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Sunday, April 05, 2009

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

MISCELLANEOUS

Students, the price of yearbooks is going up! On May 1st the price increases to $90. Buy yours now for $80 in Room 44 after school.

Up to 10 ½ hours of community service available for students interested in helping out the Fremont Freewheelers 38th Annual Bicycle Race taking place on Sunday, April 19th. For more information pick up a white flyer in the Career Center.


By David Lightman
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama boasts that he'll reduce spending on key domestic nondefense programs to their lowest levels since the 1960s, but he and Democrats in Congress are on a spending spree not seen since then.

Few analysts or members of Congress expect Obama to meet his cost-cutting goal, which he projects he won't meet for 10 years.

"Projections for future years rarely come true," said Marc Goldwein, policy director at the nonpartisan Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget.

Some Democratic lawmakers agreed.




By Herb Jackson
The Record (Hackensack N.J.) (MCT)

WASHINGTON — The mysterious death of a Teaneck, N.J., teenager on a school-sponsored trip could prompt a change in federal law, her parents said after meeting with the nation's top education official and a House committee chairman.

"It's a blessing," said Lola Moore, mother of Phylicia Moore, the namesake of the proposed Phylicia's Law, which would require schools to have written safety practices before overnight trips.


School Days by Jamie Maxfield, Courier Editor-in-Chief©2009 Jamie Maxfield/Courier Comics

Cooking Wave, Beverages? by Chyna Cunningham, Courier Staff Artist
©2009 Chyna Cunningham/Courier Comics

Stickies: Spring Break by Lorisa Salvatin,
Courier Staff Artist
©2009 Lorisa Salvatin/Courier Comics