Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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On Thursday, April 1 Tehachapi Rotarians were introduced to representational artist and chair of the Tehachapi Arts Commission, Dwight Dreyer. He spoke to the group about Art 2021 Tehachapi, an event where painters from all over the country will come to Tehachapi in May to paint and then return to display their finished artwork at a public art show and sale in July. Dreyer is the founder of Dreyer Fine Arts, located in Keene, where he maintains a 5,500-square-foot teaching studio on 11 acres....
On March 18 the Tehachapi Rotary Club received an update on Rotary activities in the Boise, Idaho area from Patricia Nilsson who is the sister of Tehachapi Rotarian Paul Kaminski. Nilsson is currently the Director of Development Services for Canyon County, Idaho. She has been a public sector planner for agriculture-based counties in Virginia, Pennsylvania and Idaho for more than 30 years and is due to retire this year. She is a past president of the Idaho Planning Association and a member of...
Tehachapi Rotary was happy to recognize 61 Jacobsen Middle School students with their SOAR awards on February 18. Student Outstanding Achievement Recognition was created in late 2019 to recognize those JMS students who had improved on their first quarter Grade Point Average (GPA) by at least .5 with no F grades. (The program was not done in spring 2020 because of COVID-19.) Rotarians Judy Trujillo and Marian Stephens donated school supplies and snacks, printed certificates, purchased "Excellence...
Josh Pierce, Manager of Training and Development at Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley was the featured speaker at the January 28 telephonic meeting of the Tehachapi Rotary Club. In his current role with AHTV, Pierce manages community outreach, business development, rehabilitation services, volunteer services, and facilitates the COVID-19 testing and vaccine programs for the hospital. Pierce joined the hospital staff about 18 months ago and has been referred to by co-workers as the "Swiss army...
It was a little over two years ago that Keith Sackawitz of Friends of the Depot appeared before a GTEDC meeting and presented the idea of building a viewing platform at the Loop Overlook on Woodford Tehachapi Rd. Over 12,000 visitors a year visit the Overlook said Sackawitz, many in tour buses and FOTD felt the narrow road and limited parking area was difficult and dangerous for visitors. The monument itself is too close to the road and in bad repair. The 144 year old Loop is known worldwide as...
At their first Zoom meeting of 2021 the Rotary Club of Tehachapi hosted speaker Col. Randel (Laz) Gordon, Vice Commander of the 412th Test Wing at Edwards Air Force Base where he leads about 9,500 civilian and military personnel in the developmental testing and evaluation of over a dozen different aircraft and emerging technologies. Born in Poughkeepsie, New York, Col. Gordon received his commission in 1998 from the Air Force Academy and holds a doctorate from the Air Force's School of Advanced...
Small "what ifs" can grow into a community of giving when you live in Tehachapi! A Rotary Club project that was originally designed just for members as a way to give back this holiday season grew by leaps and bounds into a food project that included people from all over the greater Tehachapi area. There were small donations of cash from local individuals and bigger donations from Terra-Gen and BHE Renewables LLC that allowed Rotarians to shop for food to fill 50 boxes, as well as so many...
On Monday, December 21, the Tehachapi City Council meeting began with the swearing in of the City representatives elected in the November 3 election. Michael Davies represents District 3, Christina Scrivner represents District 2, Victoria Marsh returns as City Clerk and Stacy Curry is the new City Treasurer. The first order of business for the new council was to elect a new mayor. Council-member Phil Smith was nominated for the position of mayor and was unanimously elected. This will be the...
On December 10, the Tehachapi Rotary Club welcomed Robin Robinson of CityServe. After 31 years as a pastor at Canyon Hills Church in Bakersfield, Robinson moved into a new role in the Bakersfield community with CityServe. This nonprofit has been coming together for the last two years to serve Kern County's hungry, windowed, orphaned, poor, addicted, vulnerable, exploited and unreached. CityServe is a non-denominational faith-based organization that has created international and national...
At their November 12 meeting, the Tehachapi Rotary Club welcomed to their online meeting Don Grafton, Solar General Manager for BHE Renewables. Grafton was joined by Paulette Rush, BHE's community relations specialist. Berkshire Hathaway is the parent corporation of BHE Energy and BHE Renewables is a division of BHE Energy. Grafton said that 10 years ago wind energy locally produced about nine megawatts of power compared with the over 3,000 megawatts that is produced today. BHE began the Pinon...
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause suffering throughout Kern County, The Rotary Foundation has stepped up to provide additional disaster relief. The Rotary Foundation (TRF) has donated $6,240 to assist those in need of food within our region. This amount is in addition to the donation earlier this year of $9,036 provided by TRF and by the Rotary District 5240 Charitable Foundation for Kern County. These new funds will be used to purchase food for those in need and will be delivered and...
On Wednesday, October 21, Tehachapi Rotary donated 35 coats to the Tehachapi Salvation Army. These coats were purchased by monies budgeted by the club along with a donation from the Walmart in Tehachapi. Rotarians Rhonda Brady and Cathy Criger went shopping at the Burlington Coat Factory in Bakersfield and Walmart a few days before, choosing coats for teenagers at the request of Salvation Army. Tehachapi Humanitarian Relief Group - this group continues to provide packages or food and life’s n...
On Wednesday, October 21, Tehachapi Rotary donated 35 coats to the Tehachapi Salvation Army. These coats were purchased by monies budgeted by the club along with a donation from the Walmart in Tehachapi. Rotarians Rhonda Brady and Cathy Criger went shopping at the Burlington Coat Factory in Bakersfield and Walmart a few days before, choosing coats for teenagers at the request of Salvation Army. Tehachapi Humanitarian Relief Group - this group continues to provide packages or food and life’s n...
