Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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One of the Rotary Club of Tehachapi's favorite projects every year is distributing personalized books to every single kindergarten student throughout the Tehachapi Unified School District. Each individual book features the name of the student, names of the student's friends, the teacher's name, their school and their pets' names. This service project encourages literacy and the love of reading at an early age, because reading is the key to success in learning. During the last two weeks, 10...
Save the date. Tehachapi Rotary Club announced that Thursday, Sept. 26 at 5 p.m. is the date for the 2019 Rotary Fashion Show, to be held this year at Slice of Life Enrichment School located at 48771 W. Valley Blvd. This is a new and exciting venue for this very popular event, so be sure it is on your calendar....
Ian Riseley, Rotary International president from 2017-18, adopted the theme "Rotary: Making a Difference" for his year as president. He challenged all Rotary clubs worldwide to plant a tree for each of their members. The Rotary Club of Tehachapi decided to participate in this initiative and started working with TVRPD on the plan to plant trees at Brite Valley Aquatic Recreation Area last year. After a few changes to the plan, the Rotary Club was very happy to complete this service project on...
Four high school students from Tehachapi, recipients of RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Award), told the Rotary Club about their adventures and experiences at RYLA Leadership Camp. Daisy Andrade, Brandon Birka, Steven Whelan and Sam Morelos explained how the weekend will affect their future leadership abilities. Whelan said he, "learned how to bond with a person he had never met before." Andrade called the weekend a "game changer." All four referred to their camp experiences as life changing....
Once Tehachapi was sure we were getting a new hospital and before Adventist Health became a partner with the Tehachapi Health Care District, The Rotary Club of Tehachapi and The Lions Club of Tehachapi formed a partnership to do something for kids at our anticipated new facility. We had several meetings with the Tehachapi Health Care District and originally were on board to create a kid's corner with pint-sized furniture and a few things for kids to play with. As things progressed and with the...
Eight members of the Tehachapi High School FIRST Robotics Team will be headed to the 2019 FIRST Robotics Championship in Houston held April 17-20. The robot's performance is only a part of the team's presentation. The three members of Team 585 who will be doing an oral presentation in Houston practiced on Tehachapi Rotary at their April 11 meeting. The speech encompassed the team's outreach activities with the other TUSD schools. Andres Pena, Chloe Shadduck and Sophie Therault won The...
Sally Periman Lawrence and Andrew Atkins from Wood Family Funeral Home spoke to Tehachapi Rotary on March 6 about the importance of making your final wishes known to your loved ones before they are ever needed. Lawrence emphasized that having a Durable Power of Attorney for Health Care and Physician Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (POLST) were also a planning must. She reminded everyone how the stress of losing a loved one can cloud one's memory making it difficult to even remember the...
Beginning in February, City Manager Greg Garrett began a tour of civic organizations, presenting the City's "2018 Annual Review: Moments that Mattered." Although his initial audio/visual program at the Greater Tehachapi Economic Development Council encountered Wi-Fi problems, his second presentation to the Tehachapi Rotary Club on Feb. 7 went off without a hitch. The presentation began with a video welcome by Mayor Susan Wiggins. Garrett introduced a video of each department head who in turn...
Rotary has a program that allows young people from our local Rotary Club area to go on a “Youth Exchange” to a foreign country and, in the exchange, a student from another country comes to Tehachapi for a year. This is the first year the Rotary Club of Tehachapi will be participating in this exciting program. Aiden Wood, a student at Valley Oaks Charter School and a member of our VOCHS Interact Club has applied and is looking forward to going abroad this coming fall. To quote Aiden: “I first...
Pairing food and wine is an art. Our local chef Mano Lujan, owner of Red House BBQ, is a master at the art. He proved it once again at the Rotary Wine Pairing Dinner. Wine in California is plentiful, and I feel no hesitance in saying that it is mostly excellent. A group of 120 guests mixed, mingled and experienced a collection of wonderful, full, tasty wines brought to us by Loren and Pam Hoffman, Wine Ambassadors for the Boisset Collection. The Rotary Club of Tehachapi wants to thank Mano,...
On Saturday, Jan. 26 at 6 p.m. at The Shed, the Rotary Club of Tehachapi will be hosting the 5th Annual Wine Pairing Dinner, which is one of the Club's major fundraisers for the year. This year the featured wines are from the Boisset Collection with wine Ambassador, Loren Hoffman available to talk about each and every wine. Mano Lujan, owner of The Shed and Red House BBQ, who has experienced culinary studies in China, Japan and Mexico is specifically designing the food so the wine enhances its...
Founder of the Tehachapi Cancer Foundation, Jim Wallace, told the Rotary Club of Tehachapi about the mission of the organization that was established by Wallace and his wife Tammy who passed away from the disease shortly after the organization received its 501(c)3 status. The focus of the organization is to assist cancer patients and their families with some of the unexpected hardships and expenses that accompany the treatment of cancer. Wallace said that even the amount of gas needed to get...
The 22nd annual Senior luncheon was held on Dec. 13 at St. Malachy's Catholic Church. The event is put on by Rotary Club with the help of Interact students and volunteers. This year they served a full house....
