Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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More Sponsors. More Fun. More Surprises. Cheers to Charity 2016 is shaping up to be the Must-Do Charity Event for the Summer Season! This annual fund raising event, to be held Saturday, August 13 at Aviator Park, has more sponsors, more surprises and more fun planned than ever before! Cheers to Charity benefits local charities and features live music, mouth-watering tapas, scrumptious wines, delicious craft beer ... plus the area’s only offering of skillfully made home-brewed beer. Choice cigars (available for purchase), a silent auction, a cof...
Holly Arnold has joined Hall Ambulance Service, Inc. as director of business development. In her new position, she will build upon relationships with area hospitals and extended care facilities located throughout the Company's 9-1-1 paramedic response areas. In addition, Arnold will establish direct contact with public officials, community groups and organizations in the Bakersfield, East Kern, and West Kern operating areas while increasing Hall Ambulance Service's presence through various...
August 27, Hall Ambulance Service donated an automated external defibrillator (AED) to the Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District, for use at the Dye Natatorium Pool. Hall Ambulance Founder and President Harvey L. Hall traveled to Tehachapi to make the presentation. The donation is part of Hall Ambulance's community outreach program, which has previously donated AEDs to senior centers in the Company's East Kern Response Areas, which include Boron, California City, Rosamond, Mojave and Teh...
California Assembly Bill 775, which is nearing a Senate vote and a likely party-line approval (Democrats for, Republicans against), would order all medically licensed pro-life pregnancy centers in the state to post a prominent sign telling clients how to get information on securing abortions. The law also would order non-medical pregnancy centers to post a sign in 48-point type (see sidebar) stating clearly that the facility does not provide medical care. The bill, backed by Planned Parenthood...
Three years into its infancy in 1962, Nat K. Mendelsohn – president of California City Development Company, and main visionary for the desert city of California City – declared that much growth and improvements were indeed taking place there. I found a news release in my mother Marion Deaver’s files, along with part of a brochure for the city listing all of its potential. Mendelsohn said that there were 10,000 residents and property owners in the three-year-old community in February of 1962....
The Desert Region Lions Clubs held their 78 Annual Desert Region Student Speaker Contest on March 21 at the American Legion in California City. This year’s topic is “Water Conservation- How Can We Reduce, Recycle and Reclaim?”. Desert Region Chairman Ric Williams emceed the contest. The contestant from Zone A (Acton, Mojave and Palmdale) was Serena Allen from Quartz Hill High School in Palmdale and the contestant from Zone B (Boron, California City, Ridgecrest and Tehachapi) was Kyle Robins from Burroughs High School in Ridgecrest. Both conte...
'It's a beautiful business.' – Brassard Isabelle Brassard, general manager of the Rio Tinto Boron operations, told the March 5, 2015 meeting of the East Kern Economic Alliance at the Borax Visitor Center that business is good. "Twenty-fourteen was a great year for us," said Brassard, a native of Montreal. "We are doing the right things to keep this business in good shape." The Boron plant produced more than a million pounds of borates, Brassard said, and at the same time decreased water c...
helley Kitzmiller, a 30 year resident of Tehachapi, has two loves: writing and rescuing pets. She began writing romance novels in the late 1970's, when there were no writing classes or conferences to help aspiring romance writers. Eager to learn, Kitzmiller used a highlighter pen to deconstruct her favorite books-a tool she still recommends to new writers. After a few years of studying and practicing, she sold her first book and made it her goal to give readers a painless history lesson within...
Second District Supervisor Zack Scrivner announced today the total amount of dollars granted to Eastern Kern businesses in 2015 through the RENEWBIZ program. RENEWBIZ is a community revitalization program, created by Scrivner and the Kern County Board of Supervisors in 2012, that offers $5,000-$10,000 grants to businesses in unincorporated Eastern Kern, with a local match from the business of 10% of the total grant. The money from the grants funds the refurbishment of the exterior of businesses...
Vouchers: Have a Heart Humane Society has Kern County spay/neuter vouchers available for all pet owners in eastern Kern County (California City, Mojave, Boron, Rosamond and Tehachapi). The vouchers are $70 for dogs and $40 for cats, and they must be redeemed at Southern Kern Vet Hospital in Rosamond. We suggest pet owners call Southern Kern Veterinary Services at (661) 256-8121 first to make an appointment. Ask them what your balance after the co-pay would be using the Kern County voucher. Then, stop by Radio Shack (1121 W Valley Blvd,...
7 saw no shortage of challenges facing the County. Below are some updates on many important issues that came before the Board of Supervisors in 2014: Kern Medical Center The new management team hired by the Board of Supervisors to turn around Kern Medical Center has steadily brought the hospital back toward profitability while staying true to KMC’s core mission of providing quality health care to all who need it. KMC’s in come in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2014-15 came in $3.5 mil...
