About 100 residents attended the meeting to support keeping the zoo alive.
Commissioners Chairman Percy Daugherty said it would be a travesty to close the facility. But he says the commissioners will be looking to area school boards to help fund it as well, because so many children attend the zoo on class field trips and assignments.
Indeed, the 170-animal park's core audience is young families, and executive director Stacey Johnson has already proposed changing the name to the Lehigh Valley Children's Zoo.
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Information from: The Morning Call, http://www.mcall.com
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