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CONTACT: Tom Gillespie FOR RELEASE: Aug. 29, 2001 Telephone: 336-879-7202
N.C. Zoo Media Advisory

ASHEBORO – The North Carolina Zoo Society’s new Valerie H. Schindler Wildlife Rehabilitation Center at the N.C. Zoo will be open for news media tours Tuesday, Sept.4, from 1-3 p.m.

The much-needed rehabilitation center is staffed exclusively by trained volunteers and will care for injured native (non-zoo) wildlife. The center became a reality through gifts from corporations and individual donors and is named for the wife of retired Durham chemist Dr. Anton Schindler, the primary donor.

This will likely be the only time non-staff personnel will be able to tour the facility because of state and zoo regulations limiting visitation because of the threat of contamination from both humans to animals and from animals to humans.

News media representatives who wish to tour the facility are asked to come to the zoo’s Stedman Education Center lobby between 1-3 p.m. for transportation to the center.

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