addicts, the holidays from Halloween through the New Year festivities are fraught with isolation, temptation and sadness. That's why it's so important to have a way to...
Cal Rossi from Southern California Edison (SCE) spoke to Tehachapi Rotarians at their December 9 meeting. Rossi has been the SCE government relations manager responsible for our area since 2009 when he began his relationship-building efforts with local leaders, a position which became more important recently with the policy of Public Safety Power Shutoffs (PSPS). His territory covers an area from Bakersfield to Mammoth and includes Kern, Inyo and Tuolumne counties. Rossi began by thanking the...
Effective December 15, the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) is requiring masks to be worn in all indoor public settings irrespective of vaccine status through January 15, 2022, at which point California will make further recommendations as needed in response to the pandemic. This is in response to a 47% increase in COVID-19 case rates and a 14% increase in hospitalizations since Thanksgiving, according to the state. See updated Guidance for the Use of Face Coverings at www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CID/DCDC/Pages/COV...
It is with heavy hearts that we announce that TVRPD’s application to bring a new park and community center to Tehachapi was not awarded funding. This was an extremely competitive statewide grant. There were 468 project applications, totaling $2.42 billion in requests with $548.3 million available. Over the last two years, I have had the privilege and opportunity to dream, shoot for the moon, and fight for a chance to bring resources to Tehachapi that would grow and expand our services and facilities. In the position I hold, I feel that it is m...
Irene Volpe (Bowers/Brissler) died at home with her family on November 12, 2021, in Tehachapi, California of Alzheimer's disease at age 91. Her funeral will be held at Rose Hills Cemetery, 3888 Garden of Compassion, lot 2602, space 2. Born in Overton County, Livingston, Tennessee on October 30, 1930; she was named after her father Ira Bowers, and the only child of her mother Amy Ovie Brissler (Garrett). Amy was born in 1914, died of natural causes at 95 years of age in 2009. Her beloved "Dad"...
Maria Angela Weir passed away in Los Angeles, California, on October 27, 2021, following a short illness. She was 96 years old. Born in San Diego on August 18, 1925, to Italian immigrant parents Antonio "Papa" Alfredo and Grace "Mamida" Armeda Ravettino, Maria was the eldest of the family's two daughters, sister Gloria arriving in 1931. In 1927, when Maria was two, a defining event in her life took place, as she described in her diary: We had an Italian family living near us and one of the...
One of my favorite parts of the winter holiday season is driving around town after dark and seeing all the Christmas lights and decorations on people's homes and yards, including, of course, decorated Christmas trees seen through house windows. Long ago my family used to always take part in this holiday tradition, usually starting to decorate our house the day after Thanksgiving, or sometimes not until the first weekend in December. Then around the middle of the month, especially if it was...
The first time I heard about Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer was in 1950. My Marine husband and I had been married eight months and were living in a Quonset Hut at Camp Pendleton. It was late November and Gene Autry, the cowboy movie star of that era, was on the radio singing his heart out about the latest addition to Santa's transportation system. I know Autry owned a baseball team (the L.A. Angels) but he must have had a large interest in the radio station too, for his voice and that song came...
"Nobody does me better than me." – Eddie Van Halen I first met Helen McAllister at a Spirit Wind meeting at the local Community Church and we have been friends ever since. Helen isn't just your average senior lady. She is a conglomerate of resilience with a strong core of beliefs and a skeleton of steel, coated over with talent and wisdom that just drips off her. She continually gives back to the community, always thinking of others and taking no credit for herself. She doesn't speak of her a...
The November Plane Crazy Saturday had a maximum "wow factor!" Meghan Salzman gave a concise and informative presentation about the incredible Build-A-Plane project, sponsored by the Tehachapi Society of Pilots. Many of the sponsoring mentors, all experienced aerospace professionals, were in the audience to encourage this exceptional young woman, who displayed an inspiring appearance of self-confidence and knowledge, although she had never addressed a group of people before. "I began attending...
(Note: This is the twenty-eighth article in a continuing series about local military veterans and their service to our great country.) James was born in Bakersfield on March 30, 1994, but grew up in the unincorporated area of Hart Flat, where his parents owned a five-acre property. His father, David, teaches history at Tehachapi High School; his mother, Lara, taught English at the high school and other locations through 2020. As a youngster, James worked for neighbors cleaning horse stalls,...
Toot, toot! Ever wondered about all those loud horn blasts as the trains come through Tehachapi? The four blasts as they approach an intersection or other series of toots before they move from a standstill? Those horn blasts are part of the General Code of Operating Rules for the railroad and are sounded for safety reasons. Whistles are sounded to attract attention to the train. They are also used as signals to railroad personnel and to the public or livestock on the tracks that a train is...
From January 1 to 16, 2022. we will be closed for remodeling. On January 17 we will reopen as the Tehachapi Arts Center. We are now a cooperative of more than 24 local artists and craftsmen. The new partnership will bring several positive changes for our customers and community. We will be open more days, offer more classes, more events and opportunities for new artists, as well as new events for the young artists, an Open Mic night for our performing artists and opening up our facility for clas...
It's important to know how to tie a Christmas tree to your car before you set out to find the perfect pine or fir. Whether you're venturing to a tree farm to chop one down yourself or are simply picking one up that's ready to go, you need to know how to secure it to your car safely. Follow these tips and you'll have your tree ready to decorate in no time. Protect your car Before you even try to figure out how to tie a Christmas tree to your car, you'll need to protect it from damage. Live trees...
Whether your holiday list includes a new television, computer, washer or dryer or gaming console – take note. Safety may not be at the top of your list, but it’s one of the first things you should think about when purchasing big-ticket electronic devices. Here are a few electrical safety tips to consider: • Unplug your electrical items by grasping the plug firmly rather than pulling the cord. • Check that your electrical items are certified by a nationally recognized testing laboratory. • Never remove the third prong on an electrical appliance...
On Dec. 8, the Bakersfield National Cemetery Support Committee unveiled the Avenue of the Flags, 44 new American flags and flagpoles lining the gently curving road leading to the Upper Assembly Area of the cemetery and also sweeping down away from it. It's a graceful circular drive, lined with stately and gorgeous ceremonial flags. Dick Taylor, president of the Support Committee, stood in front of five rather impressive military branch insignia pillars and addressed those gathered including...
Just a glance at the words “What Child is This?” and immediately the melody of “Greensleeves” starts playing in my head along with the Christmas words about the baby Jesus. The lyrics were written in 1865 by William Chatterton Dix and set to the tune of “Greensleeves,” which was a traditional English folk song at the time, in 1871. The song itself has British origins, but is much more popular in America, perhaps due to its familiar tune. “Greensleeves,” a broadside ballad, was first known as...
