Connellsville Zoo Suffers Financial Woes
The Board of Trustees
confirmed rumors today that the Connellsville Zoo is in deep financial
trouble and may be forced to close. With responsibility shared jointly by
the Connellsville and Odyssey city governments, the zoo has been in a
nose-dive since the death of Jolly Jumpers, their popular kangaroo
attraction and the loss of Peaches the Lion. Peaches was the center of a
fierce custody battle with the Centreville Zoo last year. Authorities at
that zoo claimed that Peaches belonged to them since they had commissioned
famed safari hunter Dirk Westinghouse to bring them a lion from Africa.
Connellsville Zoo maintained that Westinghouse's will named them as the
benefactors of Peaches and that it superseded any verbal agreement with
Centreville. The courts ruled in favor of the Centreville Zoo. Dirk
Westinghouse, who appeared in Africa last year and is presumed dead, was
unavailable for comment.
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article originally appeared in "The Odyssey Times," a
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