Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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As of March 21, the poppies are in full bloom on the east side of the park and blooming or starting to bloom in the rest of the park. Along the Lightning Bolt Trail you can also see evening snow, wild parsley, blue dick, lacy phacelia, pygme-leaved lupine, western forget-me-not, fiddleneck, filaree, slender keel fruit and goldfield blooming. Along the Antelope Trail you can find hairy lotus and mustard in bloom, and along the Poppy Trail North Loop you can find phlox and fringe pod blooming...
Book Review! Looking out the single window, contaminated soil is blown about in wicked winds, the soil so caustic that it burns the skin and causes instant death to all who venture out. Suited up in protective gear, her punishment for breaking the Silo laws is to be given the task to clean the window. She must go outside in the gritty winds and sweep the massive window clean. This is the apocalyptic future world created by the self-published wonder Hugh Howey. In 2011, "Wool" began as a short...
It is said that, "it's not work when it is a labor of love." A perfect illustration of that old saying applies to the new owner of Tea Donuts, located next to Rite Aid at the corner of Tehachapi Blvd. and Tucker Rd. Chantha Sokny Lay comes from Bakersfield donut royalty. Her family has owned Foster's Donuts on Chester and Columbus for 15 years and when the opportunity arose to expand the family business to Tehachapi, Chantha jumped at the chance. Once having thought about moving to Texas, she...
The Tehachapi area is defined and delineated by its mountains. Valleys in the Tehachapi Mountains tend to be bowl valleys, ringed by mountain ridges on all sides, rather than open ended V-shaped notch valleys. Our mountains surround us, they help determine our weather and they are a perpetual and comforting backdrop to our lives. It can be confusing to visitors or newer arrivals to know the names of the larger, more distinctive peaks in our area, so here is a profile of some of the more notable...
When folks think of Adventist Health, it's likely they think only of the hospital. I can't blame them. Opening a state-of-the-art hospital in a rural community is a feat – especially during a time when rural hospitals across the nation are cutting services and, in many cases, shuttering altogether. But Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley is more than just a hospital – we're a whole health provider that includes a network of medical offices offering primary care services in California City, Mojave...
When I asked my husband what he wanted me to mention to readers about our adventure to New Zealand and Fiji, his response was, "I don't know where to start, it was fantastic!" As an owner of a travel agency, you would think that after being in this industry since 2005, I would have traveled there already, but I hadn't. The world is a big place! However, this is one of the only places that I had never heard a negative remark about from anyone...so I thought it was time I found out why for...
New-resident welcome to Krystal Watkins and welcome-home to her husband, David. David was raised in Tehachapi and graduated from Tehachapi High School before leaving to pursue his career in the wind industry. He and Krystal moved from Amarillo, Texas into their Tehachapi home in the middle of January; welcomed by a colder-than-normal Tehachapi winter. David said that they had visited only three or four times since leaving the area. David is the new regional director for World Wind & Solar...
Chrome password checkup Every time we hear about a data breach somewhere, we know that a new bunch of usernames and passwords were just stolen and are about to be used against us. Somehow, and by somebody. But how do you tell if YOUR email address and or password was stolen? You can always check by going to www.haveibeenpwned.com/ and enter your info, but wouldn't it be handy to have something that could check for you, as you log into a website? Google has an extension for the Chrome browser...
Please join us for a Celebration of Life for Sandra Lee Hare who passed away tragically in an automobile accident in Ridgecrest on Oct. 23, 2018. Sandy's Celebration will be held Saturday, April 6, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Red Rock Canyon State Park picnic area/Amphitheater near the Visitor's Center. The Visitor's Center is located to the west of Hwy 14, 25-miles north of Mojave. Look for signage off of Hwy 14 once you enter the canyon (Red Cliffs area) indicating the turnoff to Abbott Drive....
First Friday in April will feature Catherine Hammons, glass painter, polymer clay artist and more. Catherine paints on glass creating beautiful glass vases, sun catchers and more. She creates cute polymer clay animals, which she uses to make fun earrings. Raised in a crafty family, Catherine learned to crochet as soon as she could hold a needle. She also paints glass and other things like fabric and henna tattoos. She makes wire wrap jewelry and works with polymer clay. A published author,...
Six members of Congress from California are campaigning to site the proposed Space Development Agency in the military areas of Edwards Air Force Base and the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. At the March 14 meeting of the East Kern Economic Alliance (EKEA) at the Mojave Air and Space Port, Representative Kevin McCarthy's field rep Gary Medina presented a letter sent from the congresspersons to President Donald Trump, stating the case for the location. "[W]e urge you to consider two bases...
A weekend workshop devoted to self-defense for old and young alike was held at the Tehachapi Martial Arts Center in Old Town. Children were taught how to handle bullying threats by Master Derek Demus. Women were taught basic survival skills from visiting instructor Master Trina Pellegrini, who conducts her survival workshops around the world. In all instances both Master Demus and Master Trina stated, "We are here today not to stand and fight your attacker, but to learn the methods of...
