Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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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...
Tulare resident, Don Searcy, entered his first century cycling race when he rode Tehachapi's Gran Fondo on Sept. 17. He was riding to raise awareness of Rett Syndome, a rare genetic disease which attacks mostly girls in their first few years of life. Searcy's five year old granddaughter, Scarlett Parks, was diagnosed with the disease at the age of two. Rett Syndrome was identified in 1966 by Dr. Andreas Rett. It occurs spontaneously, is not hereditary, but still affects one in every 10,000 to...
Guild to the rescue – From the operation of its little thrift shop at 101 West E Street, the Tehachapi Hospital Guild through the years has provided hundreds of thousands of dollars in hard cash to purchase vital hi-tech equipment for the Tehachapi Hospital. Now the Guild has in excess of $675,000 in its bank account, and Adventist Health (soon to be the operator of the new hospital and clinics), with its big purchasing power and resources, doesn't really need those funds for equipment. As the R...
Tehachapi’s Old Pioneer Cemetery, originally called the Shields Cemetery, was established in 1858 just a few years after early settlers came to the Tehachapi area. Men who were “shot in a gunfight” or “died of infected bowels” are buried there as well as many infants who perished under harsh conditions. Everyday people who were the back bone of a budding community that would become Tehachapi found a resting place on a barren acre, in what is now Golden Hills. The Tehachapi Heritage League will sponsor a Day of the Dead Festival on October 2...
Jose Luis Gutierrez passed away suddenly on July, 22nd 2016. Having had Jose work for me over the past 25 years, it would be easy to write a book on just how much he has meant to me, not only as my gardener, but as a trusted friend. Jose never let me or any of his many other customers down, whether they were here in Bear Valley, Cummings Valley, or within Tehachapi. Jose never once said a job was too hard for him or that he just couldn't do it. In fact he did things most anyone would not even...
Tehachapi Valley United Methodist Church has a new pastor. Reverend Robin Wells began her new assignment on July 1 and the itinerant pastor said that this is her ninth move in ten years. Her prior assignment was Outreach Chaplain at Church of the Wayfarer in Pacific Grove, California, near Monterey. While on the coast she was also Staff Chaplain at Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula. She said that was where she first heard of Tehachapi, when one of her coworkers was from here. Robin...
What is the name of the new hospital? There's a corporate name and a hospital name. The corporation name is Adventist Health Medical Center Tehachapi Valley. That's who the employees will be working for. The official name of the new hospital (the corporation's dba) is Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley. "We knew it was important to the people of Tehachapi to have 'Tehachapi' be part of the hospital's name," Adventist spokesperson Jimmy Phillips said. The clinics will be Adventist Community Care...
Everyone is invited to the Tehachapi Audubon meeting on Tuesday, August 30, 2016, at 7 p.m. in the Golden Hills Elementary School Cafeteria, 20215 Park Road. Guest speaker Reed Tollefson will present a multimedia program about the Audubon Society's 3,000-acre Kern River Preserve. Located on the South Fork of the Kern River, the preserve is one of California's finest remaining riparian forests. As a designated Globally Important Bird Area, it provides habitat for rare and endangered birds and...
Police Chief Mike Grant reports, the Stallion Springs Police Department assisted the Kern County Sheriff at the Erskine Fire. Two units responded to the Fire on Thursday, June 23 and again on Friday, June 24. The third unit covered calls in the Tehachapi area when needed on June 23, 24, and 25. On June 25 our officer established a command post and called out Kern County Search and Rescue to search for a missing adult female in the Golden Hills area. We also had Stallion Springs CERT on standby...
I was just reading Jon Hammond's fine article about local man, Rufus Thomas, showing his realistic miniature reproductions of the once common oil derricks which, at one time, dotted the countryside. At present, the works of art are on display at our local museum. They are a part of the past but not so long ago past that it can still make some of us recall the sea of black oil derricks dotting the landscape in the San Joaquin Valley. Some years ago when passenger trains used to run through Tehach...
Driving home from work, on April 20, 2016, I saw a bird in the middle of the road, and assumed it was a Raven, which would normally fly away as cars approached, but this bird didn't. As I got closer, it was apparent that this was a red tailed hawk, and it looked right at me as I slowly drove by. It was apparent that he needed help, so I turned my truck around. After pulling off the road, I ran out to pick him up and brought him to the truck. Both of us safely seat-belted, I headed home. Once we...
It always amazes me, when I think I have exhausted all of the files of my mother Marion Deaver, I find something new. Yesterday I was searching through the file drawer and found a file that I had created when I started organizing all of this that was titled "Garlock". I obviously had forgotten about it so I pulled it out. It was a gold mine! There was an article about the dedication of the historical landmark placed there in 1960 to honor the early residents of Garlock. In case you don't know,...
Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Parks officially broke ground at the new Meadowbrook Park and Playground on the morning of June 6. TVRPD board members, staff and city officials were joined by many members of the community at the event. Cash the Wonder Dog, a sponsor of the new Dog Park, also put in an apprearance. "Today is a monumental day for TVRPD," said General Manager LeAnn Williams, "I am very honored to be here." She and Maintenance Supervisor Nolan Ferdinand will be managing the project...
Tehachapi Valley Arts Association and its supporters are at it again. For the second time this year they have collected art supply wish lists from local area teachers and set about making those wishes come true. In September over $2200 in supplies were donated and just this week another $2400 in supplies were delivered throughout Tehachapi. Tehachapi High School, Jacobsen Middle School, Cummings Valley Elementary School, Golden Hills Elementary, Tompkins Elementary and Hope Academy were all...
Golden Hills Elementary teacher Debbie Lee is probably the most excited 5th grade teacher in Tehachapi. Mrs. Lee, who will be retiring at the end of the school year, said that she "will be going out with a bang." Mrs. Lee's class, the X Team, took home the trophy from the Intermediate Space Challenge held at Tehachapi Airport on May 18. This is the second year in a row that her class has won the top prize. Thirty teams of Tehachapi 4th and 5th graders from Cummings Valley, Golden Hills,...
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...
A derelict country club building on an overgrown golf course located adjacent to a weed-covered slab that once was a tennis court went up in flames on May 5, 2016, and everyone cheered. The Kern County Fire Department incinerated the building as a training exercise and at the same time rid the Golden Hills Community Services District (CSD) of what had become a derelict eyesore, an attractive nuisance and a general pain in the neck. At one time, the structure was the home of Golden Hills Country...
A familiar landmark is about to disappear. A lot of Tehachapi history, going back for five or more decades, will soon be going up in smoke. The joint efforts of the Golden Hills CSD Board and the Kern County Fire Department will come together as a "live fire drill" when the old, now derelict country club building is set to flame in a fire department training exercise. Weather permitting, the training and burning of the structure will take place in the mid morning hours of May 5, 2016. All...
Addressing the Tehachapi School Board on Jan.13, Mary Beth Garrison, one of the founding members of Community Clean Sweep, reported on the recycling project launched at Golden Hills Elementary School last year. Community Clean Sweep, which has been in existence since 1989, works with the county, cities and school districts to raise awareness of the importance of recycling. Ms. Garrison's program uses puppets like Dulce Roja (fox) and Sebastian (skunk) to educate school children on the importance...
