Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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The former women's prison in Tehachapi had its beginning in 1852 explained Del Troy, Tehachapi's well known historian, when she spoke to the Kiwanis Club. In those early days there was a ship at San Quentin Point that held 50 convicts, some of whom were women. A prison was built for them, and the women were housed in the same facility as the men until 1928 when the legislature approved separate prisons for women. The State of California purchased 1700 acres in Cummings Valley from Lucas Brite...
Members of the Tehachapi High School Key Club, a service organization sponsored by the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi, shared their activities and philosophy at the Kiwanis club's Jan. 27 regular lunsheon meeting at Pacino's restaurant. Under the leadership of senior Brandon Monzon, the club has grown to 28 members this year. The Key Clubbers engage in volunteer activities in the community, including fundraising for the Eliminate program to help fight deadly neo-natal tetanus, serving at events like...
Tehachapi High School head football coach Steve Denman, speaking to the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi on Dec. 16, 2015, has learned more than a few things about teenagers in 34 years of coaching. "Kids keep you young," he said. "Kids just want to have guidance, direction and boundaries – and get out of the way." Denman spoke at the invitation of Kiwanian George Novinger, who was principal of THS when Denman began his coaching career in 1982. The accumulated wisdom on the dais represented an u...
Lancaster native Tony Schoen began working as a financial controller in the nascent wind industry in 1988 and rode the boom-and-bust roller coaster until he retired from that business in 2004. For 16 years he worked in a small building on the hillside south of Hwy. 58 in the middle of the wind turbines. Describing himself as "a local desert rat," Schoen (pronounced "Shane"), 61, told the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi of his experiences under Zond, Enron and GE. Schoen first worked with James G.P....
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The second year of Tehachapi's unique, multi-organizational fund-raising event, Cheers to Charity, was a wonderful success. Delicious food, fine wine, scrumptious craft beer and home brews were enjoyed by 500 friends and neighbors. The evening stars, engaging music, friendly conversation and splendid camaraderie made for a truly wonderful night in Tehachapi! The Cheers to Charity committee made up of Tehachapi residents Yolanda Acevedo, Becca Dillenbeck, Mary Beth Garrison, Samara Hart and...
The Rotary Club of Tehachapi has been busy welcoming new members which are pictured here. It is our privilege to serve the community in a variety of ways. One of the many projects we do locally is replacing smoke alarm batteries for seniors the week after the clocks change on Nov. 14. In December we do our Senior Holiday luncheon and we work with Kiwanis and The Salvation Army to serve families a pancake breakfast and pictures with Santa. We send ten high school students to leadership camp,...
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You need to know about the High Speed Rail – The California High-Speed Rail (HSR) Authority will hold five community open house meetings, Sept. 30 to Oct. 7, 2015, to explain the 75-mile-long Bakersfield to Palmdale section of the project, which is routed through the Tehachapi Mountains and the city. The meetings will be held at Bakersfield (Edison) on Sept. 30, at Tehachapi on Thursday, Oct. 1, Mojave on Oct. 5, Rosamond on Oct. 6 and Lancaster on Oct. 7. The meetings begin at 5:30 p.m. and t...
The Rotary Club of Tehachapi has had a busy spring with several fundraising events, and we’ve also designated funds towards highly cherished projects. First there was an Afternoon Tea at Fiddler’s Crossing and the proceeds were donated to the local Salvation Army for their after school program, plus the Rotary Board designated an additional $500 to be contributed for this purpose. The next event was a Spring Fashion Show held at the BeeKay Theater. This event not only promotes local shopping by showing just how wonderful the clothes are at Dah...
Cheers to Charity, a festival of great food, fine wines, craft beers and scrumptious home brews, is on the calendar for Saturday, August 8 from 6 p.m. until 10 p.m. Held in an expanded plaza at veritas tapas and wine bar, Cheers to Charity is a fund-raising event benefitting six local nonprofit organizations. Organized by Community Clean Sweep, a community improvement nonprofit organization, Cheers to Charity invests in small charitable organizations who are making a difference within the...
Tehachapi's own Maureen Recalde, winner of the world-wide Voice of McDonald's singing competition, will share her Christian testimony and her gift of song at the 2015 Kiwanis Prayer Breakfast, Thursday, May 7 at McMullan Hall, St. Malachy Catholic Church. Recalde, operations manager for the two McDonald's restaurants in Tehachapi, won the Voice of McDonald's in 2012 at Orlando, Fla. before an audience of 25,000. She subsequently has traveled to Europe, South America and Canada to sing. The conte...
Honor Flights is a program to recognize the service of veterans of World War II and the Korean War. Rick Zanuto says they deserve recognition because they sacrificed their innocence and their youth to fight for their country. He spoke recently to the Kiwanis Club and described the experiences he has accompanying veterans on these flights. Zanuto said Honor Flights in Kern County began in 2012 with 24 veterans ranging in age from 80 to 101. Since that time he has accompanied six flights as a guardian, one who is assigned to assist veterans...
