Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
Tehachapi's Online Community News & Entertainment Guide
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Tommy Baker has been in the construction field for over 35 years. The last ten years of that in Lake Isabella, California. In February of this year, Tommy and his wife, Charlotte Ruse, moved to Tehachapi from Lake Isabella, and began working here. Tommy started working for his father when he was 18, as a carpenter building homes from the foundation to the roof, and worked in his uncle's plumbing business for the next 25 years. When he decided to start his own business in 2003, he learned...
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]...
The City of Tehachapi is pleased to announce the revitalization of their Adopt-A-Landscape program. After a short break over the past year, the City wants to promote this twelve-month program and encourage businesses, organizations, families and individuals to sponsor the landscape maintenance of areas within the city limits. Keeping downtown Tehachapi beautiful is something that we can take pride in. With your sponsorship, the City will provide the landscaping and maintenance at one of the...
The question as to where the newly erected signal came from – the one that now stands proudly over our Depot – appears to be answered. Local historian and fellow Friends of the Tehachapi Depot charter member, Del Troy, supplied the back-story on its journey to its new permanent home. The newly established Tehachapi Heritage League, back in 1973, took possession of the existing Chamber of Commerce building located on Tehachapi Blvd. The building had been used only for storage prior to July 197...
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Moessner Farm Fruit & Veggies stand is located in the Cummings Valley area of Tehachapi, California. The Moessner family has been farming in Tehachapi for over 30 years. Paul and Ursula Moessner along with their sons, Mike and Art, started as apple farmers. Over the years they have expanded their crops to include many fruits and vegetables, including the best tomatoes you will ever eat! After you load up on fresh produce, visit their cafe up the road at 25000 Bear Valley Road for a sandwich and...
Why are Realtors and sellers wary of buyers using a VA loan? They shouldn’t be. Let’s bust some myths about this great loan program. The VA home loan entitlement allows Veteran home buyers access to a loan program requiring no down payment. Way back in the day, VA loans had extra requirements about the condition of the property, and made the seller pay some of the buyer’s loan fees. Not any more. MYTH: VA home loans require a 10% down payment. TRUTH: Veterans can apply for 100% financing for m...
Nearly two years ago, Beverly and Oleg Ross sold their Highland Park home to a member of The Red Hot Chili Peppers performing group and moved to Palmdale. It was to be their retirement house. However, they were not happy with the area and Oleg’s allergies were bad so they began to look at another move. Their daughter, Deborah, suggested that they might like Tehachapi so they came for a visit and really liked the area, its natural surroundings and the fact that it had so many churches. They a...
This article was written by Edward Jones for use by your local Edward Jones Financial Advisor. Everyone needs to be aware of the financial resources they will have available in retirement. But if you’re a woman, you must be particularly diligent, for a variety of reasons. And that means you’ll need to know just what to expect from Social Security. Why should you, as a woman, pay extra attention to Social Security? For one thing, women often take time off from their careers to care for chi...
Separation anxiety is hard to treat because it happens when you are gone. But there are a few tried and true methods that will eliminate most separation anxiety and get you on the right track. First is to kennel train your dog. The reason is not to keep your dog kenneled 24/7 but to stop her flight/fight behavior (pacing, barking, hiding, avoiding, etc.) when you are gone. The kennel should be big enough so that your dog is able to lay down easily, but not so big that they can walk around in it....
On Saturday, August 9, Have a Heart Humane Society is delighted to once again bring another low cost mobile spay/neuter vaccination clinic to Tehachapi. Unlike previous clinics, this one (our 8th!) will be open to all greater Tehachapi residents with no income requirements. This clinic is being funded by grants from our own Union Bank, the Ethel and Harry West Foundation, and by a private donation from the Turners. As the latter prefers to remain anonymous, we won't say which Turners. Our vet,...
I love that Tehachapi has its own Heritage League Museum, the Errea House next door to it and our Train Depot on Tehachapi Boulevard, because origins are important. This is why it’s worth the tedious two hour drive, through the Valley of Traffic, to reach one of the worst areas on the planet: to spend the weekend at Exposition Park. So, that’s what we did. Our first stop was the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles. The whole day was culture filled, beginning with the much more con...
I recently traveled to Fort Tejon to attend a dinner put on by the Kern Economic Development group. When we exited the freeway we drove past Fort Tejon. I told the group I was riding with that I had not been there since I was about 10 years old, and remembered the tree with the epitaph carved in it about the death of Peter Lebec. No one knew what I was talking about. Coincidentally as I was once again working on boxes brought home from my storage unit I found a book entitled “The Life and D...
Why is it so hard for us to accept those who are different from us? Are we afraid that if we accept them, we will become like them? If we accept same sex relationships does that mean we secretly want one for ourselves? If we help the homeless are we putting ourselves at risk of ending up in the same situation? If we embrace those from other nations are we acting against our own country? If we give to someone do we fear not having enough for ourselves? I don’t understand the small narrow m...
