Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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If you encounter a rattlesnake in Bear Valley Springs, who-ya-gonna-call?–ya call the snake guys–or the one snake gal. In any case, these six volunteers will take that call, ask you to keep your eye on the viper and hot-foot it to where you are, capture the rattler and then, a little later, relocate it. "We definitely don't want you to kill the rattler," Mike Kemp, a snake guy and retired educator, said at a recent presentation. "They're just too beneficial to us. They eat so many things tha...
If you have a business, service club, or perhaps an event you want to get noticed, it's important to pursue as many avenues as you can to get the attention you need. You'll definitely want to use print media, of course. An ad in The Loop always works. But nowadays there's a whole new boulevard to walk down-social media, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, to mention just a few. While that ad in The Loop will stay in front of people for at least a couple of weeks, social media might only...
A new church has started in Tehachapi – A City on a Hill Church – under the leadership of Pastor Michael Clark. It meets Sundays at 9:30 a.m. at The Slice of Life Building, 48771 W. Valley Blvd., here in Tehachapi. The Slice of Life Building is the site of the old dance studio and before that, the roller rink. But since those good old days, some marvelous things have happened to that building, and one of them is the new Church. "We're now in our eighth week," Pastor Clark told us, "and it's wond...
Open enrollment for the Affordability Care Act (ACA) or, as it is more popularly known, Obamacare, continues until Feb. 1, 2016. But since we’ve passed Dec.15, any changes you want to make now will start Feb.1. That said, though, there are a few things I’ve learned that I’d like to pass on to you. The first, although it’s quite self-serving, don’t take this on by yourself. Find a qualified agent or broker to take it on for you. There are some real subtleties that can cause you to be required...
We’re three weeks into the open enrollment for the Affordability Care Act (ACA) or, as it is more popularly known, Obamacare. There are a few things I’ve learned that I’d like to pass on to you. The first, although it’s quite self-serving, don’t take this on by yourself. Find a qualified agent or broker to take it on for you. There are some real subtleties that may require you to call Covered CA, and unless you know the “how and when” of that experience, you can literally spend hours on hold...
When is a small business group health insurance benefit not a benefit at all? I had a recent small business client who believed he was giving his employees a very good benefit. He paid 50% of his employee’s health insurance tab, as well as, giving them two different carriers from which to choose. As is usual, he also made those plans available to his employees’ spouses and children, but for financial reasons, wasn’t contributing to their insurance costs at all. This is the normal way the benef...
We’ve just entered the Open Enrollment period (Nov. 15 - Feb. 15) for Individual and Family Health Insurance with the Affordable Care Act (ACA). If you haven’t taken advantage of it yet, there is something to consider –penalties. None of us like them, especially when they’re being levied by the IRS. For those of your who are currently without medical insurance for whatever reason, these are the penalties you face on April 15: For 2014, the penalty is either a flat amount or 1% of your income,...
I don’t know anyone who likes a deadline, yet like it or not, one looms just a month away – March 31 is the last day of the Affordability Care Act (ObamaCare) open enrollment. It’s also the last day for those of you who aren’t currently covered by health insurance to avoid an IRS penalty, but those facts are negative Let’s take a look at the positive. If you currently have no health insurance, for the next month you’ll be able to get health insurance without concern for pre-existing conditions...
