Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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First Fridays have become a popular event of fun, refreshments, hospitality and shopping at all the participating venues. Gallery 'N' Gifts will be hosting a Costume contest. Gallery 'N' Gifts is located at 100 W. Tehachapi Blvd. Tehachapi Treasure Trove is located at 116 East Tehachapi Boulevard, right across the street from the water tower in Railroad Park. Meet our teachers, see their work and learn about the classes they offer. Come see what is happening and join the fun, food, wine and conversation. Oak Tree Art Antiques Etc Located 102...
Lucinda Thomas teaches a drawing class on Monday morning in addition to an afternoon kid's class. Lucinda has 30 years experience in teaching a variety of art forms including drawing, painting, clay throwing and sculpture, mosaics and more. She has worked with children, adults and disabled clients. Gloria Moore specialized in clay sculpture and hand building using locally mined clays. Her favorite subjects are animals and small containers. Periodically she takes groups to Rosamond to mine their...
Witch's Hats and Costume contests mean one thing...fall is right around the corner. What better way to kick off the season than with some cool prizes to celebrate your creative spirit? With Halloween only weeks away it will be fun to get your costume together early and join Gallery 'N' Gifts for a costume contest on First Friday Oct. 7 from 5 to 8 p.m. at 100 W. Tehachapi Blvd. If a whole costume is too overwhelming for you, why not grab a $4 witch's hat from Gallery 'N' Gifts early and...
Friends of the Tehachapi Depot (FOTD), the organization that operates the Tehachapi Depot Railroad Museum, is happy to announce the election of Keith Sackewitz as its new Vice President. In his new role, Keith will continue his excellent work as Depot Director of Education and he will now also oversee several key Depot departments including the Tuesday Work Crew, Museum Registrar and Facilities, Event Coordination and Depot Historian duties. Keith brings many years of strong FOTD board experienc...
Taylor Shumway, a senior at Tehachapi High School and a four year veteran of the T.H.S. Drama Program, is excited to be directing Ax of Murder. Shumway was interested in this comedic mystery because it features many plot twists and interesting characters. Bonnie Bagwell, played by Kaylee Winn, and her drama troupe are looking for a play to perform. Writer, Colin Chambers, played by Darian Brown, turns up with a script, Ax of Murder. He warns them to not read it, hints at the horrors and death...
Today, We Honor The Overall Man Classic Bill Mead Reprinted with permission from Tehachapi Lifestyle Magazine, March 2014 issue. A few weeks ago I had lunch with Bernie, a fellow I grew up with back in Iowa. We both came to California in the World War II Navy although not together. Neither of us went back to the cornbelt. The similarity ends there because Bernie's career over the intervening decades has been more noteworthy than mine. Among other things, Bernie was among those who invented the...
The Tehachapi Apple Festival is taking place on Saturday, Oct. 8 and Sunday, Oct. 9 in Downtown Tehachapi. If you are an excellent baker, love to make apple pie, feel that apple pie is one of your specialties, get compliments from your family and friends on your apple pie, then you should consider entering the Apple Festival Pie Baking Contest. You must submit an entry form which is available at www.tehachapiapplefestival.com (see the Bake Contest Tab) and the $10 fee asap. You can call Linda at...
Don't miss this courtroom thriller directed by Rick Gould. It was originally written in 1954, as a CBS teleplay by Reginald Rose, then adapted to the stage play known as "Twelve Angry Men" the following year. Most people would be familiar with the 1957 screen version directed by Sidney Lumit and featuring Henry Fonda. Since then, the play has been produced all over the world, and a remake of the film, titled Twelve Angry Jurors, was made in 1997, directed by William Friedkin, and featuring...
Ag water negotiations Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District Water Conservation Coordinator Liz Block has produced colorful magazines for young students that explain where Tehachapi area water comes from and how to be a good steward of the resource. Block worked with consultants on "Project Wet" to provide teachers with the magazines and other water conservation materials. The magazines – one written for the second-grade level and the other written for the fifth-grade level – introduce the...
The ceiling tiles of the Tehachapi Replacement Acute Care Hospital are laid in, and that's a good milestone, Senior Project Manager Lisa Polansky of SHP Project Development, the hospital project manager, told the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District board of directors. "It means that the overhead utilities are signed off," she said. The complex labyrinth of pipes, conduits and wires above the ceilings are as deep as the walls below, she said. Covering them up means a tough job has been...
Tehachapi Kiwanis serve Pasta Fest!...
Tulare resident, Don Searcy, entered his first century cycling race when he rode Tehachapi's Gran Fondo on Sept. 17. He was riding to raise awareness of Rett Syndome, a rare genetic disease which attacks mostly girls in their first few years of life. Searcy's five year old granddaughter, Scarlett Parks, was diagnosed with the disease at the age of two. Rett Syndrome was identified in 1966 by Dr. Andreas Rett. It occurs spontaneously, is not hereditary, but still affects one in every 10,000 to...
This morning I stepped out my door and immediately turned back inside to grab a jacket. It seems like Fall is here, and we’ll be turning the clocks back in just a few weeks. My favorite clue is the California buckwheat (Eriogonum fasciculatum). The flowers that have covered the shrub in white all summer have turned a rich rusty or chocolaty brown. Your lawn grasses are starting to respond to the cooling weather, growth has slowed way down. The green leaves will start to change to gold as the grass goes dormant for the winter. The lawn d...
