Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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I would like to publicly thank everyone who helped and contributed to Team Walkabout's success in this year's Tehachapi Relay for Life. It was our first attempt as a team and we raised the fantastic amount of $5,500, which brought us in 4th or 5th among all 33 teams. Great job. The entire group raised over $74, 000 for The American Cancer Society. My special thanks goes to Cathy Criger for all the effort she put into selling tickets, making five quilts to raffling off, and making the really...
City Manager Greg Garrett updated the City Council on the many current projects in which the city is currently involved. He reported that the city is looking to recruit two new police officers, a sergeant and a utility manager. Work has begun on the drainage project at the corner of Valley Blvd. and Curry St., and work will soon begin on the new islands at Curry and Pinon streets. The Developmental Services Department is in their new building at the corner of Robinson and F streets. The city...
Patrick Mitchell has been singing for 38 years and has been impersonating Elvis since he was six years old. On July 11 he will be bringing his show "Elvis & Others" to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in Tehachapi. A dinner will be served prior to the show from 5 to 6 p.m. followed by vocals from Tanya, Patrick's fiancée. "Elvis & Others" will be from 7 to 9 p.m. with some of the "others" being Frank Sinatra, Neal Diamond, Bobby Darren and Dean Martin. Admission is free, so come...
On Saturday, July 11 Tehachapi will host another event that will raise money for the American Cancer Society, Tehachapi’s own Relay for Life. My team, which is called TEAM WALKABOUT for my Australian heritage, is planning a great experience to help with that money raising effort. Our area will be decorated with all things Australian, which will include Aussie stuff and Aboriginal artifacts that I hope will be interesting to people. There will be drawings and raffles for two quilts made by the T...
Members of Tehachapi’s Southern Sierra Amateur Radio Society will be participating in the national Amateur Radio Field Day exercise, June 27 – 28 at Tehachapi’s Bright Lake, Pavilion 3 (courtesy of the Tehachapi Recreation and Parks Department). Setup will be complete and operations will begin at 11:00AM PST on Saturday June 27th. Since 1933, ham radio operators across North America have established temporary ham radio stations in public locations during Field Day to showcase the science and skill of Amateur Radio. This event is open to the p...
May 7, 2015 – Nurses at Tehachapi Hospital are being honored with The DAISY Award For Extraordinary Nurses. The award is part of the DAISY Foundation’s program to recognize the super-human efforts nurses perform everyday. Tehachapi Hospital honored two nurses with the DAISY Award as part of their Nurses’ Week celebration. The first award recipient is Carrie Shultz, RN who works in the Emergency Department. Carrie received the highest number of total compliments through the hospital’s Connect Call-back program. Patient’s comments about Car...
Get ready for some yummy pancakes! The Relay Survivor Social Pancake Breakfast is back for another year of honoring our Survivors on June 6 at the Senior Center on “F” Street. This is a great pre-Relay event presented by the American Cancer Society Relay for Life Tehachapi Committee, and sponsored by Chemtool. If you are a cancer Survivor then this is the event for you, and the cost is free! Because part of Relay is Celebrating YOU, and what better way than with breakfast, bingo and other super ways to win some cool prizes. The Pancake Breakfas...
The 3rd Annual Kickin’ Cancer in the Butt Run will be June 13 at Meadowbrook Park in Tehachapi. Sign-ups are starting now and will go through the start of the race! Registration begins at 6 a.m. and the Run/Walk will start at 7 a.m. This year there is a 5k and 10k run or walk. So everyone can come out and enjoy the day by participating in a great event and raising funds for the American Cancer Society Relay for Life Tehachapi event. All funds raised will benefit the teams – so sign-up and sponsor a team. Cost is $35 per runner/walker. Pri...
