Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Assemblyman Vince Fong (R-Kern County) issued the following statement in response to Governor Gavin Newsom’s May Revise for the 2020-21 Budget: “In light of the massive revenue deficit in the upcoming fiscal year, Sacramento must get serious about making reductions in spending that have ramped up significantly over the last decade. In order to be responsible stewards of taxpayer dollars, we must immediately cut wasteful projects like High Speed Rail, and provide the financial stability we need to meet our core obligations. At the same tim...
Get out and run! The Tehachapi Recreation and Park district (TVRPD) has transformed several of its cancelled events into bright lights for the community. District Manager Corey Torres said the district has given the eggs it had purchased for the popular Easter Egg Hunt to a volunteer group to give to families for Easter egg hunts at home. The Easter Egg Hunt, which was scheduled for Sat. April 11 at West Park, draws hundreds of children every year in four age categories up to age 10. The event...
The situation in Tehachapi regarding the COVID-19 emergency can be summed up in this exchange March 21 at the Dollar Tree: Customer to the clerk at checkout: "When do you expect...?" Clerk (before the question is completed): "Tuesday." Interpretation: The supplies are coming, and they are arriving every day. Don't panic. While grocery shoppers are alarmed at the strange sight of empty shelves in America, the supply lines are open while truckers, stockers and clerks are working hard, and there...
As of March 21, Jake’s Steakhouse is open seven days a week for lunch and dinner from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. for takeout, curbside pickup and delivery to town, Golden Hills, Stallion Springs, Bear Valley and Hart Flat. After the shelter in place order is lifted, Jake’s will be open for lunch and dinner as usual. Available for takeout will be Jake’s regular lunch and dinner menus as well as special family meals which will change daily. The family meals are available in a pack for two or four peopl...
To ensure that home-bound students continue the learning process during their days away from the classroom, the Tehachapi Unified School District (TUSD) prepared and provided packets of enrichment instructional materials for all grades, transitional kindergarten (TK) through grade 12. Chief Administrator of Instructional Services Scott Heitman's team passed out the packets to parents in cars March 23 at the feeding stations at Golden Hills and Tompkins elementary schools and Jacobsen Middle...
As I drove slowly through the quiet, older residential streets east of Downtown Tehachapi, my headlights shown on a furtive figure in a mask who hurried across the road. It wasn't a person observing social distancing in the time of the coronavirus pandemic, but it was a local resident: a large raccoon, out for some late night foraging. These interesting animals are mostly nocturnal and tend to conceal themselves in hollow logs, trees or other hiding places during the day. Raccoons emerge at...
Our family moved to Tehachapi in 1930 when my parents, Julius and Jeanne Fritz, swapped their home in Willowbrook for 47 acres of land and a farmhouse on Old Town Road, which had been there about 10 years at that time and was known as "the Burton place." The property was dominated by an enormous Gray Pine (Pinus sabiniana) and my Dad wanted to name the place "Lone Tree Ranch" but someone else was already using that name so he settled on the "White Feather Ranch," because he immediately started...
The first order of business at the March 2 Tehachapi City Council meeting was to choose a new council person to fill the at-large seat held by Kenneth Hetge who resigned on Jan. 2. Four applications were received by the City and all were qualified for the position but it was Christina Scrivner who was chosen in a 3-1 vote. Councilman Phil Smith nominated Kim Nixon, a prior City Councilwoman now serving on the Planning Commission. "I am very humbled by this opportunity to serve my community,"...
The Young People's String Quartet (plus a Bass player), a sub-set of the Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra, just finished a set of three concerts. One each at Tompkins, Cumming Valley and Golden Hills Elementary Schools, where they played a wide-variety of music, demonstrated their individual instruments and talked about why they liked to play them. The Quartet is composed of First Violin B. J. Zheng and Cellist Rebecca Carol, both juniors at Tehachapi High; Second Violin Emily Hamilton and Violist...
At their March 10 meeting, the TUSD School Board presented several Certificates of Recognition....
Matthew and Jacqueline Dolan moved into their new home in Bear Valley on Jan. 1. They purchased the house completely furnished. However, it was more than furnished; it included everything the prior owner possessed including books, family photos, mementos, linens and a kitchen complete with all utensils. In a bookcase, Jackie found a complete set of plans for the house. There were two large telescopes in the house – one in the living room and one in the bedroom. The owner of the house had passed...
At the beginning of January, both Deanna and Rick Phelan retired from Northrup Grumman in Palmdale where they had both worked for 30 years. When looking for a retirement location, Tehachapi seemed like the perfect spot for the two of them and Deanna's mother, Carol Wilson, who is living with them. Tehachapi is close to the desert but not in the desert and the desert is their playground. Deanna and Rick spend most of their free time RZR riding and camping in the desert. Carol sometimes joins...
On Friday, Feb. 7, State Senator Shannon Grove held a Town Hall at the Slice of Life Enrichment School in Tehachapi. The purpose of the meeting was to address the Public Safety Power Shutoffs during the autumn of 2019. Also taking part were representatives from Southern California Edison; Laura Lynne Wyatt of Kern County Board of Supervisors; Tehachapi City Officials Greg Garrett and Key Budge; Kern County Fire Department; Deputy Michael Dorkin and spokesperson Megan Person of the Kern County...
