Toot a Horn or Not?

I know this is late, but with Skills USA competition this week, working on our industry certification, and getting ready for our 15th annual car show at the high school, I have not had a spare moment to collect my thoughts. I feel like I need to do this though, late or not.

The car show has been held at Jordan High School for the last 15 years and has been a huge event around Columbus for auto enthusiasts. This year was a little unusual. People entered anything from boats to tractors to hundred thousand dollar show cars. It is a huge fund raiser for the school. All different vocations and athletic teachers sell anything from candy to barbecue to hot dogs to tee shirts and hats. This year was the best yet. There were about 160 entries and also hundreds of people showed up and paid admission just to walk around and look at all the different entries. This is a good function for the school and a positive event for the community.

On another positive note, in the past, our school has gotten a lot of bad publicity for this or that, but this week, there was a good article in the Life and Taste section of the Ledger-Enquirer newspaper. Since I know a certain person won't toot his own horn, I'll toot it for him. There was a great article at Jordan on a certain Culinary Arts instructor, none other than Chef Austin "dangthatboycancook" Scott. The article covered the entire front page of that section, including four full color photographs, which included Chef and his students cooking, and another half page on the inside with some of the recipes the teens are cooking. This is a very impressive article, not only for the Culinary Arts department, but for Jordan High School as well, which is a positive PR shot in the arm that the school has been needing.