Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Before the completion of Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley hospital, interim-President David Eastman appointed the Art of Healing Committee to secure works of art to be placed throughout the hospital. Artwork has been proven over and over again to be beneficial in the healing of hospital patients. Among the many works secured by the committee are the butterfly mural located in the interior courtyard and the welcoming angel in the hospital entry hall. On March 18, the remaining members of the...
Since the close of their first very successful art show in Tehachapi in 2021, the Tehachapi Arts Commission has been working steadily on Art 2022 Tehachapi. The public art show will again take place at the Aspen Builders Activity Center located at 410 W. D Street on July 23-24 with a VIP Reception taking place on the evening of July 22. Forty-three artists have applied to be part of this year's event which will kick off on May 13-15, when the artists arrive in Tehachapi to spend the weekend...
Before local sculptor Dwight Dreyer could begin the design for the life-size bronze statue of a skateboarder that will be placed at the new Ollie Mountain Sports Park, he needed a model. After some consideration, he chose 9-year-old Jane Scrivner. "Scrivner was thrilled to learn she had been chosen," said Dreyer, "especially when she received a modeling certificate and $20. You would have thought it was $1,000." The bronze statue at the Sports Park will be the first of a series of bronzes...
City Manager Greg Garrett has announced the promotion of Corey Costelloe to the position of Assistant City Manager for the City of Tehachapi. Costelloe has been the Economic Development Coordinator and will assist the City Manager's office with various directives and aid all other city departments in their service to the residents of Tehachapi. He will continue to handle economic development initiatives including business recruitment, expansion and retention of current businesses in the city....
There are several changes to the board of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council (GTEDC) that were announced at their last meeting. Lydia Chaney, president of the board, has stepped down, and Josh Pierce of Adventist Health will be replacing her. In a statement, Chaney expressed gratitude to the GTEDC for five great years serving the business community. "It's time to pass this along to a younger person. Josh [Pierce] has a lot of great ideas.... He's the right person" for the job,...
The Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District is looking for "a new vision for the community," the district's CEO Caroline Wasielewski told the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council (GTEDC) on Nov. 3. The quest for a new vision offers the public the opportunity to be involved in shaping the community's healthcare resources. Now that Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley operates and manages the new district-owned hospital, she said, "our task is to provide healthcare without running a...
The Tehachapi Arts Commission has announced Art in the Park, a project that will eventually place life-size works of art in each of Tehachapi's parks. In 2022, the Commission plans to begin the project with a donation to the new Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District Skate Park. Local sculptor Dwight Dreyer will be donating his time to design a life-size bronze statue of a young girl on a skateboard. Proceeds from the Art 2022 VIP Reception in July will provide the funding for the creatio...
Laura Lynne Wyatt, Tehachapi’s assistant to Supervisor Zack Scrivner, announced at the December 1 meeting of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council that East Kern will remain two districts instead of becoming one. The Kern County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 at their November 9 meeting to keep East Kern as two districts. Supervisor Leticia Perez had proposed a new map which would have made East Kern from Ridgecrest to Rosamond one supervisory district....
The Tehachapi Arts Commission has announced that Eleinne Basa will be the featured artist for the Art 2022 Tehachapi Art Show. Basa was a participant in Art 2021 Tehachapi where she won the award for Best Landscape Painting with her work "Tehachapi Evening." Classically trained as a child, Basa immigrated to the United States in 1994 while still in her 20s. She currently makes her home on the East Coast. After graduating from college, she began taking workshops to further her art career and...
The case of the Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District vs. the City of Tehachapi is scheduled for a mandatory settlement conference on Nov. 3 at 10 a.m. The remote meeting, involving all parties, is not held in court. "We want to get it resolved," water district Manager Tom Neisler told The Loop. "We laid out our case in 40 pages." The "40 pages" is Superior Court of California County of Kern Case No. BCV 21-102184, a petition for writ of mandate that seeks to set aside the Environmental...
At the Oct. 6 Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council meeting, Fr. Wes Clare of St. Jude’s in the Mountains Anglican Church announced that the church parking lot on Pinon St. across from Tompkins Elementary School is available for parents to use as a drop-off and pick-up location when bringing children to school or picking them up after school. Fr. Clare said that the church is providing coffee for parents in the morning and juice and snacks for the kids waiting to be picked up after s...
At 8:30 a.m. on Oct. 4, the Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce helped put shovel-to-dirt to break ground for a new 31,500-square-foot facility that will house the 16-lane Mountain Bowling and entertainment center, as well as P-Dubs Brew Pub and Tehachapi Mountain Brewing. Shown in the photo are from left to right, Laura Lynne Wyatt, representing 2nd District Supervisor Zack Scrivner; Paul Wheeler; Tehachapi Chamber Director Ida Perkins; Ashley Ashmore; Brandon Ashmore; Braxton and Deegan Ashmore;...
At the August meeting of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council, the Tehachapi Arts Commission presented Christina Scrivner, head of Philanthropy for Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley Foundation, with a check for $14,300 to be used for future art acquisitions for the hospital. The check represented the proceeds from ticket sales to the VIP Reception that kicked off the Art 2021 exhibit on the weekend of July 23-25....
