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Tehachapi Chief of Police Kent Kroeger said the police department has made great progress in 2016 with the opening of the Police Communications Center on July 1 and the formation of the non-profit Tehachapi Police Foundation. "Being in-house has improved our efficiency," Kroeger said of the new communications (dispatch) center at the Dec. 28 Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi meeting at Don Juan's Grill. "We are self-contained and open 24 hours." Until the center opened at the new TPD headquarters at...
It’s another new year. So I guess it’s time to tally up my score for last year. I think I did pretty well. As a writer I need to track where I submit things to and what the outcome is. I keep a database which makes it easy to count up some of my important statistics. I was rejected 64 times this last year. While it might seem odd that I’d lead off with my rejections, it’s not that unusual for a writer to remember them. JK Rowling was rejected 12 times before her books about Harry Potter were acc...
Families with children all dressed up for their Christmas photo (some in jammies) came to see Santa and enjoy a breakfast of pancakes and sausages Dec. 3 at Tehachapi's annual Breakfast With Santa at Jacobsen Middle School cafeteria. Three service clubs – Kiwanis, Rotary and Lions – as well as the Salvation Army, fielded volunteers to set up, cook and serve. Photographers Jazmine Moreno and Daniel Moreno worked steadily to get the best pictures of the children on Santa's lap. There was no cha...
Breakfast with Santa was the perfect way to start the Christmas Season in Tehachapi. It was held on the morning of December 3 at Jacobsen Middle School cafeteria where children and their parents were served a free breakfast of pancakes, sausage, milk and juice. When Santa appeared at the door, he was greeted with a loud cry of joy. Jerry Hildreth was the man behind the long white beard, and he held each child on his lap while they posed for a memorable photo with Santa. The event was sponsored...
Retail leakage happens when residents go to Bakersfield or Lancaster/Palmdale to shop instead of shopping in Tehachapi. Tehachapi Economic Development Coordinator Michelle Vance is on a mission to turn that around, to keep the money in Tehachapi and to draw shoppers up the hill to make their purchases. "One hundred fifty-eight million dollars leave our town every year," Vance told the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council on Nov. 2 at the Tehachapi Police Department community room....
Antique cars are at least 75 years old, but classic cars are special because fewer of them were made. This is one of the things Kiwanis members learned from Harold Cox when he spoke at their recent meeting. Cox became hooked on antique cars when, as a young man, he saw a 1929 Rolls Royce. He could not afford that one, but he borrowed $90 from his dad and bought an old Packard. He fixed it up until he sold it at a profit. From that beginning, his interest in cars grew to the point he joined the...
Members of the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi attended the Installation Dinner of 2016-2017 Lt. Governor John Sullivan in Bakersfield. The installation was conducted by Pete Edwards who is Governor of Kiwanis International California-Nevada-Hawaii District Division 33. Edwards recalled the purpose of Kiwanis is to improve the world, one child and one community at a time. The local Kiwanis Club meets each Wednesday at noon at Don Juan's on South Street. Kiwanis projects to help children include...
Tehachapi Kiwanis serve Pasta Fest!...
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...
I have been walking through the front doors of Pacino's for the last seven years. I'm proud to have been part of the restaurant and thankful to have been able to do a job I so loved. I have met so many wonderful people from all over the world, from other states, from surrounding cities, and from right here in Tehachapi. Thank you for choosing Pacino's! To all my regulars, thanks for the friendships and laughs we had throughout the years. You made my job fun: Buzz - S.P.S.S, Tom and Nancy G-6,...
Zanya Biviano, community outreach volunteer for Optimal Hospice Care, told the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi at its Aug. 3 meeting at Perfetto restaurant that often people who are preparing to die will share confidences with a neutral observer that they never have told anyone. Hospice volunteers, in comforting the terminally ill, may find that the patient needs to talk about long-buried childhood memories or issues. "It may be things that have never been addressed by the patient," she said. "We just...
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...
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...
Join the Tehachapi Kiwanis club in welcoming its guest, Mr. Chris Naftel at the club's weekly meeting on Wednesday, June 8. Mr. Naftel was the Manager of the NASA Global Hawk program from its beginning in 2005 until his retirement in 2015. He will provide a presentation covering the project from its inception through the many Earth Science projects that it has supported. The Global Hawk System provides a unique capability for the science community. The combination of the aircraft's range,...
