The James Logan Courier

LUNCH
Featured entrée selections include Pasta, Pizza, Beef Teriyaki, Chinese Dishes, Burgers, Spicy Chicken Patty & various Deli items. Lunches include a variety of fruits, veggies and milk.

MISCELLANEOUS
Eastin Elementary needs student volunteers to help younger students with homework and play games during their PTC meeting. Info flyers are in the Career Center.

Want to help your fellow students succeed in school? Then volunteer as a tutor with Logan’s before and after school tutoring program to begin this Saturday, October 4th, earning Community Service. All subjects needed. Essential subjects are chemistry and math. The before school program will operate Monday thru Friday, 7:30 to 8:30 a.m., and after school Tuesday, Wednesday & Thursday, 3:30 to 4:30 p.m., and Saturdays, 8:30 – 12:30. Choose the days and times that fit your schedule. Interested? Want more info? Then come by this week, before school, to Room 77 and talk with Mr. Caruso.

By Cait Baca, Courier Staff Writer

Logan students celebrated a Day of Peace at school Sept. 20th. Tomorrow they'll have a chance to celebrate another special day declared by the United Nations, because October 2 is International Day of Non-Violence.

During both lunches, Colt Court was the spot to be on "Peace Day". Students invoked peace by contributing to the a gigantic banner of painted hand prints. The Logan event was sponsored and organized by Logan Leadership.

Visit the Day of Peace website.

By Jessica Stewart, Courier Editor-in-Chief

Last Friday, Logan’s new principal, Judy Billingsley, appeared on Logan Live for a special interview. I give her props for knowing plenty of information about the school, but that does not make up for the fact that she spent the whole interview deflecting blame onto other people and making herself seem great.

Don’t get me wrong, Billingsley could very well be great, I don’t know, but it annoyed me that she could sit there and praise herself while blaming the school’s problems on other people. She’s the new principal, for goodness sakes’, so she needs to admit to some of the mistakes and not go looking for scapegoats.

By Jenelle Gallardo, Courier Staff Writer

"I have promised to be a model citizen daughter . . . but enough is enough . . . Delia and I are planning a party at Wallace and Shrimp's house and I am spending the night whether Sid and Nancy notice or not. I will be as wild as I wanna be”.

I’ll be honest, I did not choose to read this book, I just picked this book off the shelf at the library for a quick read required for English class. Little did I know that this book would become one of my favorites. The author is also a co-writer for the upcoming movie Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist, a movie I’ve been anticipating to see since I saw an ad a few months ago. Starring Michael Cera (Superbad and Juno) and Kat Dennings (The House Bunny and The 40 Year Old Virgin).

By Brandie Moore, Courier Book Editor

"I steeped on the doorway, standing in the path of sunlight that had been cast inside by opening the door. My eyes adjusted from the sun into the dimness within. Wind swirled through the open patio, dancing with the curtains around me. I was in the living room. It had all the ordinary items one might expect. Couches. TV. A rocking chair. And a body. It was a woman. She lay on her back in front of the TV, her dark hair spilling on the floor around her. Her wide eyes stared upward blankly, her face pale, too pale even for a Mori. For a moment I thought her long hair was covering her neck, too, until I realized that the darkness across her skin was bloodùdried blood. Her throat had been ripped out."

Dark, romantic, sad, and beautiful.

Richelle Mead has done it again! Frostbite is just as good if not better then the first book,Vampire Academy. Just as I said in my review of Vampire Academy last Wednesday, if you are a big fan of Twilight or just think it's a good story, then I strongly believe that you'll love these books.

From wikipedia:
John Brown Russwurm (1799-1851) was an African American abolitionist from Jamaica, known for his newspaper, Freedom's Journal. He moved from the United States to govern the Maryland section of an African American colony in Liberia, dying there in 1851.

Russwurm was born on October 1st, 1799, in Port Antonio, Jamaica to a white merchant father and an unknown black slave. The family stayed in Jamaica until 1807 when Russwurm was sent to Quebec for his education. In 1812, father and son moved to Portland, Maine, where the elder Russwurm married widower Susan Blanchard in 1813. Blanchard (now Russwurm) insisted her husband grant 'John Brown', as he was then known, his full birth name. His father did so, and the now named 'John Brown Russwurm' lived with his father, stepmother and her children from a previous marriage, accepted as part of the family. The elder Russwurm died in 1815 but his son stayed close to his stepmother, even after she re-married to become Susan Hawes.

Read Freedom's Journal, free from wisconsinhistory.org.