Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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After living in Chino, Calif. for 43 years, Ron and Linda Little retired and decided to move from a community that they felt had become over-crowded and difficult to move around in. It is a story I have heard repeated over the last year or two. I can remember when the Inland Empire was promoted as the place to move if you wanted affordability and space to improve your quality of life. On their retirement it was time to look for something different. Their daughter Sheila lives in Tehachapi so...
Gene and Pat Coker moved into their mountaintop home in Bear Valley Springs last November. They had spent the last five years living in Ojai, a little town about 10 miles inland from Ventura. Before that they lived in Santa Paula and other areas of Ventura County. They thought that Ojai and the coastal areas of the county had become too crowded, so when they retired they began to search for a new place to live. Gene said that he had always wanted a cabin in the mountains. They had once had a...
Brian and Rosa Scott arrived in Tehachapi in September. Rosa came from Colorado Springs which had been their home for many years and Scott came from his previous assignment in Turkey. Brian is a government contractor and had been stationed near Tarsus until receiving his new assignment at Edwards Air Force Base. His areas of expertise range from mathematics to military arts, business administration and international relations. Brian was born in Boston but since his dad was in the Navy, Brian...
Taylor and Eustace Laurie arrived in Tehachapi in September from Alexandria, Va. to begin work in their new clerical positions; Eustace as the new pastor of Tehachapi's Seventh Day Adventist Church and Taylor as Director of Spiritual Care and Volunteer Services for Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley. They had both been pastoring their own church in the Washington, D.C. area. However, they realized that their future kids might have to go to two different churches so they began to search for a plac...
Just about everyone is aware that Tehachapi's new hospital is due to open sometime next year. Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley also has a new president and CEO. Jeff Lingerfelt arrived to take the reins on August 14. His wife Jenny arrived about a month later. They came from Geneseo, Ill. where Jeff had spent the last two years as CEO of Hammond-Henry Hospital. It was just recently announced that Lingerfelt was named to Becker's Healthcare 60 Critical Access CEOs to Know list for the second tim...
Chuck and Candi Hallman were wandering through Philip Marx Central Park on the 4th of July when they stopped by our booth. We finally had a chance to visit almost two months later. They said that they had moved to Stallion Springs around the first of this year. They came from Lakeview Terrace in the San Fernando Valley where they had lived for 36 years. However, The Valley was getting crowded and the traffic was annoying. They loved the slower lifestyle and the natural surroundings of the...
A resident of a city that has adopted a district-based election system under threat of litigation – as the city of Tehachapi is in the process of doing -- is suing that city and the state of California, arguing that the system is unconstitutional. The suit asserts that the district-based system as defined by the California Voting Rights Act of 2001 (CVRA) is illegal because it requires a city to draw boundaries based primarily on race. "Accordingly, the CVRA flagrantly violates the Fourteenth A...
After 13 years in Lancaster, Carlos and Mary Jane Aguirre said that they wanted something better for their family. They found a piece of land in Tehachapi on which they decided to build their own home. Carlos had a friend who owned a construction company and together they would build the house. Their house in Lancaster sold quicker than they expected so they moved onto their property in an RV along with their nine-year-old son Daniel and their two dogs, Coco and Princess. They pictured the...
Photographer Ben Dewell moved to Tehachapi in July. Ben felt it was time to downsize from his home in Valencia, a town about an hour and a half south of Tehachapi. He had loved the outdoors since he was a teenager and had done some camping at Tehachapi Mountain Park. He wanted a place in the mountains and his new home in Stallion Springs was a perfect solution. Ben said he was born in Burbank, Calif. but was raised in Fresno. His father worked for Leslie Salt, a Bay Area company. He went to...
"It's a small world, isn't it?" You hear people say that all the time but it was my meeting Dan and Ruth Schopen that brought true meaning to that statement. I asked Dan where he was born, he said Evanston, Ill. I said, "Me too". He said he was raised in a suburb of Chicago named Wilmette, I said, "Me too." He asked me what street I lived on and he grew up on the street right behind where I grew up. We left Illinois when I was eight, a little before his time, but who could imagine finding someon...
I met Mike and Shell Christian and their family enjoying food, music and fun in Central Park on the 4th of July. They had just moved to Tehachapi in June from Corona which is a part of Southern California's vast Inland Empire. They said that they had lived there off and on since 1985, wandering off to live in places like Hawaii and the Chico area of Northern California. The Christians were looking for a less hectic environment in which to raise their three children, 14 year old Sierra, 12 year o...
David and Bonnie Michaels arrived in Tehachapi at the end of June. They had lived in Chino Hills in San Bernardino County since their marriage 26 years ago. Bonnie retired on June 30 after working for the City of Chino Hills for the last 16 years. They both said that the area had become too congested. After looking at various retirement locations, Tehachapi offered the rural environment that they had once had and was still within close proximity to their grandchildren in Victorville. After...
One of Tehachapi’s newer residents is Linda Slover. Linda is also owner of Twisted Sisters Revival, one of Tehachapi’s newest businesses. Linda arrived at the end of last year from Ft. Collins, Colorado where she had lived for the last eight years. Linda said that members of her family living on the West Coast had been after her to move for quite a while. She fell in love with Le Conner, Washington and even made an offer on a house there. When that didn’t work out, her daughter asked her to mo...
