With baby animals in need, Wildlife Rescue Center opens its doors to the public

The Wildlife Rescue Center in Ballwin is opening its doors to the public for the first time in three years. The center's annual open houses were suspended, along with other public events, at the end of 2019 due to stormwater damage to the building that required extensive repairs.

“We had a very serious storm, one of these once-in-1,000-years type of situations,” Executive Director Kim Rutledge told St. Louis on the Air. “Our volunteers came in and found about three inches of water in the lobby, office building and classroom. We decided to forego our usual fall event in 2019, thinking that we would be able to have our spring event in 2020.”

Of course, due to the coronavirus pandemic, plans to resume public events in spring 2020 did not work out.