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Rosamond, CA: Saturday, June 21, 2014, at 5:30 p.m. EFBC's Feline Conservation Center is hosting its second Twilight Tour event to showcase what its wild cat residents do at night. The Twilight Tours are an integral part of EFBC's public awareness and educational programs to promote endangered species preservation and conservation. Visitors have a chance to see one of the world's largest collections of rare wild feline species during evening hours (their most active period) and will be witness...
As many of you know, I suffered a great loss April 1, when my husband Ed died suddenly. I was at a loss on how to cope when I remembered that my mother Marion Deaver lived seven years after my father Paul died. She would have lived even longer but died of cancer right before her 92nd birthday. She got “needier” as she got older, in the sense that she did not drive, and we had to take her to the doctor and buy her groceries for her. She had a standard list of what she ate, and when she for...
Many Tehachapi residents have been to The Cat House or Feline Conservation Center, in Rosamond but newcomers may not have heard about it and there may be those long-time residents who have not heard about it, also. Guess the point here is it is such a wonderful place, it seemed a reminder of its proximity to Tehachapi might be timely. The Exotic Feline Breeding Compound/Feline Conversation Center, located on Hwy 14, will be hereon in referred to as the EFBC/FFC or compound. Acronyms can be...
Normally I write about articles my mother Marion Deaver wrote about, area history, and things that other people did. Today I am writing about my mother and some of the things she did. I found an article that the Bakersfield Californian wrote about her. The paper was writing articles about various correspondents in honor of National Newspaper Week. My mother had the bad habit of tearing things out of the newspaper and not leaving the top of the page with the date on it, so I am not sure when...
I found an article that my mother Marion Deaver wrote in August of 1974 about the price of gold going up and regulations relaxing, and I thought about the Golden Queen Mine, just south of Mojave. In the article my mother interviewed Glenn Settle, owner of Tropico Gold Mine, west of Rosamond. President Gerald Ford had just approved legislation that would allow U.S. citizens to buy and sell gold. In 1974 the hills that rise above the valley in East Kern were mostly quiet, but some like Settle,...
The Antelope Valley Board of Trade Annual Business Outlook Conference ventured for the first in 42 years into Kern County, and the county emerged as a star. "The most rapidly growing economy is Kern County," economist Christopher Thornberg told the 1,000 attendees. "Folks, you live in a boom town. This is great!" Kern County, he said, has construction, retail, good local government and abundant energy resources. In Los Angeles County, he said, "The hotels are on fire." Kern County 2nd District...
When Jack Roth met Sylvia in 2008 he was living at Rosamond Air Park with a 1949 Navion which he had owned for 15 years. He had met women and dated but no one had “clicked” until, by chance, he was waiting in line at Walmart one day for a prescription. While talking to a woman in line, she finally said “You need to meet my aunt”. He agreed, called Sylvia and they met for bagels. They were both a bit apprehensive at first but enjoyed each other’s company. Jack even agreed to watch her dog for t...
Last week I wrote a column about the mines of Soledad Mountain from the perspective of Viola White Jennings, who with her family lived around that area. The article was from the collection of my mother, Marion Deaver. This week I will wrap up the remembrances of this lady. I concluded last week with Jennings and her sister avoiding snakes on that mountain. In all the years I have roamed around the deserts of East Kern, I have only happened upon a rattlesnake twice. Once however, was in January,...
Have you ever driven down West F Street and noticed the building on the north side of the street at 311 (next to Wood Family Funeral Service)? You may have noticed the name on the building – Mountain Pathways – or perhaps not. The building itself certainly is not an architectural wonder – just a plain building with a name across the front. Your writer has driven by this building more times than she can count and always wondered "what is Mountain Pathways?" Is it a tour guide service offer...
I found an extensive article in my mother, Marion Deaver's files, about two sisters who traveled in 1970 to visit their old home, by then located at Tropico Mine and Gold Camp. The two sisters were Viola White Jennings, from San Bernardino, and Marjorie, from Buena Park. When they first looked for their home at Soledad Mountain they thought it had been torn down, but later learned that it was located in Rosamond at the gold camp. Visiting the old home and other old buildings at the camp brought...
