Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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For those who feel that there is nothing to do in Tehachapi, let me tell you that we can disprove that in a moment. Join us at Jacobsen Middle School Gymnasium on Tuesday, April 25 for the Non Profit Showcase. Doors open at 5 p.m. and the event closes at 8 p.m. Admission is free. The Loop and The Tehachapi News are sponsoring the event, which is being hosted by The Rotary Club of Tehachapi. Food will be available for purchase. Several booths will be offering raffles and there will be a door...
A couple of weeks back the monthly Honor Flight/ Veterans’ Breakfast was held at St Malachy Church’s McMullan Hall. Some 130 veterans, family and friends spent three hours or more greeting one another and reminiscing while volunteers from the community and veterans organizations served the meal. There were vintage vets from World War II, Korea and Vietnam plus more recent veterans of our present War on Terror overseas. These seasoned vets were able to greet one another in the language par...
On Saturday afternoon, April 8, Canine Creek was crowded with adults, kids and dogs as new owner, Kellie Dudivoir, celebrated the grand re-opening. Wanting to do something special at the event, Kellie organized a fundraiser through local donations to raffle a long list of baskets and other items to provide Mikayla Hart and her service dog Teddy with a harness that would keep the two stable when they walk together. Mikayla, who has had half of her brain removed, has no peripheral vision. Teddy...
Plans for the annual Memorial Day Parade and Ceremony in Philip Marx Central Park are being finalized by the local veterans organizations along with the Recreation and Parks District. The parade will begin at 10 a.m. on Monday, May 29 and upon reaching Philip Marx Park, the Memorial Day Services will begin. This year’s Parade Chairman, Michael Johnson, is anxious to receive entries from anyone wishing to take part in the event. He may be contacted at (661) 577-6712. The Posting of the Colors w...
The American Legion Auxiliary, Tehachapi Unit 221, is pleased to award six of Tehachapi's outstanding youth with Good Deed Awards for 2017. The Unit held an award ceremony on Saturday, April 1, at the Tehachapi Veterans Hall. Following the invocation by Auxiliary Chaplain Gwladys Peterson, Unit 221 Auxiliary President Linda Carmichael, Second Vice President and Children and Youth Chairman Gailmary Harper, and Past Department President Harriet Clendenin presented awards. The following honored...
Some of my earlier memories from the 1930s was Tehachapi's 4th of July FREE Barbecue! It was taken for granted that everyone would be in the City Park and have a wonderful meal that included beef prepared in deep pit style cooking where the meat is slow cooked for 24 hours in an underground pit. Word spreads fast when the term "free" is included and people from near and far came; some as far as Los Angeles. Our small community, in the 1930s, had a population of a scant one thousand souls...
This month military veterans, and Honor Flight veterans, each received a child's heartfelt Valentines card, with verse, while attending their monthly breakfast in Tehachapi. Tehachapi Coordinator Don Stenson's daughter had her 3rd and 4th grade students make the Valentine cards to be given out at the March meeting....
On a rainy Tuesday afternoon a caravan of motorcycles and cars headed toward Bear Valley Springs. This was the beginning of a "Welcome Home" for US Army Specialist Brandon Matchett. He had just returned home from South Korea where he had been stationed for about a year and a half. Matchett is a 2010 graduate of Tehachapi High School, and joined the US Army in 2014. The Patriot Guard Riders, pictured left, met Brandon and his family in downtown Tehachapi and escorted them to his parents' home in...
Serving as an auxiliary to the Navy during World War II, the Merchant Marines were the supply line that provided everything Allied armies needed in order to survive and fight on foreign battlefields. Working through Nazi U-boat infested waters, they pulled the most dangerous duty during that war. Casualty rates were dramatically higher than in any formal branch of the military, yet it wasn't until the Reagan era that veterans' status and benefits were awarded these brave men. Recently Tehachapi...
“ The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919 as a patriotic veterans organization focusing on service to veterans, service members and communities. They evolved from a group of war-weary veterans of World War I into an influential non-profit organization in the United States.” I copied that from the Internet. But, what does it really mean? I grew up knowing that my father, a World War I veteran, was a member of the American Legion. He had served and was proud of his country and wou...
Like so many people today, I communicate with friends via email. Often I receive letters and speeches that have been forwarded to me by my friends and they are from people I don't know. After awhile you keep seeing the same name at the top of the email that has been forwarded and you get the feeling that you know this person, though you have never met formally. The content of their letters speak to your spirit and somehow you connect. Several years ago, our friend Ron Sheardown started...
It was standing room only as community members and district teachers filled the meeting room to capacity at the Jan. 17 board meeting of the Tehachapi Unified School District. The regular meeting began with public comments. Ann Chiarini, a teacher from Cummings Elementary, received a standing ovation after her moving speech in public comments entitled "I have a dream". Chiarini addressed concerns among teachers in the district. Because the issue was not on the agenda there were no comments made...
