The James Logan Courier

By Rick LaPlante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

UNION CITY – Families of children who were not quite old enough to attend kindergarten when the 2007-08 school year began will have the option of enrolling in a mid-year, full-day kindergarten program being piloted by the New Haven Unified School District starting in January 2008.

To be enrolled in regular kindergarten in 2007-08, a child must be 5 years old or must turn 5 before Dec. 2, 2007. For children who turn 5 between Dec. 3, 2007, and March 23, 2008, the District will offer the new mid-year kindergarten program beginning Jan. 28 and continuing through June 12.

By David Collins, Courier Opinion Editor

During the summer before the 07-08 school year began, the school board ratified Logan’s decision to change the time frame in which school begins and ends. The time was changed from its former 8:00 a.m.-2:50 p.m. to its current 8:40am-3:30pm.

This decision was made in part because the administration said they believed that giving more students more time to rest in the morning would decrease tardies and hopefully give the students more time to wake up before coming to class. This has resulted in both negative and positive outcomes.

By Rechie Cruz, Courier Staff Writer

After starting his career as a Mathematics teacher at Logan, Ramon Camacho is settling in as Assistant Principal for the Ninth Grade House at the high school.

“It feels good being the new principal." Camacho told The Courier. "However, it’s a little overwhelming. But I've found the students and staff to be very supportive about my new position.”

"I'm just trying to adjust," he said. "What I need to do is get used to knowing what to do in certain situations and how to address problems, because I am new to everything."

By Samuel Jue, Courier Staff Writer

The NHL season opened Saturday Night with the Kings knocking off defending champs Anaheim Ducks 4‑1 in London, England.

With the NHL’s long history, this was only the fourth time that an official NHL game has been played outside of the U.S. and Canada and the first game ever played in Europe. The other three games were played in Japan (1997,1998 and 1999).

The NHL commissioner hinted that more European‑hosted games would lie in the future, but a permanent franchise outside North America would not.

By Oscar Peñaranda, Courier Special Correspondent
Note: Filipino Poet, Author and Activist Oscar Peñaranda, teaches Filipino studies at James Logan High.

EARLY IN the year of 1565, Miguel Lopez de Legaspi arrived in Cebu from Mexico and, after four years of vigorous armed resistance by native leaders, officially colonized the Philippines for Spain. By June 1st of that year, the first of hundreds of ships called galleons would cross the Pacific to and from Manila and Acapulco for East/West Trade and Commerce. These ships contained up to 300 people, one half to two-thirds of which were natives of the islands. That means 150 to 200 Filipinos each trip. The voyage took 6 months. From Manila, before reaching Acapulco, the current (to this day) would take vessels to the coast of what is now California, and the ships would, for safety's sake, hug the coast all the way down to Acapulco. The first ship, the San Pablo, arrived in Acapulco around Christmas of 1565. The Manila-Acapulco Galleon Trade would continue until 1815—two hundred and fifty years!

From wikipedia.org:
William Edward Boeing (October 1, 1881 – September 28, 1956) was an aviation pioneer who founded The Boeing Company.

Boeing was born in Detroit, Michigan to a wealthy German mining engineer named Wilhelm Böing who had made a fortune developing large low-grade taconite iron ore deposits and who had a sideline as a timber merchant. Americanizing his name to "William" after returning from being educated in Switzerland in 1900 to attend Yale University, William Boeing left Yale in 1903 to go into the lumber side of the business. He bought extensive timberlands around Grays Harbor on the Pacific side of the Olympic Peninsula. He also bought into lumber operations.

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