Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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It was a beautiful Tehachapi morning on Wednesday, May 24 for the 8th Annual Intermediate Space Challenge. Over 700 4th and 5th graders from the three Tehachapi elementary schools, Carden School and Valley Oaks Charter School arrived by the busload at Tehachapi Airport to shoot off colorful rockets that were made by each of the classes. The competition is sponsored by The Arts, Science and Technology Educational Corporation of Tehachapi. AST's goal is to spark interest in science, engineering...
One thing the 28 organizations represented at Tehachapi's April 26 Non-Profit Showcase at Jacobsen Middle School gymnasium have in common – in addition to the free chocolate and pens at the booths – is the donation of thousands of hours of time. Volunteers from the organizations donate their time training service dogs, working with children, feeding the hungry, staffing the Tehachapi, Depot or Errea House museums, running service clubs, scheduling hikes to Tomo Kahni State Historic Park, rai...
Steve Lee was the guest speaker at the Tehachapi Lions Club's April 20 meeting. Lee owns a video production service, Eagle Sky View, which is located in Golden Hills. Lee uses drones for aerial videography and photography. Lee has been professionally flying drones for two years. As retired Air Force, his passion for flight led him to the possibilities of what drones could do for everyone. The Lions learned about the wide range of uses offered by drones and would like to thank Steve Lee for his...
Police Foundation Fundraiser Jim Wallace and Kim Nixon, representing the Tehachapi Police Foundation, appeared before the City Council on April 3 to present plans for their Honoring the Thin Blue Line Banquet which will be held on May 18 at Rose Garden Estate in Cummings Valley. The event will occur during National Police Week which was established in 1962 by President John F. Kennedy. This will be the first event sponsored by the Tehachapi Police Foundation that was founded last year. Nixon als...
Guest Speaker Karen Pestana will present her annual report on the Tehachapi bluebird nest box program at the Audubon-Tehachapi meeting, Tuesday, April 25, 2017, at 7 p.m. in the Golden Hills Elementary School Cafeteria, 20215 Park Road. For the last seventeen years Karen has coordinated the effort of many volunteers to maintain the nest boxes, monitor the birds' nesting progress, and report the findings to Cornell University Lab of Ornithology's NestWatch program. In addition to an update on...
Leslie Reynolds' Memoir of Her Famous Aunt, Debbie Reynolds I first met Leslie Reynolds when she played the part of "Noah" in Tehachapi Community Theater's 2014 production of "110 In the Shade" by N. Richard Nash. Leslie was dressed in macho western garb, enhanced by a mustache Tom Selleck could admire. She was fun, funny and immensely kind. If you've ever seen any of Leslie's on-stage performances, you quickly realize the family talent gene pool didn't skimp on Leslie Reynolds. Somehow she...
Some of my earlier memories from the 1930s was Tehachapi's 4th of July FREE Barbecue! It was taken for granted that everyone would be in the City Park and have a wonderful meal that included beef prepared in deep pit style cooking where the meat is slow cooked for 24 hours in an underground pit. Word spreads fast when the term "free" is included and people from near and far came; some as far as Los Angeles. Our small community, in the 1930s, had a population of a scant one thousand souls...
When South Street Digital owner Lydia Chaney walked into Tehachapi City Hall with two cardboard boxes on March 15, the city's Economic Development Coordinator Michelle Vance whooped and ran to open one of the boxes. She triumphantly held up a newly printed colorful tri-fold brochure. "It's the trail map! The mountain bike trails! The Tehachapi Mountain Trail Association (TMTA) brochure is a guide map of winding, sometimes angular loops of pathway that mountain bikers and other volunteers...
Members of the Tehachapi Lions Club distributed over 550 mini flags to first grade students at Tompkins Elementary School, Golden Hills Elementary School and Cummings Valley Elementary School during the month of February. This is an annual project of the Lions and is done in conjunction with President's Day. Not only do the students receive flags, but they also hear about the history behind the flag and receive a demonstration on the proper way to fold a flag. To find out more about your local...
The weather web site mountainbase.com, based at Oak Knolls in Golden Hills, reports that the total rainfall for the first two months of 2017 at that site measured 9.52 inches. The rainfall came during two major storms, one on Jan. 5 and another on Feb., 17. The heavy storms damaged the dirt roads of eastern Sand Canyon, leaving them eroded, severely creviced and impassable. As they have done before, the residents worked together to fix the roads, which now are in good shape. They attacked the...
Stallion Springs welcomes Jon Curry as the new General Manager, for the District. He comes to Stallion with extensive experience having previously worked with the Alpine Forest Park Mutual Water District, California Rural Water Association and the Golden Hills CSD in addition to having worked the past nine years as Public Works Director for the City of Tehachapi. Jon also serves on the Board of Directors of the California Rural Water Association and holds several certifications in water...
With a lengthy agenda the Golden Hills Community Services District Jan. 19 meeting was called to order for open session at 6 p.m. The meeting began with financial reports presented to the Board and the public. It was ascertained that the district is doing good for this year. A quarterly report will be presented at the February meeting. After approval of items on the consent calendar, a discussion ensued regarding a policy whereby documents requested and produced upon request of one director be provided to all directors. It was decided the...
