Two rare baby African penguins hatch at Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park
Special to the Daily News
OKALOOSA ISLAND Gulfarium Marine Adventure Park is celebrating the holidays by announcing two new additions to its endangered African penguin family.
The first chick hatched at the Gulfarium on Okaloosa on Dec. 13, a news release from the Gulfarium said. The second hatched four days later.
The chicks parents, Ninja and Jelly, have previously brought four other offspring into the Gulfarium s penguin colony. Ninja and Jelly s first chick, Becky, hatched in December 2016 and quickly became a well-known member of the Gulfarium s animal family.
Becky s brother, Toto, hatched on Sept. 12, 2018. Timmy, their third chick, hatched on Dec. 20, 2019, and Sami, their fourth, hatched in March 2020.
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Despite the fact that most other states had created that system in some form, for years Brown resisted entreaties from researchers and advocates to allocate the funds to set one up.
But it was such a high priority for Newsom that, within days of taking office in 2019, he called for it in the second paragraph of his first budget as governor. He designated an initial $10 million for “critical work” to create what he called “the California Cradle-to-Career Data System” in order to “to better track student outcomes and increase the alignment of our educational system to the state’s workforce needs.”
The annual Jingle Bell Jog raised more than $2,000 for the Seven Friends Scholarship fund.
The presentation was made on the 27th anniversary of the deadliest traffic crash in Trigg County that claimed the lives of Steven Wallace, Joey Rogers, Dale Garner, Jeremy Gordon, Patrick Perry, David Lawrence, and Jesse Lawrence. The accident occurred on December 15, 1993, as the boys were returning to work at Knight and Hale Game Calls after going to Hilltop Market for dinner. Their car drifted across the center line on U.S. 68 and was hit by a truck driven by Steven Richardson. The family of the boys called Seven Friends established a scholarship fund.