On Wednesday, October 21, the Rotary Club of Tehachapi delivered 35 new coats to the local Salvation Army for their Coats for Kids Drive. Rotarians Paul Kaminski, Cathy Criger and Rhonda Brady purchased the coats with Rotary fundraising money, as well as a donation from our local WalMart. THANK YOU WalMart! Thank you to everyone who supports our local Rotary Club. For information about the Rotary Club, please contact Tim Trujillo at (661) 821-0086....
Mid-March, when COVID-19 restrictions reached our community, the Tehachapi Humanitarian Relief Group was formed. What began as a simple Facebook post offering help to seniors and those impacted by COVID-19, has become a group with more than 1,800 followers. Cassandra Wilsted posted on her personal Facebook page offering to help seniors and those most vulnerable to COVID in mid-March. "Myself and a few other friends pitched in to start a Facebook group and offered our business (The Village that...
Cynthia Zimmer Kern County District Attorney Cynthia Zimmer visited virtually with Tehachapi Rotary Club on Sept. 10. She talked about the status of crime in Kern County saying that violent crime is up and it is her goal since coming to the office in January 2019 to see a reduction. She also emphasized the importance of the problem of child trafficking in Kern County citing the location of the county's proximity to north/south and east/west interstates. She said that 85 children have been taken...
On Thursday, September 17 at Farmers Market, the Tehachapi Rotary Club Pick-A-Ticket Fundraiser came to an end with the drawing of six tickets for the lucky winners. All six winners were very excited about the prizes they won. However, now that the Farmers Market has been extended through October, the club has the opportunity to hold another fundraiser. If you are good at guessing how many pennies are in a jar (or not), “SUP or SOAR” is for you. This time two prizes are “up for grabs”: $150 in...
The Rotary Pick-a-Ticket Fundraiser will come to a close at the Tehachapi Farmers Market on Sept. 17. Tickets will be on sale from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. on that day and the drawing will be held at 7 p.m. Winners are not required to be present at the drawing. The fundraiser started on Aug. 27 with five prizes: a quilt that was handmade by Rotarian Annette Shepherd, a $100 Home Depot gift card, a basket with three bottles of wine and other treats, a jar of lottery scratchers, and a Home Depot bucket...
At their Sept. 3 meeting, the Tehachapi Rotary Club received a virtual visit from Mary Beth Garrison, community liaison for Rio Tinto/U. S. Borax who gave the club an update on the operations of the Kern County mine located in Boron. Rio Tinto is located on six continents, has over 1,000 employees and produces 30 percent of the world's borates. Borate operations originally began in Death Valley in the 1800s with the borates transported to rail cars by the famous 20 mule team wagons. In 1927 oper...
The Rotary Club of Tehachapi is holding a Pick-A-Ticket Fundraiser at the Farmers Market on Sept. 3, 10 and 17. The prizes include a homemade quilt, a $100 gift certificate, a basket of wines and wine accessories, a jar of lottery scratchers, and a basket of assorted items from Home Depot. The Pick-A-Ticket board has 494 squares with rows labeled A–Z, and columns labeled 1–19. Participants can choose any ticket that is available for $5 or five tickets for $20. The drawing for the five pri...
Kathleen Melendy Gilbert was born in Fallon, Nevada on March 14, 1941, to George and Halina Melendy. She is survived by her younger brother Patrick, her niece Kelly and her husband Mike Gilbert of Tehachapi. She spent the first twelve years of her life in Fallon and described a pleasant small-town life. When she was 12, the family moved to El Sereno, where she attended Sierra Vista Grade School, then All Saints Catholic High School. Later she transferred to South Pasadena High School, where,...
On Aug. 6, second district supervisor Zack Scrivner spoke to the Tehachapi Rotary Club giving county updates related to the impact of the Coronavirus pandemic. He reported that the financial impact to the county would result in a $25 million budget hole that would likely be felt by all departments, including the sheriff, fire, library and mental health. To help close the gap, the county will be using some of their reserves but there will be a seven-and-a-half percent cut to all departments except public safety. Even with these measures, an $11...
The Tehachapi Rotary Club, now used to telephonic meetings, had some interesting speakers to close out the month of July. On July 16, the always interesting Jon Hammond highlighted some very interesting and relatively unknown facts about the Tehachapi area. Did you know that Mojave is only 50 feet higher than Keene? Or that the highest temperature recorded in Tehachapi is 104 degrees? According to Hammond, the Blue Oak makes up the majority of trees in Tehachapi while the Gray Pine is mostly fou...
Jennifer Leigh Williams (affectionately known as "Petes"), 55, of Tehachapi, Calif., passed away on Tuesday, June 9, after a long battle with auto-immune disease and chronic pain. She was born on April 14, 1965 in Panorama City, Calif. to Andre and Barbara Wetta. Originally from Redding, Calif., Jennifer worked in the Antelope Valley as a Financial Consultant for 14 years. She opened her independent office, J. Williams Personal Financial Planning, Inc., in Tehachapi in 2008. Later that year,...
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. I can’t really answer which one they are for you but I can say that they are certainly different times. The Rotary Club of Tehachapi is taking a different approach to connecting with our members. One of the best things about Rotary, and our club in particular, is that we are a very social group. We start our meetings by mingling and shaking hands. This is such a strong tradition that should you forget or miss shaking anyone’s hand you could be issued a fine. So how do we deal with our cur...
