Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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(Note: This is the 20th article in a continuing series about local military veterans and their service to our great country.) Michael Gillum was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, on March 1, 1946. He belonged to a family of giants: his father was 6' 3" and his younger brother 6' 8" in height, while Michael himself grew to be 6' 6" tall (his older brother only made it to 6'). His father served in the Army Air Corps as an aircraft mechanic in WWII in the Italian theater of war; while Michael's...
The Story Tours Bookmobile program is proud to support the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) 31st Anniversary with a free book giveaway at all Kern County stops (while supplies last). On July 26, we celebrate this important civil rights law that works to ensure all people with disabilities have the same rights and opportunities as everyone else. On May 3, the Kern County Library partnered up with Community Action Partnership of Kern (CAPK) to launch Story Tours, a new bookmobile service...
Mary and Milford (Bud) Bell have been with California MENTOR for 12 years. They first found out about the Family Home Agency (FHA) program from an ad in the PennySaver. Having previously been foster parents, they had already been through background checks, orientation and certification for the Kern County Foster Family Network. They adopted two children they fostered. At the time of the adoption, Bud was also taking care of his mother, who had Alzheimers, in their home. He was able to play “Mr. Mom” to the children and his mother, and con...
While their high schools elected not to play football due to COVID-19, players from Tehachapi and Boron High Schools have joined forces to create "Mountain Elite", a club football team that competes in Bullhead City, Arizona. The team posted a 2-0 record in their first two weeks of competition. The squad is coached by local members of the football community not affiliated with Tehachapi High School....
Hall Ambulance Service, Inc., which provides 911 paramedic service to a majority of California's third-largest county (Kern), celebrated its 50th anniversary on February 10. Reflecting on 50 years of service to Bakersfield and Kern County Founded by Harvey L. Hall, the prologue leading to the first chapter of the Hall Ambulance story began on a dare-literally. In 1960, he worked as a hospital orderly when a friend, employed as an ambulance attendant, dared him to ride along. The experience was...
In an effort to accelerate the countywide vaccination effort, Kern County Public Health is partnering with Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley to launch a mobile vaccination clinic beginning Monday, February 15. This mobile clinic will focus on eastern Kern County communities such as Mojave, California City, Rosamond and Boron, as these rural areas have limited access to vaccination sites. In the future, the mobile clinic will go elsewhere based on the needs of the county. Capable of providing...
East of the Tehachapi Mountains lies the Mojave Desert, a 48,000 square-mile expanse that is one of the great deserts of the world. It is one of the wetter deserts on Earth and is home to nearly 2,000 species of vascular plants. The region near to Tehachapi is commonly referred to as High Desert, since the average elevation is above 2,000 feet – people are often surprised to learn that the town of Mojave, at 2,762 feet, is about 150 feet higher in elevation than Keene at 2,602 feet. The High D...
At their Sept. 3 meeting, the Tehachapi Rotary Club received a virtual visit from Mary Beth Garrison, community liaison for Rio Tinto/U. S. Borax who gave the club an update on the operations of the Kern County mine located in Boron. Rio Tinto is located on six continents, has over 1,000 employees and produces 30 percent of the world's borates. Borate operations originally began in Death Valley in the 1800s with the borates transported to rail cars by the famous 20 mule team wagons. In 1927 oper...
As Kern County schools begin the new academic year in an unconventional distance learning model due to the COVID-19 pandemic, programs like "Do the Math" will be a boon for parents seeking extra help for their students this year. For the past 18 years, Kern County 4th through 12th graders in need of a little extra help with their math homework have tuned in to "Do the Math," a standards-based mathematics TV show and free tutoring program produced by the Kern County Superintendent of Schools. The...
Over the past few months, Rio Tinto Boron has worked in partnership with six local community organizations on COVID-19 initiatives across California, supporting food resilience, distance learning and vulnerable people and families. Through its donation-matching program and corporate donations, the company and its employees have contributed more than $40,000 to the Community Action Partnership of Kern, the Antelope Valley Partners for Health, the Boys and Girls Club of LA Harbor, Bridge for Hope...
The Kern County Superintendent of Schools is proud to announce the 2020 Kern County Classified Employees of the Year. In March, Kern County school districts nominated exemplary employees in six categories designated by the California Department of Education (CDE): Child Nutrition; Maintenance, Operations and Facilities; Office and Technical; Para-Educator and Instructional Assistance; Support Services and Security; and Transportation. A panel of judges from KCSOS selected an honoree in each category to be considered for recognition by the CDE...
To protect our community’s most vulnerable residents during the COVID-19 global pandemic, the Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley Foundation is investing $20,000 in East Kern and Tehachapi to assist senior citizens and the underserved. The project delivers needed funding to senior centers in Boron, California City, Mojave and Tehachapi to assist them in reimbursing volunteer drivers who are bringing food to medically vulnerable senior citizens to keep them supplied with nutritious meals daily. The grant also provides funding to the Salvation A...
In order to support local community efforts to fight COVID-19 and its social and economic impacts, Rio Tinto is investing $10 million in a variety of grassroots projects across Canada and the United States. From delivering critical equipment for people working in hospitals to providing practical support to communities and families, we are contributing to efforts by our partners to help fight the pandemic. In addition, Rio Tinto is supporting projects that maintain and create regional economic...
