Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Alyssa Kamerer is a local artist who grew up in the Los Angeles area and is now a resident of Tehachapi. She graduated with her Bachelor of Science in Nursing from West Coast University and works locally in addition to producing her art, which is her real love. Alyssa has always been influenced by the beauty and the sparkle of diamonds. She says that any the part of the world can be beautified by diamonds. As a diamond artist, she loves to find new ways to represent the textures and colors of a...
Kick off the morning by attending Coffee with the Mayor at the Kamenz Kafe on Thursday, Aug. 17 from 7:30 to 9 a.m. "If you have questions about something occurring in the City of Tehachapi, this is a great place to get answers," said Key Budge event coordinator for the City of Tehachapi. The Coffee with the Mayor gathering was designed to create a comfortable setting for the community to engage with its local government, meet the mayor, council members and city staff. Join us each month on the...
My friend Leila wanted to visit friends – Sandy and Baruska – in Ojai the other day, and I was delighted to be invited to join her. We took off about 9:30 in the morning and got to her friend's home, right in the center of Ojai, about 12:30. I know Ojai is a great destination for many reasons, but I also want to mention how much love the drive there. Once you get to the I-5 at Gorman you're in some pretty magnificent mountains... and, it should be mentioned, a whole lot of traffic. That doesn't...
Wednesday, July 26 will be the date for the next Tehachapi Blood Drive, between 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. with Houchin Community Blood Bank (HCBB). The blood drive is also seeking donors for platelets and plasma, these types of donations take a little longer and help, burn victims and cancer patients. HCBB will be joining forces with Tehachapi Vineyard Church, Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District and the City of Tehachapi once again to provide an opportunity to donate blood for our community in Kern...
Jennifer and Dan Hassan moved to Tehachapi in April of this year, moving from Kernville where they had lived for the last two years. They had moved there from the Antelope Valley to be closer to their daughter and grandchild. After living in Quartz Hill for 16 years, they wanted to get out of the Antelope Valley and Kernville seemed ideal. However, Jennifer admitted that as much as they liked Kernville, it was just too remote. Their son Christopher and his family were living in Tehachapi, so tha...
What happens when you put your computer to sleep? What's the difference between restarting your computer, shutting it down, and turning it back on? Sleep When you put your computer to sleep, it goes into low-power mode. In this mode, the display turns off, your computer saves its current state (open files or browser tabs, etc.) to memory, and it stops sending power to most hardware. As long as your computer is getting power, when you turn it back on, it will start up instantly, and look just...
Anybody who has done any traveling in this post COVID and 9/11 world has experienced the rush of having your luggage in one zip code while you're in another. The only other equal rush is watching your bag go left instead of right on the turnstile which means you get to wait for a customs officer to go through your bag with a fine-tooth comb (as long as it's regulation length). Murphy's Law being what it is, this event will always happen when you've got only a few minutes to make a flight due to...
Freefall with your gift Wynona Judd was on "Good Morning America" one time a few years ago, talking about the stage fright she always gets before she performs for live audiences. Even though she is a seasoned performer, she said she still gets nervous every time she goes on stage. She also said her nervousness mostly disappears after the first song or two, and then she feels all right. The important thing here, the thing that makes me remember this interview, is that even though Wynona...
It is now High Summer in the Tehachapi Mountains. After a very cool spring and early summer, high temperatures have finally caught up with us, and reached about 98 or 99 degrees Fahrenheit here over the weekend of July 15 and 16. Not record-setting, but still definitely hot. The hottest official temperature ever recorded in July in Tehachapi was in 1934, when the mercury reached 105 degrees. That is also the hottest temperature ever recorded here, according to National Weather Service archives....
Tehachapi Pass and Oak Creek Pass are known for being windy (hence all the wind turbines), which is typical of mountain passes. But the nearby desert town of Mojave has breezes that range from mild zephyrs to irrational blustery gales, and there are times when the wind never seems to abate. And it was the wind that once created a most unusual crop on a piece of desert land outside Mojave. Local residents called the patch of brush the "Hat Ranch" because anyone could go there and get any style...
Capturing moments in a photograph is easier now than ever. Technology has made it easy to snap, send and share in an instant. So go ahead, “Take Your Best Shot” and submit it in this year’s TVAA Photo Contest, being held at Gallery ‘N’ Gifts. Submissions are due between July 22-30, with a free awards reception held on First Friday, Aug. 4 from 4 to 7 p.m. Refreshments will be served. Come join other photo enthusiasts in seeing the incredible photos submitted, sharing stories, inspirations and creative tips. Who knows, you could take home that...
Healthy Hippie Trading Co. in Old Town, Tehachapi is hosting another sound bath healing session taught by former Tehachapi resident, Shanan Harrell. Shanan is a decades long student and teacher of yoga and meditation. She calls herself a "Sacred Gongster" and is looking forward to sharing the healing powers of sound. Sound baths are exactly what they sound like: you are "bathed" in sound for the purpose of healing. The sounds generally come from gongs and singing bowls. Attendees get into a...
