The James Logan Courier

By Dana Llarena, Courier Correspondent
Dana Llarena is a member of the James Logan Girl's Varsity Volleyball Team

For the first time ever, the James Logan Girl�s Varsity Volleyball Team will be hosting a match in honor of the nation-wide Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Although it may cost a few bucks out of your pocket to watch the match, the money will be going to a foundation that helps finds solutions to this breast cancer epidemic; donations are gladly accepted as well.

ACTIVITIES
Anyone interested in playing boys soccer should see Coach Sills in Room 73 and attend open field after school on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 3:30 � 4:30 p.m.

Boys Basketball is hosting open gym on Tuesdays & Thursdays from 6 to 9 p.m. Boys and girls wishing to play basketball are welcome to come.

All young men wishing to tryout for boys basketball must have a completed physical packet turned in to Coach Fortenberry prior to tryouts in November. If you need the necessary paperwork, you must see Coach Fortenberry in Room 121 or the Pavilion after school.

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. The Youth Advisory Board will be selling ribbons for $1.00 in Colt Court on October 28th. Wear purple to support!

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Public Information Officer

The Board of Education on Tuesday night received a report on student performance from the Division of Teaching and Learning.

Chief Academic Officer Wendy Gudalewicz and Director of Assessment Craig Boyan told the Board that New Haven students are scoring higher each year on standardized tests but must continue to improve to meet ever-increasing accountability goals.

By Krislyn Perez, Courier Staff Writer


Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen is a story of Jacob Jankowskis� adventures in a depression-era circus. The story opens to find an elderly Jankowski, to his dismay, spending the last of his days in a nursing home. When his parents die in an automobile accident, Jacob chooses to run away and finds himself jumping the Flying Squadron of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth.

Gruen does a brilliant job of bringing her colorful characters to life. Some people that Jacob meets while with the circus are Uncle Al, the ringmaster; an elderly man named camel who knows everything there is to know about the circus, August, the animal trainer who is a paranoid schizophrenic; and Marlena, Augusts� wife.

By Alexa Rocero, Courier Staff Writer

Contrary to the popular belief that last year was the 50th class at James Logan, this year, the class of 2010, actually takes the title. In commemoration of this significant milestone, the new James Logan Alumni Association is teaming up with Logan�s ASB leadership to plan a three-day celebration unlike anything this school has ever seen.

By Laurel Brodzinsky, Courier Staff Writer

I started The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson, because I saw a friend reading it and had heard it was on the National Bestseller�s list. I ended it because I was completely enthralled in the carefully twisted plot and character�s personalities.

Originally titled in Swedish �Men Who Hate Women�, this thrilling adult mystery/crime novel deals with issues of dominance by men over women, corruption, investigative journalism, human nature, and love.

Mikael Blomkvist is a financial reporter in Sweden who after getting in too deep in an expose of a Swedish conglomerate industrial monster, gets convicted for libel. In the aftermath of his shame, Henrik Vanger, another Swedish corporate icon, seeks Blomkvist out to investigate the cold case of his missing niece, Harriet. The cover story for this investigation is a ghost-written autobiography of the Vanger family and development of the corporation.

By Brandie Moore, Courier Book Editor

"A full year had passed since Holly Cathers' parents had drowned, and her best friend, Tina Davis-Chin, with them, whitewater rafting on the Colorado River. Death had invaded the Anderson home in Seattle, taking Marie-Claire, the sister of Holly's father. Marie-Claire Cathers-Anderson lay rotting in one of the two plots she and her husband, Richard, had purchased together once upon a romantic dream of eternity. The reality of her adultery made it very hard for Uncle Richard to hope for another, better place where she waited for him - a fact that he told Holly often, now he had taken to drinking late at night."� >/div>

This is the second book in the Wicked series. Again this has no relationship to the spinoff of the Wizard of OZ book.

Holly, Nicole, and Amanda's life as newly found witches is getting more complicated. After the death of Amanda and Nicole's mom died their father goes into a state of shock and completely shuts down. The girls are struggling with what to do and Holly is changing more then she wants.

From wikipedia:
Eugene Burton Ely (October 21, 1886 - October 19, 1911) was an aviation pioneer, credited with the first shipboard aircraft take off and landing.

Ely was born in Williamsburg, Iowa and raised in Davenport, Iowa. He attended and graduated from Iowa State University. Following graduation, he moved to San Francisco, California, where he was active in the early days of the sales and racing of automobiles.

Read Eugene Burton Ely - The California National Guard's First (Naval) Aviator by CW2 Mark J. Denger of the California Center for Military History, free from militarymuseum.org.