At the Nov. 8 meeting of the Tehachapi Rotary Club, local historian and authority on everything Tehachapi Jon Hammond spoke about the historic development of flora and fauna of the area. Hammond talked about the Tehachapi mountains and how, as a transverse mountain range, it supplied a corridor for the animal population to travel from east to west leading to the unique variety of wildlife that was at one time found here. According to Hammond, grizzly and black bears were actually found here...
While I was working on my Aerospace Engineering degree at Auburn University, I was enrolled in a work/study program with NASA. For four years I spent summers and winters in Hampton, Va. on work assignments for NASA. I made friends with a lot of amazing people in the Hampton area, especially through a local snow skiing club. A group of us would go on ski trips during winter weekends and play a lot of sports and go on beach trips during the summer months. One of the people that I became friends...
The Apple Festival was meant to be family and especially kid-friendly. When streets are closed and the environment feels safe, parents are comfortable letting their kids go and have fun. That is what we hoped to accomplish at this year's Apple Festival. Our best estimate is that at least 2,100 kids enjoyed the bounce houses. The Tehachapi Wrestling team, lead by Curtis Nelson, kept that area safe and organized. At the far end of Green Street, thousands of prizes for games were gone in the blink...
The speaker at the Sept. 27 Rotary meeting was David Brust, organizer of the Tehachapi Beer and Wine Festival. Before his talk on Measures J and K, Brust presented the local Rotary group with a check for $1,500 for their volunteer help with the Beer and Wine Festival in July. Many Rotarians signed up to help serve beer and wine at the event. Aside from being the organizer, along with Linda Carhart, of the Beer and Wine Festival and the Apple Festival, Brust is a member of the Kern County Board...
How do you make an event exciting year to year? You look at what worked, who came and what will bring them back. The Apple Festival, which will take place this year on Green Street in Downtown Tehachapi on Oct. 13 from 10 to 6 p.m. and 10 to 4 p.m. on Oct. 14, keeps adding more family fun. Besides the traditional Kid Zone with numerous bounce houses, which kids can experience for hours on end with the purchase of a $10 bracelet, last year we had free face painting and a glider plane experience...
On Wednesday evening, Sept. 19, at the Depot Museum, Cheers to Charity organizer Mary Beth Garrison and her committee handed out checks totaling $40,000 to local nonprofits and the organizations that assisted with the event. With Garrison were Barbie Herziger who organized the desserts, Becca Dillenbeck who scheduled the volunteers, Marcia Thompson who handled the insurance, Lydia Chaney who handled the printing and Curtis Nelson who was in charge of set up and take down. Over 750 people attende...
Ninety-five year old WWII Veteran Jimmy Weldon drove himself all the way from Burbank to Tehachapi on Sept. 16 to give a history lesson to students, veterans and members of the community. Weldon has made a career out of speaking before groups about the lessons of American History. The event was sponsored by the local Rotary Interact Club and RYLA (Rotary Youth Leadership Awards) recipients Faith Ellms, Aiden Woods and Riley Amato. Ellms had heard about Weldon and had sent him a hand written invi...
The Tehachapi Rotary Club had the pleasure of hearing from local artist Donald Towns at their Sept. 13 meeting. Towns, who has been chosen by Adventist Health to be the Artwork Coordinator for the new hospital, has lived in Tehachapi for 18 years with his wife Karen. The fine arts painter was also the featured artist at Gallery 'N' Gifts this last July. Towns is probably best known for his work as background artist for Disney Studios where he worked on such notable films as "The Little...
June Eleanor Wakeman Needham passed away on Sept. 7, 2018. She was 96 years old. June was born on June 25, 1922, to parents Harry and Laudra (Bissel) Wakeman in Pontiac, Michigan. She had three older sisters, Irene, Laudra and Virginia who all preceded her in death. The family lived in Pontiac. June went to college at the University of Arizona in Tucson where she met her husband Claude. They married in 1942 just before Claude enlisted in the Army. Claude's family had settled in Glendale,...
Tehachapi Rotary Club held its 2018 fundraising Fashion Show at The Shed on Sept. 12 with sold out attendance – nearly 130 guests – made for a fun afternoon of fashion, food and wine....
On Sept. 6, Jim Arnold of Triassic Vineyards and the Tehachapi Winegrowers Association told Rotarians that the application for a Tehachapi AVA has been submitted to Washington DC. An American Viticultural Association designation is necessary in order to call local wines "Tehachapi" wines. Until that time, they must be labeled "California" wines. "The decision-making body is a division of the Treasury Department," said Arnold. Julie Bell, a member of the Winegrowers Association, has been working...
Pictured right: This past weekend during Mountain Festival Rotary gave away a children's bike, donated by Kmart. It was won by Emma Howard, age 6. Emma was so excited that she hugged everyone when her dad Ken Howard, told her that was her new bike. Her old bike had gotten too small for her. Emma lives with her dad Ken, her mom Amy and older brother Orion. Congratulations Emma. Pictured below: The Rotary Club of Tehachapi continues to sell opportunity drawing tickets for the KHS bike. The bike...
