CVPA News

Janice Hagen Armstrong
President, Smart Growth- Tehachapi Valleys

CVPA Cookbook Committee Needs Your Help

The cookbook committee is still accepting recipes for the CVPA Cookbook. We are hoping to have the recipes to the publisher by October 1, so the book will be ready for Christmas giving. We would love to have a few of your favorite recipes for inclusion so won't you please take a moment and send us a recipe or two? A handy recipe form you may download, fill out, and print is available at http://cvpainc.org/pdfs/cvrecipe.pdf or just write it on a piece of paper and mail to us at: P.O. Box 1020, Tehachapi, CA 93581-1020. Or, you may e-mail your recipe to:
        Clydell Lamkin (mailto:corgimom16@aol.com) or
        JoAnn Kiblinger (mailto:rtzedman@att.net) .
         P.O. Box 1020
         Tehachapi, CA 93581

Dog Hoarding in the Greater Tehachapi Area

Many will remember the recent news events on dog hoarding in the Greater Tehachapi area. Two of the three cases occurred at 24491 Bear Valley Road. The same people were involved in all three incidents, the first of which was in Water Canyon as reported in the national media.
Recently, Susan Marlowe, the owner of the property applied to Kern County Planning Department for a Conditional Use Permit to allow a dog kennel in an A (Exclusive Agriculture) District. The proposed operator/caretaker was Kimi Peck, the individual who triggered the Water Canyon hoarding incident and the most recent County removal of animals from the Bear Valley Road property. Owners of neighboring properties wrote letters of opposition as did CVPA and Smart Growth – Tehachapi Valleys.
Because there is no Kern County code or restriction relating to the number of dogs one can keep, the Planning Commission allowed a one-year Conditional Use Permit for a maximum of 25 animals. That decision will be appealed before the County Supervisors in the near future. We need to make a strong showing that Tehachapi and Kern County will not become a “animal hoarder’s paradise” because the County has not addressed this problem. You will be kept advised on this matter.

