Pre-meeting documents:
This board meeting will feature a a discussion of campus security and our agreement with the Rocklin Police Department for on-site law enforcement. We’re also getting an update on an exciting zero-cost solar project to take a significant amount of our campus “off the grid”, as well as reviewing the initial draft of our 2008-09 financial audit.
Use the comments below to answer the Question of the Month! (You can “log in” with your Facebook or Twitter account with a single click, or just fill in your name and e-mail address to leave a guest comment.)
What are your thoughts about law enforcement on college campuses? Should Sierra College have a full time law enforcement presence when classes are in session? Should we have armed officers in close proximity as a deterrent or response to on-campus incidents?
Here’s a quick and rough shot (in poor lighting) of Emma and Spencer having fun with each other a few mornings ago.
We’ve almost got some semblance of normalcy back. Pretty soon we might even be caught up on sleep, and I might get beyond “surviving” and write a blog post or two. 
Mandy Morello, a Facebook friend and local journalist, wrote this piece for the American River Messenger. Thanks for letting me share it here, Mandy!
For several months I have had the privilege to read as the Klein Family shared their journey to adopt their second child, Emma Nichole Asnakech Klein from far off Africa on their Facebook pages. This young couple, Aaron and Cacey, adopted their first child, Spencer, from South Korea. As I looked through their profile and took a glimpse into this young family’s life, the problem of orphaned children around the world became more of a reality.
I came across staggering statistics about worldwide orphans during the 2 year celebration of Spencer’s Adoption Day. Aaron posted “There are 134 million orphaned children around the world. 130,000 waiting for forever families in the U.S. foster care system. Every 18 seconds another child becomes an orphan. Every 15 seconds a child loses a parent to AIDS. And my favorite statistic: it only takes ONE person to make a difference in the life of a child. You!”
Almost a year after adopting Spencer, the Kleins decided to start the process of adopting another child in October of 2008.
There would be a few posts about their process, but mostly they shared about their love and excitement of their son Spencer. On July 2, 2009 the excited couple announced that they will be parents again! They were given the name and photo of their new baby girl born April 18, 2009, Emma Nichole Asnakech Klein. They posted, “Her birth mother gave her the Ethiopian name, which means “no one is like her.” She is currently at the Holt International Care Center in Durame, and we expect to travel to Addis Ababa in two to four months to bring her home, depending on the legal process and visas, etc.”
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Spencer loves his baby sister…
A family of four now…
Many thanks to Mandy Morello for coming to the airport at midnight and taking these photos. She’s using them for a newspaper story…looking forward to seeing her work!
