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MONDAY, JULY 25, 2016
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‘MISSION’ ACCOMPLISHED
By Zach Hacker
“People always say it takes a
village to raise a family. It takes
Lisa Keith couldn’t help but get a whole community plus some to
a little emotional Saturday when
raise an exhibit at the zoo.”
discussing the grand opening of
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“Mission Madagascar.”
“It’s a dream come true,” the
zoo director at David Traylor Zoo
of Emporia said as she choked
back tears. “To see the smiles
on people’s faces and to see the
happiness of the lemurs — it is a
dream.”
Hundreds of excited guests
made their way to the zoo Saturday morning for the grand open-
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LISA KEITH,
Zoo Director
ing of “Mission Madagascar,” a
massive upgrade to the lemur exhibit that has been in the works
for nearly a decade. The new facilities include both an outdoor and
a temperature-controlled indoor
area for the lemurs that can be
viewed by the public year-round.
It also allows for breeding and
raising young lemurs; a process
that is already underway as twin
ring-tailed lemurs were born in
April — a first for David Traylor
Zoo.
According to Keith, the idea
came about when the Emporia Rotary Club saw a need for upgrades
in the old lemur exhibit, which
only allowed the creatures native
to Madagascar — a small island
nation off the southeastern coast
of Africa — to be viewed for a
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H A C K E R
Wynonna makes ‘Big Noise’ at Granada
COLYER GIVES
POSITIVE MESSAGE
AT ANNUAL PICNIC
By Zach Hacker
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ynonna and The Big Noise were a huge hit Sunday evening at the Granada Theatre. People were dancing,
cheering and yelling during many of her songs. She talked a lot about growing up poor with her mother,
Naomi Judd, and her actress sister, Ashley Judd, in the Appalachian mountains.
After playing for almost two hours she left the stage, but the crowd gave a standing
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ovation and cheered for almost five minutes until she returned for an encore.
Kansas Lieutenant Governor
Jeff Colyer reminded Lyon County
Republicans that “the rest of the
world is watching us” on Sunday.
Colyer was the keynote speaker
at the 2016 Lyon County Republican Picnic held at the Emporia Senior Center. A plastic and craniofacial surgeon by trade, he has been
the Lieutenant Governor under
Sam Brownback since 2011. He
has traveled the world volunteering with the International Medical
Corps, providing medical care in
places such as Syria, Afghanistan,
Sierra Leone and Rwanda, among
other places.
Those trips abroad, he told the
crowd of about 100, have given
him perspective on how not only
the United States, but even Kansas
is viewed on a global scale.
He exemplified this with a story
from a trip to South Sudan, where
he said he was the only American
working alongside doctors from
places all over the world. There,
he said the people he was working
with didn’t know he’s the Lieutenant Governor of Kansas, but only
as “Dr. Jeff.”
“There was a TV on in one of
the areas we could go and it was on
a feed from the BBC,” Colyer said.
“There was a crawl going across
the bottom and it said ‘Kansas.’
One of the people there said, ‘Kansas, that’s the real America. It’s
not New York or Hollywood, but
the real America.’ The rest of the
world is looking at us and is trying
to see what we’re going to do.”
Colyer said they are watching
because there are some difficult
decisions that will need to be made
in the near future. Though he said
there has been a lot of doom and
gloom coming out of Topeka in recent years, there have been a lot of
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