Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Pictured from left rear, Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs) J. Tirado and A. Moreno and Paramedic L. Carillo, right, of Hall Ambulance pay $1 to guess how many acorns are in the jar at the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi Farmers Market booth Aug. 6. The person who estimates the number of acorns that is the closest to the actual number will receive 50 percent of the funds raised at the Kiwanis Farmers Market booth. The Tehachapi Kiwanis Club will retain 25 percent of the proceeds and Scouts BSA...
Restaurants in the city of Tehachapi have sprouted umbrellas and outdoor seating on city sidewalks and parking lots in response to closure of interior seating due to COVID-19. "As long as it's safe, we are allowing outdoor dining on closed sidewalks and in private parking lots," Tehachapi Economic Development Coordinator and Assistant to the City Manager Corey Costelloe said at the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi July 22 meeting. "We waived outdoor dining permits. We waived rules about banners at...
A classical education – Heritage Oak High School Principal Lorena Semerenko will speak at the Wed., Aug. 5 meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi. The Christian-based school offers a classical curriculum and small classes. If the restaurants are still closed, the meeting will be held in a private home in downtown Tehachapi. The meeting starts at noon. Remote attendance is available. The Kiwanis Club serves children in our community and we welcome prospective members. We practice social distancing while providing a warm meeting place to r...
Ashley Whitmore began working for the city of Tehachapi as a part-time clerk when she was 23. Now at 35, she is Administrative Manager/ Deputy City Clerk and manager of Tehachapi Municipal Airport. "The city has been extremely supportive and instrumental in my growth as a public servant," said Whitmore, who spoke at the July 15 meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi. The meeting began at the pilot's lounge/terminal and included a personal tour of the airport. Since 2015, she has assisted in...
The Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra has worked out a plan to re-open its concert schedule, which has been halted by safety concerns related to the COVID-19 virus. The first of six concerts will be Sunday, Sept. 13 at the Country Oaks Baptist Church. The concert will be presented in two parts. Wind and horn instruments, which release hot, moist air that can reach an audience, will play outdoors, followed by the strings playing inside the auditorium. "The show will open outdoors at approximately...
The Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi welcomes Financial Adviser Brandon Billings to its Board of Directors. Billings, of the Edward Jones office at 709 W. Valley Blvd., Ste. B, is a youth sports coach and outdoor enthusiast. "It's an honor and privilege to be able to serve the community and help it grow," Billings said. Billings has come up from Bakersfield to assist long-time Kiwanian Ben Graham as he transitions into retirement. Other officers elected to the Kiwanis club 2020-2021 term at its June...
COVID-19 cases have not impacted operations at Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley but the "COVID effect" has deterred patients from utilizing valuable and timely services. The hospital is fully operational and is offering free COVID testing. "We are ready to care for you," Christina Scrivner, director of Philanthropy for the Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley Foundation, told the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi at its July 1 meeting at the Gold Mountain Sports Tavern. The hospital was prepared early on...
Like a European village – The Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi speaker for Wednesday, July 22 is City of Tehachapi Economic Development Coordinator Corey Costelloe, who can tell us how the city is helping restaurants adapt to outdoor dining. Costello will present the city’s economic outlook. The Kiwanis meeting, which begins at noon, will be outdoors at a private home, unless the restaurants are open and we can resume gathering at our regular meeting place (Gold Mountain Sports Tavern). Jobs with the census – The Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi speak...
Tehachapi native Chad Walker, stage manager for the soft rock duo Air Supply, writes his estimate of the number of acorns in the jar at the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi booth at the Main Street Farmers Market on July 9. Walker is a 2002 Tehachapi High School graduate. He has been with LA-based Air Supply for 12 years and is looking forward to getting back on the road for live performances in the fall. The "Acorn Scramble" is a fundraiser for the Kiwanis Club and Boy Scout Troop 136. Half the...
Due to the evolving COVID-19 situation, including its continued impact on community health and well-being, coupled with the rules and restrictions on large event gatherings, the 2020 Antelope Valley Fair and Alfalfa Festival (AV Fair) has been postponed until further notice. Although the State of California and Los Angeles County have been slowly easing restrictions on COVID-19 Stage 3 openings, the AV Fair is classified as a COVID-19 Stage 4 event. The COVID-19 Stage 4 reopening process has not started and will require both State and L.A. Coun...
Musician, music teacher, Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra concertmaster and retired Navy Captain Gayel Pitchford will speak at the July 8 luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi. Pitchford teaches young musicians who go on to play in symphony orchestras, university music programs and who develop musical careers. The Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra hopes to present its next concert in September. Pitchford will explain how the orchestra will compensate for the absence of wind and brass instruments (which are temporarily sidelined by COVID-19...
The Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi honors Tehachapi High School (THS) 2020 graduate Meagan Williams, recipient of the club's $1,000 2020 college scholarship. Williams will attend Bakersfield College, where she will be playing on the Renegade women's volleyball team. "I am enrolling as a student athlete in the honors transfer program with plans of transferring to a California State University or University of California," she said in her scholarship application. A member of the California Scholarship...
The Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi and partner organization Boy Scout Troop 136 delivered American flags on Flag Day, Sunday, June 14. Shown at a subscriber home, from left, Kern County firefighter Armando Leon and his son Breck, Assistant Scoutmaster Del Baker-Medlock (back row) and his sons Jaden and Kody Baker-Medlock. The Kiwanis Club Stars and Stripes Flag Display Project teams deliver (and pick up) big American flags to the front yards of subscribers within the Tehachapi city limits on six...
In analyzing recent crime statistics, Tehachapi Police Chief Kent Kroeger discovered that chronic offenders accounted for more than half of all arrests in Tehachapi in 2019. Of the 575 arrests in Tehachapi in 2019, he said, 89 people had accumulated 324 arrests, or 56.3 percent of the total. "Some had 10 or more arrests, some as many as 13 in this one year," he told the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi at its Wednesday, Jan. 22 luncheon meeting at the Gold Mountain Sports Tavern. The year 2017 had...
Families enjoyed having breakfast with Santa on Dec. 7. The annual event was sponsored by local service clubs and organizations: Rotary, Kiwanis, Lions, Salvation Army and the Masonic Lodge. The event was held at the Jacobsen Middle School cafeteria....
Dr. Alois Alzheimer of Munich, Germany identified the disease known as Alzheimer's in 1906. The Alzheimer's Association, the umbrella organization that funds research, education and resources, was founded in 1980. By comparison, the American Cancer Society began in 1913. "We are late in the game regarding research," Ashley Sodergren, regional director, Kern and Tulare Counties, told the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi in presentations during two recent meetings. "It is a public health issue that...
How did we get here you ask? In the early 1960s the Business Men’s Association, along with other interested Service Clubs, jointly sponsored a three-day celebration spotlighting local agriculture and recreation opportunities found within the Tehachapi Valley. Thus the “Mountain Fruit Festival” was born along with the Kiwanis Club inaugural “Little Britches Rodeo.” Those first years, the Kiwanis held the rodeo on property in Golden Hills, which later became Austin Acres/Old Town Stables. In 1967, the name of the festival was changed to, “The...
Anything that affects a driver's ability to operate a vehicle gets a DUI, California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Aaron Maurer told the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi on May 22. "Alcohol, drugs and medication can lead to a DUI (driving under the influence) charge," he said. Officers can add a charge of child endangerment if there are children in the vehicle. To determine if a driver is impaired, an officer looks at, "the totality of circumstances," he said. "Your body does things it...
Connie Brehm, speaking and dressed as British nurse Florence Nightingale, gave the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi a stirring account of the life of the woman whose 19th-century work established the profession of nursing. Brehm is Professor Emeritus in nursing from Azusa Pacific University, and a Tehachapi resident for a year. Nightingale, Brehm said, was born in 1820 in Florence, Italy during her wealthy parents' four-year honeymoon. Believing that women should be well educated, her father provided...
China is fed up with taking the world's trash, Waste Management's Residential Recycling Manager Ali Van Dereyk told the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi, and recycling has become more of a challenge. Speaking at the club's May 15 meeting at the Gold Mountain Sports Tavern, Van Dereyk said that when China first began accepting refuse, the limit on contamination was 5 percent. Now it is 25 percent, and many items that formerly were included in the waste are now prohibited. China, she said, is trying to...
Following an executive order from Governor Gavin Newsom, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is throwing out plans for twin water tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and initiating planning and permits for a smaller, single tunnel. “The California WaterFix is officially dead,” Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District (TCCWD) General Manager Tom Neisler reported at the May 15 board of directors meeting at Brite Lake headquarters. “Twelve years of work and $300 milli...
The May 2 National Day of Prayer in Tehachapi featured three events that began with the 33rd Annual Kiwanis Prayer Breakfast at McMullan Hall, St. Malachy Catholic Church. Shown at the breakfast, (left to right) Tehachapi City Manager Greg Garrett; guest speaker Tehachapi Mayor Susan Wiggins; United Methodist Church Pastor Rev. Falamao Samate, who prayed for state, county and local governance; and Kiwanis Prayer Breakfast Chairman Don Bowman. Pastor John Lopez of the First Baptist Church led...
Susan Wiggins, featured speaker at the Thursday, May 2 Kiwanis Prayer Breakfast, is a civic activist whose spiritual convictions help keep the sometimes-bumpy politics in perspective. As mayor of Tehachapi, she is called upon to preside over City Council meetings that welcome public speakers who may be angry and frustrated. She must navigate the simmering tensions among the public and, at times, between members of the Council themselves. Wiggins recognizes that city councils and other civic...
The Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi announces that Tehachapi Mayor Susan Wiggins will be the featured speaker at the Kiwanis 33rd Annual Prayer Breakfast on May 2. A native of Mojave and a Tehachapi community leader, Wiggins will share her personal story and vision. The theme of the event, “Love One Another” (#Love1Another), is taken from the words Jesus spoke as recorded in John 13:34: “Love one another, just as I have loved you.” The Men of Faith Quartet will present upbeat, modern contemp...
Six members of Congress from California are campaigning to site the proposed Space Development Agency in the military areas of Edwards Air Force Base and the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. At the March 14 meeting of the East Kern Economic Alliance (EKEA) at the Mojave Air and Space Port, Representative Kevin McCarthy's field rep Gary Medina presented a letter sent from the congresspersons to President Donald Trump, stating the case for the location. "[W]e urge you to consider two bases...
