An intern's thoughts on working with Heritage Newspapers

Hi, my name is Justin Lockard. I'm 22 years old and I guess you can say in the time reaching this blessed age I haven't been such a saint. Over that time I've lost, lived and learned a lot of great things, which makes me who I am today — a much wiser person in all aspects of myself and my life.

I work very hard,attend school, and I have lots of positive role models and friends. By all means, I stay out of drama. Oh and I might add I'm very smart — that's my intellectual side. I'm a fun guy. I like anything positive. I love to sing, and I hope to go somewhere with that gift one of theses days.

For the past four Mondays, I have been interning at Heritage Newspapers, learning how to write stories,edit, and research.

I must say that in this short time I have experienced a lot. My very first day I got to help shadow an exclusive story about a new law being passed in order to allow any one person to profit from selling baked goods and vegetables. I got to meet Gov.Granholm. I also got to shoot video, and I was on the news. My family loved that.

For the remainder of the time I've been here I have researched stories and written stories, one of which was published in the Chelsea Standard newspaper.

Learning these things have inspired me to want to write more and learn more. Being exposed to this kind of work has taught me you can never know enough about one topic. Everything is precise and well written. This has been a fun experience for me.