The glass pillar at the front of Metropolitan Community Church of Illiana filled slowly with small cups of pink, blue, purple and white sand until it was full and two smaller glass vessels were placed on either side of it until they, too, began to fill with sand.
Bob Cisneros, associate director of animal care at the zoo, Sasha came from Rolling Hills Zoo in Kansas, is settling in her new habitat in the zoo’s Asian Highlands exhibit and is acclimating well.