Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Robert Lee Slade completed his goal of living to his 85th birthday. Born June 12, 1937, he passed June 12. It's between the dash that makes the difference. Bob was a son, brother, husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather. He was an awesome friend, Air Force veteran, Los Angeles County Airport manager retiree, Kern County Sheriff reserve deputy retiree and Desert Search and Rescue member. Bob loved life. He was a founding director of Rosamond Exotic Feline Breeding Compound, Edward's...
[Editor's note: This is the continuation of the article from our June 25, 2022 issue.] Questions regarding the Indianapolis disaster – the U.S. Navy's largest loss of life at sea from a single vessel – began almost before the rescue vessels reached shore. Why did the cruiser not have a destroyer escort? Why wasn't McVay notified of Japanese submarine activity along his route? Why wasn't Indianapolis listed as missing when it failed to arrive in the Philippines as scheduled? For the time bei...
James Clinton Davies, age 45, passed away on June 15, 2022, in a car accident near his home in Rosamond, CA. Clint was born in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada on February 23, 1977, to James Arthur Davies (née Philip Wayne Holm) and Dianne Margaret Deveau. Clint grew up in Thousand Oaks, CA. He could often be found running around with his friends, skateboarding, listening to music, playing video games, or reading encyclopedias learning about anything he could, particularly history...
Each year on Memorial Day, Mojave residents gather to honor the men and women who gave their all for our country. Strong winds from the west greeted everyone, but the winds didn't diminish their strong attitudes of patriotism and desire to take time to remember and thank those who died in service to our nation. Victor Yaw, Chairman East Kern Cemetery District Board of Trustees and U.S. Army veteran of Vietnam, said, "This is not just another 3-day weekend or another day to shop. This is...
Jackie and Nick Reuter moved from Rosamond to Tehachapi in February with their 15-year-old daughter, Jizel, and three dogs. They had both spent much of their lives in the Antelope Valley but the change of seasons, beautiful scenery and low crime rate of the Tehachapi area beckoned to them. Tehachapi also had an amazing selection of churches to choose from and reasonable home prices. It was a ”no-brainer.” In May, Jackie began work with College Community Services in Tehachapi as Recovery Coo...
When I occasionally travel Willow Springs Road toward Rosamond and Lancaster, I pass Truman Road and Hamilton Road. For years I have told anyone who would listen that the two roads do not stand for an early American statesman, Alexander Hamilton, or former President Harry Truman. The two roads are a reminder of Truman Hamilton, former lawman and Constable of the 11th Judicial Township. Beginning his job in 1922, residents saw a man of substantial size; both in height and weight. His size alone...
Kern County operates and maintains over 5,000 acres of community and regional parks located across our 8,000 square miles. Each of these parks are unique in size, scope, function, location, geography, amenities and utilization. Our parks range from small neighborhood spaces to massive regional recreational areas, such as Buena Vista, Hart Memorial and Tehachapi Mountain Parks. Each one of them is as important as the next. Together, they are a bell-weather of community well-being, quality of...
Richard "Dick" Dieterle, 79, of Tehachapi passed away unexpectedly on May 11. Richard was born on Oct. 23, 1942, in Dixon, Illinois. He was the youngest of six boys. He attended school in Sterling, Illinois through the 9th grade and finished his high school years at Villanova Prep in Ojai, California. Growing up, two things came easy to him...sports and math. He was tutoring students in math by the age of 7 and continued until the age of 79. In high school, he played football, basketball and...
I decided to hang up my trusty Pioneer True Value apron, after 39 years. As soon as the “For Sale” sign went up, I had customers pleading with me to keep it a hardware store. They said they needed a place where they can get the products and service and how-to information. One distraught customer told me he would pray hard that someone would buy it and keep it a hardware store and, by golly, the next day Karl’s Hardware (of Rosamond, Mojave and Boron) bought it! I joked that I should have kept th...
For the past 20 years, KCSOS’s “Do the Math” live call-in TV show and free math tutoring program has helped thousands of Kern County 4th-12th graders with their math homework. As the program gears up for its 21st season, which will run from September 2022 through April 2023, on-air tutors are being sought. Candidates must have a math degree and be able to work with students in grades 4-12 individually on-air and over the phone. Tutors must be available on Tuesdays and/or Wednesdays after 4 p.m. “Becoming an on-air tutor gave me the chance...
Kern County's Second District Supervisor, Zack Scrivner, announced plans this week to allocate nearly $8.7 million for park improvements and maintenance throughout his district, which stretches from Boron on the edge of Eastern Kern to Taft and Frazier Park near the county's western boundary. Funding for the improvements at eight county parks in District 2 will come from several different sources. Recently, the county secured $3,023,637 from the Clean California Grant administered by the...
How are our roads going to change in the next 24 years? This week, Tehachapi City Council was visited by Robert Ball from the Kern Council of Governments (Kern COG), a small group of council members which helps guide the county and acquire funding for transportation improvements. Ball was at the meeting to talk about the new Regional Transportation Plan. Every four years, Kern COG revises their 24-year plan for the region's transportation network based upon changes in land use assumptions and...
When you want to visit an art gallery, the first place that comes to mind usually isn't an outlet mall. But that's changing these days. In the Laughlin Outlet Center in Laughlin, Nevada there is a wonderful gallery called the Florida D. Grecco Fine Art Gallery, named for the owner. On my last trip out that way I met Florida and had a great little visit with her. If it were closer to Tehachapi, I'd go there to check out the art more often than the two or three times a year I get to Laughlin. The...