Quick Tabs: Older News The Archives Editorials	#75 August 2010 Mark Your Calendar - CVPA BBQ Day Saturday, September 18th, 2010 The CVPA annual barbeque will again be hosted by Bob & Patty Souza at their historic Souza Ranch. Their home is a Victorian farm house built in 1888 by Elijah Stowell, for his bride, Chloe Brite. The ranch is located at 26689 Cummings Valley Road. The Souza’s bought the farm and did a miraculous job of transforming the house and land. Now, the Souza’s have developed the Souza Family Vineyards, the beautiful wine tasting room and gift shop. For more information about the winery the web site is www.souzafamilyvineyard.com (http://www.souzafamilyvineyard.com/) . Social time begins at 4 P.M. The wine tasting room will be open until 6 P.M. Dinner is at 6 P.M. Come early to enjoy the wine tasting room and Souza home. The cost is $20 each for members in advance (by September 10th). Non members and all “at the gate” entries are $25. No minors, please, since alcohol will be served. Dinner fare is deep pit barbequed beef and pork, salads, beans, bread and dessert. Also there will be beer, lite beer, wine, iced tea and regular and diet soda. Remember to get in our drawings, at the gate, for some delightful gift baskets. Some of the themes are Bath Wonders, Three Hog Night BBQ, Lavender Fields, Movie Night at Home and several more. Drawing tickets are $1 a ticket or six for $5. To get on the $20 entry list, mail your check early to CVPA, P.O. Box 1020, Tehachapi, CA 93581-1020. If you are not a member, why not send in your $12 dues per year, per family at the same time. September Barbecue Raffle If you attended last year’s barbecue, you will remember that we raffled off some beautiful gift baskets. We would like to do that again this year but we could use some help. Please go through your “re-gifting” cabinet or drawer or that pile of stuff waiting for Salvation Army and see if there just might be a wonderful item that would be great in a gift basket. We are hoping to make several theme baskets so any beauty, bath or spa products, kitchen gadgets, tea towels, cute garden art, garden gloves, pots and seeds, coffee, wine and related articles or anything else you can think of that would be nice in a basket would be greatly appreciated. Any ideas for baskets are also appreciated. And, speaking of baskets, we could use those baskets hanging around in your garage or storage shed that you don’t need or want but are too good to toss. Please contact: Barbara Collmer at 822-3925 Sally Fox at 822-7658 Joann Kiblinger at 823-1541 or Clydell Lamkin at 822-5299 You can drop the items off with one of us or we will be happy to pick them up. Saturday, October 23rd Trash Pickup Vice President, Chuck Boles, and his volunteers plan to be out on Saturday, October 23rd to restore our roads to their pristine beauty. Cleaning up our roads can be a fun and rewarding activity, so if you are able, call Chuck at 822-3925 for information and instructions. What Is Everyday To Gourmet? That’s the name of the coming soon CVPA cookbook! It includes 300 + wonderful recipes, helpful hints, what’s grown in Tehachapi and a plethora of other interesting information. The volunteers who have helped collect, sort, proofread and do some testing are proud of Everyday To Gourmet. But, we need a little helping hand from our CVPA members. Ads from businesses, ranches, farms and restaurants will be included in the cookbook. They are not expensive and will have a good circulation. (About 400 or more books will be printed.) If you would like to place an advertisement or could make a few contacts, that would be oh sooo very helpful. The deadline to place an ad is September 15th. ¼ page - $25 ½ page - $40 Full page - $75 For additional information please contact: JoAnn Kiblinger - 823-1541 Clydell Lamkin - 822-5299 or email: Corgimom16@aol.com Jennifer Cook - 822-7952 or email: RJC68@att.net Transportation in the Valleys - You’re Invited Smart Growth-Tehachapi Valleys will be sponsoring a meeting about what's coming up regarding transportation in the Tehachapi area. We will have presentations by representatives of the following: * Cal Trans - regarding Highway 58 and 202 * Kern County - regarding county roads, plans, etc * City of Tehachapi - regarding city roads, plans, etc * Kern Council of Governments - all of the above What and where will new roads be placed? How will routes be changed? Will Highway 58 become Interstate 40? What are the issues and how will they be handled? What kind of growth is anticipated and what are the transportation plans? What about other forms of transportation? All are invited - here are the details: Saturday, September 25th 10 AM-12 Noon Moose Lodge - 123 West F Street Come join us. There will be presentations and time for questions/answers. Please share this with your e-mailing lists and let everyone know - the community is invited. All are welcome! Janice Hagen Armstrong President, Smart Growth- Tehachapi Valleys CVPA Cookbook Committee Needs Your Help The cookbook committee is still accepting recipes for the CVPA Cookbook. We are hoping to have the recipes to the publisher by October 1, so the book will be ready for Christmas giving. We would love to have a few of your favorite recipes for inclusion so won't you please take a moment and send us a recipe or two? A handy recipe form you may download, fill out, and print is available at http://cvpainc.org/pdfs/cvrecipe.pdf or just write it on a piece of paper and mail to us at: P.O. Box 1020, Tehachapi, CA 93581-1020. Or, you may e-mail your recipe to: Clydell Lamkin (mailto:corgimom16@aol.com) or JoAnn Kiblinger (mailto:rtzedman@att.net) . P.O. Box 1020 Tehachapi, CA 93581 Dog Hoarding in the Greater Tehachapi Area Many will remember the recent news events on dog hoarding in the Greater Tehachapi area. Two of the three cases occurred at 24491 Bear Valley Road. The same people were involved in all three incidents, the first of which was in Water Canyon as reported in the national media. Recently, Susan Marlowe, the owner of the property applied to Kern County Planning Department for a Conditional Use Permit to allow a dog kennel in an A (Exclusive Agriculture) District. The proposed operator/caretaker was Kimi Peck, the individual who triggered the Water Canyon hoarding incident and the most recent County removal of animals from the Bear Valley Road property. Owners of neighboring properties wrote letters of opposition as did CVPA and Smart Growth – Tehachapi Valleys. Because there is no Kern County code or restriction relating to the number of dogs one can keep, the Planning Commission allowed a one-year Conditional Use Permit for a maximum of 25 animals. That decision will be appealed before the County Supervisors in the near future. We need to make a strong showing that Tehachapi and Kern County will not become a “animal hoarder’s paradise” because the County has not addressed this problem. You will be kept advised on this matter.
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