red eared slider diet

trust. the football stadium is named. the basketball arena at college park has a name. so why not name a turtle at the

red eared slider diet, national aquarium. and once you hear whats behind the naming of this loggerhead, i think this maybe the easiest

vote you have ever made. abc 2 news tony marsala with the story of 'ed"this is the little baby loggerhead at the national aquarium in baltimore. he needs a name. ed seems like a good name...ed the loggerhead. makes sense, seems right. in fact, for a very good reason,

it's the perfect name. we call her ed, that was her nickname around here. we had several students and employees who's names were erin and we went by her initials and shortened it to ed. ed, for erin drumm. erin drumm, the sixteen year old

swim instructor at the aqua culture swim school in forest hill. great kid, she'd been here taking lessons from when she was young. she came here, mainly because her parents were having trouble getting her in the cold water and she liked the

warm water when she sat down with a child the world ended, all except that child. nothing else existed but her focus on that one little one at that one period in time. she was a great instructor, and a good swimmer. she swam in a

tournament in early december a couple days later she was in the hospital because she couldn't kick some pneumonia and things she had going on, and then thirteen days later, 2 days before christmas...um, she, she died. as often as she came here, i

kept thinking, she's going to walk through the door any minute because it was such a lightswitch. so quickly occuring, that every day when i come to work i just assume, oh this must be the day she's coming in. and i have to remind myself that the lightswitch

flipped so quickly for ed. and i knew, i knew, and i say a lightswitch but it was so, it was in a snap. it was amazing and the hole she left here is bigger than she would have ever known or her parents will ever even understand so ed's friends and family are

racing to name a baby turtle in her honor. she so loved swimming and so loved animals and she had turtles at home and cared for our turtles here that it really did seem like a good connection. you can submit names until the 22nd. after that, there will

be 4 names for voters to choose from. although really, it seems like a done deal to me, it seems obvious, the turtle