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Like a European village – The Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi speaker for Wednesday, July 22 is City of Tehachapi Economic Development Coordinator Corey Costelloe, who can tell us how the city is helping restaurants adapt to outdoor dining. Costello will present the city’s economic outlook. The Kiwanis meeting, which begins at noon, will be outdoors at a private home, unless the restaurants are open and we can resume gathering at our regular meeting place (Gold Mountain Sports Tavern). Jobs with the census – The Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi speak...
Tehachapi native Chad Walker, stage manager for the soft rock duo Air Supply, writes his estimate of the number of acorns in the jar at the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi booth at the Main Street Farmers Market on July 9. Walker is a 2002 Tehachapi High School graduate. He has been with LA-based Air Supply for 12 years and is looking forward to getting back on the road for live performances in the fall. The "Acorn Scramble" is a fundraiser for the Kiwanis Club and Boy Scout Troop 136. Half the...
Musician, music teacher, Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra concertmaster and retired Navy Captain Gayel Pitchford will speak at the July 8 luncheon meeting of the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi. Pitchford teaches young musicians who go on to play in symphony orchestras, university music programs and who develop musical careers. The Tehachapi Symphony Orchestra hopes to present its next concert in September. Pitchford will explain how the orchestra will compensate for the absence of wind and brass instruments (which are temporarily sidelined by COVID-19...
The Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi honors Tehachapi High School (THS) 2020 graduate Meagan Williams, recipient of the club's $1,000 2020 college scholarship. Williams will attend Bakersfield College, where she will be playing on the Renegade women's volleyball team. "I am enrolling as a student athlete in the honors transfer program with plans of transferring to a California State University or University of California," she said in her scholarship application. A member of the California Scholarship...
The Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi and partner organization Boy Scout Troop 136 delivered American flags on Flag Day, Sunday, June 14. Shown at a subscriber home, from left, Kern County firefighter Armando Leon and his son Breck, Assistant Scoutmaster Del Baker-Medlock (back row) and his sons Jaden and Kody Baker-Medlock. The Kiwanis Club Stars and Stripes Flag Display Project teams deliver (and pick up) big American flags to the front yards of subscribers within the Tehachapi city limits on six...
In analyzing recent crime statistics, Tehachapi Police Chief Kent Kroeger discovered that chronic offenders accounted for more than half of all arrests in Tehachapi in 2019. Of the 575 arrests in Tehachapi in 2019, he said, 89 people had accumulated 324 arrests, or 56.3 percent of the total. "Some had 10 or more arrests, some as many as 13 in this one year," he told the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi at its Wednesday, Jan. 22 luncheon meeting at the Gold Mountain Sports Tavern. The year 2017 had...
Dr. Alois Alzheimer of Munich, Germany identified the disease known as Alzheimer's in 1906. The Alzheimer's Association, the umbrella organization that funds research, education and resources, was founded in 1980. By comparison, the American Cancer Society began in 1913. "We are late in the game regarding research," Ashley Sodergren, regional director, Kern and Tulare Counties, told the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi in presentations during two recent meetings. "It is a public health issue that...
How did we get here you ask? In the early 1960s the Business Men’s Association, along with other interested Service Clubs, jointly sponsored a three-day celebration spotlighting local agriculture and recreation opportunities found within the Tehachapi Valley. Thus the “Mountain Fruit Festival” was born along with the Kiwanis Club inaugural “Little Britches Rodeo.” Those first years, the Kiwanis held the rodeo on property in Golden Hills, which later became Austin Acres/Old Town Stables. In 1967, the name of the festival was changed to, “The...
Anything that affects a driver's ability to operate a vehicle gets a DUI, California Highway Patrol Public Information Officer Aaron Maurer told the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi on May 22. "Alcohol, drugs and medication can lead to a DUI (driving under the influence) charge," he said. Officers can add a charge of child endangerment if there are children in the vehicle. To determine if a driver is impaired, an officer looks at, "the totality of circumstances," he said. "Your body does things it...
Connie Brehm, speaking and dressed as British nurse Florence Nightingale, gave the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi a stirring account of the life of the woman whose 19th-century work established the profession of nursing. Brehm is Professor Emeritus in nursing from Azusa Pacific University, and a Tehachapi resident for a year. Nightingale, Brehm said, was born in 1820 in Florence, Italy during her wealthy parents' four-year honeymoon. Believing that women should be well educated, her father provided...
China is fed up with taking the world's trash, Waste Management's Residential Recycling Manager Ali Van Dereyk told the Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi, and recycling has become more of a challenge. Speaking at the club's May 15 meeting at the Gold Mountain Sports Tavern, Van Dereyk said that when China first began accepting refuse, the limit on contamination was 5 percent. Now it is 25 percent, and many items that formerly were included in the waste are now prohibited. China, she said, is trying to...
Following an executive order from Governor Gavin Newsom, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) is throwing out plans for twin water tunnels under the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and initiating planning and permits for a smaller, single tunnel. “The California WaterFix is officially dead,” Tehachapi-Cummings County Water District (TCCWD) General Manager Tom Neisler reported at the May 15 board of directors meeting at Brite Lake headquarters. “Twelve years of work and $300 milli...
