Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Soon Tehachapi will become the hub for international and domestic hikers. The world is walking into our amazing community from the Pacific Crest Trail, a hiking trail starting in Mexico and ending at the Canadian border. The trail is about 2,663-miles long; extends through California, Oregon and Washington; and usually takes hikers more than six months to complete. The current hikers have been hiking for weeks, sometimes months, when they arrive in town with their unmistakable smiles and tans....
Always Ready Construction may be new to Tehachapi but the company's owner, General Contractor Jeff Thorsnes is not. Seeking a simpler life lifestyle, Thorsnes and his family moved to Tehachapi in 2013 from the Bay Area following his retirement from a 15 year career with Starbucks where he rose through the ranks from services manager to facilities manager to construction manager to senior project manager of construction. Always good with a hammer, his Tehachapi friends always asked him first when...
The 2019 Main Street Tehachapi Farmers Market in Downtown Tehachapi will run from May 9 to Aug. 15 this year, with the exception of the 4th of July, when there will be no market. Market hours will be from 4 to 7:30 p.m., with many of the past year's vendors returning. Again this year, Adventist Health will be the major sponsor and will have a booth to do health screenings and provide health professionals to offer counseling and other services. Additional sponsors include The Loop Newspaper,...
On April 4, the Tehachapi Area Association of Realtors had their general membership meeting. The guest speaker was, Christina Scrivner, Adventist Health Tehachapi Valley foundation manager. Scrivner spoke to the membership and affiliates regarding activities and updates on the new hospital, which opened its doors on Nov. 7, 2018. The advancements made and a number of success stories from the hospital were heart warming. The hospital needs imaging equipment, a new MRI and CT Scan. These will be...
Spring will be “TPopping” Sunday, April 28, when The Tehachapi Pops Orchestra opens its 12th season with a concert in Grace Fellowship Church. TPOPS is comprised of musicians of all ages from Tehachapi and around Kern County. It includes seasoned professionals as well as students who are playing in their first orchestra. As the name implies, TPOPS plays a mixture of showtunes, light classical, jazz, rock, standards and other popular music. For this concert, the orchestra will be conducted by...
My favorite Tehachapi area back roads for you to explore I often get asked to recommend pleasant drives for people who are newer to the area and I'm happy to do so, since the Tehachapi Mountains have an assortment of picturesque country roads that wind their way through the foothills, valleys, canyons and mountains of this California range. These two-lane back roads are relics from an earlier time – some were even dirt roads for horses and wagons before the arrival of autos and asphalt. S...
Margie Kloth has only been a volunteer at Tehachapi's Senior Center for about two months, but her passion for the program sparked immediately. "The special memories began the minute I walked into the room where the family members gathered for Friday morning activities, which included coffee, donuts/cookies, making a craft, playing Bingo and singing songs," Kloth said. "The ladies in charge impressed me so by their loving, giving ways toward their Friday friends. I knew this was the place for me...
Groundwater Sustainability Project "It's an exciting project that will change the way the City uses water and wastewater in the future," Public Works Director Don Marsh told the City Council at their April 1 meeting. As planned, the new Groundwater Sustainability Project would ensure a reliable, high-quality source of water for the City especially in dry years. In addition, it would also ease the reliance that the Tehachapi Cummings County Water District (TCCWD) has on the California State...
Everybody wants the location data in your smartphone. Your carrier, your phone's operating system, even the apps running on your phone. But why? Why does Verizon, AT&T, Apple, Google or Candy Crush care so much about where you are? You ask the hard questions, don't you? Okay, here we go. The carriers (Verizon, AT&T and the rest) need to know where your phone is so they don't drop your call if you're moving, and they don't need GPS to do this. Instead, carriers use the ID of the cell tower (Cell...
Wonderful little stories keep coming my way and I just keep wanting to share them with you. Here's one sent to me by a reader via email, a story with no author credited but with a very fine message: Being a friend to someone (is the best gift) One day when I was a freshman in high school I saw a kid from my class walking home from school. His name was Kyle. It looked like he was carrying every book he owned and I thought to myself, "Why would anyone bring home all his books on a Friday? He must...
My mother Marion Deaver loved flowers – of all kinds. This is a second installment on her love of flowers and how we all learned about them growing up. She loved to make flower arrangements and she liked to grow flowers in her home garden. She also adored it when the desert was blanketed with seasonal wildflowers in yellow, blue, purple, white, orange and even red some years. She would tell my dad Paul early each spring it was time to drive around the desert near Mojave and "scout" out the f...
Adventist Health proudly welcomes board certified family nurse practitioner, Liberty Fordham, F.N.P.-C., and certified physician assistant, Angela Locke, P.A.-C. Both providers will practice at the Adventist Health Medical Office – California City, Mojave and Tehachapi locations. Both Fordham and Locke specialize in family practice and offer comprehensive care for both children and adults; including well-woman exams, well-child exams, chronic disease management and care for routine illnesses. A...
Have you ever wanted to learn how the pros get their photos to look so great? As a follow-up to the recent successful photography class, Larry LaCom will be teaching a class on Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop, beginning on April 22 at the Slice of Life Enrichment School. This will be an introductory level class that promises students they will learn an efficient and effective workflow that takes them through importing their photos, organizing them, keywording them to facilitate searches...
