Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Tehachapi Rotary's 12 Days of Christmas food distribution program collected 110 boxes of food and supplies from community donations. The items were distributed throughout the Greater Tehachapi area to senior citizens and families who could use a little help. Participating agencies included Tehachapi Rotary, City of Tehachapi, Golden Hills CSD, Bear Valley CSD and Stallion Springs CSD. The Loop newspaper, City Hall, Tehachapi Police Department, Mountain Bible Church, and Tehachapi News were drop...
Adventist Health Bakersfield is pleased to announce the first baby born of the year at 12:40 a.m. Jan. 1, Diana Lucia, 6 lbs 13 ounces. Mom Deyra was filled with joy as she celebrated the new year with her healthy baby girl. For more information about Adventist Health Reedley services, visit www.AdventistHealthBakersfield.org/....
While having coffee with a musician friend of mine on Dec. 21, I found out he would be playing with Southern Sierra Pops Orchestra that day at the Shepherd of the Hills Church. The set list was a great mix of classic Christmas songs. The orchestra is 27 musicians strong, and conducted by James Reddish. We heard 12 classic Christmas song selections with guest singer, soloist Christina Scrivner, who joined the orchestra for "Panis Angelicus." Some of the other songs included, "Fantasy on the...
Perhaps you have lived in the same town all your life. If you are like me, you have moved dozens of times. Oddly enough, in all those moves, I am only about 100 miles from where I started. After finding the book "The Only Purple House in Town," by Ann Aguirre, I suddenly remembered all the purple houses I encountered along the way. Several were Victorian, one moved precariously whole in the middle of the night, and set down on new property, to be ogled with awe by neighbors the next morning....
According to "National Geographic," the practice of New Year's resolutions has been around since the time of the Babylonians, some 4,000 years ago. They started their new year on the vernal equinox (first day of spring), usually around March 20. This was the time to plant crops, crown their king and pay off their debts. A common resolution of the time was to return borrowed farm equipment. Eventually, the Romans (approximately 46 B.C.) took up the concept. However, they aligned the Babylonian...
Grab your cameras and beat winter boredom by joining TVAA's Annual Photography Contest. Tehachapi is a beautiful place to drive around, enjoy the scenery and capture some of that beauty in photos. Tehachapi Valley Arts Association is holding a photo contest in February and your photo submission could win ribbons or even bring home one of the top cash prizes! Submissions are due Jan. 24-Feb. 3, 2025. First Friday, Feb. 7 at Gallery 'N' Gifts (100 W. Tehachapi Blvd.) will feature an awards...
Chester Ray Reaves was born May 16, 1948 in Porum, Oklahoma to parents, William and Julie Reaves. He passed peacefully at his home from this earthly life to his eternal life with his lord and Savior Jesus Christ on Dec. 10, 2024 in Tehachapi. He was surrounded by his family and loved ones who will miss him greatly. He enjoyed time spent with his family, especially with his boys, camping, barbeques, fishing and teaching them the importance of living a healthy productive life, filled with love...
Happy New Year from Tehachapi Arts Center Tehachapi Arts Center welcomes in the new year wishing everybody a happy, prosperous, and peaceful 2025. It's hard to believe another year has past us by. Improv Class with Susan & Johnathon, Saturday, Jan. 11 Join us for a great workshop and get the chance to hone your improv skills. This one is a lot of fun. Runamuk Ceramics Will be holding various classes this month. Create your own design or use one of theirs to create decorations and ornaments,...
There is no corner of this country where one can honestly look at the last several years of changes within intercollegiate athletics and claim things are better off. It started with NIL (name, image, likeness) payments, spearheaded by our brilliant state of California. What was intended to be honest compensation for an athlete when a school profits from their name, image, likeness and endorsement, has turned into all-out payments to student-athletes paid by large funds often associated with, or...
While doing some research at Beale Library back in 1987, a mere 27 years ago, I could not resist copying some events listed in the old 1920 Tehachapi News. The temperatures occasionally skip a day. I searched ahead for February and March. Often people say, "We've never had weather like this in January before." Note the 79 degrees on Jan. 18, 1920. Maybe it's not global warming, after all? We could just say, "Yes, we have." Mostly though, I read of citizens' lives 94 years ago. Fortunately I...
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The Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District donated $1,000 to each of the following, please consider adoption or donations. Marley's Mutts: www.marleysmutts.org/contact/; Fixin' Feral Felines: www.fixinferalfelines.com/; Have a Heart Humane Society: www.haveahearthumanesociety.org/....
When I was in ninth grade we moved to the sub-suburbs of Newhall, California. Actually, it was an area called Saugus where tract builders had rushed in ... members of a latter-day tract building gold rush. Houses bloomed up seemingly overnight with every house a clone of one out of four plans. The area reminded me of the Pete Seeger song, "Little Boxes." Anyway, we were far from civilization. The first summer my younger sister and I would rise early once a week and make our weekly pilgrimage to...