Susan Wiggins, featured speaker at the Thursday, May 2 Kiwanis Prayer Breakfast, is a civic activist whose spiritual convictions help keep the sometimes-bumpy politics in perspective. As mayor of Tehachapi, she is called upon to preside over City Council meetings that welcome public speakers who may be angry and frustrated. She must navigate the simmering tensions among the public and, at times, between members of the Council themselves. Wiggins recognizes that city councils and other civic...
The Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi announces that Tehachapi Mayor Susan Wiggins will be the featured speaker at the Kiwanis 33rd Annual Prayer Breakfast on May 2. A native of Mojave and a Tehachapi community leader, Wiggins will share her personal story and vision. The theme of the event, “Love One Another” (#Love1Another), is taken from the words Jesus spoke as recorded in John 13:34: “Love one another, just as I have loved you.” The Men of Faith Quartet will present upbeat, modern contemp...
Six members of Congress from California are campaigning to site the proposed Space Development Agency in the military areas of Edwards Air Force Base and the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. At the March 14 meeting of the East Kern Economic Alliance (EKEA) at the Mojave Air and Space Port, Representative Kevin McCarthy's field rep Gary Medina presented a letter sent from the congresspersons to President Donald Trump, stating the case for the location. "[W]e urge you to consider two bases...
Learned at the recent Ag (Agriculture) Expo at Tulare: The Animal Legal Defense Fund is a national nonprofit organization of legal professionals and law students who work to protect animals through the legal system. It provides pro bono services in cases involving animal hoarding and puppy mills and organized animal fighting, maintains an animal cruelty data base, does legal research for attorneys and provides abuse/neglect/hoarding training programs. www.aldf.org Ninety percent of endangered...
On the evening of Dec. 10, Tehachapi GranFondo ride coordinator Michelle Vance presented checks totaling $25,000 to 20 volunteer organizations that donated their time and efforts to help put on the 5th GranFondo on Sept. 15. Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District were the new organizers for the successful event and their December Board Meeting was the perfect venue for the presentation. The groups honored were Bear Valley CERT, Sand Canyon FOR-CERT, Bear Valley Volunteers in Police...
Ybarra installed the Tehachapi board on Oct.13. Kiwanis rocked Centennial Plaza at Main Street Tehachapi’s Halloween Trunk or Treat event as the music of president-elect Bill Bettis of MusicMX and Eric Leishman Karaoke inspired costumed little goblins to dance and dance with uninhibited glee. The club sponsored a popular photo booth at the Main Street Tehachapi event, which drew 1,200 children who collected 27,000 pieces of candy....
A key concern for Kiwanis is the well-being of children, and they were interested to know how Measure R would improve outdated recreational facilities. Therefore, they invited Michelle Vance and Laura Lynne Wyatt to tell them about the measure which would upgrade and renovate existing parks, grounds and recreational facilities in the Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District. The measure is on the November ballot and must pass by a 2/3 majority. Vance said TVRPD was formed in 1959 and...
The Kiwanis Club awarded scholarships to three Tehachapi High School graduates this June. They were introduced to the membership at a recent meeting by Scholarship Chairperson, Marian Stephens. She began by thanking Dick Cavanaugh and Liz Wolfe for serving on the selection committee. Each of the three winners then addressed the Kiwanis members. Emma Stanley made good grades in high school, but she admitted she worked hard to maintain a high grade point average. She said she really had to focus...
Sandy Chavez is passionate about her work as Center Coordinator for Salvation Army. She recently shared the reasons for her enthusiasm with Tehachapi Kiwanis Club. In just the first quarter of this year, she reported that 3,143 people were able to get food to feed their families in Tehachapi. The center distributed 109,901 pounds of donated food. Albertsons is the largest donor to the Salvation Army, and they give food that is about to exceed its expiration date. Volunteers sort this food...
On June 1, the Tehachapi Museum will be open from 5 to 8 p.m. for the First Friday Art Walk. Along with other downtown venues, the Museum and will be offering appetizers, desserts, and champagne for guests. This month's food and beverage is being provided by the Kiwanis Club and their members will be on hand to assist for the evening. A small exhibit of Victorian cabinet cards will be on display through June. The collection was assembled by Bill Reed and all feature men in their finery, the phot...
"We made some miscalculations," was how Ron Gaiser described the hike he and Kiwanis Club President Jonathan Hall took on the Pacific Crest Trail. The two men undertook the hike as a fundraiser for the Club, asking each member to donate dollars for miles hiked. At the last Kiwanis meeting they showed pictures and talked about their experience. The hikers set off from Lander's Meadow and planned to hike toward Tehachapi in five days. They got a ride to that point and were prepared with food,...
It was a great turn out at McMullan Hall for the 32nd Annual Kiwanis Prayer Breakfast on May 3 as speaker Daryl Ragsdale, business development director for World Wind & Solar, shared his compelling story of faith. "It was the picture of unity, of believers and others coming together for a common purpose," Ragsdale told The Loop. The event, he said, "highlights the importance of the power of prayer." Kiwanis Prayer Breakfast Chairman Don Bowman, a retired Salvation Army officer, said the...
Scott Spielman is a Kern County Assistant District Attorney who has seen numerous cases during his career where families have been devastated when loved ones have died as a result of drunk driving. During the last year there were 4,000 DUI arrests in the county and probably more that eluded arrest. Many teenagers have been involved in accidents where drinking was a factor. Spielman wanted to help prevent senseless deaths so he joined an organization called A Life Interrupted. He became a volunte...
