Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Spring plant sale time! Native and low water use plants are again being offered at the Tehachapi Resource Conservation District plant sale on Saturday, April 21 from 9 to 1 p.m., at 321 W. C St., Tehachapi. These plants are all chosen to tolerate Tehachapi weather and require little water. They are also perfect for attracting pollinators, butterflies and birds to your yard. Pre-order forms are available online at our website www.tehachapircd.org, at our office on the door, at local Community...
My daughter and I started a fun tradition when we moved back to Tehachapi a couple of years ago. Mommy, daughter dates at The Spirited Bead. It's one of those unique, tucked away businesses that makes Tehachapi a special place for me. Karen Lewis, known as Klew, opened The Spirited Bead 19 years ago this May. Klew said customers encouraged the idea of a storefront after seeing her work at craft fairs. The idea took off and Klew and her assistant began working on the details. "A year or so later...
On St. Patrick's Day, Bob and Patty Souza hosted a well- attended meet and greet at Souza Family Vineyard for Scott Spielman, who is running for Kern County District Attorney. Spielman went to school in Simi Valley with Patty's son Brian. The event was a reunion for both families. Spielman has been with the County for 24 years and has been Assistant DA for the last 7 years. He has prosecuted over 100 felony trials, over half of which were major. He served in the U.S. Army for three years. As a...
Over the weekend of March 22 through 25, the Tehachapi High School robotics team took home the most prestigious award, the Chairman's Award, from the regional robotics competition in Las Vegas. This sends them to the world championship in Houston in April, where they will compete against teams from all over the world. The Chairman's Award is, in a sense, beyond robotics. It is awarded based on how the robotics team is contributing to the community at large, and here is why they won: the THS...
Tehachapi Mountain Roller Hockey has been making preparations for the upcoming 2018 season and evaluations have been set for the weekend of April 21 and 22. T.M.R.H. is a non-profit, travel club team that practices here in Tehachapi but travels to places like Calabasas, Hollywood, Santa Maria, etc., to play in a summer series of roller hockey tournaments. Age divisions range from 4 to 16 years old and prior skating or knowledge of hockey is not required. All players will be placed on a team in...
In humans, the adrenal glands sit right at the top of the kidneys. The main function of these glands is to produce a number of hormones that regulate a multitude of body functions. Addison's disease is the result of too little cortisol and often too little aldosterone. The symptoms may include darkening of the skin, weight loss, muscle fatigue, loss of appetite, low blood pressure, depression, nausea, diarrhea, and low blood sugar (hypoglycemia). Addison's disease can also occur suddenly, and...
For the past 21 years, in March and September, we have invited the graduating class of the Navy Test Pilot School from Patuxent River, MD, over to the hangar for a barbecue when they are in the area flying gliders in Tehachapi and exchanging rides with the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB. They visited our hangar just a few days ago! The Air Force TPS joined in the fun, too. Roy Martin kept these young pilots captivated recalling his experiences flying F-4 Phantoms over Southeast Asia...
I'm very proud of the way Tehachapi continues to shine among our peers in Kern County. Recently, Tehachapi was showcased as part of the Kern Economic Summit in Bakersfield, as both our healthy real estate market and business climate were topics of discussion. Our own Roger Hayes, owner of Sierra Technical Services, one of the largest employers in the City and developer of several crucial pieces of combat training drones for the military, was on a panel discussing the aerospace industry in Kern...
Dan and Sarah Gildea arrived in Tehachapi from San Diego in November. Health problems forced Dan to sell the auto repair shop in Santee he had owned for 30 years and retire. The San Diego area is an expensive place to live if you're retired so he and Sarah began to search for an area that would suit their retirement needs. Affordability was a big factor and they also wanted a house that had room for Dan's welding shop. Dan said that he found Tehachapi on the internet so he and Sarah began to exp...
It was an unusually full house at the March 20 Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District board meeting. General Manager Michelle Vance informed the board that the Tehachapi City Council approved an investment of $15,000 to assist TVRPD with feasibility studies and a business plan for a bond measure to build a beautiful new recreation facility and upgrade existing facilities. Vance added that she had also applied for and received a grant from Tehachapi Valley Healthcare District in the amount...
A decade or more back, when I first saw the construction/renovation of Green St., with colorful road tiles on the intersections, newly designed street signs, and an added "first for Tehachapi," a one way street, I thought, "What next?" Why does Tehachapi think they need a one way street? A few years back I used to drive a senior citizen to the Post Office each day at ten o'clock in the morning. Actually, we were both senior citizens but he was just more senior than I by some fifteen years. I...
I read somewhere that every time you learn something, your brain gets a new wrinkle in it, suggesting that the more wrinkles your brain has, the smarter you are. Sometimes I just don't want to waste any wrinkles on things I don't really need to know, but then other times I get a kick out of learning useless facts. Somewhere along the way I have accumulated a long list of things none of us probably really needs to know, and as you read through them, you can decide for yourself if you want to use...
