Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Sorted by date Results 201 - 225 of 235
Keith Wilson and his wife Annie purchased their Tehachapi home last year. They were attracted to the experience of four seasons and the great weather. Keith felt the new house needed a little work and has been upgrading it a bit at a time ever since. They still have a house in Inyokern, California, which they plan to sell and Annie still has her house in Palmdale. Even though the couple has been married for five years, Annie’s children are finishing school there and it is convenient to her j...
The latest square dance class started on 11 February 2015 for the Tehachapi Gandy Dancers Square Dance Club. We had eight new students join us as well as us welcoming back some returning members of the club. Rod Shuping provided the calls for the square dance class, teaching several of the basic calls and movements. Everyone had a great time! It is not too late for you to join us! The next class workshop will take place on 18 February 2015. Come on out, have fun while learning to square dance. You can come meet your neighbors and make new...
Carol Figueria and Jack Tate wanted a vacation home in the mountains and last summer they found their Tehachapi getaway. Since they are only here about two weekends a month and were traveling in Italy in the fall, it took a while for me to give them an “official” welcome. It was almost December before we connected. When they are not in Tehachapi, they live and work in the San Fernando Valley in Los Angelescounty. Jack owns Tate Heating and Air Conditioning, “The Weather Changers”, located in Mis...
After spending most of their lives in Bakersfield, Chris and Carla Sheldon wanted to raise their family in the clean air and natural surroundings of Tehachapi. They finally made the move along with their four children, who are all under eight years of age. The couple runs an oil equipment company in Bakersfield that deals with valves and hydraulic controls. Carla was born in Bakersfield and comes from a family that has been involved in the oil equipment business for 40 years. Before becoming a...
Despite the rainy weather, the Tehachapi Gandy Dancers Square Dance Club hosted their Snow Picnic 2015 Dance. A total of 22 people braved the elements to attend the dance with members representing the Aces and Deuces from Palmdale, the Joaquin Squares from Bakersfield, and of course, the Tehachapi Gandy Dancers. Two squares were on the dance floor at a time. Bob Knowles provided the calls for the square dancing. Square dancers danced to a variety of music, from country to the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s. Not only was there square dancing, a number...
After completing five years in the Air Force, Victoria Lohnes is finally settling into her Bear Valley home along with her husband, Geoff, and two year old son, Gabriel. Her last assignment was a chaplain’s assistant at Barksdale Air Force base in Louisiana. Geoff came to California a couple of months before her and started setting up the household. He also spent four years in the Air Force and is now working for them as a civilian specializing in communications. Victoria and Geoff met in the A...
Greyson and Darlene McDaniel arrived in Tehachapi in August from Amarillo, Texas. It was Greyson’s job as a system integrator with an oil company that brought them to California and their love of horses that brought them to Tehachapi and Bear Valley Springs. When I asked what a system integrator is, he explained that he was basically a computer programmer. Darlene is retired from administrative work and takes care of the basic ranch duties. Darlene told me that it took a while to find the p...
I first met Lauren Thompson at the Fall Business Showcase where she was representing Creative Connections, a non-profit that helps to find homes for developmentally disabled adults. She told me that she and her husband, Nathan, had just moved their family from Bakersfield to Tehachapi. On my subsequent visit with Lauren, I learned that they had been looking for a chance to raise their family in the clean mountain air so, when Lauren’s company decided to open an office in Tehachapi, they j...
Jeanne and Michael Bryant are glad to be back in California. They moved to Tehachapi in August from Piedmont, South Carolina, where Michael built planes for Lockheed. Between Palmdale and Greenville, South Carolina, he spent 36 years with the company. When he retired, it was time to go home. There were a number of reasons for choosing Tehachapi. They love the mountains and the trains as well as having four seasons, but the primary reason was that Tehachapi is between Lancaster and Monterey...
Holly Jarvis spends most of her time in Newport Beach, California, which has been her home for the last thirty years and where she works in real estate investment as a mortgage broker. She is an equestrienne and has been horse camping in Bear Valley Springs for some time. It is always such a great experience that when she began to think about a place for a second home she immediately thought about the Tehachapi area as a possibility. To make a long story short, she took possession of her new...
After three years of living in California City, Travis, Tonya and Grady Gidner have moved to Tehachapi. They said the feel of community really attracted them as well as our seasonal weather. They came to California from Madison, Wisconsin, as the result of Travis’ work on life support systems at the Air Force Test Center and then at the NASA Test Center in Mojave. Travis was born in East Lancing, Michigan, and graduated from Michigan State University. He remembers that while he was in school t...
CSD The districts Waste Water plant Operating Permit was renewed on October 9. The new permit will go into effect December 1 giving the CSD five years to upgrade the waste water plant to tertiary treatment without violation or penalties. Water production was down by 15.9 percent from August 2014 and 10.9 percent from September of 2013. Waste water flow was down by over 500,000 gallons over August 2014. The Water Conservation Coordinator, currently funded through grant monies, has implemented several programs including a toilet rebate program,...
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...
