A new Jefferson Community and Technical College culinary program provides training for those who are blind or visually impaired.
Justin Purvis, a student in the culinary program Diagnosed with a degenerative eye disease, is slowly losing his vision. This course is helping him keep his passion for cooking — while dealing with his vision loss.
“I’ve been losing my vision since I was 14,” said Purvis. “Once we get done here, I’m very excited about getting back to work. Whatever site we get an opportunity to get. I want to take it and build it up as much as possible as big as we can.”