The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2013 annual report for this blog.
Here’s Trust Miguel’s Top Five:
5. Former JCCC Prez Finalist for City College San Francisco Chancellor
4. JCCC Trustee: Homosexuality is a Sin
3. Who Do You Want Me To Vote For?
2. JCCC Student Athlete Dies
1. Former JCCC President Seeks Top Job in Florida
https://twitter.com/FakeBenHodge/status/340176238092099585
Former JCCC Executive Chef Tim Johnson
I heard of Chef Tim’s death from a friend on Facebook. I was taken aback since JCCC recently lost another favorite, Fred Krebs.
I immediately checked Chef Tim’s Twitter account. He’d Tweet the lunch menu featured in the college’s eateries: Down Under and Cafe Tempo. But there were no clues, nothing to verify his passing. Then this morning a post appeared on the JCCC electronic mail server, Infolist:
When Chef Tim first came to JCCC, he dove into our sustainability effort by working to help create the Sustainability Expo and Dinner.
That first year, Chef Tim worked with the video production department to create a video to be shown at the Expo/Dinner. Chef send an email to the campus asking for people who had “farm stories.” I sent him an email saying I was a former migrant farmworker and though it may not be a cheery story fitting in with what they were trying do to, I’d be happy to share it. Within moments, Chef Tim replied saying he’d love to include it.
Unfortunately, I was going out of town and couldn’t make it on the day they filmed. Every so often, usually when the Expo/Dinner rolled around, we’d send emails trying to coordinate something where I could come and share my story but it never got beyond that stage. I appreciate that he never forgot about it and that he seemed to have the utmost respect for farmworkers.
I regret not making the time to meet him in person to shake his hand.
From the press release Johnson County Community College – Executive chef has a flair for food:
At JCCC, [Chef Tim] Johnson is involved in the college’s sustainability efforts. He holds a sustainability dinner and expo each year, at which people can meet local providers and vendors and enjoy a feast of local foods. He also starts a community-supported agriculture (CSA) market at JCCC, through which faculty and staff can enjoy fresh produce and locally made products throughout the summer.
Johnson’s resignation as JCCC’s Executive Chef came in the December 12, 2012 board packet.
But if Johnson resigned in November, why was his JCCC Twitter account still active? And why was it posting messages two days after his death?
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Mader, #18, JCCC Softball
News broke late Thursday night of the death of a JCCC student athlete, Kaylee Kylee Mader.
The softball player’s friends immediately began Tweeting and posting messages on Facebook supporting Mader’s family, friends, and teammates.
Today at 10 am, friends will gather in the commons of Paola High School where Mader graduated.
It has been reported that Mader may have committed suicide.
https://twitter.com/JordinBurford/status/218560484461379584
https://twitter.com/DeehammadAli/status/218556344591065091
https://twitter.com/jtingleee/status/218556766735175681
from the JCCC website:
Remember Three Important Things
If you have or consider suicide please call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255)
Aisha Khan and her last known location: outdoor study area at the University of Kansas' Edwards Campus
Today there was another organized search for Aisha Khan who has been missing since December 16.
A message on the Help Find Aisha Khan facebook page served to help coordinate the search. Yet it also expressed concerns about letting speculation detract from the search for the missing Johnson County Community College student.
“Please meet at the Clarion Hotel on 7000 W 108th St (next to the Metcalf 435 overpass) in Overland Park at 1PM,” the message read.
“Also, as stated before, there will be absolutely no speculation, accusation or negative comments tolerated on this page,” the message continued. “It was made strictly to mobilize people in this effort to find Aisha and to garner positivity for the Khan family.
“All negative comments will be deleted and commenters will be banned from the page. Please, let’s remember that we need positivity more than anything at the moment. Thank You.”
Speculation has also been at play in the coverage of Aisha by the media as presented in the segment on Nancy Grace:
The cousin of a Kansas college student who vanished last Friday said that she was not “forced” into her marriage earlier this year.
“They’ve always liked each other and there was no forced marriage here,” Farouk Sheikh told HLN’s Nancy Grace on Wednesday.
via Relative says missing college student was not in “forced” marriage – Nancy Grace – CNN.com Blogs.
The Facebook page administrator has urged it’s 29,000 supporters to focus on ways of expanding the search and keeping Aisha in the news.
“We have people coming in and out to pick up the new fliers that we are distributing at key locations,” the message read. “Please come to the Clarion Hotel located at 7000 W 108th St (next to the Metcalf 435 overpass) in Overland Park to pick up a stack of fliers plus get assigned a distribution area. We ask for the help of anyone and everyone who is available.”
In addition to flier distribution, the organizers of the search made a plea for needed supplies including: ponchos, gloves, umbrellas, flashlights, staplers, tape, tacks, paper, pencils.
“Anything that you might think we would need would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.”
If you know of a video not on the list, let me know and I’ll add it.
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