Brian and Kelli Ferrari describe themselves as “small town people” so it should be no surprise that they chose Tehachapi when they moved from New York to California this spring to join their sons who live in Bakersfield. They moved here from Schnectady in “upstate” New York, an area in which they had lived all their lives. Brian was raised in Caroga Lake, New York, in the beautiful Adirondack Mountains. He became a drywall installer at age 18 and spent 30 years in that profession in and around...
Rob Dixon and Catherine McCord originally bought their Old West Ranch property as a vacation home. It was a perfect getaway for them and their animals from the congestion of the Ventura coast and a chance to own a ranch. They have owned the property and have been coming to Tehachapi for over a year. They bought a homestead where the house had been destroyed in a brush fire that had been started by a plane crash. Although the main house was gone, there was an apartment over the garage. It would...
David and Penny Rivas had been living in an old farmhouse in Ventura, California, but when Penny retired after eight years in litigation support for Amgen in Thousand Oaks, they decided it was time for a move. They were attracted to the livability and cool nights of the mountains of Tehachapi and finally made the move to Bear Valley in June. David retired two years ago from “boiling water” at a forging plant in nearby Oxnard. He monitored the boilers that operated a 50,000 pound hammer that was...
Tom and Debbie Burgess moved from Bakersfield, Calif. into their new Bear Valley home in May, not too long before Tom’s June 30th retirement as Federal Probation Officer. He had worked at the Federal Courthouse for 22 years and 9 months and now that they were “empty-nesters”, they felt it was time to move. Their oldest son lives in the area and Debbie says he tried to “lure them with the promise of grandchildren”. However, since they already liked the area, it didn’t take much “luring”. B...
Gary and Jenelle Wilcox had lived in their Bakersfield house for twenty years when they began looking for a place to retire. They loved the idea of having four seasons so Tehachapi caught their attention. In April they rented their Bakersfield house and moved into their new Tehachapi home. Jenelle was raised in Bakersfield and although she says that she is a retired cosmetologist, she does not appear to be really retired. She is a Certified Children’s Etiquette Instructor and owner of Etiquette Essentials of Bakersfield. I honestly didn’t thi...
Nearly two years ago, Beverly and Oleg Ross sold their Highland Park home to a member of The Red Hot Chili Peppers performing group and moved to Palmdale. It was to be their retirement house. However, they were not happy with the area and Oleg’s allergies were bad so they began to look at another move. Their daughter, Deborah, suggested that they might like Tehachapi so they came for a visit and really liked the area, its natural surroundings and the fact that it had so many churches. They a...
On Saturday July 26, "A Step Back in Time to Old Tehachapi" will be held at the Tehachapi Museum and Errea House Museum with activities scheduled from 12-4 p.m. Skills that were necessary to living in a rural area before the advent of modern supermarkets and department stores will be demonstrated, including quilting, woodcarving, weaving, spinning, basket making, tatting, butter churning, and origami. Maggy, a camel that lives at Windswept Ranch, will be there for children to pet. Windswept is...
Craig and Marsha Huff had been looking for a home in Tehachapi for two years before they found their mountain retreat and were able to move from Bakersfield. Craig still commutes to Bakersfield, where he is Vice President of Merrill Lynch. Craig was born in Tehachapi. Many people may remember Dr. Troy who delivered him. He attended local schools, and it was while at Tehachapi High School that he showed a great deal of promise as a charcoal artist. Although he no longer draws, a number of his...
Kris and Randy Gruben moved to Tehachapi from Mission Viejo primarily to be near family. Their son, Josh, recently moved here with his family and I had“welcomed” them in April. The Grubens brought with them a very large white Labradoodle appropriately named “Mr. Big” who greeted me at the front gate, escorted me into the house and was then ushered back to the yard. The couple had lived in Orange County for ten years but now is looking forward to the changing seasons and the beauty of the mou...
Emilie Ying had lived in Huntington Beach in the same house for 46 years, but she did want to live closer to her two daughters. The girls had been trying for two or three years to get her to make the move to Tehachapi. She found a house, and now she is getting used to her new location and new climate. Emilie was born and raised in Georgia, where she attended the University of Georgia and then worked in Atlanta as a commercial artist. For three or four years she helped design and print...
After a four year absence, Josh and Julia Orrantia have moved back to Tehachapi. They had moved to Irvine to be closer to family support and special schools for their children but they missed the mountains. Now they are looking forward to having Josh’s mom move here as well. Julia works in administration at Kaiser in Bakersfield where she supervises case managers. She was born in Davis, Calif., and is the middle child of three girls. She is still in the middle, because one sister lives in N...
First of all, I want to wish a “Happy Mother’s Day” to all mothers everywhere from Hilltop Welcoming Service. I hope all of you have a very special day. Over the years, Roberta and Dennis Springer loved coming up to Tehachapi from the Antelope Valley to visit Roberta’s sister, Cristina McKee, a local artist who at the time was associated with Gallery and Gifts. In December 2013, they finally had the opportunity to move here and found their home in Sand Canyon. They are celebrating their 25th an...
