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VOL. 61, NO. 18
Residents react to bin Laden’s death
While some
celebrate,
others reflect
By James Dickson
and Amy Bell
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when Ann Arbor’s Max
Hernandez saw his message
light blinking, he checked
his voicemail immediately.
“You don’t need to
be afraid anymore,”
Hernandez’s brother said in
a yell to overcome the bar
noise in the background.
“They got him, Bro. Osama
bin Laden is dead!”
Hernandez, 23, was only
an eighth-grader when the
Photo by Kevin Doby
Joseph West (left) and his dad, Brian, help trim trees at the home of Becky Busha during Christmas in Action
on Saturday.
Volunteers help neighbors
Service project
helps to care
for homes
By Kevin Doby
Heritage Media
Local residents in Milan
and Saline banded together
Saturday to help their
neighbors in need during
the annual community
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United States was hit by the
terrorist attacks of Sept. 11,
2001.
“When it happened, I was
in class, and I thought it
was a joke, or a normal fire.
At first, I didn’t take it seri-
ously, but then we all saw
the second plane hit and the
surrealness set in.”
“I’m glad he’s dead,”
Hernandez said. “It’s weird
to celebrate someone’s
service project “Christmas
in Action.”
Volunteers helped low-
income, handicapped and
elderly neighbors with
home repairs and clean-up
that they couldn’t do or
afford themselves.
Tim Potter, whose father,
Dave, helped organize
Christmas in Action in
Saline, is now the leader of
the Saline chapter.
“There is a need for peo-
ple or neighbors who don’t
death.”
But Hernandez’s cousin,
Kale Houton, didn’t see bin
Laden’s death as a time for
celebration.
“Death, of any sort,
should never be a happy
thing, certainly nothing to
celebrate,” Houton said.
“The kind of thing going on
right now, the celebrating,
is probably the same thing
that was going on over there
have the resources or funds
to stay in their houses.
They need help with main-
tenance,” he said
In Milan, volunteers
helped out at four homes,
while in Saline three
houses were worked on.
Services included general
yard clean up such as tree
trimming, brush removal
and landscaping; the instal-
lation of hand rails to allow
for easier access to different
levels of homes; and the
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