Steve Shaw is a Master Falconer and will speak about how hawks, eagles and owls are different and the use of hawks and falcons in falconry. He will also discuss major threats to raptors and songbirds. Steve will bring a falcon and Harris hawk for the program which is open to folks having a picture taken with a raptor in hand. He will also speak about the Nature Park in Golden Hills (Tom Sawyer Lake) which is a site for falconry. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28 and is held at Golden Hills Elementary School, 20215 Park Rd. in...
Steve Shaw is a Master Falconer and will speak about how hawks, eagles and owls are different and the use of hawks and falcons in falconry. He will also discuss major threats to raptors and songbirds. Steve will bring a falcon and Harris hawk for the program which is open to folks having a picture taken with a raptor in hand. He will also speak about the Nature Park in Golden Hills (Tom Sawyer Lake) which is a site for falconry. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28 and is held at Golden Hills Elementary School, 20215 Park Rd. in...
In response to the need for more teacher and staff collaboration time in order to more fully meet the needs of their students, the Tehachapi Unified School District has built in eight late-start Wednesdays over the school year that will allow for these two hour planning sessions. In order to allow for the state required number of annual education minutes, each of the schools have had to adjust their schedules to allow for enough banked minutes to cover the planning meetings. The three...
Actually, a first remembered Christmas for me, a member of the Davis Family, was in the desert town of Mojave with the famous strong winds hitting the house. That one action of the harsh, howling wind always made me, as a small child, feel quite secure in my warm bed with my parents nearby. There was a problem though because we had no fireplace for the jolly old elf, Santa, to make an entrance into our living room. The brick chimney atop our house connected to a wood stove, and that worried me....
The Tehachapi Unified School District (TUSD) hosted its annual district level Oral Language Festival (competition) at the district office on Thursday, Dec. 5. The event kicked off just after 6 p.m. at the district office's board room, located at 300 S. Robinson St. The participants were 19 students - all 4th and 5th graders from Golden Hills, Cummings Valley and Tompkins elementary schools - who had successfully cleared the first stage of the competition by winning the individual elementary...
Theresa Foster raised children her entire life. Prior to her 32 years in Tehachapi, she raised her four children and was a private caregiver to families in the Antelope Valley. For more than 16 years, Theresa worked as a Tehachapi Unified School District cafeteria worker, while simultaneously operating a private day care in West Golden Hills. Her daughter, Barbara Minniear, said while her day care tots were enjoying their lunch and taking a rest, her mom would head over to Golden Hills...
Two TUSD students were winners at the Regional Oral Language Festival held at Muroc School District, in North Edwards on Dec. 13. They were awarded Certificates of Recognition at the Dec. 17 School Board Meeting....
Steve Shaw is a Master Falconer and will speak to us about how hawks, eagles and owls are different and the use of hawks and falcons in falconry. He will also discuss major threats to raptors and songbirds. Steve will bring a falcon and Harris hawk for the program and is open to folks having a picture with a raptor in hand. He will also speak about the Nature Park in Golden Hills (Tom Sawyer Lake) which is a site for falconry. The meeting starts at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020 and is held at Golden Hills Elementary School, 20215 Park Rd. in...
The young Nuwä woman trotted lightly along the slope, on a game trail that human steps had enlarged to a footpath. When she reached the top of the oak-dappled hill, she paused by an old leafy tree with weathered gray bark, its branches sturdy against the blue Tehachapi sky. As her experienced eyes took in the familiar landscape before her, she saw a large bird with outstretched wings circle towards her. Though the bird was a few hundred feet above the valley floor below, it was not far above...
Since the Tail Waggers Group was founded in Bear Valley Springs by Molly Mackin and others, they have reached out in many ways to help the community. One of the most interesting branches of Tail Waggers is the Alliance of Therapy Dogs, which is associated with a national organization. Therapy dogs are not the same as the well-known “service” dogs. Therapy dogs are owned by members of Tail Waggers and the national association and they pay visits to schools, senior rest homes and hospitals to brighten the lives of patients, residents, and sch...
Public Safety Power Shutoffs: a topic swirling in controversy. There are many opinions about why they are necessary, whether they are necessary, whether they prevent fires, whether the power companies are profiting from these outages, or whether the safety outages are happening as fallout from PG&E filing for bankruptcy. According to many sources, it is indisputable that PG&E and the other electric utilities do bear responsibility for many of the wildfires which have plagued California in...
My parents used to own a store called Gil's Rock Shop on Tehachapi Boulevard (near the current location of Sheridan's Consignment). "The Rock Shop," as most locals called it, carried rocks and minerals, but also a variety of jewelry, fossils, lapidary tools and Indian artifacts. The store also had enormous vintage oil paintings of Western scenes hung high on the walls. The store was the dream of my Dad, Chet "Gil" Gilbertson, who was born in South Dakota and went to mining school in Minnesota...
