Meeker, Stories

Education, awareness helps stop the choking game

Ken Tork gave MHS freshman Ty Shepherd an award for his efforts to raise awareness of the choking game.
MEEKER I Almost two years ago, Ken Tork’s 15-year-old son Kevin lost his life playing “the choking game.”
In December 2010, Meeker High School freshman Ty Shepherd wrote an article about the choking game for his journalism class which was also published in the Herald Times. Shepherd interviewed Tork, who lives in Washington state, and Tork…