Since the Beautification Program was effected by our City Council, I hadn't even noticed the Star embedded in the middie of the pavement at Green Street and Tehachapi Boulevard.

Silly me -- for looking at 3-way traffic at the intersection, rather than looking down at the Star embedded in the middle of the street.  That's Green Street and Tehachapi Boulevard.

I'm certainly going to begin looking at it now so that I can get some sense of appreciation for what I had never seen -- after hearing that THE STAR COST ONE MILLION DOLLARS.  The next time you drive by Green Street and Tehachai Boulevard, just look down and smile.  I felt so remorseful when I thought about the ONE MILLION DOLLARS' expenditure that I had been so remiss in seeing embedded in the pavement at Green Street and Tehachapi Boulevard.

When I think about Tehachapi High School's Advanced Drama Club performing one of the best renditions of Shakespeare's Hamlet I've ever seen -- in the lunchroom -- because there's no performing arts center --

When I think about the Tehachapi Symphonic Choir and Orchestra that has some of the best talent on the planet, having to perform at the junior high school or the dining room of a church -- because there's no performing arts center --

The Vision of the beneficial interest to Tehachapi -- of a $ONE MILLION DOLLAR STAR embedded in the pavement at the intersection of Green and Tehachapi Boulevard -- just escapes me.

Oh, while I was at the gas station at the corner of Robinson and Tehachapi Boulevard, the lightening thought struck me -- that as part of the Beautification Program of our City Council -- why are trees planted in the street that take up a full car length, when parking is so scarce in the City?