Stephanie Bruner and her husband, Joe, are veterinarians. They also have a few conventional pets (dogs, cats, hermit crabs) and a few unconventional pets (gecko) in their home. Their son, Pierce, is a third-grade student at Symmes Elementary who owns and loves box turtles.
So, when the family found a box turtle on the side of the highway a few years ago, Pierce, along with his brother Grant, a sixth-grader at Edwin H. Greene Intermediate, and sister Alexandra, a first-grader at Symmes, rescued the little guy, marked him with red nail polish for tracking purposes and released him on the Symmes Nature Trail, behind Symmes Elementary.
?We are really fortunate to have a beautiful extension of nature in the backyard of Symmes Elementary. The nature trail offers tranquility, education and beauty all in one,? said Anne Van Kirk, Symmes Elementary principal. ?It was originally created in 1992 by Symmes staff members and parents, and for the last five years Steve Reinke, Symmes science teacher, has been committed to ongoing expansion and improvements to the trail.?
The Bruners have hiked the trail on numerous occasions looking for their friend, but so far, there?s been no sighting.
That hasn?t diminished Pierce?s desire to find and rescue other
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