This being the last edition of Xs and Arrows this year I thought I would take a moment to highlight some of the great contributions that the Tehachapi Warriors Booster Club has made to Tehachapi High School athletes in 2024. As President of the organization, I am proud to report we are back to full strength on the board of directors. Special thanks to Monica LaMonte, who stayed with us an additional two years following her daughter Laura's graduation from THS until we could find a suitable repla...
Justin Pool returned to Tehachapi in June after an absence of eight years. For Justin, he is returning home, but for his wife Danielle and their sons, 6-year-old Kyle and 2-year-old Walker, the mountains are a new experience as they came from Santa Rosa, near the Bay Area. Justin is the new Vice President of Operations for Brite Service Industries, a company that was founded by his mother, Jeanette, in 2006. Justin's family once lived in Pomona, California, where he was born. They also lived in...
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Last week, I had the chance to reconnect with my friend Kimberly Karver, and it was magical. We first met on MasterChef Generations, both earning our white MasterChef aprons and representing Team Gen X. Fun fact: we were two of the shortest competitors in the kitchen, standing side-by-side, two GenX "BFFs" with our own unique stories. Over the course of the competition, and even more so over the past year, we have discovered how much we share in common during our exchange of letters and video...
On Dec. 14, local veterans group 5150 Dieselz were joined by VFW Post 5948 and American Legion Post 221 in laying wreaths at the base of the military memorials located in Freedom Plaza in Downtown Tehachapi. Eight wreaths in all were placed honoring those who have served in the United States Army, Navy, Marines, Air Force, Space Force, Coast Guard and Merchant Marines. An additional wreath was placed honoring members of the military who are listed as POW-MIA. Wreaths Across America is a...
All my life I've celebrated Christmas in one way or another, even though a lifetime of changing circumstances has also periodically necessitated changes in beloved holiday traditions. This year will be no exception – a welcome low-key day awaits me – although over the years I've also expanded my own personal celebrations to include more than one holiday. You see, through the years, thanks to a curiosity instilled in me long ago by my mother, I've learned about a number of other holidays dur...
Christopher (Chris) Franklin Sheppard was born on Oct. 17, 1963, in Dinuba, California, to Richard Franklin and Rose Marie Sheppard. Chris passed away on Nov. 30 in Pahrump, Nevada, after a valiant four-year battle with cancer. Chris joined the United States Air Force at 17 and dedicated over 26 years of service as a POL (Petroleum, Oil and Lubricant) airman, retiring as a Senior Master Sergeant in February 2008. He continued his dedication to service with the Defense Logistics Agency until his...
Busy days at Mojave Air & Space Port! On Friday, Dec. 13, two firms at Mojave Air & Space Port at Rutan Field did flight test work. Boom Aerospace, canceled their test flight on Thursday, but resumed on Friday. Takeoff and test flight was successful. Evan Hawley, a young photographer from Lancaster came to watch XB-1 Boom and was thrilled when he saw Stratolaunch taxi out for takeoff later in the morning. He captured some fantastic photos of both aircraft. When XB-1 Boom flew on Oct. 7, Chief...
Patricia Ann Grimshaw, 89, passed away on the morning of Dec. 5. Patricia was born on Sept. 16, 1935, in Gainesville, Texas to Joesph W. and Kathleen M. Howard. She graduated from Gainesville High School and Junior College in May 1953. She graduated from the University of North Texas with a teaching degree in May 1955. Following her graduation, she started her teaching career in Electra, Texas at the age of 19. In 1956, she took a teaching position in Lovinton, New Mexico. Later that year while...
Have you ever noticed that really good things live on and on in the hearts of men, while bad things, though hard to live through, eventually crumble from within and fall away? Regimes that demoralize humanity come and go. Darkness is overpowered by light. Humans write those stories so they can be passed down through generations and be remembered, both historical and fiction. A small baby is born, laid in a manger and 2,000 plus years later, we still celebrate that birthday and a life unmeasured...
We got to hear many holiday favorites during the annual TPOPs Sing-along Concert on Dec. 15. The performance featured the TPOPs community orchestra, many special guests and us, as the audience got to sing-along with all these great Christmas carols and seasons greetings songs. The fantastic conductors were Amy Rodriguez and James Peck with special guest singer Michelle Fulton and all her children helping out on vocals. Robby Martinez and Terri Asher also blessed us with Christmas songs, and...
I just came across a photo of our community water tank from years past; the caption at the bottom says, circa 1914. Circa is a way of saying, "about" or "approximately," or " darned if I know!" Close enough. It's from the Ed Wiggins collection and were it not for Ed's saved photos, Tehachapi's pictorial history would be sadly lacking. He was the ancestor of Tehachapi's pioneer Wiggins family. He took many, many pictures but did not take this picture of the water tower since Ed and my brother, Ev...