At the June 19 City Council meeting, Councilman Keith Sackewitz announced that he and his wife Lana would be moving to St. George, Utah at the end of June and this would be his last meeting. Sackewitz is also on the Friends of the Tehachapi Depot Executive Board and had been given a royal send-off at their June 13 membership meeting. Sackewitz spent much of his life in the Tehachapi area. His first job was with Chevron in Bakersfield where he learned about gasoline, they then sent him to Mojave...
Preparations are nearly done and the Cheers to Charity team are ready to bring you Tehachapi's best fundraising night on the town. We hope you're ready, too. Cheers to Charity 2023 is weeks away and, if you have never attended, you may want to buy a ticket now, because they sell out every year. The evening is an ideal blend of outdoor ambiance, delicious foods, wine, beer, spirit-free concoctions, dancing, games, desserts, lively chatter and sweet reunions, all to raise money for local...
I wanted to take a moment to welcome our new Chief of Police Richard Standridge to the City of Tehachapi. Chief Standridge brings 25 years of law enforcement experience. He is a U.S. Navy veteran and a family man. His ability to lead is well demonstrated with the past two years as the Chief of Police for the City of Bishop and 23 years as an officer, sergeant and lieutenant at the City of Porterville Police Department. Chief Standridge will be attending community events including the Farmers...
On Friday, July 14, Kern County firefighters will conduct another Public Safety Prescribed Burn. Friday's operation is known as the "CCI Burn" (California Correctional Institution Burn). Friday's burn is scheduled to take place from 9 a.m. until 8 a.m. Saturday. The burn location is CCI Tehachapi, 24900 Hwy 202 Tehachapi. The prescribed burn will also support fire research and development of fire modeling software as well as smoke monitoring. The CCI Burn is also an excellent training...
So far this year, we have published articles on pest control, as well as pre and post-emergent herbicides. Today will be a little more general. As I head down streets in Tehachapi and Golden Hills, I see work that needs to be done in the yards. Either dead trees or shrubs, trimming, bug problems, trash, etc. This would be a good year to get that yard in shape like it used to be, and it's always nice to have something new to look at! Consider planting perennials such as Asiatic Lilies (blooming...
One bright and sunny day a couple of weeks ago I decided to take a drive up the 14 to Red Rock Canyon State Park. Along the way I stopped at the Jawbone Station Visitor Center. It turned out to be a great day for a great scenic drive. I visited the official Jawbone Station first (not to be confused with the Jawbone Jct., right next door, which is a commercial enterprise that rents off-road vehicles, among other things), where I spent a little time outside the station hoping to spot Mr. Bob. Mr....
Delicious, fresh sushi is prepared after 4 p.m. for the buffet (limited quantities) at The Great Wall! Located at 807 Tucker Rd., Ste. F, in Tehachapi. See ad on this page....
Happy summer from Karl's Hardware Tehachapi. It looks like the heat has finally set in. Don't let the heat get to you! We are fully stocked for all your warm weather needs. Fans are in stock, with many different types to choose from. We also have numerous sizes of window air conditioners, as well. Swamp coolers work great up here on the mountain and you guessed it, we stock them, too. We also have a great selection of swamp cooler parts to keep your existing one blowing cold as can be. Don't...
Janine Heath and Matt Bogue moved into their mountaintop Tehachapi home on the first of June. From their deck, when the air is clear, they can see all the way to the Grapevine. They moved here from Oxnard where Matt had been stationed at Port Hueneme for the last three years. Having fulfilled his obligations to the Navy, Matt is now a consulting engineer for FM Global, a Fortune 500 company that deals with commercial property insurance. The couple wanted to get away from the congestion of the co...
Home builder sentiment is up again, and there is talk of the start of another Bull Market. All the while some prognosticators are telling us a recession is waiting in the wings by the end of the year! Where is my crystal ball to help me wade through the morass of conflicting reports from so many so-called experts? What would my crystal ball tell me? Would it tell me that 5-7 stocks are leading this Bull Market? Would it tell me I should be worried about the rise in artificial intelligence? Is th...
Our artist of the month, Glenda Rich, is an experienced artist who worked for Thomas Kinkade in the production of his artwork. She usually works with oil paint but will be teaching with acrylics at our paint night class this month. She has a selection of local landscapes, as well as other subjects displayed in our shop for the month of July. Susan Jane is a local weaver and Renaissance Faire addict, who often spins her own yarn. She has a selection of hand-woven scarfs and table runners, as well...
The first generation of cell phone batteries were Nickel-Cadmium (NiCad) batteries. NiCad batteries were toxic (the Cadmium part,) heavy, had overheating issues and developed a memory effect from charging cycles. This memory effect was the source of the old advice to drain your phone down to 0% battery before charging it again. Along came Nickel-Metal Hydride (NiMH) batteries. NiMH batteries got rid of the toxic cadmium, developed less of a memory effect and got more power into a smaller space....
Aviation Cadet Paul Day was looking at his instruments and straining to hear any communications over the sound of his radial engine, as he flew blind in the clouds all alone. What seemed like just another routine training flight had now become a struggle for life itself, as he and more than a dozen other young aviation cadets came face to face with the dangers of flying - not in combat, but facing the wrath of the one adversary that has plagued aviators for generations: the weather. March 18,...
