Shangri La To Educate About Alligators in Saturday Program ,
May 5, 2009
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Michael Hoke, Managing Director
409.670.9113
Shangri La To Educate About Alligators in Saturday Program
ORANGE, Texas, May 5, 2009 – Alligators will be the focus of the next installment of Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center’s Saturday Adventure Series on May 9 from 9:30-10:30 a.m. This fun and exciting natural history lesson is open to the public with the purchase of a Shangri La admission ticket.
The program, titled Dinosaurs in the Bayou!, will observe Shangri La’s latest alligator visitor, Little Al. Participants will learn about alligators’ habitats, anatomy, distribution and prehistoric gusto in this safe and fun event.
No RSVP is required to attend the program. Participants should meet at the Shangri La Admission Window. This is a family-oriented event; however, all children under age 18 must be accompanied by an adult.
Shangri La is located at 2111 West Park Avenue, Orange, Texas. The newly constructed Shangri La Visitor Parking area will be open and available to Shangri La visitors free of charge.
To park at Shangri La, visitors should follow the signs to the Shangri La Visitor Parking lot located across West Park Ave. from the main Shangri La entrance. After parking, visitors should follow the boardwalk to the crosswalk at the intersection of West Park Ave. and 20th Street for passage to the new pedestrian entryway into Shangri La. A restricted access parking lot for vehicles with proper handicap designation is located just inside the vehicular entrance gate of Shangri La.
About Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center
The formal Botanical Gardens contain more than 300 plant species in five formal "rooms" as well as four sculpture "rooms" plus thousands of nesting birds in Ruby Lake. The Nature Center includes Adams Bayou boat excursions to educational outposts, a 15-acre Beaver Pond, a state-of-the-art bird blind, a bat house, and more up-close encounters with nature.
Shangri La Botanical Gardens and Nature Center was named one of the world’s top 10 green projects by the American Institute of Architects and was also the first project in Texas and the 50th project in the world to earn the U.S. Green Building Council's Platinum Certification for LEED®-NC, which verifies that the design and construction of Shangri La reached the highest green building and performance measures. Shangri La offers a glimpse of how people can live in harmony with nature, as it strives in its mission to Mentor Children of All Ages to Be Kind to Their World.
Additional programs of the Stark Foundation are the Stark Museum of Art, The W.H. Stark House and the Frances Ann Lutcher Theater for the Performing Arts.
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