Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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You know that you want to add solar energy to your home, but where do you start? The guy at the big box store told you that he can set you up and you can lease the entire system for 20 years to keep your payments really low but is this really the best way to go? Aaron Dretel, owner of Advanced Water & Solar company suggests that outright purchase may have more advantages than leasing for most homeowners. First of all, with a lease you do not own the equipment until the end of the lease – 20 y...
Excitement is growing for the second annual "A Night in the Vineyard" dinner/ auction fundraiser on Saturday evening, August 27, 2016. Last year's debut proved to be incredibly successful for Tehachapi's Norbertine community, as well as provided exhilarating fun for the sold-out crowd of attendees. Sponsored by the Friends of the Norbertine Canonesses, the event provides fine music, hors d'ouevres and wine tasting, dinner and dessert, shopping (the Sisters' "portable" monastery gift shop) and au...
Howdy, folks! It's that time of year again! When the Tehachapi Community Theater (TCT) presents its 7th "Playwrights' Festival" held at Tehachapi's beautiful BeeKay Theater. This year's festival will feature "Small Town Life", where each play will show an aspect of life in a small town. The festival is a forum for un-produced plays, where playwrights showcase their talents by submitting an original '10-minute play' for a live on-stage production by TCT and our local Tehachapi actors, who auditio...
It’s less prevalent than it was before, but sometimes you still see listings where the seller has an established relationship with their own title and escrow company. Oftentimes this would be a bank or an investor who might do lots of deals so they like to use “their own team”. Usually these companies are outside of Kern County. Here’s why you should care. Sellers aren’t allowed to force you to use their chosen companies, so there is always disclaimer language somewhere. It might say something a...
I find the strangest things when going through my mother Marion Deaver’s files. This week I found an appraisal listing the values of all the schools within the district May 15, 1964, for the purpose of purchasing fire insurance. The appraisal was prepared by Union Appraisal Company from Los Angeles, which had been in business since 1926, according to its letterhead. The report listed the replacement cost of each building. The report showed that the appraisals did not include equipment, land, g...
Katelyn Fritz and Brian Blades moved to Tehachapi in May from the Eagle Rock area of Los Angeles. Brian was downsizing his screen printing business and they are expecting baby daughter, Maia, in August so the seasons and setting of Tehachapi caught their attention as a great place to raise their new daughter and begin a new small business. After buying a home in Bear Valley, it was time to find a space for their business, Ultimate Ink. The couple has recently opened their new screen printing...
Police Chief Mike Grant reports, the Stallion Springs Police Department assisted the Kern County Sheriff at the Erskine Fire. Two units responded to the Fire on Thursday, June 23 and again on Friday, June 24. The third unit covered calls in the Tehachapi area when needed on June 23, 24, and 25. On June 25 our officer established a command post and called out Kern County Search and Rescue to search for a missing adult female in the Golden Hills area. We also had Stallion Springs CERT on standby...
The more time we spend on the internet, the more advertisers and search engines know about us. But what do they know? And what, exactly, are they tracking? When we use Google to search for something or use Gmail, or watch videos on YouTube or conduct any other type of activity through a Google product or service, Google collects data and establishes a personal profile which it uses to distribute personalized ads. Google has always provided us with tools so we can see what they’re tracking, but you’ve had to look for those tools. To make it eas...
A Facebook plea for donations went out to Have a Heart Humane Society followers for pets in the Lake Isabella fire area. All day Sunday, Monday and Tuesday, Tehachapi pet lovers dropped off dog and cat food, pet beds, goat and chicken food, pet toys, cat litter boxes and so much more at the Radio Shack. The pile got bigger and bigger. Have a Heart volunteers went into their barn storage of donated items and pulled out large and small traveling carriers, wire cages, and exercise pens. Naomi...
Do you have dreams bigger than your obstacles? There are a lot of people who hope their dreams will come true, but they don’t have an opportunity big enough to achieve their dreams. Owning your own business may be the best way to do this. Those of us who have big dreams need to periodically reassess where we are to see if we are on track. As entrepreneurs, we love to create but what we need to do is be in the duplication business. You need to have a viable model that is duplicable; then, the r...
Artists of all ages and skill level will grace our sidewalks with their creations. Tehachapi Valley Arts Association is looking for sponsors to make the event a spectacular success. Sponsors at the $100 level will receive their name or business name on the 2015 Chalk on the Walk t-shirt. They will also receive a t-shirt, a 4’ x 4’ sidewalk square and a box of 24 chalks to create their own masterpieces. Donations of any amount, gift cards or anything our artists might enjoy will help us to make the 16th annual Chalk on the Walk a wonderful day f...
I get a lot of ideas some good, some bad. Of course the first place to go after you get an idea is to the Internet, and usually a quick search will show that I’m not the first person to have that idea. Sometimes it seems thousands of people have thought it up before me, and that’s just from the ones that decided to put it out on the Internet. There must have been many more that, like me, never bothered to mention it anywhere Google can reach. Maybe it’s not such a bad thing that my ideas are a...
The Horse Thief Women's Golf Club held their annual meeting to elect officers for the 2016-2017 year and to celebrate and honor the winners of the annual President's Cup Tournament held June 21st and 22nd. The meeting, a potluck, took place at the home of Melinda Keenan in Stallion Springs. Winning the President's Cup was Kathi Dyer with an adjusted two-day score of 136. Other winners of the tournament were 1st, Judy Theriault, 2nd Maureen Reilly, 3rd Aurelia Lazenby and 4th Maria Carbone....
