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Did you start that as a volunteer program?… 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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So yeah, it’s more communications again. Read More

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Did you also have volunteers?… Read More

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We did. Read More

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Who started that?… 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

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Whether it was my decision or it was passed down. You could grumble about it, but this is the way it is and you just do the best you can with what you got and you keep moving forward. You mentioned that you had part-time keepers. Read More

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Come back in an hour. Read More

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(laughs) You know?… Read More

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And now I’ve gotta call the director of parks and let him know this is coming up and he thought I was kidding and I’m like we’re not kidding. You know, and we had to do some research and come up with a plan of how we were gonna attack… Read More

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So you’re the director. Read More

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How would you describe your management style?… Read More

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It probably changed. Again, I think I tried to include people. Sometimes it worked, sometimes it didn’t. And. I’m not sure. It depended on each situation. You know, sometimes you just get real frustrated ’cause you got so much on your plate and you’re having to deal with stuff that… Read More

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I just thought how can that be?… Read More

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But then the more research we got into it, we figured out it wasn’t, nobody had come to the zoo. And done an analyzation and gone to all these different zoos and that person writing it. It was they had just put out a survey to people and obviously somebody… Read More

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‘Cause I hadn’t, I heard that one. I don’t know if I ever told you that. Bob Wagner took me aside at one of the conferences that we were at. I’m trying to remember where we were. And I thought well this is kind of odd, you know. The big… Read More

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That was in the Sunday newspapers?… Read More

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And we were listed as one of the 10 worst zoos in the United States. That was a massive blow to me personally. Read More