At the Sept. 19 City Council Meeting, Mayor Susan Wiggins shown here with Mary Van Blake and Theresa Fassbender, proclaimed October, 2016 as Breast Cancer Awareness Paint Our Town Pink month. Fassbender and Van Blake represented the Links for Life, Lace it Up cancer walk event that will be held in Tehachapi on October 1....
Tech Trek is a math/science camp sponsored each summer by American Association of University Women. The Tehachapi Mountain Branch sent three local girls to a week-long camp this past summer. It costs $1000 per girl and the branch had sponsors for two of the scholarships. They funded the third campership by a conducting a quilt raffle. The winning ticket was drawn at the September Membership Luncheon, and Nancy Romero became the new owner of the beautiful quilt which was made by AAUW member...
Those of you who read my column know I almost always write a piece from my Mother Marion Deaver's "archives" digging through her old files to find some subject to which I can give new life. Last week I had the pleasure to ride in historic railcars with other city and county leaders, from Bakersfield to Tehachapi on a route now dubbed the Tehachapi Trade Corridor. The tour was to showcase the nearly completed double tracking project which offers a 63 percent capacity improvement on the major...
They’re still out there, the fake tech support people. I know, and you know, nobody from Microsoft will ever call you to tell you there’s something wrong with your computer. It just won’t happen. The people who do call you aren’t from Microsoft and all they want to do is get your money. Don’t give it to them. Don’t talk to them and just hang up the phone. The same is true of any page that pops up on your computer telling you to call immediately so they can “save” your computer. There isn’t any...
A Zombie Apocalypse is coming again to Tehachapi on Saturday Oct. 22 Come out and support the 3rd Annual Zombie Run fundraiser for Gateway Connections, a local non-profit organization helping families with special needs. Come and check out the Craft Fair, and the Special Needs Resource Fair from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Free kids' craft and goodie bag at 2:30 (while suplies last), and the grand finale is the Zombie Run at 3 p.m. (runners check in starting at 2 p.m.). Held at the GHCSD, 21415 Reeves...
There is a new pharmacy in Tehachapi. Located on South Mill Street right across the street from Saint Malachy's Catholic Church is Agia Pharmacy & Cafe, a new independent pharmacy which is part of the Health Mart Pharmacy network of over 3000 independent pharmacies nationwide. Agia is operated by Amira Michael, Pham.D. She is Tehachapi's first board certified geriatric pharmacist and can accept most insurance carriers. She also offers compounding services and free pick up and delivery. The small...
Links for Life, Tehachapi, was started in October 2009 as a support group for Breast Cancer Survivors by Mary VanBlakeShoaf. Mary was diagnosed with Breast Cancer in 2007. In her quest for support through this trying time she found Links for Life in Bakersfield, California. The organization helps women under 40 years old by providing them with free mammograms, ultrasounds, biopsy, wigs and a variety of other support. It also provides wigs and support for women with Breast Cancer over 40 years ol...
During the 2016 NASA Honor Awards at Armstrong Flight Research Center Cynthia J. Bixby, Chief of Engineering and Integration branch at NASA was presented with an Outstanding Leadership Medal for providing exceptional leadership to the Systems Engineering Branch and setting a great example for NASA's engineering staff. Earlier in her NASA career she was acting deputy and then acting chief of the Flight Systems branch. She acted as chief systems engineer on the Unmanned Aerial Systems in the Natio...
"It is simple, really. With James Lee you get great songs, great guitar playing, great voice and a gifted comedian as well. You are in for a very entertaining evening." – Village Voice James Lee Stanley will be no stranger to Tehachapi when he performs at Fiddlers Crossing, Saturday, September 24, at 7 p.m. He has given concerts in Fiddlers Crossing, Mama Hillybean's and the BeeKay Theatre over the last decade. He has become a favorite in Tehachapi because of his remarkable ability as a v...
John and Annika Rehard had quite a welcome to their home in Bear Valley Springs. A few days after moving in, they were told to evacuate due to a brush fire. Although it was for only a matter of hours, it was still very unsettling. The Rehards had been trying to move to this area for over two years making offers on four properties before finding their beautiful rambling home on a hill. They had lived on a ranch in Agua Dulce, near Santa Clarita, for 30 years. Of their two horses, ten llamas and...
Each year, Lions clubs around the world proudly sponsor the Lions International Peace Poster Contest in local schools and youth groups. This art contest for kids encourages young people worldwide to express their visions of peace, tolerance and international understanding. For more than 25 years, millions of children from nearly 100 countries have participated in the contest. The theme of this year's contest is "A Celebration of Peace". Students, ages 11, 12, or 13 by November 15, are eligible...
They're at it again! After a busy season of raising funds for their favorite project, "Putting Art Back in the Classroom", Tehachapi Valley Arts Association has been busy delivering more carloads of art supply donations to local Tehachapi Schools. Project coordinator Gale Caldwell said, "The community events we hold every year such as the three craft fairs, Chalk on the Walk, two photo contests and silent auctions are where we raise our funds for this project. We have a great community here and...