Described by Arab botanists and known to the Romans, the cauliflower originally came from Cyprus, and was introduced to France from Italy in the middle of the 16th century. Today, food writers everywhere are extremely fond of quoting Mark Twain's contention that "a cauliflower is nothing but a cabbage with a college education." It's hard to imagine that this vegetable, now taken somewhat for granted, was once all the rage at the court of Louis XIV and served in rich and elegant dishes. Today, ca...
April First Friday will feature artist James Barrs, a rock collector extraordinaire. He creates unique expressions in natural stones. He walks the desert finding beautiful rocks. He then polishes, cuts slices and then creates a variety of sculptures using his finds. When James came across his first piece of petrified wood he was hooked. He walks the desert around Rosamond, California City (behind Castle Rock) and all the way to Barstow looking for interesting rocks. He has been polishing and...
For April 6 First Friday Art Walk, the Tehachapi Museum will feature several new exhibits. The Museum is open from 5 to 8 pm for First Friday and also offers appetizers, desserts, and champagne for guests. "Telegraph insulators" are the small bodies of glass that are attached to the poles for the purpose of insulating the wire, to protect them from touching anything that is a conductor of electricity. Glass, porcelain, and other materials are used because they are non-conducting. Should the wire...
Mill Town Marketplace is celebrating their sixth First Friday Night Market on April 6. Local residents that craft their own products will be in pop-up tents in the parking lot of Alligator Rose at the corner of South Mill and F Streets in downtown Tehachapi, 5-8 p.m. Featuring live music, food, wine, shop specials and a grand prize drawing from business contributions in the vicinity, which are now valued at $800. A very happy recipient each month wins this drawing qualified with purchases from...
In response to over 150 dogs being seized from a home in Tehachapi, Marley's Mutts will spend the next several days rescuing as many dogs from our local shelters as possible. This is a double tragedy because we now have 150 more dogs at the shelter in addition to the 150 who are already there and are being pushed out. Our Motor City Mutt Mover van can hold up to 27 dogs comfortably and will be transporting the dogs to no kill agencies in Los Angeles and Santa Barbara counties. The van will be...
Tehachapi Valley Wrestling Club has begun their Freestyle wrestling season with the Kern County Wrestling Association, competing in the KCWA Eastern Sabers Tournament, March 10 at East High School. Bringing home Gold Medals were Levi Hart, Schoolboy Division and Kayden Gonzales, Intermediate Division. "Both wrestlers have moved up an age division and wrestled great," said Coach Curt Nelson. Myles Baga and Jordan Cardenas both placed 2nd in their weight classes of the Rookie Division, also...
Jonathan Hall, served in two capacities at the Kiwanis meeting on March 7. As our President, he conducted the meeting, then stepped into his role as a member of Tehachapi's water board as our featured speaker. His program was about the current thinking on California's water transport issues, the "California WaterFix". More than half of Southern California's water comes from the Sacramento/San Joaquin delta, through the California Aqueduct and the parallel federal Central Valley Project. To the...
Plans are underway to celebrate 90 years of worship at the little church on the corner of E and Green right here in Tehachapi. On Sunday, April 15 during the 10:30 a.m. worship, we will take a walk down memory lane. Imagine back to the 1920s. What must it have been like to gather as a congregation in the era of prohibition, Charlie Chaplin, and the Great Depression? If the walls could talk, we would hear how people came together to worship during WWII and how families celebrated the Allies...
Maybe we're drawn into loving "Steel Magnolias" because we see real life truth in it. Inspired in the heart of author Robert Harling after he had lost his own beloved sister, Harling found solace, then joy in writing about that part of her life. Somehow, when Harling combined cherished memories of his sister with how the town's women pulled together to support her, this soulful hit comedy was birthed. TCT's production casts some of our very finest actresses, who draw us into Truvy's beauty...
Mountainbase, a private weather reporting station located at Oak Knolls in Golden Hills, reports that the total rainfall in March through the 28th was 3.06 inches, which is 1.41 inches more than usual for the month ("departure from the norm"). The first two months of the calendar year were considerably drier than usual, with 0.91 inches in January (1.26 inches less than normal) and 0.14 inches in February (1.59 inches less than normal). The days and days of the persistent but gentle March rain...
The first caller just heard that her husband wanted a divorce. She rang me in a panic, having no idea what to do when he offered that she buy the house from him. The next was a widow of three weeks, who wondered if a reverse mortgage would be her solution. The third was confused about why her house payment went up yet again. The last needed to plan for her upcoming marital separation. Certainly there are men that I haven't heard from who are unaware of their family's finances, but this recent...
The Forde Files No. 166...
Without turning this column into a link-fest, I'll try to summarize this whole kerfuffle about Facebook for you and give you some options. In 2014, a developer created a personality quiz for Facebook. More than a quarter of million people installed the app. Just like any other Facebook developer, this guy had access to data about the people that installed the personality quiz, and all of their friends. The developer's app collected the data from the users and all of their friends and then...
