Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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(Note: This is the twenty-seventh article in a continuing series about local military veterans and their service to our great country.) Henry Leonard ("Len") Ochsner was born on February 3, 1923, in the township of Hellgate, Montana, at the western end of the Missoula Valley on the banks of the Clark Fork River. (As a historian, I cannot resist a fascinating historical note: "Members of the Bitterroot Salish [or Flathead] Native American tribe often traveled through the Missoula Valley on their...
I recently met up with Rob Saranpa at Kamenz Kafe (formerly The Coffee Mill) to talk about his children's book, The Night Jesus Met Santa Claus. To look at him, Saranpa looks more like a tattooed rock musician than a children's book author. In fact, he is both. Before converting to Christianity, Saranpa's resume would have read something like, "touring rock musician, biker bar bouncer and collector for drug dealers." When he became a single dad, sole custodian of his ten-month-old son, that was...
Get your tickets now for Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District’s Beer and Wine Festival. Brews on the Mountain takes place Saturday, Oct. 23 from noon to 4 p.m. at West Park, Grimes ball field, located at 490 West D St., Tehachapi. General admission is $40 and includes a keepsake tasting glass. VIP admission is available for $75 and includes early (11 a.m.) admission for tasting, an event t-shirt and a keepsake tasting glass. We will also be offering a Designated Driver admission o...
After a most trying year of cancellations of concerts, events, festivals, movies and all forms of family fun and activities, we are so glad to be planning our 2021 Tehachapi Apple Festival for Oct. 16 and 17. It will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday on S. Green Street in Downtown Tehachapi. This festival was started as a celebration of apples in Tehachapi. As the years have progressed we have fewer and fewer apple producers in our wonderful town but...
After a most trying year of cancellations of concerts, events, festivals, movies and all forms of family fun and activities, we are so glad to be planning our 2021 Tehachapi Apple Festival for Oct.16 and 17. It will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Sunday on Green Street in Downtown Tehachapi. This festival was started as a celebration of apples in Tehachapi. As the years have progressed we have fewer and fewer apple producers in our wonderful town but the...
Cowboy entertainer Dave Stamey is returning to Tehachapi to play a pair of outdoor concerts on Saturday, Sept. 25, at noon and again at 4 p.m. The shows are sponsored by Fiddlers Crossing and will be presented in the courtyard of Mountain Bible Church, located at 630 Maple St. in Tehachapi (corner of Maple St. and Mountain View Ave.). Stamey is one of the most popular singer-songwriters on the cowboy circuit today. Before becoming a full-time musician, he has been a cowboy, a mule packer and a d...
The 44th annual "Fiddlin' Down the Tracks" Old Time Fiddle Contest takes place in Tehachapi on Friday and Saturday, Sept. 17 and 18, at Country Oaks Baptist Church, 20915 Schout Road, Tehachapi. This year the contest is being held in memory of Matthew Rails, one of District 3's fine young fiddlers who passed away recently, shortly before his 21st birthday. There will be a story board commemorating Matthew's life and a tribute fiddle division in his memory, with a trophy for the best rendition...
The 44th annual "Fiddlin' Down the Tracks" Old Time Fiddle Contest takes place in Tehachapi on Friday and Saturday, September 17 and 18, at Country Oaks Baptist Church, 20915 Schout Road, Tehachapi. This year the contest is being held in memory of Matthew Rails, one of District 3's fine young fiddlers who passed away recently, shortly before his 21st birthday. There will be a story board commemorating Matthew's life and a tribute fiddle division in his memory, with a trophy for the best...
The Chamber is very excited to bring back the Tehachapi Mountain Festival this year on August 20-22, an event Tehachapi looks forward to each year. We are still dealing with the effects of COVID-19, as many event organizers are, and unfortunately there will be a change in activities this year. The carnival will not be part of the festival activities. Numerous annual events that were canceled in 2020 have not been rescheduled for 2021 in California, which has put the carnival company in the...
The Tehachapi Apple Festival announces a change in date for the 2021 Apple Festival. It will now take place on the weekend of Oct. 16-17. The festival will continue to feature FREE ENTRY, free carnival games, apple bobbing, pie eating and pie baking contests, free face painting and petting zoo, puppet shows, a hula hoop contest and more. Of course, we also feature an exciting array of vendors featuring lots of great products. There will be many food and beverage choices, plus you can buy...
Record attendance at 4th of July events highlights economic recovery for Tehachapi The City of Tehachapi experienced the largest All-American 4th of July Festival since the inception of the event two decades ago. The first major event to be conducted post-COVID-19 restrictions was met with overwhelming crowds at Philip Marx Central Park. A welcome sight for vendors, non-profits, and entertainers. The variety of food vendors experienced heavy customer traffic throughout the day up until the...
The Tehachapi Mountain Democratic Club will be celebrating democracy at their annual picnic on Sunday, July 18, 4 to 7 p.m. at Phillip Marx Central Park. Everyone is welcome. Please bring chairs for your own usage. The picnic will be a pot luck. The TMD Club will provide the main course (meat). It will be appreciated if participants, who are able, bring either a side dish, appetizer, salad or dessert. Bring your own drinks also (no alcohol). Activities will include speeches from selected Kern Democratic elected officials, music and country...