If you haven’t heard, Karl’s Hardware is coming to Tehachapi! We are in the process of purchasing Pioneer True Value and will be ready to open sometime this spring. We are very excited to be a part of Tehachapi and surrounding communities. A little background on us: Karl’s Hardware has been in the Antelope Valley since 1979, and was started by Joe Karl in Rosamond. Art Landsgaard purchased the store from Joe Karl soon after and owned it for about 20 years before selling to his son, Eric, in 20...
You don't have to be a crazy cat lady to enjoy visiting the EFBC's Feline Conservation Center – affectionately known both officially and unofficially as the "Cat House" – in Rosamond. In fact, it's a great place for the whole family to get together and spend some time. I got there recently at opening time (10 a.m.) on a mild winter morning, thinking that earlier in the day the cats might be more active than on a lazy summer afternoon, and indeed they were. Several were napping but several wer...
Save the date, on Saturday, March 26, from noon to 4 p.m., we will be having a St. Patrick’s Day event for the cats. We will be giving our feline family St. Patrick’s Day themed treats and enrichments, which will be given to the animals starting at noon. Special steak treats are available for purchase throughout the event for you to watch your favorite feline friend enjoy. The Exotic Feline Breeding Compound’s Feline Conservation Center is dedicated to the protection and preservation of the w...
On Jan. 2, 2022, the Kern County Board of Supervisors unanimously elected Second District Supervisor Zack Scrivner to serve as this year's chairman of the Board. Chairman Scrivner was first elected to represent District 2 in 2010 and has spent more than a decade serving the communities of Bakersfield, Boron, Caliente, California City, Maricopa, Mojave, North Edwards, Rosamond, Taft and Tehachapi. This year, Chairman Scrivner will lead Kern County forward, as an organization grounded in ideas,...
Rolinda Lee Kennedy-Jenson, 65, of Rosamond, California, passed away on Wednesday, November 24, 2021, at Adventist Health in Tehachapi. Linda had the most beautiful soul, with a kind and humble spirit. Linda was beyond loved and adored by all that had the pleasure to know her. The world won't be the same without her. Linda was born on January 28, 1956, on Edwards Air Force Base, California, to Earl Adams and Karen Kennedy. She married Jeff Jenson in 1996. Linda moved from North County San Diego...
After the carols are sung and the gifts are opened, Waste Management of Antelope Valley encourages residents to recycle their trees through its drop-off locations. From Dec. 27 through Jan. 7, 2022, Kern County residents can drop off their real trees at the following locations to be recycled: • 416 N. Dennison Rd., Tehachapi, Monday through Friday 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. • 1731 Sierra Hwy, Rosamond, Monday through Friday, 6 a.m. to 5 p.m. Please remember to remove all decorations, including tinsel, lights, ornaments and tree stands. Artificial and...
In August Duke Littlejohn gave up his life in Lake Elsinore and moved into his grandmother’s log cabin in Sand Canyon, accompanied by his son Duke Jr., his daughter Chloe and two dogs named Oreo and Brutus. Liz Kachmar and her husband Andy built the 1,600 square foot cabin from a kit with their bare hands in 1974. They were among the first full-time residents of Sand Canyon. Following the death of her husband in the 1980s, Liz continued to live there alone until her death in 2020. Local w...
The state-run OptumServe COVID-19 test site currently operating at the Arvin Public Health Building, 204 S. Hill Street is relocating to the Lamont Library, 8304 Segrue Rd. Testing ended on Nov. 27, in Arvin and resumed in Lamont on Nov. 30. Hours of operation are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Tuesdays and Saturdays. Currently operating OptumServe test sites: Lamont Library: 8304 Segrue Rd., Lamont - Tuesdays and Saturdays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wilson Branch Library: 1901 Wilson Rd., Bakersfield - Wednesdays and Sundays 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Delano Tech Center:...
Laura Lynne Wyatt, Tehachapi’s assistant to Supervisor Zack Scrivner, announced at the December 1 meeting of the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council that East Kern will remain two districts instead of becoming one. The Kern County Board of Supervisors voted 4-1 at their November 9 meeting to keep East Kern as two districts. Supervisor Leticia Perez had proposed a new map which would have made East Kern from Ridgecrest to Rosamond one supervisory district....
Dear Chairman Peters and Supervisors: The Mojave Chamber of Commerce asks that you approve Draft Plan A as the revised map of Kern County Supervisors’ districts required by the decennial redistricting mandate. We ask this because we believe that this proposal best represents the interests of Mojave and the communities of Eastern Kern County. Every ten years a proposal to include all of eastern Kern into one huge district is proposed, replacing the current two districts which recognize the unique features of southeastern and northeastern Kern C...
Following the U.S. Census every ten years, redistricting takes place to adjust for population shifts and changes. As we have done every 10 years since Kern became a California county 1866, Kern County is tasked with redrawing our supervisorial district lines again this year. Although this process only happens every ten years, a common story is being told about the desert and mountain areas that make up Eastern Kern County, largely by those who don't live here. This tired and familiar story uses...
One of Kern County's most strategically important fire stations is the little-known Keene Fire Station, located just off Highway 58 in the sleepy community of Keene, nestled in the Tehachapi Mountains. Kern has 48 different fire stations given numbers between 11 through 79, starting with Station 11 at Keene. So why would Station 11 be so significant, given that Keene itself is home to only a couple of hundred people at most? Because Keene is one of the main wildland firefighting stations, with t...
