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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>April 23<sup>rd</sup> is Earth Day at the Museum of the Earth and <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Cayuga Nature Center!<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Featuring the Museum’s Annual Dino Eggstravaganza and <o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Butterfly House seed planting at Cayuga Nature Center</span></b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Special joint admission price all week April 18-24th<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>Celebrate Earth Day with The Museum of the Earth at the Paleontological Research Institution (PRI), and Cayuga Nature Center (CNC) with their first annual joint Earth Day program April 23, 2011. PRI will feature their annual Dino Eggstravaganza with an egg hunt from 11am-1pm and family fun and crafts from 11am-3pm. At CNC help feed butterflies this summer by planting seeds for their butterfly house from 12noon-4pm. As an Earth Day special, PRI and CNC will offer a special dual admission price of $10 adults, $6 students/seniors and $3 youth.to both organizations for the entire week of April 18-April 24<sup>th</sup>.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>This year the Museum will combine Earth Day with its ever popular Dino Eggstravaganza, the Museum’s<b> </b></span><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>annual egg hunt held inside the Museum. The event will consist of an all-out search for eggs throughout the Museum (including a special area for the younger toddlers), Egg and Earth Day centered activity tables and a specimen touch table with fun egg specimens for visitors to explore. The kids will have an opportunity to take part in a number of great take-home craft activities using biodegradable materials. Make an eggshell planter, or an eggshell mosaic. Do some Egg-speriments and learn why heavy mama dinosaurs didn’t crush their eggs in the nest. Perform an Egg-excavation and handle real dinosaur eggs and compare them to the eggs of living animals<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>At CNC plant some seeds that will feed the butterflies in the butterfly house later on in the season, walk the trails and watch the animal feeding at 12noon.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=view6><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span class=view6><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'>For more information about the Museum of the Earth go to museumoftheearth.org or call 607.273.6623 x 33. For more information on Cayuga Nature Center please visit the nature center website at: cayuganaturecenter.org , or call 273-2620 or like them both on Facebook.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"'><o:p> </o:p></span></p></div></body></html>