Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Kiwanis members learned about fire safety at a recent meeting of the club. Three members of Kern County Fire Department spoke about programs to prevent fires and precautions that should be taken to be safe. Engineer Aaron Davis was the main spokesman with additional help from Captain Trevor Baldwin and Firefighter Mike Sanchez. An interesting program in Kern County is called ReadyKern. It is a telephone notification system that will deliver public safety messages to you at any phone number or...
Fires – Above, a helicopter vacuums up water at Middle Lake in Bear Valley Springs through a snorkel, filling its tank in 45 seconds. Helicopters fitted with buckets scooped up loads in 10 seconds. The helicopters, staged as closely as a minute apart, dropped the water on the Deer Fire, which advanced up the hill from Hwy. 223. Air tankers dropped fire bright red retardant. The blaze started July 1, 2016, covered 1,785 acres and was 93 percent contained by July 6. It threatened homes in BVS and...
The Stallion Springs Property Owners Association congratulates to THS student Hailee Riddle who received a $1,000 scholarship in May from the SS POA. Hailee had a great application and grade average. They wish her the best as she takes the next step in her life. Police report The Stallion Springs Police Department for the month of May reported three arrests and one citation was issued. There were 68 calls for service, six call outs, eight want and warrant checks, 101 officer initiated...
Mary Beth Garrison, along with her buddy "Bear", a life-size image of a bear, was the speaker at the Stallion Springs Property Owners Association meeting on May 24. Garrison presented ways to decrease energy use and save money at home. She talked about taking small energy saving steps to make a big difference in our SCE bills and where to get rebates on many energy upgrades. Community Clean Sweep, a local nonprofit organization started by Garrison in 1989, is the official Energy Upgrade Californ...
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...
Kiwanis members learned about fire safety at a recent meeting of the club. Three members of Kern County Fire Department spoke about fire prevention programs and precautions that should be taken to be fire safe. Engineer Aaron Davis was the main spokesman with additional help from Captain Trevor Baldwin and Firefighter Mike Sanchez. An interesting program in Kern County is called ReadyKern. It is a telephone notification system that will deliver public safety messages to you at any phone number...
The Kern County Fire Department will increase the level of fire restrictions beginning on May 28, 2016. Five years of drought coupled with widespread tree mortality throughout Kern County have firefighters at the ready. Upcoming summer temperatures and low fuel moisture have prompted fire officials to increase fire restrictions. Kern County Fire Department officials will keep these restrictions in effect until further notice. Beginning May 28, 2016, campfires will not be allowed in any county pa...
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...
Local Kern County Fire Department spokesman Tyler Townsend introduced the speakers at this year's event which was held at Cub Lake in Bear Valley Springs. Fire representatives from several agencies spoke on the need for "Advanced preparedness". Cal-Fires theme: Ready, Set, Go was emphasized. Ready... Build a defensible space around your property and buildings. Set...Have in place an evacuation route out of the area. Go...Leave at the first sign of a wild fire in your neighborhood. Don't wait to...
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...
Kern County representatives who spoke at the El Nino preparedness meeting Jan. 9 at the Veterans Memorial Hall in Tehachapi offered valuable advice that can – and will – save lives. It's easy to say "Get prepared," but harder to actually sit down and plan it. Red Cross volunteers at the meeting helped attendees jump-start the process by giving out information and Go-Bags filled with life-saving items such as light sticks, emergency blankets, face masks, water and emergency ponchos. Here is som...
The Kern County Fire Department in partnership with the Kern County Sheriff's Office is assisting the elderly in preparing for the predicted upcoming El Nino storms by providing free sandbags and sand in an event to be held at the fire department headquarters, 5642 Victor Street, Bakersfield, California, and at the David Head Center in Lamont, from 10:00am to 12:00 noon this Saturday, January 16th. Residents can fill up to 25 sandbags per address with provided sand. Supplies will be limited....
The Tehachapi Heritage League presents "Kids' Day – History is Fun!" on Saturday Sept. 12 from 12 to 4 p.m. at the Tehachapi Museum and Errea House Museum (310 S. Green Street). Kids attending can experience many hands-on activities while learning about local history. Although many of the activities will be geared toward children, adults will also find exhibits of interest. Featured activities will include old fashioned games, demonstrations of crafts such as quilting and basket making, and s...
If you’ve ever thought about changing out your lawn for a waterwise garden NOW is the time! The State Department of Water Resources (DWR) opened their Turf Replacement Rebate Program earlier this month. Rebates are $2 per square foot of lawn removed, up to 1,000 square feet of lawn or $2,000. You must have lawn – dead or alive – to qualify. You are especially well qualified to be eligible for a rebate for two reasons. Kern County is one of the ten San Joaquin Valley counties where DWR is directing extra funding. Also, residents of the city...
