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Were there any- If I…… Read More

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Or delighted you, these major events that may have affected zoos in general?… Read More

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Events that affected not only your zoo but zoos in general?… Read More

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It’s that cooperative level. So during your time at the zoo. Read More

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Are there any major events that you were aware of?… Read More

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Or concerned you?… Read More

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We did the sea lion pool. We built Lion’s Trace where we got the big cats. Out of the barred exhibits. We had over the years limited it down instead of having so many species. We only had five “cages,” of barred cages so you could – and four species… Read More

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How difficult was it to move those exhibits forward in a parks department situation?… Read More

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It took a lot longer than we wanted. The Friends of Glen Oak Zoo were raising money. It took some doing to get some of the park district people on board to help with it. So we were able to get the superintendent of parks at the time involved enough… Read More

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Did you want to build new exhibits and get rid of the bars?… Read More

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We did. It was… At the time Chuck had started a friends group. And so there were, and they had a board. And they had started raising money. You know, they contributed a few thousand dollars. Got some money to do some graphics. We built the eagle cage which worked… Read More

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But. They weren’t huge fundraisers. It wasn’t the movers and shakers that you really need if you’re gonna expand. So we had Zoo Days and Zoo Run runs. All the normal things like that. But the expense of trying to do new displays, you had to at the time do… Read More

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That one was under Chuck’s. We had some volunteers at the time. We expanded it a lot. Again, we developed more of the docents that would help do educational programming. And then there were some that would be working with the animal keepers. But yeah, it helped a lot to… Read More

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Did you start that as a volunteer program?… Read More

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So yeah, it’s more communications again. Read More

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Did you also have volunteers?… Read More

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Who started that?… Read More

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We did. Read More

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So sometimes you felt like a mom. Read More

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And sometimes you felt like a friend and sometimes you were the boss and just said hey, this is what we gotta do, you know?… Read More