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YEAH, IT\u2019S BEEN AN EVENTFUL SPACE IN BLUE SPRINGS FOR THE WILD ANIMAL RESCUE. WILD SOULS. OUR MISSION IS HEALING WILDLIFE AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT IS ONE OF ONLY FOUR WILDLIFE ANIMAL RESCUES IN THE STATE. FOUNDER APRIL HOFFMAN SAYING IT WAS REALLY HER HUSBAND, DOUG THAT WAS THE BACKBONE OF THE WILD SOULS COMMUNITY AND MISSION. IT\u2019S BEEN QUITE THE ADJUSTMENT, THE TRANSITION, HIM NOT BEING HERE SUDDENLY AND UNEXPECTEDLY PASSING AWAY LAST APRIL TO GO THIS FAR AND QUIT, WOULD, I FEEL, WOULD BE LETTING DOWN THE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTEER, APRIL SAYS. THAT\u2019S WHY THE DECISION WAS MADE TO SCALE BACK THE RESCUE TO JUST ONE LOCATION IN LONE JACK. OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS, THE RESCUE HAS REHABILITATED AND SAVED THOUSANDS OF WILD ANIMALS AND RELEASED THEM BACK INTO THE WILD. IT WAS A PASSION FOR APRIL AND HER HUSBAND DOUG, AND, SHE SAYS SO MANY PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY AND VOLUNTEERS HELPED MAKE THAT MISSION HAPPEN. IT\u2019S SUPER IMPORTANT TO CARRY ON JUST BECAUSE HE HAD HIS HAND IN EVERYTHING. HE ALWAYS BELIEVED IN THE MISSION. APRIL SAYS THE RESCUE AVERAGES MORE THAN 1000 CALLS FOR WILD ANIMALS IN DISTRESS EVERY YEAR. WILD SOULS HAS BEEN IN BLUE SPRINGS FOR NEARLY FOUR YEARS, BUT MAY 1ST WILL BE THEIR LAST DAY IN THIS BUILDING. IT\u2019S VERY SAD BECAUSE THE BLUE SPRINGS COMMUNITY HAS BEEN FANTASTIC TO WORK WITH IN BLUE SPRINGS, ALAN SHOPE KMBC NINE NEWS. 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