Do you have too much free time? Have you been wondering what there is to do in this wonderful town of Tehachapi. Well let me invite you to a premiere event taking place on Tuesday, April 14. The Rotary Club of Tehachapi, in partnership with the Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Parks District, is having their first Non-Profit Showcase at West Park Activity Center, 410 West D Street from 5-8 p.m. This is an incredible opportunity to find out what non-profits and organizations are active in...
Not only beer, but wine, too! Tehachapi’s premiere beer and wine event The 2015 Beer and Wine Festival is scheduled for Saturday, July 18 from 4 til 8 p.m. at the Benz Sports Complex, 20537 Tehachapi Willow Springs Rd. If you thought it was fun last year, you ain’t seen nothin’ yet. This event features the largest selection of beers and wine to taste in the area. Event Organizer, David Brust has added some new and exciting activities. “The buzz around this year’s festival is tremendous and we are excited to be adding 15- 20 wineries to our ev...
Renaissance Fairs have become popular events and are held in various places, but the original one began years ago in Topanga Canyon, Calif. Jonathan Hall explained the history and development of the fairs when he recently spoke to Tehachapi Kiwanis members. Hall has been participating in Renaissance Fairs for over 30 years. To prepare for the event he spends four weekends in preparation where participants learn the history of the Renaissance, practice dialect, and learn roles. Then the fair goes on for another four weekends. Hall has often...
Pens can be works of art. This was evident when Kent Schick spoke to the Tehachapi Kiwanis Club about his hobby, turned business, of making pens. He explained that he had tried making pens about 25 years ago and considered his work a failure, but six years ago he tried again and found success. Part of that success came from investing in proper tools and materials. Schick has the equipment and know-how to make anything that is round, including razors and ice cream scoops. He specializes in...
In a perfect world, no one would throw trash in the street or pile up junk in vacant fields or despoil buildings with graffiti. There's no perfect world, but there is Mary Beth Garrison. Garrison is director of the non-profit Community Clean Sweep, whose mission is to rid Kern County of piles of debris, junk and trash. Her passion is cleaning up the detritus that other people leave behind – and teaching those same people to be environmentally considerate. She is passionate about teaching p...
The City is like a corporation, with City Hall as the corporate headquarters, and the City Council as the Board of Directors. The customers are the residents and the business owners. Greg Garrett, Tehachapi City Manager, used this analogy as he outlined the City's success and progress at a recent Kiwanis Club meeting. Garrett stressed how important it is that the City live up to the expectations of its customers who want an active and high quality life style. There are 9 thousand residents in...
A real basket made nearly a century ago by Rosie Hicks, a young Nuwa (Kawaiisu) woman, was the inspiration for a book called The Butterfly Basket. It was written by Sand Canyon resident Cynthia Waldman. She spoke recently to the Kiwanis Club and told how she combined her lifelong love of nature and a keen interest in Native American culture to write this interesting book. The story takes place in the early 1930s in the Tehachapi area and tells of a friendship between two eleven year old...
Tehachapi Community Theatre is proud to announce its “Tickets For Charity” partnership with Have A Heart Humane Society (haveahearthumanesociety.org) for opening night Friday, January 30 of their new adult comedy Sylvia. TCT has donated 42 tickets, a total value of $630, to Have A Heart for them to sell as a fundraiser. Tickets have a face value of $15, but all of the money raised from ticket sales will be kept by Have A Heart Humane Society. If you’d like to donate more, please do so. To buy the tickets please contact Have A Heart at havea...
Scott Pitkin, the public access coordinator for Tejon Ranch, spoke to the Tehachapi Kiwanis club about the Tejon Conservancy Agreement, which was established in 2008 and signed by then Governor Schwarzenegger. The Ranch encompasses 2,700,000 acres and the Conservancy has easement protection over 240,000 acres. This enables protection of native species, research, and access to the public. Pitkin urged people to go online to tejonconservancy.org and sign up for guided trips, docent training, or...
No snow, no problem – A slightly windblown snowman made out of sprayed white tumbleweeds beckons from the front yard of a home on D Street. The promised big winter year-end snowstorm dusted the higher elevations of Bear Valley but otherwise skipped the Tehachapi area, which was cold and brilliantly clear as 2015 made its appearance. According to MountainBase weather station (www.mountainbase.com), located in West Golden Hills, temperatures dropped to 16.2 degrees Fahrenheit at 7 a.m. on Dec. 3...
Susan Andreas-Bervel, Superintendent of Tehachapi Unified School District, was the guest speaker at a recent Tehachapi Kiwanis meeting. She stated the goal of TUSD is to promote college and career readiness for all students. She described Common Core as a way to ensure that students are prepared for college work and for a productive life. Under new guidelines, learning is progressive with spiral curriculum that begins in kindergarten and continues through all grades. Focus is on critical...
Kiwanis Division 33 Lt. Governor Greg Mudge installed President Marget Willer and officers of the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi at a dinner Oct. 29 at the Original Apple Shed Restaurant. Willer, director of the Salvation Army Center in Tehachapi, and her officers have planned a busy year for the club, whose signature service projects include Coats for Kids, the Flag Project, a golf tournament, fundraising to provide scholarships for graduating high school seniors, service at civic events,...
