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Zoo Pays For Barns At Safari Venture
Taxpayer-backed Lowry Park Zoo has built two barns at zoo President Lex Salisbury's private exotic-animal attraction in Polk County. ...more
September 10, 2008
Zoo Pays For Barns At Safari Venture
TAMPA - Taxpayer-backed Lowry Park Zoo has built two barns at zoo President Lex Salisbury's private exotic-animal attraction in Polk County. ...more
September 9, 2008
Lowry Park Zoo Calls For Audit To Ferret Out Conflicts
The Lowry Park Zoo's board has called for an independent financial audit of dealings with Safari Wild to determine whether any zoo money was used for the private exotic animal park co-owned by zoo President Lex Salisbury. ...more
August 29, 2008
Tampa Zoo Calls For Audit Over Ties To Exotic Animal Park
The Lowry Park Zoo's board has called for an independent financial audit of dealings with Safari Wild to determine whether any zoo money was used for the private exotic animal park co-owned by zoo President Lex Salisbury. ...more
August 28, 2008
Zoo Makes Necessary Divorce From Director's Venture
Lowry Park Zoo President Lex Salisbury has helped transform what 20 years ago was the country's worst zoo into what Child Magazine rates as the nation's best for its size. ...more
August 28, 2008
Zoo's Link To Planned Safari Wild Is Murky
From the beginning, Lowry Park Zoo President Lex Salisbury insisted that his Safari Wild exotic animal park in Lakeland would be a separate, private venture. ...more
August 23, 2008
E-Mail Show Lowry Boss Used Zoo Staff For Private Enterprise
From the beginning, Lowry Park Zoo President Lex Salisbury insisted that his Safari Wild exotic animal park in Lakeland would be a separate, private venture. But a series of e-mails obtained by The Tampa Tribune show that the zoo's paid administrative staffers have worked to promote and garner political favor for Salisbury's private animal park. ...more
August 22, 2008
Red Tape Entangles Safari Wild In Lakeland
The biggest adventure going on at Safari Wild exotic animal park in Lakeland seems to be the effort to bushwhack through the bureaucratic mess that halted the project. ...more
August 18, 2008
State, Neighbors Aren't Wild About Safari Park
The trouble caused by the patas monkeys that escaped Lex Salisbury's rural Polk County exotic animal park in April has extended beyond the mostly unsuccessful effort to recapture the wily primates. ...more
May 31, 2008
Spreading Its Wings
From its perch along busy Busch Boulevard, Temple Terrace Animal & Bird Hospital is as cozy and cuddly as the pets cared for, boarded and groomed there. ...more
February 16, 2008
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