What I like most about Alexander McCall Smith is how comfortable I am with his main characters. It is easy to slip them on like an extra pair of skin and ease into their lives quickly while the settings, a home, a city, a country, grow on you as he describes and experiences them through his lists of characters. From a cozy home in the "Corduroy Mansions" series, to a complex yet compatible grouping of renters at the "44 Scotland Street" flats, we merge into their stories. Then with the...
Saturday, March 23, Tehachapi Martial Arts Center hosted the 13th Annual Combat Hapkido Seminar. The event was led by Grandmaster John Pelligrini, founder of the International Combat Hapkido Federation, and was eagerly anticipated by students and non-students of the art. The Self-Defense system is based upon sound scientific principles and modern concepts, also referred to as the "Science of Self-Defense," and was developed by John Pellegrini in 1990. Grandmaster Pellegrini (ninth Dan...
Tehachapi Valley Wrestling Club had 12 wrestlers compete in Freestyle at the KCWA Foothill Jr. Tournament March 23, hosted by Foothill Jr. Wrestling Club. Three wrestlers also competed in the Greco Style of wrestling. Kayden Gonzales Intermediate 71 beat fellow teammate Michael Brown in the finals, for a 1-2 finish. Elijah Grave placed first in the Junior 145 division. In Freestyle Kayden Gonzales and Elijah Grave also won their weight and division. First year wrestlers Phillip Coates and Ryker...
In the early 1980s, Burt Rutan was the world's acknowledged expert in tandem wing, all-composite pusher aircraft. He was approached by Beechcraft to build a 62 percent scale proof-of-concept (POC) prototype aircraft to flight test the configuration, while they began a preliminary design of full-size prototypes. Burt's POC was completed in record time and made its first flight in August 1983. Although he flew the POC Starship, he never had the opportunity to fly one of the 53 production aircraft...
Once Tehachapi was sure we were getting a new hospital and before Adventist Health became a partner with the Tehachapi Health Care District, The Rotary Club of Tehachapi and The Lions Club of Tehachapi formed a partnership to do something for kids at our anticipated new facility. We had several meetings with the Tehachapi Health Care District and originally were on board to create a kid's corner with pint-sized furniture and a few things for kids to play with. As things progressed and with the...
The Tehachapi Police Foundation invites you to join us as we host the third annual banquet to honor the Officer of the Year, Civilian Employee of the Year and Volunteer of the Year. Mark your calendar for Thursday, May 16. The evening will begin at 6 p.m. with appetizers and no host beer and wine. Dinner, dessert and the award presentations will follow. The beautiful Rose Garden Estate will be the site for this year's event. Tehachapi Police Foundation is a nonprofit corporation founded to...
The Greater Tehachapi Valley Community Emergency Response Team (CERT), will be holding their 2019 FREE Spring Training on Sat., May 4 and 11 from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and Sat. May 18, from 8 a.m. to noon with graduation! This year's location will be the Alpine Forest Chalet, 18900 Alps Dr. near the West Gate in Alpine Forest. Parking is complimentary. Having trained over 1,600 residents in 17 years, CERT is under the sponsorship of the Kern County Fire Department. CERT educates volunteers about...
For the last several weeks, local artists Kristina Herrera, Andi Hicks and Carol Casey-Newell have been meeting at the Treasure Trove. Under the tutelage of instructor Judith Campanaro they have been exploring "urban sketching." You might start seeing the artists around town. The group has decided to meet monthly and share tips and techniques while they sketch local scenes. According to Wikipedia, "Urban Sketchers (USk) is a global community of artists that practice drawing on location in the...
Way back in 2011, the latest news was the BeeKay Theatre mural taking place in the form of a line of Tehachapi citizens, in an earlier day, waiting to buy a ticket to the show. In the 1930s and '40s we received in the mail what was termed "The Show Bill" which gave one coming movies to be shown. One could plan their entertainment ahead. On Sunday, Monday and Tuesday we saw first run features. On Wednesday and Thursday we viewed what was termed "B" movies. Then on Friday and Saturday the kids...
The Friends of the Library Book Sale on March 30 was a great success. While all the numbers aren't in yet, this was one of the best sales that the Friends of the Library has had. With 12 people at the door when it opened and a good steady flow all day, the volunteers were kept busy. In fact they had been busy in the days leading up to the sale with a lot of new donations coming in right before the sale. And the finishing touches had to be made on the works of art created by members in the new...
The Kiwanis Club of Tehachapi announces that Tehachapi Mayor Susan Wiggins will be the featured speaker at the Kiwanis 33rd Annual Prayer Breakfast on May 2. A native of Mojave and a Tehachapi community leader, Wiggins will share her personal story and vision. The theme of the event, “Love One Another” (#Love1Another), is taken from the words Jesus spoke as recorded in John 13:34: “Love one another, just as I have loved you.” The Men of Faith Quartet will present upbeat, modern contemp...
What is the vehicle deduction? The vehicle deduction is simply a business-related tax deduction for your vehicle. This deduction includes all of your vehicles that have a business use, including your car, truck or motorcycle when used in your business. The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) changed things and from 2018 through 2023 the vehicle deduction is now unbelievable! Starting with your 2018 tax filing, you can write-off a vehicle at lot faster with bigger deductions. That being said, the...
