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Milan student Make sure to click on www.

heritage.com around the
clock for in-depth coverage
of Washtenaw County. Our

dances for
“Most Viewed” story this week
is “Local therapist Ronald
Harrison dies while snorkel-
ing.”

Chicago crowd Check out our videos:

■ 2 for U
Alli Zajac shows Poggi won the “Voice of
McDonald’s” worldwide sing-
■ Justin Verlander 1K
■ Marijuana moratorium
off talent for ing contest as a McDonald’s
employee and was asked to
■ Protest outside 19th
District Court
crowd of 22,000 perform at the Chicago event.
McDonald’s produced the song
By Lori Maranville “Without You” just for Poggi to Check out our blogs:
Special Writer
sing at the event. She also sang ■ Inside the Newsroom
Alli Zajac, 18, is used to per- “Firecracker” by Katy Perry ■ ideaLabHeritage
forming, but the prospect of and “You Belong to Me” by Photos by Kevin Doby

dancing for a crowd of 22,000 Taylor Swift. Marlo Diaz-Tuelo and her sons, 3-year-old Lockwood and 4-year-old Logan, participated in
people in Chicago was enough Poggi asked Zajac to choreo-
graph the dancing for the show.

Easter egg hunt

to take her breath away –– and
to make “I was really excited and
her dreams honored when she asked me,”
come true. Zajac said. “I started thinking
The of choreography right away and
Milan High I wanted it to be perfect.” Connect with
School Zajac said it’s nice to have a
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draws crowd inside

senior
danced dur-
ing the half-
time show
at the 2011
McDonald’s Zajac
All-
American Basketball Game
March 31 at the United Center
in Chicago. Now in its 34th
year, the all-star game features
highly-recruited high school
basketball players from across
the country.
What made Zajac’s role in
the event remarkable was the
fact that the dance grew out of
her own imagination, choreo-
graphed to match the soulful
singing of her cousin, 19-year-
old Fatima Poggi of Pinckney.
cousin close in age and that the
experience was a dream come
true for both.
“It’s great that we share and
can be a part of each other’s
dreams.”
She and Poggi were accom-
panied by three other dancers,
Abby Sudney, Brittany Michael
and Whitney Grell, all of
Pinckney. The group spent a
month preparing for their half-
time show.
A lifetime of experience and
a passion for dance was enough
to keep Zajac from being too
nervous about performing,
although she admits to having a
“breakdown” about 15 minutes
before the show.
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Click on the “jobs” tab
on the home page of our
website or go directly to
http://jobs.heritage.com.
Bad weather prompts new
location for annual event
Join us on Twitter:
By Kevin Doby We have 1,189 followers
Heritage Media
on Twitter. Become a Milan
Inclement weather forced the Milan Parks and News-Leader follower.
Recreation Easter Egg Hunt to be moved from Click on the Twitter tab
Wilson Park to the nearby Milan Senior and on the home page or go
Community Activity Center April 16. directly to http://twitter.com/
SalineMilanNews.
Still, more than 140 kids signed up for the hunt
and were broken up into various age groups.
“This is kind of a tradition for us. We do it for the
fun of it,” said Todd Michesney, who was there with
his two kids.

Author to present “I’m really good at finding things,” his son, Sam
said. “I found a lot last year.”
After the children went on their mad search for

in Milan Wednesday
Jim DuFresne to
talk about Isle
Royale at 7:30
By Kevin Doby
Heritage Media
The Milan Community House
will be briefly transformed into
Isle Royale 7:30 p.m. Wednesday,
when author Jim DuFresne
gives a presentation about the
island.
A graduate of Michigan State
University with a degree in
journalism, DuFresne wrote
his first book about the wilder-
ness that is Isle Royale in 1982
after serving as the sports and
outdoors editor for The Juneau
Empire in Alaska, where his
love for the outdoors was gener-
ated.
His presentation will give
viewers information about
the island, its history, and the
moose and wolves that are
native to the island.
“In today’s world where you
are so connected to your cell
phone, email, Twitter, whatever,
it’s a place where you can go
and totally get away from it all,”
DuFresne said.
Located in the northwest cor-
ner of Lake Superior, the park
consists of one large island sur-
rounded by 450 smaller islands.
With submerged land included,
the park encompasses 850
square miles.
There are no roads, and no
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eggs, looking especially hard for the two with the
yellow Peeps inside to get an extra gift, they had an Join us on
opportunity to have their photograph taken with Facebook:
the Easter Bunny. We have 502 fans on
“Our Easter Bunny has been doing this for 32
years,” said program director Ellen Bell, “and this
Facebook. Click on the
Facebook tab on the home
is his last year. He’s retiring as Easter Bunny.”
The fact that the hunt had to be moved inside
page of our website or search
for us on Facebook.
may have made the event a little less traditional,
but it didn’t affect the kids’ excitement.
Bell gave each group instructions at the begin-
ning of the hunt and asked the kids if they were
ready.
“Yeah!” they screamed in unison.
“I can’t hear you,” she said. The Marketplace:
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The next few minutes were filled with mad scur- away at the MIcentral.com
rying and crawling as kids picked up eggs, candy marketplace. While you are
and small bags of pretzels off of the ground. there, you can check out
all the special supplements
“We’ve never done this before, but it was great.
It was just so positive,” said Lorna Diaz-Tuelo, of Journal Register Co.
Sarah Gardner and her son, Jaidyn, newspapers in Michigan.
who was there with her sons, 4-year-old Owen and found lots of treats during the Milan
Click on “marketplace” on
3-year-old Lockwood. “We love that it wasn’t just Easter Egg Hunt April16 at the Milan the home page of our website
Easter eggs. This was better than Halloween.” Senior and Community Activity Center. or go directly to www.
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a book discussion 1 p.m. May 9 at the Milan Public information, and ask for the audience’s participation
Library, 151 Wabash St., in Milan. It’s open to the in sharing story leads and crowdsourcing.
■ Fundraiser set May 7: The Milan High School
public. For more information, call 439-2714 . ■ Bowling for Bunnies to be held: Great Lakes
Printed junior varsity and varsity cheer team will hold a car
on wash from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 7 at the Milan Area ■ Video highlights upcoming stories, asks for Rabbit Sanctuary, located in Augusta Township, will
recycled Fire Department. The event aims to raise funds for audience participation: Heritage Media displays hold Bowling for Bunnies from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at
paper the girls to attend cheerleading camp in June. a new video every day at www.heritage.com called Plaza Lanes, 42001 Ann Arbor Road, in Plymouth.
■ Book discussion to be held May 9: Jodi Picoult, “2forU” that features local reporters talking about Cost is $15 for adults and $11 for children. Tickets
author of “Sing You Home, House Rules,” and the stories they’re working on for the upcoming edi- include pizza, pop, shoes and two games of bowling.
numerous other novels exploring domestic life dra- tions of various Heritage publications, including Call 1-734-455-2847 for more information.

Spring Hometown Concert featuring

The Jeremy Kittel Band
May 7, 2011 Saline Middle School
Tickets/Info: (734) 224-8725 or www.fiddlersrestrung.com