From Bow ties to exotic animals

Each student at Medicine Bow Elementary was given bright teal shirts with the words "Earth Day" written across the front. They wore those shirts while they spent the day cleaning up their town.

To the student's dismay, they couldn't keep the shirts just yet. So they handed their shirts to teachers Shelley Cooper and Heather Booth, who gave it to the secretary Courtney Priest.

"If we let the kids keep them, we might not get them back," Priest said jokingly. "They will wear these shirts to school every day, until the day that we head down to the Zoo."

On May 30 of this year, staff at Medicine Bo...