St Vincent de Paul St. Malachy Conference for many years has provided those in need with food, rent, utilities financial assistance, clothing vouchers, bus tickets, and referral service contacts. In 2015 we served the needs of 3300 clients. Recently we started a program designed to assist students that plan on furthering their education with financial assistance as well as providing them with resources they may not be aware of. Our ability to do this is through the generous support of the member...
Picture the end of World War II with the troops coming home. Men, and some women, mostly in their twenties and early thirties, still young and ready to pick up their lives or make a new start. Some went to college on the G.I. Bill, and some took up jobs they had left. Families were reunited and children often met a daddy they had not seen at all or not in a long time. These military members , glad to be home, still carried in their minds and hearts, the memories of comrades who would not be...
Kerry Patrick Clark has been called "A Musical Norman Rockwell" because of the portraits he paints with his music of everyday life. Rockwell gave us an affectionate and humorous look at small town and family life in America in his famous paintings and Saturday Evening Post Magazine covers. Like Rockwell with his art, Clark, in his music, shows us what we as a people have in common. A native of Ohio, Clark's music centers around stories of love, faith, family, friends and the dreams to which we...
On Saturday, July 23, TVRPD will present, as part of the free Music In The Park series, Super Kids Music Show. This interactive program will feature The Nick and Jen Show at 4p.m. The kids will be inspired to use their "Super Powers" to exercise, eat healthy, have a positive attitude, help Mom and Dad, be cool in school, recycle and take care of friends. The show will be followed at 5p.m. by a Kids Hip Hop Party. Jen gets the kids moving with age appropriate music, dance moves and teaching...
Kiwanis members learned about fire safety at a recent meeting of the club. Three members of Kern County Fire Department spoke about programs to prevent fires and precautions that should be taken to be safe. Engineer Aaron Davis was the main spokesman with additional help from Captain Trevor Baldwin and Firefighter Mike Sanchez. An interesting program in Kern County is called ReadyKern. It is a telephone notification system that will deliver public safety messages to you at any phone number or...
Today, We Honor The Overall Man Classic Bill Mead Reprinted with permission from Tehachapi Lifestyle Magazine, April 2014 issue. I never thought I was fixated on food until my daughter Maggie's husband, Arch, expressed dismay over our family's tendency to discuss the dinner menu while still eating lunch. That's pretty much how everybody was during my growing-up years in the cornbelt. Partly that was because grocery stores didn't sell a lot of ready-to-cook meals back then. Nearly everything had...
Cheers to Charity 2016, on Saturday, August 13, is shaping up to be the best ever! Aviator Park, located on the Tehachapi Airport property, will be the location for this annual fundraiser. Dozens of shade trees, plenty of parking, and acres of grass will provide a cool venue for the warm summer night. Cheers to Charity, a project of Community Clean Sweep, benefits Tehachapiarea charities and features live music, mouth-watering tapas and generous food plates, scrumptious wines and skillfully...
Your delayed retirement credit isn’t counted toward your family maximum When you retire, your family may be eligible to receive benefits based on your PIA. These benefits may be limited by the family maximum, which generally ranges from 150 to 180 percent of your PIA. However, if you delay receiving retirement benefits, your delayed retirement credit won’t count toward your family maximum and can be paid whether or not your family’s benefits are limited by the family maximum. Tradeoffs Delay...
In 1950, Marine Reservist George Williamson, age 21 and already a veteran of the World War II battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, received orders to report again for duty. Troops of the Peoples Republic of Korea (Communist North Korea) had invaded the Republic of Korea (South Korea), sweeping in quickly to control the capital Seoul and all of the country except a small corner in the southeast called Pusan. U.S. and other U.N. troops swiftly mobilized to stop the onslaught, in what became the first...
Fires – Above, a helicopter vacuums up water at Middle Lake in Bear Valley Springs through a snorkel, filling its tank in 45 seconds. Helicopters fitted with buckets scooped up loads in 10 seconds. The helicopters, staged as closely as a minute apart, dropped the water on the Deer Fire, which advanced up the hill from Hwy. 223. Air tankers dropped fire bright red retardant. The blaze started July 1, 2016, covered 1,785 acres and was 93 percent contained by July 6. It threatened homes in BVS and...
The Dance Craze's "Once Upon a Time" was a show that wowed the audience! On June 18, the Lancaster Performing Arts Center filled with families waiting to see the 115 dancers tell their story. Mary Poppins, Peter Pan, Lion King, The Little Engine That Could and many more stories were showcased in the show using several different genres of dance such as ballet, jazz, tap, Christian lyrical, hip hop, musical theater, competitive teams and much more. Joscelyn Rivers, Carrie Soldati and Ahnnya...
Lakes in Southern California usually are man-made domestic water reservoirs like Brite Lake, and no human contact is allowed. Three Island Lake at Bear Valley Springs is a real swimming lake where youngsters can jump off of rope swings into the water and swim around the islands. At right, brothers Kayden (in the water) and Quinten enjoy a summer day during a visit with their grandad. Non-residents of BVS need to go a bit farther to find a swimming hole, such as reservoir Lake Isabella (swimming...
