The James Logan Courier

By Russell McLendon
Mother Nature Network (mnn.com) (MCT)

If you're planting a spring garden in the U.S. this year, you may want to set aside some extra seed money. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has updated its plant hardiness zone map for the first time since 1990, reflecting how some crops are moving north as winter grows warmer.
Despite all the long-term dangers associated with global warming, it does have a few short-term perks, such as helping some plant and animal species expand their range. And when life gives you lemons — which, incidentally, may now be easier to grow in Northern states — you make lemonade.

MISCELLANEOUS
Attention Logan Students: REMEMBER Friday February 10th is a furlough day for staff so there is NO SCHOOL. ROP students who attend classes on the Fremont campus are expected to attend. Regular bus service will be provided to the Fremont ROP campus.

Congratulations to the Varsity Wrestling Team for a 2nd place finish at the Mission San Jose Invitational. Placing for the Colts were Artemio Flores – 2nd; Chumkaur Dhaliwal – 3rd; Jacob Macalolooy – 4th; Mark Godoy – 5th; and James Windom 6th. Great job Colts!

Buy your Valentine a flower all week at lunch in Colt Court and the 200s, or see Ms. Cross in Room 201. The Garden Club thanks you!

From wikipedia:
Annie Bethel Spencer (better known as Anne Spencer) (February 6, 1882, Henry County, Virginia – July 27, 1975, Lynchburg, Virginia) was an American Black poet and active participant in the New Negro Movement and Harlem Renaissance period.

Anne was the first Virginian and first African-American to have her poetry included in the Norton Anthology of American Poetry. Also an activist for equality and educational opportunities for all, she hosted such dignitaries as Langston Hughes, Marian Anderson, George Washington Carver, Thurgood Marshall, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., James Weldon Johnson, and W. E. B. Du Bois.

Read more about Anne Spencer and her poetry, free from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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