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Zoo Meets Goal For Glacier Run Fundraising

The Louisville Zoo's fundraising campaign for the Glacier Run exhibit is over due to last-minute donations that helped the zoo secure a matching grant.In the fall of 2008, the Kresge Foundation promised to donate $900 thousand if the zoo could raise about $8 million by the end of this year.Director John Walzack says as of last month, the zoo was still several hundred thousand dollars short of that goal."These are certainly trying economic times, but we had faith and we are so overwhelmed by the generosity of our community that we just always had a positive outlook that were going to meet this goal," he says.Humana and the Ogle Foundation gave two large donations to top off the campaign. The money will go toward two exhibits within Glacier Run, both of which will open in 2012. The polar bear exhibit will open this spring.