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June/July 2009

CityView Magazine - Fayetteville, NC

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Top | To some, the hospital may not look impressive, but it is home to some of the best turtle wound specialists in the country. Above | Turtles are cared for year- round. One waits for its next meal, a large serving of fresh crab. about educating a visiting public. “One of the kids who comes here to see them might save the planet someday and we have to offer that opportunity.” Visitors may not find fancy digs at the Karen Beasley Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Center, but they will find a dedicated and knowledgeable group. Once a day, early in the morning, the sea water system that feeds the turtles’ storage tank is shut off for four hours while the turtles are tended and fed. This prevents food from being sucked into the system and lost. During that four-hour stretch, the water clouds with 60|June/July • 2009 sediment and waste to the point where the turtles can’t be seen. When the system is turned back on, the water begins to clear. And there is Beasley, watching and waiting. “I love it when the water clears and I can see them again,” she says. It’s more than just the turtles themselves that Beasley sees in the clearing water, it’s the clear legacy of her daughter, in whose name she continues to do this work. “Of course,” she says. “This whole facility reflects that.”CV

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