Junior Zookeeper program meetings to be held this week

Posted on March 6, 2016

The Miller Park Zoo is holding Junior Zookeeper informational meetings March 7, 8 and 10. (Photo courtesy Miller Park Zoological Society)

By Joe Ragusa

BLOOMINGTON – If your child wants to be a Junior Zookeeper at the Miller Park Zoo, you’ll have to attend one of the three informational meetings being held this week.

Miller Park Zoo director Jay Tetzloff said the meetings will be held March 7, 8 and 10.

“If you’re interested, come out and just learn. If you’re not interested, that’s fine, but the only way to get in is to come to one of these meetings, get the information and submit the application,” Tetzloff said. “It’s a fantastic program. There is no program like this out there anywhere else I have been or seen.”

It doesn’t cost anything to attend the meeting, but the summer camp itself costs $199 for Miller Park Zoological Society members and $259 for non-members.

Joe Ragusa can be reached at [email protected].

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