Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Take the kids – The Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District's sparkling new Meadowbrook Park is scheduled to open Oct. 29. The dog park at Meadowbrook has been upgraded too. Rec & Park also is renovating the Activity Center at West Park with a $100,000 donation from Aspen Builders. Community College campaign – Cerro Coso Community College President Jill Board spoke to the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council about the need for an educated workforce and how the college can hel...
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...
Wine tasting boutiques offer the charm of Tuscany, convivial company, award-winning wines Looking for that APPELLATION In the wine grape cultivation and tasting room business, every vineyard owner cheers for the success of other vineyards in the vicinity. Visitors like to ramble from one tasting room to another, the more destinations the merrier. "We're all in the game together," Bob Souza of Souza Family Vineyard said. "We support each other." The vintners hope to gain a coveted Appellation...
The Loop Newspaper: Jay, what motivates you in your role as a business advisor? It all starts with my fundamental belief that the average, hardworking American business owner doesn’t get a fair shake. Everything is stacked against them. And the average small or even mid-sized business generally does not have access to the kind of professional guidance a Fortune 500 company does. I think most businesses are left with few options related to available services. I have made this the focus of my b...
August 1, 2016 was to be the day the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District turned over all of its assets and operations to Adventist Health in a 30-year lease agreement, but the state-run program that administers the Medi-Cal and Medicare programs has delayed in transferring the district's license. Healthcare district CEO Eugene Suksi told the Aug. 3 meeting of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council that the contractor Noridian still has the application, creating "a lull before the...
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...
Cheers to Charity 2016, on Saturday, August 13, is shaping up to be the best ever! Aviator Park, located on the Tehachapi Airport property, will be the location for this annual fundraiser. Dozens of shade trees, plenty of parking, and acres of grass will provide a cool venue for the warm summer night. Cheers to Charity, a project of Community Clean Sweep, benefits Tehachapiarea charities and features live music, mouth-watering tapas and generous food plates, scrumptious wines and skillfully...
To celebrate and recognize the great contributions of the men and women throughout all of the branches of the military, we'll be opening our new Freedom Plaza on June 30, 2016, at the corner of Curry St. and Tehachapi Blvd. at 3 p.m. The new plaza will feature a stunning one-of-a-kind monument consisting of individual pieces recognizing the five branches of the military, as well as host a new Visitor Center being run through a partnership with the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council...
On May 30, the Nation observed Memorial Day. I'm sure that most of you, like me, reflected on the sacrifices that so many men and women have made to protect our nation and our freedoms. How blessed we are as a nation because of their service! The very next day, I had the chance to accompany several City Council members, including Mayor Susan Wiggins, Councilman Phil Smith, and our Councilwoman and Honorary Commander, Kim Nixon, to a reception at Edwards Air Force Base to meet the Secretary of...
An audible gasp arose from the community leaders at the June 1, 2016 meeting of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council when Tehachapi Unified School District (TUSD) Superintendent Susan Andreas-Bervel pointed out one of the harsh realities of the way California is now funding schools. Under the formula, which began phasing in during the 2013-2014 school year, school districts with a greater percentage of high-need students receive more money than districts that do not have enough...
More Sponsors. More Fun. More Surprises. Cheers to Charity 2016 is shaping up to be the Must-Do Charity Event for the Summer Season! This annual fund raising event, to be held Saturday, August 13 at Aviator Park, has more sponsors, more surprises and more fun planned than ever before! Cheers to Charity benefits local charities and features live music, mouth-watering tapas, scrumptious wines, delicious craft beer ... plus the area’s only offering of skillfully made home-brewed beer. Choice cigars (available for purchase), a silent auction, a cof...
Due to some factual errors and omissions, the article written in the 2016 Business Showcase about Dignified Home Loans has been re-written online and available for review at theloopnewspaper.com. Below is the corrected article In July of 2015, Dignified Home Loans, LLC opened a new lending office in Tehachapi. Under the watchful eyes of Jeff LaMonte, Laura Johnson and Ron Depew, Dignified will deliver to customers and business partners, an unparalleled level of service. With the Tehachapi...
Nikki to MB – Nikki Cummings turned over the post of president of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council (GTEDC) to Mary Beth Garrison on Jan. 6 at the council's meeting in the Tehachapi Police Department community room. Cummings' three-term tenure as president was a period of robust growth and expansion for the organization, whose mission is to encourage economic growth in the Tehachapi area. When she first became involved with the GTEDC, she said, "I was the youngster hanging o...
Kaiser Permanente health care providers will open its 2,500-square-foot Tehachapi Medical Office Building on Feb. 1, 2016. Kaiser Senior Vice President David Womack told the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council Dec. 2 at the Tehachapi Police Department community room that the 5,000 Kaiser members in the Tehachapi area who have been served by a mobile health vehicle will now have a permanent presence. The Kaiser Tehachapi Medical Office Building is in the Tehachapi Junction strip mall...
Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce President Ida Perkins has told the local business community that implementation of proposed California wage and sick leave Initiative 15-0105 would be devastating for small businesses. If the initiative is placed on the ballot and approved by voters, she said that by the time of full implementation, “Most of our small businesses – they won’t be in existence.” While a phased-in increase in minimum wage accommodates businesses with fewer than 25 employees at the fir...
Watch it! Hospital video tour – Click on "take a tour" on the web site TVHD.org for a four-and-a-half minute video tour of the new Tehachapi Replacement Critical Access Hospital. Senior Project Engineer Ana Vlad is the tour guide. Residents of the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District who have supported this project and have twice voted bond measures to build it will be happy to see the construction progress on this outstanding facility. KMC on its own – Kern Medical Center CEO Russell Judd told...
Two Tehachapi community service superstars have announced new plans. Houchin Blood Bank Account Manager Christina Scrivner will leave that post on Dec. 31 to dedicate herself to her busy household. Scrivner has been instrumental in the success of numerous blood drives for the Bakersfield-based non-profit blood bank. At the Nov. 4, 2015 meeting of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council (GTEDC), Houchin CEO Greg Gallion announced Scrivner's departure, praising her "enthusiasm, energy,...
Wow – Tehachapi is awesome – The Aug. 8 Cheers to Charity event at Veritas (and the entire parking lot) brought in a $26,500 for local nonprofits, including the vital Salvation Army after school community center. The Tehachapi Car Club earned $22,000 at its Aug. 16 Thunder on the Mountain event, distributing all of it to more than a dozen local charities. Tehachapi goes global – An animated Henry Schaeffer, Jr. told the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council (GTEDC) -- meeting Oct....
Real estate looking good -- Jim Hutson of the Tehachapi Area Association of Realtors reported to the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council on Sept. 2 that in the area Multiple Listing Service there were 281 listings of homes, with 88 in escrow. The number of distressed sales (short sales and foreclosures) is down significantly, at 7 percent. In the last three m onths, 171 homes have sold, with an average of 60 days on the market. The median price of a home is $242,000, up 7 percent...
Millenials at work – Young people born during the early 1980s to the mid-2000s (age 18-34 in 2015), known as the Millenial generation, have become the dominant sector in the nation’s labor force, Richard Chapman said at the July 23 meeting of the East Kern Economic Alliance at the Holiday Inn Express. Chapman, president and CEO of Kern Economic Development Corporation, said a 2015 Pew Research Center study shows that Millenials contribute 53.5 million people to the labor force, squeaking past the Gen Xers (born 1965 to 1981, age 35 to 50 in...
On July 24, 2015 the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council (GTEDC) held a fundraiser, sponsored by BHE Renewables. It was a fun night of food, wine and art. Tickets sold out and a great time was had by all. Colleen Grant of The Art Studio in Tehachapi instructed guests on painting their own Tuscan-inspired work of art. Enjoy even more photos of this fun event on The Loop’s Facebook page....
Howdy – Tehachapi City Manager Greg Garrett told the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council (GTEDC) on May 6 at The Shed restaurant that the California High Speed Rail project is moving forward. “Love it or hate it, they’re coming to town,” he said. “We’re working with the HSR folks on the proper alignment.” Due diligence moving along -- Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District (TVHD) CEO Eugene Suksi said transition from TVHD to Adventist hospital operation is set for Jan 1, 2016 and the hospital will open the third quarter of 2016. Coun...
A neon toilet – pressed into service as a fundraising tool for the Tehachapi Parks Foundation – will soon appear mysteriously on local front yards. Residents will be obliged to make a contribution to have it removed and relocated to another front yard. Happily, the resident can say whose yard the toilet will go to next. Craig Janssen announced the campaign at the May 6, 2015 meeting of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council at The Shed restaurant, promptly producing $100 to sta...
Cheers to Charity, a festival of great food, fine wines, craft beers and scrumptious home brews, is on the calendar for Saturday, August 8 from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. Held in an expanded plaza at veritas tapas and wine bar, Cheers to Charity is a fund-raising event benefitting six local nonprofit organizations. Organized by Community Clean Sweep, a community improvement nonprofit organization, Cheers to Charity invests in small charitable organizations who are making a difference within the...
High Speed Rail Authority Southern California Regional Director Michelle Boehm, briefing the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council March 4 on the progress of the $68 billion project, indicated that the exact route through the Tehachapi Mountains has yet to be settled. Two possible High Speed Rail (HSR) routes on the east side of Tehachapi Summit are under consideration (see map). On the west side, the route will negotiate the narrow, steep ascent that the Southern Pacific conquered in...
