News 19 July 2019

Library director hopes animals will inspire reading

Did you know that box turtles can live up until their eighties? Or that corn snakes were given their name because of the corn-like pattern on their stomach, not because they like to eat corn? Or did you know that even one snake on a farm can save a farmer $10,000 a year by eating the pests that destroy crops? 
These are only some of the facts that the kids and parents learned who attended the Animal Ambassador program at the community center this past Friday. 
The Animal Ambassador Program is put on by the Blank Park Zoo and is a program the library has brought to town for the past few years. 
For more on this story see the July 16 Tribune.

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