FOOD PANTRY NEEDS VOLUNTEERS — Jewish Family Services new food pantry opens this week and it still needs volunteers to help sort the food that was donated during the High Holiday Food Drive. Anyone interested in volunteering can call JFS at 913-327-8250 or email JFS staff member Adrienne Kizer () to sign up for a time to sort starting on Oct. 10. The JFS Food Pantry will offer both a Vaad-supervised kosher food option and a non-kosher option. JFS is also accepting financial contributions, donations of non-perishable food, and there are terrific volunteer opportunities as well. If you can’t volunteer Oct. 10, there are plenty of other volunteer opportunities available so please, give Adrienne a call!
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY — A gala last weekend at Johnson County Community College marked the 20th anniversary of the Oppenheimer Collection, now housed at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art. For the past two decades, Marti and Tony Oppenheimer, who graced the cover of our own 2010 Guide to Jewish Life, have donated more than 150 major works of contemporary art to the college. “The Oppenheimer Collection is now synonymous with the Nerman Museum,” said Bruce Hartman, the museum’s executive director. “It is the foundation upon which our permanent collection rests. Do-Ho Suh’s sculpture ‘Some/One’ is an icon for the museum just as Jonathan Borofsky’s ‘Walking Man’ is a signature work for the entire campus.”
CULINARY GENIUS — The Johnson County Community College culinary team won the grand prize in the International Foodservice Expo 2012 student team competition held during the Florida Restaurant and Lodging Show last month in Orlando, Fla. Team member Adam Glass lives in Overland Park and is a member of the Jewish community. Ten teams competed in the competition and it included a knife skill and butchery test, followed by preparation of a four-course hot meal for four people, done in 75 minutes in front of American Culinary Federation certified judges including two master chefs.
