Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Highlights From Around Town. If you have pictures to share with us for The Loop's 'The Local Scene' please email them to [email protected]...
A new venue is opening soon in Tehachapi. The Woods Pavilion, located in the downtown area, holds its Grand Opening on Wednesday, June 11, 2014, from 5 to 7 p.m. Catering will be provided by Mill Street Kitchen, with live music featuring Pat Halpin on the keyboard. The Ribbon Cutting Ceremony will be held at 5:30 p.m., and a drawing for a free event booking will be held at 6:30 p.m. The Woods Pavilion is a beautifully landscaped outdoor event center providing a large covered patio area with two...
Join in the fun Downtown on Saturday June 14 to celebrate Father's Day weekend The Main Street Chili Cookoff will take place on Saturday, June 14 from 11 am to 5 pm along Green Street in Downtown Tehachapi. Join in the festival atmosphere with activities and treats for kids, food vendors, and the Main Street Chili booth selling homemade chili, served in a variety of ways. Popular local band, Movin' On will perform from 12 to 4 pm in front of the Hitching Post Theater, playing a wide variety of...
Life happens, and sometimes it means your finances take a hit. Mortgage guidelines would seem to offer condolences, but are they real? What you see in headlines doesn’t always translate into real-life help, and here’s why. Let’s consider FHA loans. The Federal Housing Administration, generally known as “FHA”, provides mortgage insurance on loans made by FHA-approved lenders. FHA mortgage insurance provides lenders with protection against losses as the result of homeowners defaulting on their...
Emilie Ying had lived in Huntington Beach in the same house for 46 years, but she did want to live closer to her two daughters. The girls had been trying for two or three years to get her to make the move to Tehachapi. She found a house, and now she is getting used to her new location and new climate. Emilie was born and raised in Georgia, where she attended the University of Georgia and then worked in Atlanta as a commercial artist. For three or four years she helped design and print...
You’re resting in the hot, dusty, worn van with no seat belts, when an overly-friendly baboon decides to jump in and join you. Wait a minute, buddy, the van was already overcrowded, and that’s my seat! That’s someone else’s backpack you’re grabbing. Go back outside with the nearby warthogs and stop showing off your opposable thumbs! Welcome to Africa. Going on mission to Uganda was a trip of a lifetime. Seven years ago, I became acquainted with Aid Africa, before it was formally incorpora...
[Update - Tehachapi has made the finals! We are one of the leaders, but it is super important to vote 2 times everyday! It takes less than a minute. Do it for the dogs. :)] Tehachapi Residents, as you may or may not know, our city is in the running to win up to $100,000 toward a dream dog park, to be situated in the new-and-improved Meadowbrook Park! Each of us has two chances per day to vote, once here: http://petsafe.net/barkforyourpark/ and once here: http://facebook.com/PetSafeBrand/. Read...
We would like to invite everyone in the Greater Tehachapi Valley to a fun-filled, patriotic July 4th celebration and Hot Dog Festival. With the high gas prices, it's a good year to stay home and participate in the various activities going on around the city. It will be a grand old-fashioned "all American" Fourth of July with fun for the whole family. Bring your lawn chair and sunscreen and join in our games and the children's parade, listen to music from our own local musicians, and catch the...
Just in time for the summer weekends to begin, with what else, barbecue. I know what you’re thinking, barbecue equals beer, but no! The Memorial Day weekend we just celebrated, is the unofficial start of barbecue season. Here we hope are some great suggestions for wines to pair with your ‘cue. It’s one thing when we asked folks about their favorite wines but throw in food and they all go all nutso. Just thinking about firing up the grill makes our mouths water. For those folks who steak and p...
When one of my grandsons was in the Fourth Grade at Golden Hills Elementary - about 1998 - he was studying the history of California as all fourth graders do. It was then that I, a Native Californian, found out that our state song was "I Love You California." In all of my years in the Golden State I thought it was "California Here I Come!" Well, I went online, found it and listened to it for the first time. If you have enough time, it has a pleasant lilt but it does run on and on. One day as I...
Here it is... June again, and here I was again – trying to think of a subject for my bi-monthly article in the Loop. While sitting here pondering subject matter to write about, I realized Father’s Day was once again right around the corner. In all my years of writing this column, I have never written about Father’s Day. There is a reason for this. You who regularly read my writings know that I generally write about things that are important to me or subjects that are close to my heart. Unfor...
Born from a love of stylish clothing at affordable prices, a mother-daughter duo opened Dahlia, a boutique in downtown Tehachapi in 2011. Located in the historic Water Tower Plaza, the boutique can be found in a quaint brick building. The beautiful items are sure to bring you a day full of compliments, and we strive to bring exceptional styles to our customers while retaining the uniqueness of the style by purchasing four or six items to minimize the chances of spotting someone else with the...