With the Sierra snowpack high and rainstorms washing over California, water availability has taken a dramatic turn. Over a period of 10 days recently, the statewide snowpack rose from 63 percent of normal to 161 percent of normal, Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District General Manager Tom Neisler said at the Jan. 18 board of directors meeting at the Golden Hills Community Services District board room. Neisler called the impact of the ensuing abundance of water on statewide infrastructure "unpr...
At the Jan. 17 City Council meeting, Development Services Director Jay Schlosser again addressed the issue of the delayed completion of the road work that began on Valley Blvd. last May. Weather and survey errors had caused delays in the project and costs to exceed the budget. At the Nov. 7 meeting, the Council approved a change order increasing approved budget overages to $160,000 to be billed on a time and materials basis. After the holiday season, it was obvious that the approved increase was...
It was standing room only as community members and district teachers filled the meeting room to capacity at the Jan. 17 board meeting of the Tehachapi Unified School District. The regular meeting began with public comments. Ann Chiarini, a teacher from Cummings Elementary, received a standing ovation after her moving speech in public comments entitled "I have a dream". Chiarini addressed concerns among teachers in the district. Because the issue was not on the agenda there were no comments made...
Two snowstorms blanketed the Tehachapi area like holiday bookends a week apart at the tail-end of 2016 -- one starting just before Christmas Eve morning and one on New Year's night, ushering in both festive days on a palette of dazzling white. Rather than being light and dry and forming a winter-long base, the Tehachapi area snow typically is wet and, in the absence of sustained freezing temperatures, melts quickly. According to the weather web site Mountainbase.com, located at Oak Knolls in...
Sitting around with family a few weeks ago, we began sharing stories, as families do, laughing at inside jokes which are funny only to those related, and just generally having a good time. By the way, at that family gathering we discovered we had present, four generations of Tehachapi High School graduates incorporating years, 1946 to coming 2017. Not bad! One of the little “do gooder” stories that popped up that afternoon took place in McDonald’s twin drive-in lines. I decided I needed a cup o...
Young person with a goal – Forde Files happened to stop on the way to Albuquerque a month ago and discovered a charming Brigadoon-like place called Ludlow, Calif., a hundred or so miles past Barstow. It consists of a Chevron station, a Dairy Queen, a café and a motel. I checked into the motel at the gas station. About 20 people live in Ludlow. The town is owned by the Harold Knoll family. Employees, mostly young, are bused in from Barstow to work. There's no alcohol sold anywhere in town. It...
Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District opened the redesigned and improved Meadowbrook Park and Dog Park on Oct. 29, 2016. Hundreds of park patrons joined TVRPD for the ribbon cutting and grand opening celebration. It was an historic moment for the district and a long overdue amenity for the residents of Golden Hills. The park features two playgrounds, a swing area, misting station and exercise equipment. TVRPD invested close to $650,000 in the design, engineering, equipment and build of...
The Day of the Dead Festival to benefit the Old Tehachapi Cemetery is one of the most far reaching events the Heritage League has ever sponsored. Local dancers, crafts people, students and business owners will all come together to celebrate the lives of the earliest settlers in this area. The hard working pioneers that were mailmen, tavern keepers and black smiths are buried on a dusty acre in Golden Hills. The purpose of the benefit is to raise awareness and funds for the maintenance of the cem...
Get your Halloween Spirit going at the Audubon-Tehachapi meeting Oct. 25, at 7 p.m. in the Golden Hills Elementary School Cafeteria, 20215 Park Road. Don Richardson, Animal Curator for the California Living Museum (CALM), and Erika Noel, Biological Field Leader for McCormick Biological, will be our featured speakers covering bat ecology, conservation, and the bat rehabilitation efforts at CALM. The primary goal of CALM, a permitted wildlife sanctuary in Bakersfield, is to rehabilitate and...
The campaign for two seats on the five-seat Tehachapi City Council is a ferocious one this year as candidates Mary Ann Hester and Ken Hetge battle incumbent councilpersons Ed Grimes and Mayor Pro-tem Kim Nixon in a race in which the fundamental nature and direction of the city is in the balance. The Forde Files spoke to each of the candidates. The Incumbents Kim Nixon – Tehachapi resident for 30 years, age 60. Nixon has served on the Tehachapi City Council for five years and is Mayor pro tem. I...
Ag water negotiations Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District Water Conservation Coordinator Liz Block has produced colorful magazines for young students that explain where Tehachapi area water comes from and how to be a good steward of the resource. Block worked with consultants on "Project Wet" to provide teachers with the magazines and other water conservation materials. The magazines – one written for the second-grade level and the other written for the fifth-grade level – introduce the...
The ceiling tiles of the Tehachapi Replacement Acute Care Hospital are laid in, and that's a good milestone, Senior Project Manager Lisa Polansky of SHP Project Development, the hospital project manager, told the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District board of directors. "It means that the overhead utilities are signed off," she said. The complex labyrinth of pipes, conduits and wires above the ceilings are as deep as the walls below, she said. Covering them up means a tough job has been...
On the evening of Thursday, October 13, 2016 a Candidate Forum will be held from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Golden Hills CSD Board room at 21415 Reeves Street. The Kern County League of Women Voters will moderate the forum for the six candidates running for three open positions for director of the GHCSD. The League of Women Voters procedure for the evening will start with 2- to 3-minute candidate Opening Statements regarding the candidate’s background, reason for running, and plans. Questions submitted by the public will be screened by t...
