Staff Writer

Okay, everyone I am not officially on a Blog. Still not quite sure what a Blog is but I am willing to try.
I want to start out by telling everyone that it is very exciting for me to be out in the Western Provinces (Heritage lingo) and I want to say that I enjoy covering Belleville and Ypsilanti sports.
Since I have started at these papers I have met and talked with some great coaches from both cities. I have even tried my hardest to incorporate the smaller school like Ypsilanti Calvary Christian. Sometimes it can be difficult to get all the coaches to contact me back.
I have to say that I am use to covering a lot more teams when I was at the News-Herald. So I want people to know that I can cover and put in all the local sport content they can give me. Ideally I would like to have a feature and game stories every week.
If anyone has any feature ideas please let me know. I really want to try and include all the information I get. The spring season is so short and quick that I would love to have story ideas left over for when the games are over and I can still write about players, events, coaches and all the other information.
I have also started doing stories on athletes who are not in college and participating in sports at a collegiate level. This is exciting for me because I am learning about some of these athletes that I never covered but are doing well in college.
Listen, I would also love to do stories on students who go on to college and succeed in other areas than sports. Maybe you know someone who is in drama and they are doing plays in college. Great, let me know drop me a line 734-697-8255 or email me dmerchant@heritage.com. I don't care how I get the information my goal is to get the kids in the paper and give the parents, grandparents and students something to clip out and save for a scrap book.
Journalism is a part of history and I like to write articles that people can read years from now. I want people to open them up 20 years from now and say I remember that or I wonder what ever happen to that nice reporter, Dave Merchant. Just kidding I don't need any recognition.
Not everyone can be a superstar but I tell you what I can write about everyone in high school like they are a superstar. Give me a chance and let me work for you.
See ya later and happy blogging.