The Tehachapi Lions Club would like to take this opportunity to offer a public, heartfelt thank you to all of the supporters of their Apple Drop Fundraiser. Due to your generous support, the Lions were able to provide Christmas to 40 low-income or homebound senior citizens, some of whom are veterans or veterans' widows, in Tehachapi. The Lions purchased "Wish List" items for the seniors and their pets with funds raised from their annual Apple Drop which was held in October. The seniors also rece...
Young person with a goal – Forde Files happened to stop on the way to Albuquerque a month ago and discovered a charming Brigadoon-like place called Ludlow, Calif., a hundred or so miles past Barstow. It consists of a Chevron station, a Dairy Queen, a café and a motel. I checked into the motel at the gas station. About 20 people live in Ludlow. The town is owned by the Harold Knoll family. Employees, mostly young, are bused in from Barstow to work. There's no alcohol sold anywhere in town. It...
On, Saturday, Dec. 17 2016, the Mojave Cemetery Wreaths Across America National Day of Remembrance ceremonies will take place promptly, at 11 a.m. The Edwards AFB Composite Squadron 84, led by Lieutenant Colonel Richard Radvanyi, Squadron Commander, will host the ceremonies. A special presentation to honor our Gold Star mothers and local law enforcement, will take place at the Mojave Cemetery located at, 2040 Belshaw Avenue. Everyone in the local communities are invited to participate and...
At the Oct. 29 Kern County Honor Flight breakfast American Legion Post Commander Tony Strauss and members of TAL Post 221 gave Tom Stenson, Honor Flight Tehachapi Outreach, a check for $4000. This donation will enable Honor Flight to continue to send local veteran's to Washington DC. There is a breakfast every month at St. Malachy's Church at 9 a.m. for those who have attended and those who are interested in attending. Usually the fourth Saturday of each month, due to Thanksgiving there will be...
Fall has arrived in all of Eastern Kern and of course Tehachapi, where the morning temperatures are a bit cooler than say, Ridgecrest. I was looking for stories about weather and actually found two articles that my mother Marion Deaver had written about desert weather. Of course we all know by now from reading my column that my mother never thought to include a date on anything she cut out to save. I believe the first article was from the early ‘60s as the community of Mojave sought to grow a...
A short Veterans Day ceremony will take place on Friday, Nov. 11 in Philip Marx Central Park. Sponsored by local American Legion Post 221, the ceremony will begin at 11:11 which commemorates the time of the signing of the Armistice which signified the end of World War I in 1918. The ceremony will consist of a short talk, flag raising, gun salute, benediction and taps. Members of the community are asked to bring their own chairs. American Legion Post 221 and Auxiliary Unit 221 will be honoring al...
The campaign for two seats on the five-seat Tehachapi City Council is a ferocious one this year as candidates Mary Ann Hester and Ken Hetge battle incumbent councilpersons Ed Grimes and Mayor Pro-tem Kim Nixon in a race in which the fundamental nature and direction of the city is in the balance. The Forde Files spoke to each of the candidates. The Incumbents Kim Nixon – Tehachapi resident for 30 years, age 60. Nixon has served on the Tehachapi City Council for five years and is Mayor pro tem. I...
Octoberfest 2016 Beer, bratwursts, and Volkswagens were all in abundance at this year's Oktoberfest held in Stallion Springs on October 1. Larger than ever, this year's event was fun for the whole family....
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...
I remember communicating with our dear late friend, Bob Grondzik, also known as, "Skyraider Bob" about the incredible Douglas AD Skyraider. Bob suffered a heart attack and passed away in October 2012, we still miss him deeply. He always flew up from Ramona to Mojave on Veterans Day to honor all who served. His daughter, Dana Mattner, flew Bob's T-28 Fennec in formation with the Skyraider and was the only Father-Daughter flying team out there. When they flew up for Veterans Day, his wife Mary...
Charity bartenders Tim Trujillo and Scott Taylor bartenders for the day at Souza Family Vineyard on August 28, had fun raising funds for Friends of the Depot. The next Celebrity bartender will be Linda Carhart for Veterans Collaborative Services on September 18....
The American Legion Auxiliary Tehachapi unit 221 would like to thank the seven veterans and their interviewers for participating in the Veterans History Project. This unique project videotapes a veteran interview which will ultimately be sent to the Library of Congress. This important project will be a great genealogical tool for the future as well as a learning experience for the interviewer. The seven Veterans are Winthrop Saville WWII, Paul Doody Korea, Lora Clendenin Operation Enduring Freed...
The Tehachapi Friends of NRA held its 14th Annual Fundraising Dinner and Auction in Tehachapi on August 6, 2016. Drawing members of Tehachapi and surrounding communities over 260 people packed the event space at Benz headquarters. The draw of the event was not only the raffle drawings, live auction and silent auction, but camaraderie in support of the NRA and firearm ownership. First time attendee and NRA member Tim Garnica is "pro-gun" and was "supporting the cause," he says, while enjoying...
