2 Thursday, July 11, 2019 The Michigan Daily — michigandaily.com NEWS Sudoku Syndication http://sudokusyndication.com/sudoku/generator/print/ 1 of 1 5/26/09 3:34 PM SUDOKU HARD 2 1 4 9 1 3 8 3 5 8 1 8 3 4 2 6 5 2 9 8 5 1 8 4 7 © sudokusolver.com. For personal use only. Generate and solve Sudoku, Super Sudoku and Godoku puzzles at sudokusyndication.com! SWEETNER puzzle by sudokusyndication.com A2 siblings create signery after storm ‘U’ student, brother creates signs from materials wrecked in windstorm After a straight-line windstorm carrying up to 100 miles per hour winds devastated Northern Michigan on Aug. 2, 2015, Ann Arbor siblings Bella and Zack Pryor felt inspired to take action. They started making wooden signs out of the old fences, broken docks and scraps of wood found in Glen Arbor and selling them — thus creating MichAgain Signery. Bella, a Business sophomore at the University of Michigan, and her younger brother Zach, a junior at Pioneer High School, spend about three months each summer in Glen Arbor with their family. When the windstorm hit, they felt its impacts first-hand. “We’ve been coming up to Glen Arbor, Michigan since we were born basically,” Bella Pryor said. “After the storm, there were a lot of trees down and just a lot of general devastation on the hiking trails and bike trails.” Bella Pryor said wood such as docks, fences and farm structures had been damaged during the storm, and they did not want to let it all go to waste. “We just decided to get a trailer and just load up some wood and bring it home,” she said. The Pryor siblings had an idea to use the wood from the storm to make wood signs representing the parts of Glen Arbor most special to them using design and art. “What inspired us to make the signs in particular rather than other wood products was so that we could use art as a way to also express the beautiful areas that are in Northern Michigan,” Bella Pryor said. Attendees participated in book swap, family friendly events The Ypsilanti Freighthouse hosted the first annual Booksilanti Readers’ Fair on Saturday. The day-long fair featured book swaps, a market for local book shops and authors and child-friendly activities like story times and a bookmark- making station. Black Stone Bookstore & Culture Center, located in downtown Ypsilanti, was one of the vendors at the event. As an African-American bookstore and cultural center, Black Stone sells books about African-American diaspora. The store also houses Black Men Read, a literacy program that works to normalize Blackness and highlight the cultural contributions of Black people through literature. Owner Kip Johnson said as an Ypsilanti native, he was thrilled at the chance to be a part of Booksilanti. “How could I not be a vendor?” Johnson said. “Anything that’s dealing with literacy programs, dealing with Ypsilanti, you’ve got to come and support.” Jessica Tapley, an attendee of the fair and self-proclaimed book lover, said she came to see the bookstores and artists and support vendors. She echoed Johnson’s sentiments about the fair being a space that highlights Ypsilanti’s community and culture. “I thought it was really cool,” Tapley said. “I just like seeing the community of book lovers in Ypsi.” According to Julie Palmer, the assistant events manager at the Ypsilanti Freighthouse and School of Literature, the event was meant to evoke the sense of community Johnson and Tapley both felt. Palmer, a University of Michigan alum, explained while a love of literature underlines Booksilanti, she wanted the event to reflect the diversity in Ypsilanti’s communities. “In true, unique Ypsi style, we wanted to highlight the best and brightest from our own community,” Palmer said. “There began some fun brainstorming and just new ideas about how we could celebrate many aspects that are tied to a love of books, whether it’s reading books, buying books… All of that was what we wanted to bring here.” Palmer also hopes Booksilanti will help draw the already close-knit Ypsilanti community together. “My personal hope is that they experience joy, community, connection, and that we continue to fuel their love of reading, their love of books,” Palmer said. 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