Measure F is the future for Kern County Libraries. This was explained to Kiwanis by Mandy Walters, a librarian who devotes personal time to speaking about the measure on the June ballot. Yes votes will allow all branches to be open at least five days per week and update technology in Kern County libraries. It will expand library programs, services, and literacy programs for children, teens, and adults. Walters explained there are 24 library branches and two book mobiles in Kern. They are funded...
Full circle – The husband and wife physician team of Dr. Harold Schlotthauer and Dr. Madge Schlotthauer, who established a hospital in Tehachapi in 1934 and served the community until 1969, were Seventh Day Adventists. Today, it is Adventist Health that is proposing to fund completion of the new hospital and lease and operate the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District properties (Proposition H, on the June 7 ballot, seeks voter approval for affiliation between Adventist Health and the h...
The National Day of Prayer in Tehachapi began with an early morning breakfast sponsored by the Kiwanis Club. President Jonathan Hall welcomed the many guests and introduced Don Bowman, organizer of the event, who gave the invocation. After a delicious breakfast, prepared by Mill Street Kitchen, several young people from Heritage Oak School read scripture and offered prayers. Marian Stephens introduced key note speaker, Marget Willer, who is director of the Salvation Army Service Center in...
Kiwanis members were treated to a preview of the upcoming musical, Riverwind, when Director Karl Schuck introduced the cast and explained his reasons for selecting this play. He had seen Riverwind in 1965 and dreamed of one day being its director. When there was an opening for Tehachapi Community Theater to stage a musical, Schuck volunteered to direct the play that had captivated him many years ago. He described the play as sweet and charming, the perfect show for Tehachapi. The story takes...
Water report – "Jacobsen Reservoir held 1,220 acre feet in storage on April 15, which is about average for that date," Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District Manager John Martin reported to the district board on April 20. "Our forecast shows the reservoir peaking at 1,429 acre feet on May 10." The drought, he reported, is continuing into its fourth year. "The State Water Project allocation is currently 45 percent but it could still go up. Northern Sierra precipitation is 121 percent of n...
The former women's prison in Tehachapi had its beginning in 1852 explained Del Troy, Tehachapi's well known historian, when she spoke to the Kiwanis Club. In those early days there was a ship at San Quentin Point that held 50 convicts, some of whom were women. A prison was built for them, and the women were housed in the same facility as the men until 1928 when the legislature approved separate prisons for women. The State of California purchased 1700 acres in Cummings Valley from Lucas Brite...
Members of the Tehachapi High School Key Club, a service organization sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi, shared their activities and philosophy at the Kiwanis club's Jan. 27 regular lunsheon meeting at Pacino's restaurant. Under the leadership of senior Brandon Monzon, the club has grown to 28 members this year. The Key Clubbers engage in volunteer activities in the community, including fundraising for the Eliminate program to help fight deadly neo-natal tetanus, serving at events like...
Tehachapi High School head football coach Steve Denman, speaking to the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi on Dec. 16, 2015, has learned more than a few things about teenagers in 34 years of coaching. "Kids keep you young," he said. "Kids just want to have guidance, direction and boundaries – and get out of the way." Denman spoke at the invitation of Kiwanian George Novinger, who was principal of THS when Denman began his coaching career in 1982. The accumulated wisdom on the dais represented an u...
Lancaster native Tony Schoen began working as a financial controller in the nascent wind industry in 1988 and rode the boom-and-bust roller coaster until he retired from that business in 2004. For 16 years he worked in a small building on the hillside south of Hwy. 58 in the middle of the wind turbines. Describing himself as "a local desert rat," Schoen (pronounced "Shane"), 61, told the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi of his experiences under Zond, Enron and GE. Schoen first worked with James G.P....
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Jessica won the pie baking contest at the Apple Festival Oct. 11. We asked her if she would share her recipe and she was thrilled. Thank you Jessica and congratulations from the Loop. This is altogether a pretty classic apple pie recipe, but utilizes some baking techniques that make it really great. No special skills needed here, but maybe just a little patience (allow for about 4-5 hours total time, 1-1 1/2 hands on). It starts with the crust, which is so simple (made with a stand mixer!) and...
