The James Logan Courier

LUNCH
Salsa Bar at the Creations booth! Pizza, Chinese, grill items such as burgers & chicken strips, deli sandwiches and, of course, burritos!

MISCELLANEOUS
The Student Principal’s Advisory Committee (PAC) meeting normally scheduled for tomorrow is canceled.

Congratulations to the Show Choir and Jazz Singers who participated in the Heritage Festival in Anaheim over the weekend. Both choirs took 1st place in their divisions, and Show Choir won the Adjudicator Award (highest combined total from one adjudicator) and the Choral Sweepstakes Award, the highest scoring choir in the festival!

By Peter Nicholas
Chicago Tribune (MCT)

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago — Rebuffing criticism of the warm greetings he exchanged with Venezuelan leader Hugo Chavez, President Barack Obama said Sunday the United States, with its overwhelming military superiority and need to improve its global image, can afford to extend such diplomatic "courtesy."

By Dana Hull
San Jose Mercury News (MCT)

SAN JOSE, Calif. — Mike Maietta was eating lunch when he got a text message from his mom.

"Notre Dame," it said. "Big envelope!"

Mike, a senior in high school, whooped for joy. The big envelope meant the storied Catholic university in South Bend, Ind., had offered him a coveted slot in its Class of 2013. But the $51,300 annual price tag is a formidable obstacle. So Mike and his parents are considering offers from several other colleges and calculating the costs Cost of college, economic woes have high school seniors weighing options tuition, housing, holiday trips home.

From wikipedia:
Dinah Maria Craik (born Dinah Maria Mulock, also often credited as Miss Mulock or Mrs. Craik) (20 April 1826 - 12 October 1887) was an English novelist and poet. She was born at Stoke-on-Trent and brought up in Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire.

Read John Halifax, Gentleman, by Dinah Craik, one of nine of her works available free from Project Gutenberg.