Are you becoming bored with the media constantly harping on about California's current drought conditions? Are you a little tired of hearing over and over that this year is the one in which you should ensure you are prepared for an emergency if you haven't done so before now? After all, what really are the chances that we may be struck by or endangered by wildfire? Well, in the middle of June a group of BVS residents took a trip up to Wildhorse Equestrian Camp and ended up discovering exactly ho...
Kern County, CA - The Bureau of Land Management (BLM), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Cal Fire and Kern County Fire Department (KCFD) announced an “Interagency Declaration for the 2015 Wildland Fire Season” on Friday, May 15. Fire officials, representing all agencies, made the announcement at a press conference held at Kern County Fire Department Headquarters located at 5642 Victor Street, Bakersfield, California. The declaration covers all lands within the following jurisdictions: • Forest lands managed by the Sequoia National Forest locat...
On May 16, at approximately 4:37 p.m., officers responded to a report of structure fire at Coy Burnett Stadium, at the 700 block of E. Tehachapi Blvd. The damaged structure is the snack bar the Tehachapi High School Boosters use for fundraisers and THS local games. Officers immediately evacuated the surrounding area and the Kern County Fire Department arrived to extinguish the flames. There was major damage caused to the interior of the building. The cost of the damage is unknown. According to the THS Boosters, damage to the inside of the snack...
Most of us remember the 100th birthday of the city of Tehachapi held in 2009 in front of the steps of the present city hall complete with a jumbo-tron. But some of you have been here long enough to remember Tehachapi’s 50th anniversary, which my mother Marion Deaver wrote about in 1959. In 1909 the downtown was lit by a dozen gasoline street lights which shone down dimly each night on the dirt streets of the city. If a fire broke out, volunteer firemen rushed to the scene with a hand-drawn t...
The Stallion Springs board of directors held its regular monthly meeting on Feb. 17 at the Community Services District (CSD) building. The Stallion Springs 4-H requested the continued use of the area behind the swimming pool to plant and cultivate the community garden, as they did last year. The board unanimously approved the request. The board also approved a resolution to continue the weed abatement program. The purpose of the program is to provide "defensible space" around improved...
The Stallion Springs Board of Directors held a Special Board Meeting on Monday, February 2 related to a possible amendment to Resolution 2003-2 that required all utilities to dwellings or other structures to be underground. Edison previously allowed for service across streets to be overhead to a pole, then underground to the structure. Edison’s new policy and practice is that if any portion of the service is overhead the entire service must be overhead. If any portion of the service is underground then the entire service must be underground. Th...
On Saturday, November 15, 125 volunteers came from neighborhoods throughout Golden Hills to clean up, cut back, tear down, and stuff bags with fly-away litter and illegally dumped debris. This was the first Clean-Up Day of the former Golden Hills Country Club, located on the corner of Westwood Drive and Woodford-Tehachapi Road. Littered with fly-away trash, overgrown with long-forgotten junipers and nasty Star Thistle; punctuated with tires, old wood with rusty nails, and broken fencing...
The lure of four seasons and the chance to live closer to nature was what attracted Jeremy and Mary McGill to Tehachapi. They found a house they loved in Bear Valley and moved in the August. However, getting together to work on their new house is a feat of major scheduling. Both Jeremy and Mary are firefighters. Jeremy is a Kern County fireman and is on a 48 hour shift. Mary works for the Bakersfield Fire Department and is on a 24 hour shift. They are off at the same time every fourth day and...
Pacific Gas & Electric held a First Responder Workshop for the Stallion Springs CERT team, presented by Jeff Kestly, Sr. Public Safety Specialist with PG&E. This training was specialized training for public safety first responders on how to safely respond and operate at natural gas and electrical emergencies. Mr. Kestly is one of eight Sr. Public Safety Specialists within PG&E's service territory that provide this type of training to fire, law enforcement, EMS, public works departments and...
Local law enforcement and a variety of community organizers are inviting residents to a night out on the town with free food and all the safety information they can handle. The introduction of National Night Out, “America’s Night Out Against Crime”, began in 1984 in an effort to promote involvement in crime prevention activities, police-community partnerships, neighborhood camaraderie and to send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back. “National Night Out” is sponsored by the National...
Local law enforcement and a variety of community organizers are inviting residents to a night out on the town with free food and all the safety information they can handle. The introduction of National Night Out, "America's Night Out Against Crime", began in 1984 in an effort to promote involvement in crime prevention activities, police-community partnerships, neighborhood camaraderie and to send a message to criminals letting them know that neighborhoods are organized and fighting back....
