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Using a hot glue gun, Sandy Buescher adheses sticks and moss into a a two-liter soda jug that ws cut in two as she makes a bug hotel for Katie Kloeppel, at right, during Friday's Earth Day MO activities at the Capitol. Kloeppel attends Visitation Inter-Parish School in Vienna and made the trip with classmates, teachers and parents to learn about and celebrate the natural environment. Buescher works for Department of Natural Resources Water Protection Program and was at one of nearly two dozen booths that were set up to show students about Missouri's environmental landscape.
More than 1,700 fifth-grade students, with parents and teachers in tow, scurried across the Missouri State Capitol's south lawn Friday.
Groups of students tossed flying discs to each other, raced each other up the Capitol's steps, tried their mettle in bean bag tosses and checked out the many activities set up...
