Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Exciting things are happening over at Dorner Family Vineyard! With three more medals under our belt, permits in hand for the tasting room, winery and rental cottages, and the wedding calendar filling up, the outlook couldn’t be brighter. Mike Dorner, vinter and owner of Dorner Family Vineyard and Winery, along with Cliff Merdith from Stray Leaves Vineyard in Tehachapi, recently attended the 2015 Winemaker’s International Wine Conference held in Portland, Oregon. The three day event, held from May 28 to 30, gave Cliff and Mike the opp...
Local winery Souza Family Vineyard has once again brought home a Silver Medal. In the latest competition at the Los Angeles International Wine Competition, the Souza's 2012 Primitivo Zinfandel won a Silver Medal. Over 3000 wines and nearly 1000 wineries entered from 22 countries and the United States. Earlier in the year, Bob and Patty were also awarded a Silver Medal in the San Joaquin Valley Wine Growers Association, a competition of all California grown wines. Congratulations!...
Charlee (Charlotte Ruse) has been making jewelry for over 20 years. One day, when at an arts & crafts festival, she saw a pair of earrings and, noting the price, she thought, "I can make that." So she went to a class, learned how to wrap jewelry and that was that. After doing arts and crafts festivals for more years than she cares to admit to, Charlotte decided, "Enough with this hauling stuff all over the state." She began selling her wares to shops in Northern California, hired a couple friend...
After being closed for six months, the restaurant on South Street has reopened under new ownership featuring a classic Thai cuisine. Age, as she calls herself, bought the ten year old restaurant in March 2015, after the prior owner, Manenat, retired and returned to Thailand. It was through a good friend who is related to Manenat that Age found out about the vacant Tehachapi restaurant. She checked it out, bought the restaurant and now lives here as well. She still goes to Los Angeles for...
Johnny's Take and Bake Pizza opened its doors on Jan 1, 1990. The recipes were obtained from Four Boys Pizza. Johnny's founder named it Johnny's Take and Bake Pizza after her brother John. She had a vision of creating the freshest pizza in Tehachapi. Trying to get a hot pizza from Tehachapi to Bear Valley and Stallion Springs is a hard thing to do. With Johnny's Take and Bake you take the fresh pizza home and then bake it when it's convenient . Today the new owners still honor the original recip...
Pending an appeal by the group Tehachapi First, Wal-Mart will be coming to Tehachapi. On April 24, at a 9 a.m. hearing in Kern County Superior Court in Bakersfield, Judge Kenneth C. Twizzelman found that the City of Tehachapi had done their due diligence in complying with the request of Tehachapi First attorney Mark Wolfe for an amended Environmental Impact Report. In the courtroom, with Wolfe and representing the City of Tehachapi, was Patrick Carrick as lead counsel, and Keli Osaki...
Eugene Suksi, CEO of Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District, gave an update on the construction of the new Tehachapi hospital at the April 21 Chamber of Commerce luncheon meeting at Pacino's. Chief Executive Officer Eugene Suksi came to the Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District (TVHD) as interim CEO in July 2014 and was appointed permanent CEO in December 2014. He has more than 25 years of senior executive experience, including CEO at Sutter Coast Hospital in Crescent City, Calif.; Chief Operating...
Jay Thompson, lead consultant for Small Business Development Center (SBDC), writes: Buddy and Nikki Cummings, and Harvey Stephens are being awarded the "Outstanding Business of the Year" award for World Wind & Solar, Tehachapi. This isn't given out every year and is truly reserved for outstanding businesses. Following is the press release from SBDC (emphasis added): Fresno, CA - On May 6, 2015, the University of California, Merced Small Business Development Center Regional Network (UC Merced...
In the last issue of The Loop, I wrote about the true history of the building and business known to so many as The Apple Shed, now known as The Shed. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t get questioned about what my plans are for this beloved building. I am always eager to discuss what I have in mind, but I am really blown away with all the rumors that are circulating about what I’m trying to do with this place. Sports bar, strip club, night club, biker bar, the list goes on and on, and they are all false. What is true is that we are goi...
My name is Mano Lujan and on January 1, 2015 my wife Meimei, and I purchased the business formerly known as The Apple Shed. In doing so, one of the first things that we did was to legally change the name to The Shed. To tell you the truth, much thought went into this and the decision was not easy. I consulted everyone from my attorney, to friends in the industry, to marketing people. After hearing me out, the mass majority of them agreed that the name should be changed, and changed quickly. But, how do you just up and change the name of a...
The Tehachapi Resource Conservation District (TRCD) is still offering native plants for sale during its fifth annual Native Plant Sale, March 1 to April 3, 2015. This year several new drought resistant shrubs, grasses and flowering plants are being offered. One new flowering mint being offered is quite unique, being a variety developed in the Tehachapi area, at Mourning Cloak Ranch. This is the Coyote or Hummingbird Mint, Monardella macrantha 'Marian Sampson', also known as Scarlet Mint. I...
South Street Digital, Inc., located at 20825 South Street, #B, is the only full service digital printing company in town. Owners Lydia Chaney and Audrey Post employ a full knowledgeable and experienced staff that provide all your printing needs for any occasion. "We have decades of experience in design and print," said Lydia. "We do all our printing locally, right here in town, and offer personal customer service as opposed to shopping online." Overwhelmed with making wedding plans, and time is...
