Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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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...
Halloween in Tehachapi is a wonderful time of year for all the ghost and goblins leading up to and on the day of Halloween. BooKay, Oct. 26 The Tehachapi Pops Orchestra (TPOPS) will offer musical tricks and treats in two hour-long performances at 4 and 7 p.m. on Oct. 26. The BooKay is a fundraiser for both TPOPS and TCT. Tickets are $10 for adults and $5 for students and are available from Mountain Music, Fiddlers Crossing, Tehachapi Treasure Trove, Tehachapi Furniture, members of the orchestra...
At the Tehachapi Audubon’s October meeting, John Rowden will speak to us about Plants for Birds: growing healthy communities for birds and people together. Audubon’s Bird-friendly Communities conservation strategy is guided by the principle of improving communities all over the country by providing birds with food, shelter, safe passage and places to raise their young. Native plants provide resources that support birds in each of those areas and research is demonstrating that even small patches of habitat planted with natives – down to the y...
One day in 1994, I got a call from Marty Smith, who was the California Department of Fish and Game Warden in Tehachapi at the time. He had received a call from the landlord of an apartment in Golden Hills. A tenant had moved out and left a couple of animals behind. I arrived at the apartment with Marty and found an odd pair: a guinea hen and a snapping turtle. Finding a home for the guinea hen was no problem, but the turtle was another matter. "I guess it's the end of the line for this big...
Golden Hills Community Services District is hosting their 1st Annual Holiday Bazaar on Saturday, Nov. 2 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at 21415 Reeves St., Tehachapi. Vendor spots are still available, to reserve a spot call Erin Bradburn at (661) 822-3064 or email her at [email protected]....
At the Tehachapi Audubon’s October meeting, John Rowden will speak to us about Plants for Birds: Growing healthy communities for birds and people together. Audubon’s Bird-friendly Communities conservation strategy is guided by the principle of improving communities all over the country by providing birds with food, shelter, safe passage and places to raise their young. Native plants provide resources that support birds in each of those areas, and research is demonstrating that even small patches of habitat planted with natives – down to the y...
From Sea to Shining Sea; new Downtown Tehachapi Trucking Company moves goods across the United States If there were a road map to starting a small business in your home and transitioning into a major player in an industry, then K.M. Payton Trucking certainly fits that mold. The newest business residents of Downtown Tehachapi, K.M. Payton recently opened their new and first office at 118 S. Robinson Street. The business, founded by Mike and Kendra Payton, handles shipping of frozen seafood and...
The Trustees of the Tehachapi Unified School District presented Certificates of Recognition to two local organizations for their service to the District at their August 27 board meeting. Accepting the certificate for Christian Life Assembly was Laura Powers Guggemos and Misty Fuller Caudle. The church made sure that every student at Golden Hills Elementary School had a pair of new brand-name shoes. Members of the church came to the school and measured each child's foot individually....
Good News Clubs are for children five to 12 years old. Clubs meet weekly after school for one to one-and-a-half hours and consist of a Bible lesson and verse, songs, games, snacks and laughter. The children are provided opportunities to put their trust in Jesus Christ as Savior and be empowered by God's Word and Spirit to live a life that pleases God. The Clubs are anticipated to restart on Wednesday, Sept. 4 at Tompkins; Tuesday, Sept. 17 at Golden Hills; Wednesday, Sept. 18 at Cummings Valley...
Walmart initiated the process of building a 154,569-square-foot Supercenter in Tehachapi 14 years ago in 2005. A resistance movement delayed construction and spurred community engagement on an unprecedented scale. One hearing at the high school gymnasium drew more than 700 advocates for and against building the Walmart. The store opened on Aug. 7, 2019. "I'm overjoyed to see this come to fruition and to have this for Tehachapi and our residents," Mayor Susan Wiggins said, recalling one public...
