Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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On Oct. 4, Cheers to Charity distributed $53,875 to local nonprofit organizations. What began in 2014, as a small fundraiser in a parking lot, has grown into the year's most anticipated fundraising event. The Cheers team supported 14 nonprofits with grants ranging from $1,000 to $7,500. The August 2024 event, featuring food, wine, craft beer, home brews and spirit-free mocktails, brought together several hundred people to raise money for charity. Tehachapi's Aviator Park lit up with thousands...
At Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District’s (TVHD) most recent community outreach meeting, board members discussed a variety of projects and upgrades on the horizon for 2024. Since Adventist moved out of their old PT building, TVHD is planning to move their offices into the old space, which is both larger and a better layout for an office. Their official move in date is March 1. The ongoing community garden project with Tehachapi Humanitarian Relief Group is now moving into its bed-building stage. The garden, to be decorated by rocks the T...
Kaidyn Renfrow, a client of the Community Support Options (CSO) program under Kern Regional Center, was signed on as an official employee at the Subway on Tucker Road on Tues., Jan. 30. This day marked the beginning of his first job. Kern Regional Center (KRC) is one of 21 nonprofit, state-funded centers in California that provide services and support to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. The goal is to help them integrate better into their communities. KRC offers several...
Winter is a season that often brings joy, family time and good food. But for many, it also poses significant financial challenges and emotional stress. Last winter, The Salvation Army and its dedicated volunteers worked tirelessly to bring comfort and support to those in need during the holidays. Without volunteer support and the generous donations from the community through the kettle campaign, register donations at Albertsons and direct donations, many families would have gone through the...
At Jake's Steakhouse, on the evening of Dec. 21, two lucky winners each won a bottle of Macallan Highland Single Malt Scotch Whiskey, valued at $1,000. When Jake's owner, Barbara Ferrante, had accidentally purchased the whiskey, she decided to sell chances to win the bottles and donate the proceeds to the Tehachapi Cancer Center. One hundred tickets were printed and sold for $20 each. All tickets for the drawing were sold. The lucky winners were Adanae Faris, whose name was pulled by Jim...
On the morning of Dec. 12, members of the Tehachapi Rotary Club gathered at Mountain Bible Church to put together food boxes for seniors and needy families that had been donated by Tehachapi residents for Rotary's annual Twelve Days of Christmas drive. During the month of November, Rotary asked residents to fill boxes with specific food items for 12 days and deliver the filled boxes to City Hall, the Police Station, Mountain Bible Church, Tehachapi News and The Loop newspaper. According to...
With just a few hours remaining on Have A Heart's annual Giving Tuesday fundraiser on Nov. 28, Barabara Ferrante, owner of Jake's Steakhouse, dropped off an extraordinarily generous donation of pet food and a $1,000 check at the organization's new storefront at 787 W. Tehachapi Blvd, Suite B. Barabara purchased the $700-plus haul of pet food from Canine Creek that afternoon, where owner Kellie Dudevoir was more than happy to give Barabara a 20% discount on the charitable purchase. Have A Heart...
With 69 locations scattered throughout Kern County, the Boys and Girls Club serves over 3,000 children two hot meals each day. A service they kept running throughout the pandemic at 5,000 kids per day, with the addition of serving first responders. In addition to their meal efforts, the Boys and Girls Club is known for offering free after-school enrichment programs for students of all ages in the schools they collaborate with. The Boys and Girls Club has been operating in Tehachapi over the...
The Tehachapi Humanitarian Relief organization, in partnership with Stallion Springs Community Church delivered over 60 turkeys and Thanksgiving sides to local families throughout Tehachapi on Nov. 20. All turkeys came from local private donations. Some of our biggest contributors were Tehachapi House of Terror for donating over $900 to purchase turkeys, Tehachapi Mountain Democrat Club who donated over 390 lbs of food and 4 turkeys, NASA contractors ASRC federal & Arcata associates who...
The Albertsons Companies Foundation has been running their "Nourishing Neighbors" charitable program for nearly 20 years. At Albertsons registers, shoppers can choose to donate to charity on the card reader machines with every transaction. These funds get processed into gift cards that local charities then distribute to those in need. Tehachapi's Albertsons has a long-standing partnership with The Salvation Army, and so far this year the Tehachapi community has raised over $7,000. On Nov. 21,...
The Society of St. Vincent de Paul (SVDP) was formed in Paris in 1833 by a group of lay Catholics. The society's mission was simple: to help those in need and follow in the philanthropic footsteps of their patron saint, St. Vincent de Paul. About 190 years later, SVDP is active in 150 countries with over 1.5 million volunteers and 2,500 conferences, one of which operates in conjunction with the St. Malachy Catholic Church in Tehachapi. Since 2001, the St. Malachy Conference of St. Vincent de...
On the corner of Pauley and W. F streets in Tehachapi sits a cute yellow house out of which the Sharing & Caring thrift store operates on a wing and a prayer. Run by community donations and the passion of 25 volunteers, the thrift shop does far more than give old items a new life. Proceeds from the store go directly back into the community through a bills assistance fund, from which people in need of any kind of monetary assistance can request aid. The nonprofit also has a small food pantry...
Three times a week and often on his own dime, Father Wes wheels out his lemonade stand and children line up excitedly through the courtyard of St. Jude's Anglican Church to receive a sweet, free treat. Each Monday, Wednesday and Friday he sets up the stand for kids coming from Tompkins Elementary after school, handing out nearly 100 cookies and cups of lemonade in a half hour's time. Father Wes has been doing his free lemonade and a cookie stand for the past three years and loves to interact...
Tehachapi Boy Scout Troop 3 was boothing at Mountain Festival on Aug. 19, selling beef jerky to fundraise for their future activites, when tropical storm Hilary decided to drop in. As the rain picked up dramatically, the Tehachapi Chamber of Commerce was forced to shut down the event, but not before washing out vendors and festival-goers. After quickly packing up their booth, boys from Troop 3 rushed through the pouring rain to stack chairs and take down tables from the event's outdoor dining...