This Dia de los Muertos horse visited the August meeting of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council. He was brought by artist Jerico Vise to present the idea of the "Horse of a Different Color" project. Her idea is a herd of horse statues that would be painted and decorated by artists and shown at a public exhibition with proceeds to benefit "Return to Freedom" and other equine rescue efforts....
With an official ribbon cutting on Monday, July 26, Friends of the Depot (FOTD), representatives from Kern County and major donors celebrated the completion of the Loop Overlook project. FOTD Vice President Keith Sackewitz initially envisioned the project several years ago after seeing a photograph of an older woman attempting to cross the road to view the historical Tehachapi Loop railroad marvel. It was obvious that the narrow road handled too much traffic for people to view the Loop safely. H...
The Tehachapi Loop, our world renowned railroad landmark, draws thousands of visitors annually. The present viewing area is inadequate to accommodate the vast number of visitors that come every year. To address the situation, Friends of the Depot (FOTD) has embarked on a project to build a viewing platform that enlarges the existing viewing site. In September 2020 the Friends of the Depot began a campaign to raise $100,000 to build the much-needed viewing platform. Potential donors were...
At the May 5 Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council meeting, Second District Supervisor Zack Scrivner surprised the Friends of the Depot with a personal donation of $10,000 toward the Loop Overlook Project. The donation pushes the project one step closed to becoming a reality. Pictured with Scrivner are Overlook Committee members Keith Sackewitz, Laura Lynne Wyatt, Marlan Woodside, Steve Smith and Lydia Chaney. The May 5 meeting was the first in-person meeting for the GTEDC in over a...
On Thursday, April 1 Tehachapi Rotarians were introduced to representational artist and chair of the Tehachapi Arts Commission, Dwight Dreyer. He spoke to the group about Art 2021 Tehachapi, an event where painters from all over the country will come to Tehachapi in May to paint and then return to display their finished artwork at a public art show and sale in July. Dreyer is the founder of Dreyer Fine Arts, located in Keene, where he maintains a 5,500-square-foot teaching studio on 11 acres....
Demographics and Economic Opportunity Dashboard Launched The City of Tehachapi and eImpact have completed a new "Demographics and Economic Opportunity" dashboard that is now active on the city's website www.LiveUpTehachapi.com . The demographics report includes spending habits of consumers within the City of Tehachapi and serves as a tool for both current and potential business owners along with developers and site selectors considering the Tehachapi market for investment. This updated study...
Now that the long-awaited AVA designation has been approved by the federal Alcohol, Tax and Trade Bureau, it is important for us all to understand the significance of this achievement. The designation signifies that the Tehachapi Mountains AVA has demonstrated that our area is distinctive and unique. Grapes grown here at a 4,000-foot elevation, the individual chemistry of the soils and specific climate conditions combine to create wines that are different from any other California wines. The Teh...
Salvation Army Service Center Coordinator Sandy Chavez underscored the organization's local impact when she told members of the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi that she had misspoken earlier that day at the Dec. 2 Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council meeting. "It wasn't 350 Thanksgiving baskets that we provided," Chavez said. "We served 1,000 families with Thanksgiving baskets." Members of the Kiwanis Club visited the Center at 538 East Tehachapi Blvd. for a "field trip" meeting. Forty to...
At their November 12 meeting, the Tehachapi Rotary Club welcomed to their online meeting Don Grafton, Solar General Manager for BHE Renewables. Grafton was joined by Paulette Rush, BHE's community relations specialist. Berkshire Hathaway is the parent corporation of BHE Energy and BHE Renewables is a division of BHE Energy. Grafton said that 10 years ago wind energy locally produced about nine megawatts of power compared with the over 3,000 megawatts that is produced today. BHE began the Pinon...
The Tehachapi Arts Commission is planning two linked events that promise to attract nationally recognized plein-air artists to the area, Commission member Jim Wilson told the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi Nov. 11. "It will be the biggest art event ever in Tehachapi," Wilson said. "It will highlight professional artists from around the country." Forty plein-air ("open air") artists have been invited to come to Tehachapi for a week in May to begin work on paintings that will be featured at a ticketed...
The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) awarded Greg Garrett from the City of Tehachapi the Champion of the Year Award representing 15 counties in Central California. The SBDC Director Kelly Bearden and Consultant Jay Thompson made the trip to Tehachapi on Thursday October 15 to present the award to Garrett in person. "The award is the Central California Region SBDC Champion of the Year and is given to the stakeholder who exemplifies leadership and also the needs for your small businesses w...
At their Sept. 3 meeting, the Tehachapi Rotary Club received a virtual visit from Mary Beth Garrison, community liaison for Rio Tinto/U. S. Borax who gave the club an update on the operations of the Kern County mine located in Boron. Rio Tinto is located on six continents, has over 1,000 employees and produces 30 percent of the world's borates. Borate operations originally began in Death Valley in the 1800s with the borates transported to rail cars by the famous 20 mule team wagons. In 1927 oper...