Gallery 'N' Gifts is pleased to announce a new collection of work from artist, Anita Jesse, who is known to many for her equine Paintography. Jesse's new collection, titled, "All About Tehachapi," features subject matter drawn from the landscapes and wildlife familiar to all who live in the Tehachapi valleys. "All About Tehachapi" will be launched First Friday, April 5 at 5 p.m., at Gallery 'N' Gifts, 100 W. Tehachapi Blvd., in Downtown Tehachapi. Jesse has been represented by Gallery 'N' Gifts...
First Friday on April 5 at the Tehachapi Museum will feature the opening of a new exhibit of carved wood objects by the Tehachapi Mountain Carvers club. The club, originally started by 15 people who were involved in woodcarving classes offered through the Parks and Recreation Department in 2001, applied to be a chapter of the California Carvers Guild. TMC was chartered as CCB Chapter 62. In 2010, a new woodcarving class was started at the Tehachapi Senior Citizens Center. An enthusiastic group...
The official book signing and launch party for Deborah Hand-Cutler's new book, "The Snake in the Garden," will take place at Fiddlers Crossing on April 7 from 2 to 4 p.m. Set in 1993, with flashbacks to 1963 and earlier, this historical fiction novel deals with America's ongoing struggle with racism. It's a tale of interracial love and the quest for justice and truth, told from both sides of the tracks, black and white. It's a powerful story of transcendence over scars of the past, and the...
Learned at the recent Ag (Agriculture) Expo at Tulare: The Animal Legal Defense Fund is a national nonprofit organization of legal professionals and law students who work to protect animals through the legal system. It provides pro bono services in cases involving animal hoarding and puppy mills and organized animal fighting, maintains an animal cruelty data base, does legal research for attorneys and provides abuse/neglect/hoarding training programs. www.aldf.org Ninety percent of endangered...
The City of California City and California City Art Commission is very proud to host the 43rd Tortoise Days on Saturday, April 27 from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, April 28 from 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. in Central Park, 10400 Heather Ave., California City. This festival reinforces friendships in our community, promotes exciting local businesses and showcases what makes California City stand out as a City with a tremendous history and vibrancy. This year's theme "Come Play" was chosen by the...
Hi, my name is Eve Geisler, and I'm going to tell you my life story. I was born in Dayton, Ohio on October. 13. Just happened to be a Friday. I went to a co-op high school where juniors and seniors worked two weeks out of the month and went to school the other two weeks. I was a nurses' aide at a local hospital and decided at that time that I wanted to become a pharmacist. I was accepted into the University of Cincinnati College of Pharmacy, graduated and completed my qualifications to be a...
Found an article by my mother Marion Deaver that she wrote about how the Kern-Antelope Historical Society was created. The article was taken from a letter written from Glen Settle to the Conference of California Historical Societies in June, 1961. Settle was the current president of the historical society located in Southeastern Kern County. Settle was responding to a letter written to him to find out more about the newly created group. The group held its first meeting in May 1959 and was...
There's no denying the fact that we live in an amazing place. In a mountain valley that looms over deserts to our east and rich agriculture valleys to our west. Tehachapi was forged from its very beginnings to be unique, set apart from our neighbors, outside of the mold that has been cast around us. You could credit this to science, or a creator, that's your business but I know where I stand and what has been placed in our hands is nothing short of divine. We were provided with God-given...
Sonja Bronson has always found that nature excites her. As a child in Minnesota, she recalls hiking with another girl in the woods and coming across a forest floor of buttercups. It almost moved her to tears. She reminisced that after a rain in Minnesota everything was so green you could feel it. After a career in show business, she worked in marketing at different colleges. Sonja went to San Francisco to the Academy of Arts where she saw a wonderful display of photography, which may have been...
Chief Kent Kroeger announces two Coffee with a Cop events taking place on Tuesday, April 16 at the Tehachapi Police Department Community Room, 220 W. C St. The first will be from 8 to 10 a.m. and the second will be from 4 to 6 p.m. “We wanted to reach more people by offering a morning event and a late afternoon event for those who may be working,” said Kroeger. The Tehachapi Police Department will be available to answer questions regarding the new Ring security camera partnership and sub...
As a Business Advisor and Tax Consultant, I speak to hundreds of clients every year. I love saving money for my clients, but it seems to be getting tougher every year to do so. One of the biggest ways to help people build their business and build their wealth is by minimizing the taxes they pay. We all know we need to pay our fair share of taxes but many of us are paying far more than our fair share. Much more! There are many strategies out there to help save on taxes. Some work for one group...
The City Council voted on March 18 to proceed with the development of a CEQA Environmental Impact Report for the planned housing project to be located on 138 acres on the south side of Valley Blvd. and west of Tehachapi High School. The City will produce the document and developer Greenbriar Capital Corporation will then reimburse the city for the report. The Tehachapi Planning Commission approved the initial development concept at their Feb. 11 meeting. For many years the City has used AECOM...
