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September 4, 2024 candgnews.com
Macomb County and Grosse Pointe papers
SEPTEMBER TO BRING AN ART TAKEOVER OF THE VILLAGE BY K. MICHELLE MORAN
kmoran@candgnews.com
GROSSE POINTE CITY — Village visitors will be able to “fall” for art this September, as autumn starts on a bright note in the Grosse Pointe City business district. Art Takeover will return for its second year, bringing original works to participating businesses. From Sept. 5 to 30, about 84 local artists will be showing their work at 35 Village stores and restaurants. Some artworks will be outside. “We are really excited about the event,” said Art Takeover organizer Michelle Boggess-Nunley, owner of Posterity Art & Framing Gallery in The Village. “This year is even bigger and better. The goal is to create an identity for The Village.” An opening night reception will take place from 5 to 7:30 p.m. Sept. 5 in The Village, with many participating businesses offering See ART on page 5A
RIGHT: Jason Nuttall, of Bay City, is one of the Michigan artists chosen for Art Takeover. ABOVE: Miguel Yeoman, of Eastpointe, is an acrylic painter who will have work in Art Takeover this year. Photos provided by Michelle Boggess-Nunley
BANDIA THE GORILLA FLOURISHING AS A FIRST-TIME MOTHER AT DETROIT ZOO Bandia, 26, gave birth to her baby at the Detroit Zoo on the morning of Aug. 8. Bandia and her baby, seen here Aug. 23, can now be seen in the gorilla habitat at the Detroit Zoo. Photo by Erin Sanchez
BY TAYLOR CHRISTENSEN tchristensen@candgnews.com
ROYAL OAK — For the first time in the Detroit Zoo’s 96-year history, a baby gorilla has been born at it, and according to the zoo’s experts, the first few weeks of the baby gorilla’s life have been ideal. On Aug. 26, the Detroit Zoological Society announced that the baby gorilla is a girl, and the public will help choose her name. On the morning of Aug. 8, the baby girl was born to 26-year-old Bandia, a first-time mother. The father is 36-year-old Mshindi, and both are doing well as parents, according to Detroit Zoological Society mammal and primate teams. Aaron Jesue, a member of the animal care staff specializing in great apes, said that the coming of this new baby was fast and surprising, being that it took a little less than a year for Bandia to get pregnant and have a baby. Bandia, Mshindi, 11-year-old Nayembi and 20-year-old Tulivu, all arrived in August of 2023. Jesue said that the group has been acclimating well to the new addition. “As soon as we saw that first pregnancy test — then we got another confirmation a couple weeks later, or maybe a month later — everything kicked into high gear,” Jesue said. “We were enjoying See GORILLA on page 4A