The James Logan Courier

MISCELLANEOUS

Yearbooks are on sale for $90. Come by Room 44 after school to buy yours. Hurry, because supplies are limited.

Need Driver’s Ed? There will be two sessions this summer at the Adult School. The first session is June 20, 21 & 22. The second session is August 8, 9 & 10. Cost is $125. Applications are now available in your house office, or see Mr. Caruso in Room 77 for an application or details.

Do you love to sing and dance? Choir auditions are May 10-13. Advanced Choir and Jazz Choir are Tuesday, May 10th. Show Choir is May 12 & 13 (Thurs. & Fri.) For Show Choir you must attend both days. Join our championship teams.

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

UNION CITY (Monday, May 2, 2011) – The regular meeting of the Board of Education on Tuesday will begin at 6:30 p.m., one hour earlier than usual, the New Haven Unified School District has announced.

Normally, the Board meets in closed session at 6:30 and the regular meeting begins at 7:30; however, there are no closed-session items on this agenda.

Tuesday is Election Day, and the time change means that the school board meeting may be completed before the Alameda County Registrar of Voters announces – sometime after the 8 p.m. ballot deadline – preliminary results of Measure B, an emergency funding measure to help the District offset some of the cuts it is being forced to make because of the ongoing state budget crisis. The “Taking Care of Our Kids” parcel tax would raise approximately $3 million to minimize class size increases and reductions to the school year and to fund after-school activities.

By Alexys Cran, Courier Correspondent

Planned Parenthood, an organization that provides a variety of services promoting women’s health, has recently been prevented from further danger of losing financial support from the United States federal government. After months of debate, Congress passed a budget bill that enables Planned Parenthood health centers to continue offering services through federal programs.

The organization, which has been around for over 90 years, has aided and promoted the advancement of women's health by providing services such as birth control, HIV testing, cancer screenings, routine gynecological exams, sexually transmitted infection testing and treatment and education to more than three million Americans.

McClatchy-Tribune News Service
(MCT)
The following editorial will appear in the Kansas City Star on Tuesday, May 3.

For almost 10 years, The Kansas City Star editorial board has been holding a prepared obituary for Osama bin Laden. It was updated on occasion as events warranted. Finally, the version crafted by former editorial board member Bill Tammeus, written on behalf of the board, may be published:

The death of Osama bin Laden means the end of an evil man, not the demise of the evil ideas that drove him.

His twisted version of Islam still infects the hearts and minds of extremists around the globe. They see terrorism as a legitimate tool to further their political and religious ends because they pledge allegiance to bin Laden's contorted thinking, paranoid dreams and dangerous theology.
So any relief Americans feel about the death of bin Laden _ and there is great relief _ must be tempered by the realization that his ideas live on, at least for now.

From wikipedia:
Pincus Leff (May 2, 1907–April 3, 1993), better known as Pinky Lee, was an American burlesque comic and host of a children's television program, The Pinky Lee Show, in the early 1950s.

Born in Saint Paul, Minnesota, Lee worked as comic of the "baggy pants" variety on stage, becoming an expert at the slapstick, comic dancing and rapid-fire jokes of the burlesque style. During the 1940s, he was heard on Drene Time and other radio programs.

Watch a 1954 episode of The Pinky Lee Show, free from the Internet Archive.