Mary Alvarez is the new owner of Golden Hills Salon. She has given the salon a fresh updated look and is well on her way to creating a truly full family salon. Congratulations to Mary and welcome to Tehachapi. Golden Hills Salon has a long standing tradition of customer service and quality salon services, and it will only get better from here. The salon is open six days a week from 9-6 p.m., closed Sundays. They are located at 20021 Valley Blvd, Suite C in the Golden Hills area of Tehachapi (next to Carlos’ Donuts and Java Loop Express). W...
Second District Supervisor Zack Scrivner announced today the total amount of dollars granted to Eastern Kern businesses in 2015 through the RENEWBIZ program. RENEWBIZ is a community revitalization program, created by Scrivner and the Kern County Board of Supervisors in 2012, that offers $5,000-$10,000 grants to businesses in unincorporated Eastern Kern, with a local match from the business of 10% of the total grant. The money from the grants funds the refurbishment of the exterior of businesses...
Pens can be works of art. This was evident when Kent Schick spoke to the Tehachapi Kiwanis Club about his hobby, turned business, of making pens. He explained that he had tried making pens about 25 years ago and considered his work a failure, but six years ago he tried again and found success. Part of that success came from investing in proper tools and materials. Schick has the equipment and know-how to make anything that is round, including razors and ice cream scoops. He specializes in...
Effective Jan. 1, 2001, Business and Professions Code Section 6400 et seq. redefined “paralegal” to mean only those who work for and are supervised by attornies. A “legal document assistant” is authorized under California law to prepare legal documents for consumers. Paralegals may not work independently for consumers. What can a legal document assistant do? At your direction, LDAs can complete court forms for you. LDAs may file forms with the court and have them served. LDAs may also supply...
The City is like a corporation, with City Hall as the corporate headquarters, and the City Council as the Board of Directors. The customers are the residents and the business owners. Greg Garrett, Tehachapi City Manager, used this analogy as he outlined the City's success and progress at a recent Kiwanis Club meeting. Garrett stressed how important it is that the City live up to the expectations of its customers who want an active and high quality life style. There are 9 thousand residents in...
7 saw no shortage of challenges facing the County. Below are some updates on many important issues that came before the Board of Supervisors in 2014: Kern Medical Center The new management team hired by the Board of Supervisors to turn around Kern Medical Center has steadily brought the hospital back toward profitability while staying true to KMC’s core mission of providing quality health care to all who need it. KMC’s in come in the first quarter of Fiscal Year 2014-15 came in $3.5 mil...
At its regular meeting on January 20 at the Wells Education Center, the Tehachapi City Council voted unanimously to adopt an "Urgency Ordinance" that establishes a temporary moratorium on the permitting of hookah lounges within the Tehachapi city limits. City Manager, Greg Garrett, reported that the city had received a permit request to locate a hookah lounge in a currently vacant building on South Green St. The emergency measure would give the city 30 days to further study this land use and to...
Students from Tehachapi , Garces, Highland, Centennial and North High Schools took part in leadership training and Rotary seminar. The conference was held at the Bakersfield Boys and Girls Club this past Jan. 17. Rotaract members from Bakersfield were also on hand to talk about Rotaract, and they pitched in to provide food and snacks for everyone attending. Tehachapi resident Tim Trujillo taught a session all about Leadership and how to become an effective leader. Attendees also learned about...
Tehachapi – Jan. 24, 2015 a black and white theme set a classic stage for the Installation of the Greater Tehachapi Chamber Board of Directors and the honoring the 2015 Tehachapi Citizen of the Year, and 2015 Tehachapi Small and Large Business of the Year, at Villa La Paz at the National Chavez Center. Master of Ceremonies Pete Sturn helped introduce the 2015 office inductees for the Chamber’s Board of Directors. Mayor Wiggins swore in Marty Pay of Marty Pay Framers Insurance, a previous chairman and director, as the Chairperson of the Boa...
Kern County has much to be proud of - especially the people that live here. Chelley Kitzmiller of Tehachapi is one of those people we can all be proud of. Chelley is diligently working to make one of our county's worst statistics much better - that of unnecessary animal killings because of the severe pet overpopulation problem we have in our communities. Chelley is the founder of Have a Heart Humane Society based in Tehachapi. Chelley and Have a Heart have been providing low-cost spay and...
In lieu of retirement, Duane Moats, CPA has decided to merge DR Moats and Company with D. David Hebebrand CPA. The new firm will be Moats & Hebebrand CPAs and will be located at 212 West F Street (where Duane Moats has maintained his CPA practice since 2000). David Hebebrand has been a licensed CPA for 29 years, has lived in Tehachapi for 11 years, and recently sold his CPA practice in Porterville, Calif. as he was tired of the 90-mile-one-way drive to Porterville. Duane is looking to reduce his work load and Dave is looking for additional tax...
Miracles and Christmas stories come in multifaceted varieties. Some earth shattering, some seemingly miraculous, and some quietly slip into our lives, all being of great value to those affected. This Christmas story began 44 years ago and came full circle this past December. It began during the Vietnam War. Yes, I know, there are those wanting it referred to as a "conflict". It was not. Ask the men and women who were part of that so-calledconflict and you will hear the word, war. Paul, as an...
Second District Supervisor Zack Scrivner announced today a vacancy on the Mountain Meadows Community Services District Board of Directors. “Our local districts need a full board to meet quorum requirements and to carry out the business of providing services that residents depend on. I am hoping some civically-minded residents of Mountain Meadows will come forward to help serve their community,” said Supervisor Scrivner. In the event of a vacancy, the Board of Supervisors may appoint members to the Mountain Meadows CSD Board. There is one ope...