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On Saturday, Aug. 9, Tehachapi will celebrate under the stars during the first annual Cheers to Charity fundraiser, held in an expanded and transformed plaza at veritas tapas and wine bar, 695 Tucker Road, Tehachapi, CA. Cheers to Charity benefits local charities and features acoustical music, mouth-watering tapas, California wines and skillfully made craft and home brewed beers - beneath the canopy of a beautiful August night. Choice cigars will be available for purchase, a silent auction and a free coffee bar will round out the fun. All...
A grand time was had at the Tehachapi High School Telescope Clinic/Star Party on May 23. Forty-three people gathered to enjoy telescopes large and small with a partly cloudy sky that was clear enough in just the right places. A common question was, "What's the best telescope for someone just starting out?" While this is an easy enough question to address with generalities (as I did in my last column), it's been difficult to answer with specifics – until now. Back in January, Sky & Telescope maga...
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tehachapi_Loop. The Tehachapi Loop is a 0.73-mile (1.17 km) long "spiral," or helix, on the Union Pacific Railroad line through Tehachapi Pass, of the Tehachapi Mountains in Kern County, south-central California. The line connects Bakersfield and the San Joaquin Valley to Mojave in the Mojave Desert. Seeing a daily average of almost 40 trains, the line is one of the busiest single-track mainlines in the world. With its frequent trains and spectacular scenery, th...
In many cases, your first step should be to open an IRA and contribute as much as allowable each year. Because of the potential for tax-deferred, compounded earnings, IRAs offer similar long-term growth opportunities as employer-sponsored plans. In addition, you may qualify for tax-deductible contributions or tax-free withdrawals, depending on whether you invest in a regular IRA or a Roth IRA. Another tax-advantaged option to consider is annuities. Generally purchased from a life insurance...
Enjoy bratwurst on a French roll with grilled red onions, homemade sauerkraut, and mustard at Moessner Farms. You can also find many other sandwiches, soup & pastries, as well as fresh produce. Each Summer Moessner Farms can also be found at Tehachapi's Thursday Farmers Market, from June 5 to Aug. 14 in Railroad Park. See their ad below....
Fridays and Saturdays; June 6,7,13,14,21,27 and 28 at 7:30 p.m. Sundays, June 22 at 2 p.m. All seats only $18! Tickets available at these agencies: Johnny's Take n Bake, Tehachapi Furniture and Treasure Trove, or online at http://tctonstage.com Tickets for Sunday, June 29 may be purchased at Witts and Bear Balley Country Store. This is a benefit show for AAUW and the ticket price is $25....
Six area restaurants will be dishing out dinner at the Tehachapi Mountain Brew and Grill Fest on July 19 from 4 to 8 p.m. at the Benz Visco Sports Park in Tehachapi, Calif. "We are so proud of the fantastic locally owned restaurants we have here, and to give people dinner when they come to the festival is great." Each paid admission to the festival includes beer tasting and dinner for $45. The dinner choices include pulled pork sliders from Red House BBQ, Tri-tip from Jakes Steak House, Pasta...
June 21, 2014 Tehachapi Valley Recreation and Park District is proud to announce the opening bands for the (free) Summer Music in the Park Series. Headlining the first concert is world traveled ADEMA. With Tehachapi being the first stop on their summer tour and an album set to release on July 22 it is great timing to hear the new songs from the popular band that calls Bakersfield home. Opening for ADEMA is Lions Named Leo, a Bakersfield band with two lead vocalists and a trumpeter. Their sound...
The Stallion Springs 4H Community Garden is just about ready for planting. According to Hannah Magnusson the reporter for the group, "Users of the garden can get fresh food and not have to wonder where it came from." The First step is filling the boxes with dirt, followed by installing the drip system, and then it's ready to plant. Planting can begin any time once the installation is complete. Papa's, a local restaurant, has booked three boxes to raise fresh vegetables for the restaurant. Users...
On Friday May 23 my friend Molly Mackin and I went to the Bakersfield City shelter on Mt. Vernon Ave. We decided to be brave and go photograph some dogs and try to get them homes before their demise dates. Rather than turn us away, the head of the city shelter Julie Johnson welcomed us; despite the fact that she was dealing with the furor over the dog that bit the boy and was chased by the cat! People were calling from all over the country to save that dog and she was busy telling the news...
[Due to an editorial error in the May 24 issue part of the article “The Mojavian” was not printed. The Loop staff would like to apologize to Susan Wiggins and to our readers. Here is the article in full:] I never know what I am going to find in my mother Marion Deaver’s files. Dig deep enough and there is no telling what I will find! This time I found “The Mojavian” the eighth grade Mojave Grammar School “yearbook” from 1952-53. It was mimeographed (remember those?), and the cover was blue cons...
Science denialism is a problem in this country (Okay, it’s a problem in other countries too, but I don’t live there so...). We have so many varieties: creationists, global warming deniers, vaccine avoiders, Flat Earthers, folks that don’t think germs cause disease and so on. These people, you probably know some, don’t like what science has told us, so tell us that it just can’t be so. Sometimes there is big money behind the denialism, like that which kept lead in our gasoline for so long and...
