Wicomico Students Join Effort To Renew The Zoo Through Just Zoo It! Campaign

When you see tigers and bears approaching your door this Halloween, they may be armed with more than a bucket of candy.

This year children in Wicomico County may ask you to pull out your spare change to make a contribution to the Just Zoo It! project – an extension of the Renew the Zoo campaign – for the Salisbury Zoo.

“As we approach the final stages of our $3 million capital campaign, we want to involve the one group of people that benefits from the Zoo more than any other – the kids,” said Marty Neat, chairman of the Renew the Zoo campaign.

“Just Zoo It! will give kids the opportunity to be a part of the Zoo’s makeover and have fun doing it.”

All money collected by students and local business partners through the Just Zoo It! initiative will help fund the new Discover Australia exhibits at the Zoo.

The new exhibits will showcase some of the land down under, including the wallaby (a smaller version of the kangaroo) and a walk-thru aviary where visitors will be able to feed the birds up close.

How you can Just Zoo It!

Most Wicomico County public and private schools are participating to help distribute the coin canisters to area school children. If your child doesn’t come home from school with a Just Zoo It! coin canister, you can pick one up beginning Oct. 15 at the Salisbury Zoo, the Salisbury Area Chamber of Commerce (144 E. Main St.), or either Salisbury location of Barb’s Gift and Hallmark (805 S. Salisbury Blvd./313 Civic Ave.).

On Halloween night when your kids go trick-or-treating with a grown up, they can ask friends and neighbors for donations of spare change to help the Salisbury Zoo get a makeover. Canisters should be returned the week following Halloween per the instructions of each school. For other drop off times and locations, please visit www.RenewTheZoo.com.

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