The James Logan Courier

Teachers sat down together for free meals during both lunches Thursday in celebration of the California Day of the Teacher, which was Wednesday.

The free lunches, provided by the school administration and catered by the local Outback Steakhouse, centered around grilled chicken sandwiches, which were barbequed by a squad of cooks working over grills set up by the administrators parking lot at the northwest corner of the Guy Emanuele Pavilion, augmented with assorted condiments and punch, and gobbled up in the Staff Lounge by dozens of grateful teachers and others. Vegetarians were offered a pasta dish.

"Can I have two?" said teacher and basketball coach Chris Fortenberry, who's not a vegetarian. He could.

By Bob Ray Sanders
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

Manufactured heroes should be reserved for the comic books, because real-life ones certainly need no enhancement of their stories.

True acts of bravery and dutiful, unselfish service do not require Hollywood scriptwriters, military storytellers or political public-relations machines.

And the last thing that authentic heroes need is people who feel compelled to lie on their behalf.

As far as I'm concerned, Pat Tillman became a hero not on the day he died — no matter how or where he met his death — but the very minute that he decided to trade his Arizona Cardinals football uniform for that of the U.S. Army.

By Kevin G. Hall
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — Gasoline prices aren't expected to fall much below $3 a gallon throughout the summer, the Energy Information Administration warned on Wednesday.

Continued strong demand from motorists is outpacing gasoline supplies, said the EIA, the statistical arm of the Energy Department. High prices should spur more production and importation of gasoline, the agency said, but prices are unlikely to fall far below what the AAA Motor Club reported on Wednesday was a nationwide average of $3.03 a gallon.

Unleaded regular gasoline is expected to average more than $3 a gallon in May, but fall in June and July to about $2.90 a gallon, EIA said.

From the Catholic Encyclopedia:

John Dryden, poet, dramatist, critic, and translator; b. 9 August, 1631, at Oldwinkle All Saints, Northamptonshire, England; d. at London, 30 April, 1700. He was the son of Erasmus Dryden (or Driden) and Mary Pickering, daughter of the Rev. Henry Pickering. Erasmus Dryden was the son of Sir Erasmus Dryden, and was a justice of the peace under Oliver Cromwell.

On both sides Dryden's family were of the Parliamentary party.

Read All for Love by John Dryden, one of 14 of his works available free from Project Gutenberg.