The first gathering of the Tehachapi Mountain Healing Drum Circle was held at the Tehachapi Natural Market on June 18 to celebrate bringing in the summer solstice. It was created by and facilitated by Dr. Jim Pickerell, a traditional naturopath and percussionist. There were approximately 20 participants on one of the hottest days of the year. Everyone had a good time under the shade canopies and fans, in spite of the heat. The community drum circle is an informal gathering of people who meet...
We are here on the verge of our Independence Day, grateful for the opportunity to celebrate once again with our community. While COVID-19 forced the cancellation of last year's All-American 4th of July Festival, I am pleased to be preparing for this event once again. There have been a few changes. We have made the festival a little smaller, focusing our efforts on only one location, Philip Marx Central Park, but we have managed to cram an entire day's worth of activities into that park for all t...
Heritage Oaks School is proud to send forth these gentlemen and look forward to seeing them live as "Knights for Life" and give "All for Christ!" Nathan Bruhl (Valedictorian) Nathan Bruhl is Valedictorian of the class of 2021. He has attended Heritage Oak School since fifth grade and participated in the Drama Club and served on the Student Council in public relations and as vice president. Nathan is also a two-year member of the National Honor Society. Nathan's passion for music allows him to...
The City of Tehachapi has announced the return of the All-American 4th of July Festival on Sunday, July 4, resuming the festivities after cancellation in 2020. This year's festival, as has been the case since 2018, will once again be presented by AES Clean Energy, formerly known as S Power. The festival will see some changes in 2021 including limitation to just one venue at Philip Marx Central Park, and an entertainment lineup that shifts focus to local independent music artists playing on the...
Paul David Doody was born on June 26, 1932 in Brockton, Massachusetts to Rose Diauto and Arthur Doody and the clash of his Italian/Irish heritage would be with him his entire life. His only sibling John was born a few years later. Arthur started an insurance office in Randolph and the Arthur L. Doody Insurance Agency would continue until John sold the business in the mid-1990s. Rose continued with the business until she was 75. The boys were educated in a private elementary school and then sent...
Ellen was one of four children and had four children of her own, Linda Clough, William Kellogg, Debbie McClain and Norman Kellogg, Jr. She also had nine grandchildren, and too many great and great-great grandchildren to count. She is also survived by many nieces and nephews whom she cared about. They also had spouses who she cared for very much. Ellen lived so many places in her life as a wife of a Navy man, Norman Darrell Kellogg, Sr. The last 18 years of her life she lived in Tehachapi. She...
On Sunday, March 14, Matthew Bryan Rails, a loving son, brother and grandson, passed away at the age of 20 in Anchorage, Alaska. Matthew was born on July 31, 2000 in Carson City, Nevada to Melissa Billingsley and Bryan Rails. Matthew attended Carden School of Tehachapi and Tehachapi High School in his younger years. He was pursuing his political science degree at the University of Alaska, Anchorage in hopes to become a lawyer one day. He was working full time at Midnight Sun Animal Hospital in...
Friends and family members are mourning the loss of Nuwä (Kawaiisu or Southern Paiute) elder Ralph Luther Girado, 79, who passed away on February 7 in Bakersfield. Luther was a Nuwä elder and the last fluent male speaker of his Native language. He was born on March 26, 1941 in Twin Oaks, California, the son of Rafael and Gladys Leon Girado. Luther was very proud to tell you that when he was born, his father was the delivery man. He had a close-knit family, and he helped with chores every day f...
John Martin Hayes was born in Bakersfield on December 1, 1948, to Margie Mary Hayes and John McConnell Hayes. After graduating from Foothill High School in 1966, John joined the U.S. Army, serving in Germany during the Vietnam War. After his term of service, he attended California State University, Bakersfield, where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Biology. John married Charlotte (Margo) Wilson in 1974, and several years later they moved from Bakersfield to Atascadero where John worked for a...
At Tehachapi's Heritage Oak School, a (HOS) private Christian school, students learn to argue. No, they are not shouting at each other. Their arguments are more dignified, as the students learn to use critical thinking skills to communicate their positions. It's a millennia-old method of education. Based on the three-step "Trivium" Veritas Press classical curriculum, HOS students study the academic basics (Grammar, grades K-6), logical thinking (Logic, grades 7-9) and how to effectively express...
It all started 10 years ago, when several souls set out to organize and plant a church on the outskirts of Bear Valley Springs. Over the years the vision came together as many volunteers rendered their skills to complete the Sanctuary. Last winter on a cold sunny morning the cross was found, right side up, on top of a snow bank. The fatigue of many years of the transition from hot days and cold nights along with our Tehachapi winds showed itself in the design that should normally have lasted...
I have been around aviation since 1983, when I took lessons to fly sailplanes in Tehachapi at the former Fantasy Haven Gliderport, which is today known as Mountain Valley Airport. One of the incentives to get me up to 4,000 feet was to learn to fly and work in Kern County. I have been lucky to have had some great flight instructors and to have been around so many good pilots and I have learned from each of them. One pilot in particular, who towed us up in the gliders, made a big impression on...
In the early hours of Thursday, June 11, Frederick Rudolph Motter, loving husband and father, passed away peacefully at age 83. He was at home surrounded by his family as he was called home to his Heavenly Father. Fred was born on Jan. 26, 1937 in Seattle, Wash., growing up in the Green Lake area to the north of the city. As a teen Fred revealed his character as an independent, principled, hard worker. He put himself through Engineering school at the University of Washington (UW) while working...