The featured speaker at the Feb. 27 meeting of the Mojave Chamber of Commerce was Amanda Smith, new general manager of the Rio Tinto operations in Boron. Smith came on board very recently after several years abroad at other Rio Tinto facilities, including Australia. Rio Tinto currently operates in about 35 countries, in mines, smelters and refineries, as well as in sales offices, data centers, research and development labs and with artificial intelligence. Rio Tinto operates in three locations...
Julia Bosma and her son Peter Douglas moved to Tehachapi in November from Bakersfield when Julia began her new position at Rio Tinto US Borax in Boron. The geologist was hired as an "environmental adviser" for Environmental Compliance and Permitting. For her, Tehachapi was the most obvious choice of a place to live and she has become well acquainted with other Rio Tinto employees who live in the area. Prior to Rio Tinto, Julia had been working for the California High Speed Rail, first in...
In the summer when the temperature soars to 102 degrees we're looking for a cool place. When driving South from Tehachapi we'll be almost to Los Angeles as we drive 102 miles. Time wise in years would take us back to 1918 and the end of World War 1. It also takes us to Kathryn Chwaz's celebration of her one hundred second birthday. She greeted friends from Tehachapi, Boron and other cities at an open house held at the home of her niece Janet Roper. Jan. 15 and 16, 2020, found Kathryn on her...
I want to share a photo of Fitz Fulton and Bob Hoover that was taken by Mike Owen at the retirement party held for Dan Sabovich in 2002. These two men, Fitzhugh Fulton and Bob Hoover, are decorated veterans of World War II and Korea and were participants in legendary flight test work with the U.S. Air Force. I love the photos we have of the many illustrious test pilots that have flown in the skies over Edwards AFB, California City, Boron, North Edwards, Rosamond, Lancaster, Palmdale and Mojave....
On Saturday, Nov. 2, the community group known as Smart Growth Tehachapi Valleys held their annual meeting in the conference room of the Benz Building located on Goodrick Dr. near Tehachapi Airport. The public was invited to attend to learn more about what is going on in the community. About 50 members from the community attended. Presiding over the meeting was President Terry Warsaw. The Smart Growth organization nationwide deals with planned economic and community development that attempts to...
I spent two and a half years in the Navy during World War II, and when I got out in 1946, I was still only 20 years old. I went to Oak Glen, near Yucaipa, to help my parents at their apple orchard and guest ranch. I was grading apples one September day and I began to experience increasing pain in my back and shoulders. I stopped grading apples for the day because of the pain, and instead went under the house and ran an electrical line for a heater. When I crawled out from under the house, I...
Supervisor Zack Scrivner is pleased to announce that the RENEWBIZ program will be awarding $380,000 in grants to East Kern community businesses. A total of 46 grants were awarded to 15 businesses in Boron, 14 in Mojave, 11 in Rosamond and six in Tehachapi. The RENEWBIZ program begins with county seed money, but continues with matching efforts of the business owners and community leaders who work together to improve and beautify the business environment, clean-up the community and attract new...
Hall Ambulance Service, Inc. announced details this week of its massive implementation of the ZOLL AutoPulse making it the largest deployment in North America. The device will give the Company's Paramedics, EMTs, and Critical Care RNs, the upper hand in responding to sudden cardiac arrest. Eighty AutoPulse units have been placed into service on each Hall Advanced Life Support (ALS) and Basic Life Support (BLS) ambulance in its 9-1-1 response area, which covers 88% of Kern County's population...
Brittney Alexander rifled through scores of backpacks that filled the picnic tables at Jacobsen Middle School searching for the perfect one. There were black pleather bags, green and blue canvas backpacks and ones with wild colors. One bag - more of a canvas tote than a backpack - was hand-stitched with love and adorned with dozens of iron-on patches; one for The Beatles' Abbey Road, another for Def Jam Records, all things, no doubt, that most middle school students know little about....
The Kern County Superintendent of School's award-winning "Do the Math" live TV broadcast and free tutoring program is set to return for its 18th season on Sept. 10. For the past 17 years, the live interactive program has helped students strengthen their math awareness as credentialed teachers help them work out math problems on live television. Free, phone-in tutoring is available to students from 3:30 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. on Tuesdays and Wednesdays by calling (661) 636-4357 or toll free at (866)...
Mary Beth Garrison, external affairs and communications manager for Rio Tinto, said that the great borate mine will soon be known for lithium production. Speaking at the July 11 meeting of the East Kern Economic Alliance (EKEA) at the Rio Tinto visitor center in Boron, Garrison said that a new industrial process makes it possible to extract the valuable element from the waste piles (gangue piles) left over from mining borates. "There are 90 years of waste that we can re-process," she said....
Mark your calendars and get ready to enjoy a delicious barbecue lunch while supporting a great cause. Join your local Hall Ambulance Paramedics and EMTs on May 23 as they host the 11th Annual Boron Senior Center BBQ Fundraiser. Enjoy wood-fired tri-tip and chicken served with coleslaw, corn-on-the-cob and baked beans for just $5 for members of the senior center and $10 for non-members. To make it easier for surrounding businesses and employees who are not able to dine at the center, take-out...