Relay for Life is once again sponsoring the 3rd Annual Ride for Life on May 30th. Bikers can sign up in three city locations: in Lancaster at AV Harley; in Bakersfield at Bikersfield, and in Tehachapi at The Shed restaurant. All funds raised will once again help in the fight again cancer with the American Cancer Society programs of research, advocacy and education. “We’re excited once again to offer this Poker Run ride to our three city locations,” said Mike Pera, one of the event Chairmen. “We have done this for the last two years and we are...
Hard working, focused and very talented are the best words to describe Cory Lockwood. Raised in the hills of Tehachapi, California, Cory has spent the majority of his life racing. During his two-wheel racing career he has successfully competed in both motorized and human-powered bike events. His talents for two wheels began with motocross from a young age, where he moved through the ranks to a local pro level. After racing motocross, bicycling became his main focus. He began competing in USA...
Wine is basically magic, right? A cure-all elixir that makes the fountain of youth look like a warm can of Coke. At least that’s what the barrage of news reports, advertising promises and countless online headlines tell you. The fact is, wine is a boon to your body in several ways, but the benefits are far smaller in scale than we have been led to believe. Can this be true? Bob the Wine Guy, is minimizing some wine fact rather than embellishing it. Will wonders never cease? Well, boys and girls,...
Somewhere along the line when I wasn’t paying very careful attention, I woke up just a precious few months shy of having been here for sixty years. Most of this life has had some form of a connection to trains involved with it, which makes it pretty easy to relay the stories to you as I reflect upon them myself. Sometimes I feel the pain of the miles and the years, but I must admit that waking up here in Tehachapi every day makes it worth it and surely beats the alternatives. In past articles I...
Is the rate of cancer diagnosed for Tehachapi residents truly increasing as some believe, or is social media just making us more aware of this insidious disease within our midst? Whatever the correct answer may be, our community is realizing that Tehachapi is at a distinct disadvantage because of our location. Any kind of chemotherapy treatment is at least a 90 mile round trip trek, either "down" the mountain to Bakersfield or over to Lancaster/Palmdale. Diagnosed with stage IV colorectal...
A few weekends ago I attended the Tehachapi version of Relay for Life. This event is a coming together of many people, from all walks of life that are suffering from cancer, are recovering from cancer, getting treatment for cancer, or have a friend or family member that has cancer or has passed away because of cancer. As lay people, we could debate the causes and reasons for cancer for the rest of our days; however, that won’t magically bring cancer to its knees. What does help is money; and a...
The 11th Annual Tehachapi Relay for Life will be held once again at Coy Burnett Field on July 12 and 13. And the 45 Teams participating this year would really appreciate your support as they walk the track for 24 hours in honor of and in memory of those who have battled cancer. "Relay is such a great family event," said Duana Pera, the 2014 Event Chair. "There is something for everyone to do at Relay all day long. So if you are not on a tea.m. and just want to come out and spend some time with...
There has been more than one occasion that I have fielded the inquiry of where the ideas for articles originate in my somewhat disorganized but yet complicated mind. Good, bad or indifferent, this is the process. Before we get started, a little background info would be of great assistance. I was born in 1955 to mostly native Californians in Riverside, a rail shipping giant in the citrus industry and one of the first major stops for all Union Pacific passenger trains leaving Los Angeles for point...
The 2014 Tehachapi Relay for Life has kicked off and teams are needed! Teams make Relay, and it is the Teams who raise funds for research so that we may have more Survivors on the track and in our lives. Relay is a Team Event sponsored by the American Cancer Society. For 24 hours teams of one to 100 walk the track at Jacobsen Middle School in honor of or in memory of all those who have fought cancer; cancer never sleeps and neither do the teams. Today, two out of three cancer patients will...
Today, two out of every three cancer patients will beat cancer; and one reason is the research conducted by groups such as the American Cancer Society. Relay For Life, an ACS event, has become the largest community event helping to raise funds for the ACS. The Tehachapi community has been Relaying for 10 years, and kicked-off their 11th year in February. Teams are now forming for the 2014 Relay for Life, which will be held July 12-13 once again at Coy Burnett Field at Jacobsen Middle School....
