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Taste: Event showcases downtown dining options
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port downtown businesses and meet neighbors. Joellen Akin, a 48-year-old Lansing resident, wrapped pink wristbands on people as they paid their $15 to access the event. “I like to help promote downtown, and it looked like a chance to get to meet people,” she said. The event also drew in people from out-of-town. Katie Maloney, a 35-yearold Grand Ledge resident, noticed a sign for the event as she was eating lunch downtown one day. It sparked her curiosity, so she decided to explore the offerings Saturday with friend Stephanie Black, a 29-yearold Lansing resident. “We’re still trying to figure out what the catch is,” Maloney said. “It seems a little too good to be true that
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Sampling the cuisine: Kelia Gabriel watches her 2-year-old daughter, Alana, successfully dip into a sampling of salsa Saturday at Taste of Downtown in Lansing. you get to choose from all these wines.” There was no catch, though. Organizers just hoped people would come back for more of anything they liked.
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“I hope that the people who come here really see that downtown is a great place to visit, and a great place to come back to,” Pawloski said.
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