The Stallion Springs Propriety Owners Association held its annual meeting and elected new officers for the coming year on Saturday, June 24. The new Officers are: Debbie Rodriquez, President; Jennifer Reid, Vice President; Lori Rodgers, Secretary; and Linda Gordon, Treasure. Board Members at large are Lewis Brown, Justin Reid and Diego Rodriquez. The POA is a social group with membership open to all Stallion residents. Renters are welcome as well as property owners. Mark your calendar for the an...
It was on a road trip, looking for an affordable place to buy a home, that Ma Belle Ammie (Ammie) Graves-Fisher and her husband Anthony Fisher discovered Tehachapi. Long Beach, where they were living, was not affordable so they decided to look towards the desert. They were amazed at the amount of green in Tehachapi, certainly more appealing than the desert, and it was affordable. They moved into their Stallion Springs home in February. Once settled, Ammie could focus on her business, Alligator...
Mike and Lisa Monahan had lived in Chino Hills, part of the Inland Empire of San Bernardino County, for 35 years. They raised their two children there. Both of them worked for Southern California Edison, Lisa in IT and Mike was a purchasing agent. Lisa said that her job was eventually outsourced, so it was time to think about retiring. Their son, Jason now works for Kern County Fire and lives in Bear Valley Springs with his wife and two children. The lure of grandchildren and living in a...
Cecelia “CeCe” Hozman moved into her new home in Tehachapi at the beginning of April. I knew she was coming here because a mutual friend in Santa Barbara gave me a “heads up” that the president of the Santa Barbara Women’s Club was moving here when her term of office was up. Even before I had a chance to officially welcome her to Tehachapi, we met at the Nonprofit Showcase. By welcome time, it was like we were old friends. CeCe moved to Santa Barbara in 2005 and after 12 years she was ready for...
After having spent 30 years living and working in Yorba Linda, Laura Asbill knew that she wanted a change of scenery away from Southern California. She tried Prescott, Ariz. but she was not happy with that choice. Her business partner owned a rental house in Bear Valley Springs and he suggested that she take a look at it. They ended up trading houses; he bought hers and she bought his. For Laura it was downsizing but she loved it. However, since arriving in Tehachapi last summer, she has been...
Will and Kami Dennis lived in Bakersfield for five years but wanted to move their family to more open spaces. They looked for more than two years. Will said that he wanted to go back to Wyoming where he was born but Kami had relatives in Bakersfield and wanted to stay close by. They found that there were wide open spaces, natural surroundings and four seasons available right here in Tehachapi and that would be a good solution for everyone. They finally found exactly what they needed, 53 acres...
Ellen Hayes and Jared Ehlers moved into their Bear Valley home in January. Jared had actually bought the home in 2015 but had never moved in. He met Ellen who was living in Clovis, and that stalled his move to Tehachapi. Jared was raised in Hanford. He has a brother there and a sister who now lives in Costa Mesa. He worked for the Forest Service for some time before signing onto his present job with Kern County Fire. He is currently completing his Bachelor’s Degree online. He is into cars and w...
Stallion Springs CSD has installed a new radio system for better communications between the field staff and the office. The new system will replace the current cellular phone system which had many dead areas in the community. The cell system often required the field staff to leave a work location and find a spot where they could call from to get parts or assistance on a project and they often missed a call from the office about a problem due to the lack of service. With the new radios and full c...
At the end of February, Robert Stevens arrived in Tehachapi from Sunnyvale, Calif. to begin his new job as Nondestructive Engineer with The Spaceship Company in Mojave. Basically, his job will be to test metals and other materials for defects and weaknesses. For the last six and a half years, Robert worked for Northrup Grumman Marine Systems in Sunnyvale. He had grown tired of commuting and the Bay area traffic. He said he was starting to think about retiring. Then he heard through a Facebook...
Ed and Lisa Sanchez arrived in Tehachapi on Jan. 28. For Ed it was coming home. He was born and raised here but had not lived here since high school. Although living in beautiful San Diego, they were ready for a simpler, less expensive lifestyle for their family. With his 25 years in the mortgage lending business, he has been added to the staff of Dignified Home Loans in downtown Tehachapi. Ed is the youngest of six children, three boys and three girls. One of his sisters still lives here and...
Abundant rain and snow are greening the hillsides and vacant lots. Spring comes early in a Mediterranean climate. California (except for our deserts) is one of a handful of places in the world with this type of climate, which is characterized by moderate wet winters and hot dry summers. California native plants come to life with the winter rains, and many grow like crazy and bloom in early to mid-spring, while plants in the rest of the country are just starting to come out of winter dormancy. As summer gets hotter and dryer, many of the...
Terrell (Terry) Nelson retired from the heating and air conditioning business in November with a plan to move to Tehachapi to be closer to his daughter and grandchildren. He chose Christmas Eve the move. As you may recall, it was snowing; maybe not the best day to move but he did have a White Christmas, something most people just dream about. Terry was born and raised in Oklahoma City. His sister, Nancy, still lives there. As a youngster he loved to play the drums. He played through grade...
