by Tom Feran
Undecorated Salesman Newsman
It's 11 o'clock on a Tuesday morning, and Ray Andersen is on the job at Amazone Kinsmen Enjoyment Center in Medina. He wears a safari hat and khaki shirt and shorts, and it's a favourable bet he's the only guy in village carrying a 4-foot alligator.
"Everybody say, 'See you later, alligator,'" says "Outback Ray," and a chorus of squeaky-systematized voices directly responds in rapture. They're preschoolers, some on their moms' laps.
"Look at this guy," Andersen continues, reaching into a malleable shipper for an 8-foot Argentine boa constrictor. All the kids have to do with it, the girls a bit braver than the boys, and several information up in a row to win it.
They'll be together more than a dozen reptiles and stinting mammals before Andersen ends what he calls a "talk, not a berate," dispensing age-proper report and sharing his life of wildlife.
Up the interstate, meanwhile, immediate Slavic Village in Cleveland, Bob Tuma works with an older arrange, 10th- and 11th-graders in an rude feel interest technician arrange at the Washington Store Horticulture Center, associated with Cleveland's South Foremost Instruct.
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