Tehachapi• Fern Michaels, a New York Times Best-Selling author of womens' fiction and her daughter, Cynthia Kuczkir, donated a combined total of $30,000 to Have a Heart Humane Society in Tehachapi. Michaels, a resident of Summerville, South Carolina, has been writing and selling books for 37 years. Most of those books have hit the New York Times Best-Sellers list. Her Polish grandmother told her that when God is good to you, you have to give back. Michaels set up The Fern Michaels® F...
My office and other county officials are working with Eastern Kern communities and Fresno State University to conduct the East Kern Economic Strategy. At this time, Fresno State has met with stakeholders and has put together a funding strategy for the plan that includes 50% from the participating communities (California City, Rosamond, Mojave, Boron, Ridgecrest) and 50% in the form of an Economic Development Administration (EDA) grant from the federal government. Funding from the participants...
Applications for the second round of grants to help revitalize the unincorporated East Kern County communities of Mojave, Boron, Rosamond and Old Town Tehachapi are available now and will be awarded in November. A total of $250,000 in grant money will be disbursed this year for façade improvements, signs, painting, landscaping, awnings, fencing, windows and more. With a growing sense of ownership and pride, residents of the those communities have worked with the Kern County Department of...
Nearly 30 members of the Old Town Association Steering Committee met and voted to change the name of the revitalized Merchants Association to be all encompassing and held the election of their new officers for the remainder of 2014-15 fiscal year. Donna Fischman will serve as President, with Ron Depew as Vice President; Jay Prisco will serve as Secretary; Carol Lawhon as Treasurer; and Ron Fishgold as Member-at-Large. About a dozen members present took applications for grants offered up by Kern...
When I go through my mother Marion Deaver’s files, I never know what I am going to come up with. For instance, last week I was looking for some more information other than what I had so I could write a column on Tehachapi’s Mountain Festival. Instead I found an employment brochure for the Muroc Schools. There is no date on the brochure, but it says the district is unified, which happened in 1953, according to the current district webpage. As I have mentioned before my brother Mike rode the bus e...
Enter to win tickets: http://secure.pagemodo.com/m/W5L748 On Saturday, Aug. 9th, Tehachapi will celebrate under the stars during the first annual Cheers to Charity fund-raiser, held in an expanded and transformed plaza at Veritas Tapas and Wine Bar, located at 695 Tucker Road, Tehachapi. Cheers to Charity benefits local charities and features acoustical music, mouth-watering tapas, California wines and skillfully made craft and home brewed beers - beneath the canopy of a beautiful August night....
For the past several years, the County has adopted our final budget in August, after the County accounts for all of its "carryover" funds (monies left over from the previous fiscal year), and more accurate projections on property tax revenue are completed. This has allowed the Board of Supervisors to make budgetary decisions with the most complete and accurate financial information. In prior months, all County departments were asked to prepare their budget requests for Fiscal Year 2014-15 with...
On Saturday, Aug. 9, Tehachapi will celebrate under the stars during the first annual Cheers to Charity fundraiser, held in an expanded and transformed plaza at veritas tapas and wine bar, 695 Tucker Road, Tehachapi, CA. Cheers to Charity benefits local charities and features acoustical music, mouth-watering tapas, California wines and skillfully made craft and home brewed beers - beneath the canopy of a beautiful August night. Choice cigars will be available for purchase, a silent auction and a free coffee bar will round out the fun. All...
Normally I write about articles my mother Marion Deaver wrote about, area history, and things that other people did. Today I am writing about my mother and some of the things she did. I found an article that the Bakersfield Californian wrote about her. The paper was writing articles about various correspondents in honor of National Newspaper Week. My mother had the bad habit of tearing things out of the newspaper and not leaving the top of the page with the date on it, so I am not sure when...
The Antelope Valley Board of Trade Annual Business Outlook Conference ventured for the first in 42 years into Kern County, and the county emerged as a star. "The most rapidly growing economy is Kern County," economist Christopher Thornberg told the 1,000 attendees. "Folks, you live in a boom town. This is great!" Kern County, he said, has construction, retail, good local government and abundant energy resources. In Los Angeles County, he said, "The hotels are on fire." Kern County 2nd District...
Have you ever driven down West F Street and noticed the building on the north side of the street at 311 (next to Wood Family Funeral Service)? You may have noticed the name on the building – Mountain Pathways – or perhaps not. The building itself certainly is not an architectural wonder – just a plain building with a name across the front. Your writer has driven by this building more times than she can count and always wondered "what is Mountain Pathways?" Is it a tour guide service offer...
