Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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On a beautiful spring day, a dozen people showed up to display their pride for the community by picking up roadside trash from the BVS gate to State Route 202. We "picked up" the biggest piece of trash ever: a crushed water tank! Those taking part were Greg Chick, Jane Tanaka, Mike Coughlin, Linda Coverdale, Greg Hahn, Doug Kirkpatrick, Ingrid Lindquist, Melanie McDavid, Sheri and Mitch McDiffett, Kathy Underwood and Laurie Rude Betts. Please join us on our next pickup, Saturday, May 11, at 9...
Albertsons and Save Mart have supported The Salvation Army's Thanksgiving meal program, and our church's collection for this worthwhile program, for the last 14 years. My church, the Tehachapi Community Church, recently collected from our congregation to provide Thanksgiving dinners for The Salvation Army to distribute to less fortunate families in Tehachapi. Donations were accepted during Sunday services and online at the church's website, www.tccucc.org. When called on, Save Mart and...
The Litter Loathers is a group of residents who have pride in our community. They care so much that they come out at least a couple of times a year to personally pick up roadside trash from various roads. On Sept. 15, nine people showed up on a beautiful day to clean up from the gate on Bear Valley Road to SR 202, including a section of Cummings Valley Road. You can see from the picture above that they accomplished a lot! Pictured from left to right: Mike Coughlin, Greg Chick and Kathy...
BVS Litter Loathers sponsored a roadside trash pick up from the gate of Bear Valley Springs to HWY 202 on May 2. Our group included 13 volunteers, in alphabetical order: Dana Carpenter, Greg Chick, Jane Tanaka, Mike Coughlin, Linda Coverdale, Lori Frear, Doug Kirkpatrick, Greg Matheson, Melanie McDavid, Laurie Rude Betts, Nilly Smith, Shawn Smith and Kathy Underwood. Twice a year residents and friends sponsor two roadside trash pick ups. The May 2 event was the first outside the gate. The...
Four of the nine dedicated Litter Loathers of Bear Valley Springs who showed up on Nov. 15 found a sunny, but cool and very windy day for picking up roadside trash on Bear Valley Road from the gate to Hwy 202. In fact, the conditions were so difficult that the section of Cummings Valley Road from the school to Hwy 202 had to be put off for better weather. The hard workers, which appear in the picture are (from top left) Mitch McDiffett, Shawn Smith, Greg Hahn and Greg Matheson. The hard workers...
Albertsons and Save Mart have supported the Salvation Army Thanksgiving meals program and Tehachapi Community Church’s collection for this worthwhile program for the last 13 years. TCC recently collected money from our congregation to provide Thanksgiving dinners for the Salvation Army to distribute to less fortunate families in Tehachapi. Donations were accepted during Sunday services and online at the church’s website, www.tccucc.org. When called on, Save Mart and Albertsons came through in a big way by donating gift cards to add to TCC...
The BVS Litter Loathers roadside trash pick up between the Bear Valley Springs gate and 202 was held May 20, which saw a perfect day with lots of helpers. Seventeen good citizens helped out. Pictured from left to right are: Linda Coverdale, Denise Beatty, Lori Frear, Carol Hellyer and Dan Tordoff. Those not pictured were Linda Flores, Tony Gore, Greg Hahn, Doug Kirkpatrick, Ingrid Lindquist, Greg Matheson, Mel McDavid, Mitch McDiffett, Dot Ramirez, Shawn Smith, Kathy Underwood and Laurie Rude...
Our two hometown supermarkets, Albertsons and Save Mart, are really generous to our community in supporting good-deed efforts. This is the eleventh year we have experienced this support from them! My church, Tehachapi Community Church, recently collected from our congregation to provide Thanksgiving dinners for the Salvation Army to distribute to less fortunate families. Donations were accepted during Sunday services and online at the church's website, tccucc.org. When called on, Save Mart and...
Nov. 16 was a beautiful autumn day for picking up trash from the Bear Valley Springs gate to Hwy. 202. Nine hearty individuals accomplished the whole, difficult route: Linda Coverdale, Lori Frear, Ingrid Lindquest, Cathy and Rick Rogers (not pictured), Dan Tordoff, Kathy Underwood, Karen Wells and I, Laurie Rude-Betts. Some of this same group, as well as other BVS residents, have also completed the roads and trails of BVS, while Caltrans had Hwy. 202, in its entirety, picked up. Please enjoy...
Yellow starthistle, Centaurea solstitialis, is an invasive weed and it needs to be dealt with now before it spreads any further. The photo in this article is of a stand of "bolted" yellow starthistle (YST). YST is bolted when, from the rosette (like a mustard rosette) which lies close to the ground, stems are sent upward. Beyond the ribboned plant you can see dozens of other bolted plants. It has a blue-green color, which a trained eye can distinguish from mustard or other weeds from quite a...
Saturday, March 13 dawned a little warmer and clearer after wintery weather. Volunteers gathered across from City Hall in Tehachapi to distribute flyers to the doors of many downtown-area residents. These colorful flyers display information about My Turn, the State-sponsored way to get the COVID-19 vaccine. If you tried yourself several weeks ago to get an appointment for a COVID-19 shot, you know what a hassle it was. Three Tehachapi-area women – Kathy Murguia, Eileen Buterra and Laurie Rude B...
Our three supermarkets, Albertsons, Save Mart and now Walmart, are really generous to our community in supporting good deed efforts. This is the 10th year we have experienced this support from Albertsons and Save Mart! Tehachapi Community Church, UCC, at East E and Green Streets, has been collecting from our congregation to provide support for the Salvation Army’s Thanksgiving dinner program for the less fortunate families of Tehachapi. The supermarkets came through in a big way to add to TCC’s support. We in Tehachapi are fortunate to hav...
Thanks so much to Carol Hellyer, Romelle and Michael Kemp, Kathy Underwood, Ingrid Lindquist, Linda and Rick Flores, Molly Mackin, Bob Tebbe and Lori Frear for all of the trash that you picked up from the Bear Valley Springs gate to Hwy. 202. It was a great day for picking up, as you can see from the pictures. We appreciated that, once again, Greg Hahn arranged with CSD's Bill Malinen for the "shoulder work ahead" signs to be out on Bear Valley Rd. to give drivers an awareness of people along...
If you have been a resident of the Tehachapi area for long, you hopefully know to keep your eye out in your yard for that nasty weed with the nice name, yellow starthistle (YST). This is the time of year when it becomes very visible as it begins to get a pretty yellow flower surrounded by some very wicked-looking needles, which neither humans nor animals would want to touch. This weed is particularly bad because it will overtake any area, as it can out-compete any grasses or other growth with it...
