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	A ZOO FOR THE AGES Zoo founder’s descendant impressed with facility


	Brit Ibbotson poses in front of the Brit Spaugh Zoo main building. Ibbotson, an Arkansas native, is the great-grandson and namesake of zoo founder Brit Spaugh and was in Great Bend Saturday, seeing the zoo for the first time. View Larger View » < >

Brit Ibbotson had never been to Kansas prior to enrolling at Seward County Community College to play baseball last August. He certainly had never visited the Brit Spaugh Zoo in Great Bend. It may not sound significant that this Maumelle, Ark., college student had not been to the zoo. But, Ibbotson is the great-grandson and namesake of the facility’s founder Brit Spaugh and grew up hearing stories about it. That changed this past Saturday ...

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