2008 Woodie Awards
Crossing Borders, Building Bridges Seminar
Two Candidates Running for A Sutter Seat
Lisa Velez
Issue date: 11/2/04 Section: Campus Life
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At the Crossing Borders, Building Bridges seminar on Tuesday, October 26 at noon in room 521, students and faculty got a chance to meet the two candidates who ran for a Sutter seat in the Yuba College Board of Trustees.
Before Jim Buchan defeated Dan Cucchi, by obtaining 65.4 percent of the votes to Cucchi's 34 percent, they spoke to Yuba College students and staff at the Crossing Borders seminar.
Cucchi, who ran against Buchan, is a student himself at San Jose State University. After growing up in the Sutter area, attending YCHS and Yuba College, he got married, earned a bachelor's in English from Chico State and established a career in real estate.
Now he is attending SJSU full time in order to get his bachelor's in real estate. He attends SJSU once a week and will be graduating in the spring of 2006.
While at Yuba College, he was in the Chamber Choir and very devoted to the arts and music program. He said, "People do not realize how strong the music program is."
When the music got cut, it resulted in a decline in enrollment because there is no music program." Cucchi also was very involved in the 4H club, Little League and coached East Nicholaus High School's football team.
His opponent, incumbent Jim Buchan, has done much for the community. He works with high school kids and is the secretary of the Every Fifteen Minutes program about drinking and driving. He is also on the Fremont Rideout foundation board and on a substance abuse committee for Colusa, Sutter and Yuba county seventh graders.
He also used to be a teacher himself at Yuba College. When he taught here, he used to run a computer class and helped to build up the computer, science and business departments.
Buchan fondly remembers being a teacher and said, "The best thing about being a teacher is making lives better." He commented that he had met his current wife on this campus.
"I love Yuba College," said Buchan, " I love getting up, organizing my day, and then going on to do it."
Before Jim Buchan defeated Dan Cucchi, by obtaining 65.4 percent of the votes to Cucchi's 34 percent, they spoke to Yuba College students and staff at the Crossing Borders seminar.
Cucchi, who ran against Buchan, is a student himself at San Jose State University. After growing up in the Sutter area, attending YCHS and Yuba College, he got married, earned a bachelor's in English from Chico State and established a career in real estate.
Now he is attending SJSU full time in order to get his bachelor's in real estate. He attends SJSU once a week and will be graduating in the spring of 2006.
While at Yuba College, he was in the Chamber Choir and very devoted to the arts and music program. He said, "People do not realize how strong the music program is."
When the music got cut, it resulted in a decline in enrollment because there is no music program." Cucchi also was very involved in the 4H club, Little League and coached East Nicholaus High School's football team.
His opponent, incumbent Jim Buchan, has done much for the community. He works with high school kids and is the secretary of the Every Fifteen Minutes program about drinking and driving. He is also on the Fremont Rideout foundation board and on a substance abuse committee for Colusa, Sutter and Yuba county seventh graders.
He also used to be a teacher himself at Yuba College. When he taught here, he used to run a computer class and helped to build up the computer, science and business departments.
Buchan fondly remembers being a teacher and said, "The best thing about being a teacher is making lives better." He commented that he had met his current wife on this campus.
"I love Yuba College," said Buchan, " I love getting up, organizing my day, and then going on to do it."
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