Many of you have seen Rotarians in front of Albertsons, or at least you've seen the beautiful bright red scooter by the Alta One Bank inside Albertsons, or at the Sail Thru Car Wash. The sale of $5 raffle tickets to win this outstanding scooter is a fundraiser which is earmarked towards scholarships for graduating high school seniors who are continuing their education. Like so many fundraising events, it takes a lot of planning and organizing to make it effective and fruitful. By the time you...
The First Step! Candidates begin the nomination process by obtaining signatures on the Nomination Paper. The Nomination Paper is furnished by the City Clerk. To be nominated to the Office of Council Member for the City of Tehachapi, the candidate must: Be a registered voter and a resident of the City of Tehachapi at the time of nomination and throughout the entire term of office. Obtain not less than 20 nor more than 30 signatures of registered voters residing within the City limits. (E.C....
On Saturday July 26, "A Step Back in Time to Old Tehachapi" will be held at the Tehachapi Museum and Errea House Museum with activities scheduled from 12-4 p.m. Skills that were necessary to living in a rural area before the advent of modern supermarkets and department stores will be demonstrated, including quilting, woodcarving, weaving, spinning, basket making, tatting, butter churning, and origami. Maggy, a camel that lives at Windswept Ranch, will be there for children to pet. Windswept is...
While the lion may sleep in the mighty jungle, please be assured that the Lions Club of Tehachapi is prowling around discovering more and more ways to serve our community Founded in 1950, the Monolith-Tehachapi Lions Club saw its humble beginning at the sponsorship of the Indian Wells Lions Club (which since has become the Ridgecrest Lions Club). Its 52 charter members were shining examples of what the Lions Club is all about – serving not only its community, but ever reaching outward to the d...
If you’re asking this question, you probably have a 401(k) or other retirement plan through a former employer. The short answer is yes--most retirement plans allow you to roll your plan funds over into an IRA after you’ve left your employer’s service. However, there is more than one way to do a rollover, and how you do it can be critical. In most cases, your best strategy is to do a direct rollover. This is a direct transfer of funds from your employer-sponsored plan to your IRA. The administrator of your employer-sponsored plan may send the c...
Tehachapi Community Theatre's summer show for kids, performed by more than 20 Tehachapi teens, opens at the BeeKay Theatre on July 18 for six performances with Long John Silver, Jim Hawkins and the whole pirate gang of "Treasure Island". Directed by Karl Schuck, this Robert Louis Stevenson classic adventure tale is suitable for children of ages 5 and up. The story is carried by high energy performances, but nothing too scary for young children. "Our intention is to really celebrate the fun of fr...
August 1, Friday evening from 5 to 8 p.m., Tehachapi Treasure Trove will again celebrate our First Friday Fun Fest. You're invited to come see our ever changing displays full of art, crafts, collectables and art supplies. Please join us for fun, refreshments, art, and a chance to visit with Thai Harder, our featured artist for August. Thai makes and sells a variety of natural soaps, facial bars and bath salts. She's been making her own soaps for 20 plus years because her daughter was born with s...
City of Tehachapi budget FY 2014-15 City-wide Revenue $16,991,975 Expenditures $16,799,357 It was with a large measure of pride that Tehachapi City Manager Greg Garrett and Finance Director Hannah Chung presented the 2014-15 fiscal year budget and preliminary five-year budget to the City Council June 23. “The budget is spot on,” Garrett told Forde Files. “We’re very proud to be working for the city of Tehachapi. The entire team, staff and residents are of one accord.” Garrett said the city has...
State takes precedence – On July 7, 2014 the Tehachapi City Council repealed a municipal ordinance it enacted in 2010 prohibiting sex offenders from loitering within 300 feet of any public or private school, park, school bus stop, children's facility or child daycare center. "On April 30, 2014," City Attorney Tom Schroeter wrote in his report to the city, "the City received a letter from California Reform Sex Offender Laws (CRSOL) advising the City of the case of People v Nguyen (2014) 222 CA 4...
A friend brought the Loop hometown community paper, July 5 issue, back to me after a visit to Tehachapi knowing of my fond memories. What caught my eye was the article welcoming the Novingers back to the Apple Shed. I moved to Tehachapi from Prescott, June, 1996 to take a job at College Community Health, which had a different name then. April 1999 I was offered a job at AVH in Lancaster more to my professional passion, education and training. Shortly thereafter it became clear that the commute was way too much, and I had yearned for such a...
After decades of sitting on Reno's Restaurant parking lot, with permission from Reno Riccomini, the classic 1950 Southern Pacific caboose owned by the Mojave Chamber of Commerce has been temporarily moved into storage. Last month the former office of the Mojave Chamber of Commerce was given thirty days to move their caboose off of the property by the present day owner. Mojave Chamber of Commerce hired local general contractor, Al Hansen, to move the caboose to storage until a new location could...
