The James Logan Courier

By Karen Robinson-Jacobs
The Dallas Morning News (MCT)

CHICAGO — With lights burning 24-7, grease by the gallon and storm drain clogging to-go cups, the nation's restaurant industry hardly screams green.

But its largest trade group, with prodding from a smaller, eco-driven one, is preparing to change the industry's stripes.

In January, the board of the National Restaurant Association voted to promote more ecologically friendly practices in the nation's 900,000-plus eating establishments.

By Stephen Becker
The Dallas Morning News (MCT)

Opening today:

KNOCKED UP — Opposites Seth Rogan and Katherine Heigl plan for a baby after a one night stand.

RISE: BLOOD HUNTER — A woman seeks revenge against those who turned her into a member of the undead.

GRACIE — A teen strives to even the playing field for women's soccer.

MR. BROOKS — Kevin Costner plays a businessman who murders people in his spare time.

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For the second time in five weeks, a small group of religious zealots stationed themselves on the corner of Syracuse Avenue and H Street to shout a religious diatribe to departing students and staff.

The small group of men, holding signs warning passersby of the possible consequences of a variety of listed sins, also used a megaphone to deliver their message, all under the watchful eye of school administrators and Union City police.

District officials are trying to find a legal way to stifle the street-corner preachers, largely because they sometimes shout slogans condemning adherants to religions other than their brand of Christianity.

By Iona Childers, Courier Foods Editor

Tea Station Newark
39115 Cedar Blvd.
Newark, CA
510-713-9588

Sometimes having the element of surprise isn't all it's cracked up to be.

This past Tuesday was the birthday of a co-worker, and a mutual friend of ours decided to take her out to eat afterschool. The meeting place was at the tennis courts, but as we stood there waiting - it became quite clear that our friend wasn't going to show. She had been competing in the duct tape boat races during the day, and my friend wasn't able to reach her on the cell phone. Great.

The friend who decided to plan everything ended up wanting to go home -feeling a little disappointed by a backfired surprise. Well, I had my heart set on eating something and I just hate having to disappoint my stomach. Luckily I was able to get a hold of a friend who was still in the parking lot and she suggested we try a new place by Ranch 99.

From wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Father Jacques Marquette (June 10, 1637–May 18, 1675) and Louis Jolliet were the first Europeans to see and map the northern portion of the Mississippi River. Father Marquette was born in Laon, France, and joined the Society of Jesus at age seventeen. After working and teaching in France for several years, he was dispatched to Quebec in 1666 to preach to the Native Americans, where he showed great proficiency in the local languages, especially Huron.

In 1668 Father Marquette was redeployed by his superiors to missions farther up the St. Lawrence River in the western Great Lakes. He worked at Sault Ste. Marie and at the Mission of the Holy Spirit in La Pointe, on Lake Superior, near the present-day city of Ashland, Wisconsin. Here, he came into contact with members of the Illinois tribes, who told him of the existence of the Mississippi River and invited him to come teach further south. Due to wars between the Hurons at La Pointe and the neighboring Dakota people, however, Father Marquette had to relocate to the Straits of Mackinac, where he informed his superiors about the rumored river, and requested permission to explore it.

Read Father Jacques Marquette's journal of his explorations, free from Creighton University.