I would miss her ... I grew up with Jenny the gorilla and was saddened to hear she had reached old age. I met Jenny when I was only 10 and visited her every weekend with my boyfriend through high...
Re: "Billboards, stars plead pachyderm's case -- Group behind signs still trying to get animal moved from the zoo to a sanctuary," Thursday Metro. While volunteering at the Houston Zoo years ago, I learned that zookeepers treat the animals in...
Re: "Billboards, stars plead pachyderm's case -- Group behind signs still trying to get animal moved from the zoo to a sanctuary," Thursday Metro. Thank goodness for the "Jenny the Elephant" campaign billboards. "I'm Not Kidding" reads the caption below...
A Michigan zoo has come up with a clever way to raise money: invite people to pay to watch the animals have sex on Valentine's Day. Personally, I would pay cash money to watch Lily Tomlin talk dirty to Jenny...
Re: "My Christmas wishes," by Gail Blessing, Dec. 25 Community Opinions Letters. Forgive me if these wishes seem more like finger-pointing. I am appalled that Blessing credits DISD with producing obese and illiterate kids. Last I heard, parents were supposed...
So, has this officially become a national issue now the The New York Times has reported on the plight of Jenny, our very own "special-needs" elephant? The piece did provide some details that I must have missed somewhere in the...
No, that's not Jo at right sorting all our mail. Not even close, careful readers will observe. Matter of fact, almost all our mail arrives by e-mail these days, and sorting the mail involves rearranging a lot of electrons. Friday's...
The lead letter in Tuesday's letters package concerns the Sunnyvale bullying incident. Brad Cravens, Sunnyvale ISD school board president, denies that Sunnyvale administrators at first dismissed the abuse there as "normal bullying." He writes: When school officials learned of the...
Jenny the elephant is a popular gal. Who knew? We received a glut of letters from all over the U.S. and abroad, all of them pleading for Jenny to be sent to The Elephant Sanctuary instead of Africam Safari Park,...
Why, it's Jenny the elephant! (Who also happens to be todays (belated) topic of the day!) The editorial board met with PETA last week so that the group could present its argument for keeping Jenny in the states and moving...
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