The James Logan Courier

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PACT tickets are on sale until Nov. 7th. Tickets cost $25 and can be purchased at the ticket window in the main office.

12 – 14 Volunteers needed to help with Senior Parent Night this Thursday, October 13th. To sign up, see Mrs. Hart in the Career Center.

Kitayama needs 6 volunteers for Literacy Night. Check Logan’s website or pick up a flyer in the Career Center.

By Zohal Sharif, Courier Staff Reporter

National Coming Out Day is not just for people who are part of the LGBT community; the day sends a message to us all. The day represents love and acceptance of everyone. No one should be afraid to be who they are but, unfortunately, we live in a society where people are becoming more selfish and are less concerned with other people's well being. This day unites a community to stand strong and to never give up. Like the campaign says, "It Gets Better".

By Deborah Netburn
Los Angeles Times (MCT)

LOS ANGELES — Getting lost in a corn maze is supposed to be fun.

But it turned into a nightmare for a Massachusetts couple who got so turned around that they had to be rescued by the police.

It all started late Monday afternoon, when the couple entered a corn maze at Connors Farm in Danvers, Mass., about 23 miles north of Boston.

After about an hour in the maze, darkness began to fall. The couple, who were there with their 3-week-old baby, could not find a way out. As the mosquitoes started to descend, they placed a desperate call to 911 asking to be rescued.

By Tish Wells
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)

According to the Humane Society, there are approximately 86.4 million cats owned in the United States.
And most of them shed.

Blogger / writer Kaori Tsutaya, a cat lover from Japan, has found a use for all that fine fur that usually ends up on an owner's pants, shirts, bedspreads, chairs and carpets.

In "Crafting with Cat Hair", she shows you how to create crafts — finger puppets, book covers, tote bags and pin cushions — that use your feline's contribution.

From wikipedia:
Dīng Líng was the pseudonym of Jiǎng Bīngzhī, also known as Bīn Zhǐ (October 12, 1904 - March 4, 1986), a Chinese woman author from Linli in Hunan province. She was awarded the Soviet Union's Stalin second prize for Literature in 1951.

Ding Ling was born into a gentry family in Hunan province. Her father's health was poor, and he died when Ding was three. Ding Ling's mother, who raised her children alone while becoming an educator, was Ding's role model, and she would later write an unfinished novel, titled Mother, which described her mother's experiences. Following her mother's example, Ding Ling became an activist at an early age. Ding Ling early repudiated traditional Chinese family practices by refusing to marry her cousin who had been chosen to become her husband. She rejected the commonly accepted view that parents as the source of the child's body are its owners, and she ardently asserted that she owned and controlled her own body.

Read Ding Ling's fiction: ideology and narrative in modern Chinese literature, by Yi-tsi Mei Feuerwerker, free from Google Books.