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In a quaint, mid-western city, a local photographer decided to do what she could to help her hometown escape the clutches of devastating recession. Equipped with her camera, a note pad, and a mission, she set about on a three year journey to walk every street in Lansing, Michigan. Through her adventures she found a captivated audience who cheered her on, invited her in, and anticipated her story. Her journey began as an effort to help lead Lansing out of the Great Recession, but became a much bigger life lesson of community, volunteerism, and urban development.

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"With her A City Saunter Story memoir and the accompanying The City Saunter Project, a best-of recollection of her photojournalistic adventure of walking the entirety of the City of Lansing's streets, Ariniko O'Meara has created something really, really special. As I read Ariniko's memoir, two things happened: I experienced a wave of nostalgia as I relived parts of my youth that intersected her own story, and I experienced newfound hope for Lansing's future after having watched from afar the city suffer amidst a crushing economic decline. Together, Ariniko's two books recount in complementary ways an amazing, emotional, multiyear journey to better understand herself and Michigan's capital city--the people, places, activities, memories, and dreams that comprise what we both lovingly call ""home."" --Commander Mike Beidler, U.S. Navy (Retired)"

With her A City Saunter Story memoir and the accompanying The City Saunter Project, a best-of recollection of her photojournalistic adventure of walking the entirety of the City of Lansing's streets, Ariniko O'Meara has created something really, really special. As I read Ariniko's memoir, two things happened: I experienced a wave of nostalgia as I relived parts of my youth that intersected her own story, and I experienced newfound hope for Lansing's future after having watched from afar the city suffer amidst a crushing economic decline. Together, Ariniko's two books recount in complementary ways an amazing, emotional, multiyear journey to better understand herself and Michigan's capital city--the people, places, activities, memories, and dreams that comprise what we both lovingly call home. --Commander Mike Beidler, U.S. Navy (Retired)

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Ariniko actively strives to find the best in everything. Either through her writing or her photography, she showcases the simple, yet endearing qualities of places she's been, people she's met, and activities in which she's participated. Her love of writing and photography have finally coalesced in a wonderful project where she walked her entire hometown. Through this three year project to walk every street in Lansing, Michigan, she found a calling to be a part of something so much bigger than she anticipated. Married to her high school sweetheart, Ariniko is a mother, a grandmother, a photographer, and a writer, who lives in East Lansing, Michigan.

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