The James Logan Courier

MISCELLANEOUS
2 New volunteering opportunities for Dec. 2nd & 3rd. Check listings on Logan website, or pick up a flyer in the Career Center.

Looking for a place to do school work? Need help? There’s a place from 9-12 this Saturday, November 19th – Room 44. Please enter by the carpeted hall near the library.

ACTIVITIES
What are you thankful for? Come out to Colt Court today and sign the “Thankful Wall” sponsored by the Youth Alive Club.

Do you want to see a wonderful, comedic and heartfelt play? Come see The Diviners this Thursday through Saturday at 7:00 p.m. in the Center for Performing Arts. Tickets are $10, $8 with ASB.

By Rick La Plante, New Haven Schools Director of Community and Parent Relations

The Board of Education on Tuesday night approved a format for interviewing candidates for a provisional appointment to the Board, to fill the vacancy that will be created when Board member Kevin Harper’s resignation becomes effective at the end of the calendar year. Mr. Harper announced his resignation last month because he and his wife are moving out of the District.

Following the application deadline this Thursday, applicants will be screened for eligibility, then eligible applicants will be invited to interview in front of the full Board on Nov. 29.

By Zohal Sharif, Courier Staff Writter

The annual event known as, “No Shave November”, or “Noshember” for short, is where both genders agree not to shave throughout the entire month. This event is to raise awareness of prostate cancer, but also for men’s health in general. The movement began in 2003, inspired by breast cancer awareness efforts, and it has grown into a worldwide phenomenon.

By Rae Atabay, Courier Staff Writer

The Painted Bird, by Jerzy Kosiński, gives a creepy and deeply disturbing look into the psychological impact of war and how it can make even the most innocent people do the most horrid unimaginable things.

The book starts off in the fall of 1939. A nameless black-haired, young boy is separated from his parents at the beginning of World War II. Walking around the the more rural area of the country, the boy is mistaken for a Gypsy or a Jew by fair-haired, blue-eyed farmers and is then shunned. Even those who usually gave him a home and fed him, started to treat him with cruelty.

This is not an uplifting book at all. The cruelty the boy witnesses and experiences often breaks down his imagination and takes away from him being "just a kid". Kosinski does not attempt to censor his gruesome descriptions, and he shouldn't because it would take away from the story. To simply go over the terrible events of World War II would be an injustice to those who suffered through it. Though the book is not autobiographical, events like this did actually happen during the war.

By Tish Wells
McClatchy Newspapers (MCT)


"Chinese Ghost Stories" will broaden your appreciation of the supernatural.
Lafcadio Hearn was a Victorian-era writer who, after a long colorful life, ended up in Asia, spending the last 14 years in Japan. An Irishman, he was a journalist, fiction writer and poet with a taste for the eerie.

Working off various translations from the Chinese, he wrote ghost stories that are very different from the European or American variety.

Instead of terrifying ghosts who bedevil their victims, Hearn's spirits are more aligned with Asian culture, with an emphasis on filial piety, self-sacrifice and death.

From Wikipedia:
William Christopher Handy (November 16, 1873 – March 28, 1958) was a blues composer and musician. He was widely known as the "Father of the Blues".

Handy remains among the most influential of American songwriters. Though he was one of many musicians who played the distinctively American form of music known as the blues, he is credited with giving it its contemporary form. While Handy was not the first to publish music in the blues form, he took the blues from a regional music style with a limited audience to one of the dominant national forces in American music.

Learn more about W.C. Handy, free from the National Park Service.