Students raise money to buy new bison for park
Thursday, April 22, 2004
RAYTOWN, Mo. -- Students hold fund raisers for all sorts of things: new band uniforms, class trips, proms. Members of the Family and Consumer Science Club at Raytown Middle School used proceeds from their sales and raffle to buy a bison. The animal, named "Dakota" by students at the school, was purchased as a replacement for one of the four animals shot and killed last summer at the Native Hoofed Animal Enclosure in Fleming Park, in the adjacent Kansas City suburb of Blue Springs.
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