One of my children got a job at Walmart where she met an acquaintance who had also gotten a job there. This friend had no transportation, so we lent them a bike from our garage. Trouble was that this was a single-speed mountain bike and they live on the far west side of Golden Hills. My child gave them a ride to work whenever their schedules matched up. But she’ll be going to college here soon, winter is coming and that small bike just wouldn’t cut it. I saw a nice bike online that was at a yard sale. I went to the yard sale and bought tha...
Andrea (Andy) L. Briscoe, 92, passed away peacefully on July 10, 2019, in her Golden Hills home, surrounded by her family. She was born in Los Angeles, Calif., on Aug. 26, 1926, and was raised by her adoptive parents, Charles and Maude Brady. She graduated from Immaculate Heart High School of Los Angeles in 1943. Andy started her career in 1945 as a grocery checker at Thriftimart-Fitzsimmons in Van Nuys. She held various jobs thereafter including grocery checker at Jim's Fallbrook market in...
How did we get here you ask? In the early 1960s the Business Men’s Association, along with other interested Service Clubs, jointly sponsored a three-day celebration spotlighting local agriculture and recreation opportunities found within the Tehachapi Valley. Thus the “Mountain Fruit Festival” was born along with the Kiwanis Club inaugural “Little Britches Rodeo.” Those first years, the Kiwanis held the rodeo on property in Golden Hills, which later became Austin Acres/Old Town Stables. In 1967, the name of the festival was changed to, “The...
The Third Annual Tehachapi Good News Club Family Picnic was held Sunday, June 9 at Meadowbrook Park. Approximately 55 children, parents, grandparents and Club volunteers attended. There was food, games and making of new friends. We also honored Cappy Stephens, who founded the first Good News Club at a Tehachapi School. She inspired many others to do the same before going to be with Jesus on June 2. This school year, 140 children were registered to attend Tehachapi's Good News Clubs and 20...
One of the Rotary Club of Tehachapi's favorite projects every year is distributing personalized books to every single kindergarten student throughout the Tehachapi Unified School District. Each individual book features the name of the student, names of the student's friends, the teacher's name, their school and their pets' names. This service project encourages literacy and the love of reading at an early age, because reading is the key to success in learning. During the last two weeks, 10...
The Tehachapi housing market should pick up when the sun shines. While pricing remains stable, “the market has been a little flat,” Lorri Busse, Realtor with Access Real Estate and president of the Tehachapi Area Association of Realtors (TAAR), said. “If anything has affected the market this year, it has been our weather. Usually our market doesn’t really pick up until the sun shines, so we’re getting a late start on the buying season.” She said she has not found that aerospace employees are mov...
More than 700 Tehachapi fourth and fifth graders gathered at the Tehachapi Municipal Airport on May 29 for the 10th annual Intermediate Space Challenge. Included in the throng were classrooms from Golden Hills, Cummings Valley and Tompkins Elementary Schools, plus students from Summit Academy, Valley Oaks and Inspire Charter Schools. The Space Challenge is organized by The Arts, Science and Technology Educational Corporation of Tehachapi (AST). According to event organizers Nick Altieri and...
On Sunday, April 28, the Environmental Ministry Team at the Tehachapi Community Church, UCC, 100 East E St. in Downtown Tehachapi, gave a detailed presentation on recycling. Team members described how waste is now a global problem. In 2013, a study in the U.S. showed we generated about 254 million tons of trash, and recycled and composted about 87 million tons of this material ... equivalent to a 34.3 percent recycling rate. According to National Geographic, “Only 9 percent of recyclable materials actually are recycled. The vast m...
Mountain Tales are accounts and recollections of life in the Tehachapi Mountains, collected over decades by Jon Hammond. "My parents, Evard and Hazel Dickerson began farming and dairying in Tehachapi in 1911. Their dairy was located below the Tehachapi Pioneer Cemetery in what is now Golden Hills. The place was called Meadow Brook Dairy, and it was right where Meadowbrook Park is today – our dairy was the source of that name. My dad, "Dick" Dickerson, raised registered Milking Shorthorn c...
