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After moving from two previous locations in Lewiston, Drew Desjardins and his staff will hold a formal grand opening celebration at a new, larger location at 1395 Maine St. in Poland.

A touch tank, more interactive exhibits and enlarged living spaces for the hundreds of critters on display can be seen Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Mr. Drew and His Animals Too.

Admission is $10 a person, free for those ages 1 year and younger. The money goes to support the new facility.

There will be food trucks, door prizes, raffles, magic, balloons, visiting animal rehabilitators and guest exhibitors.

Drew Desjardins, aka Mr. Drew, holds Nigel Thornberry, a panther chameleon. Chameleons change color to communicate things like dominance, submission, and desire to mate, as well as for temperature control, though it also helps camouflage them. (Photos by Russ Dillingham/Staff Photographer)
Margaret Van Dyke checks out a turtle in the turtle enclosure Wednesday afternoon at Mr. Drew and His Animals Too in Poland.
Mr. Drew strokes Rockette, a Nile monitor, inside his expanded living quarters Wednesday at his new quarters in Poland.
Spot, a large green iguana, hangs out in the new location.
Drew Desjardins, left, shows a green crab Wednesday to Ellie Morrell as her sister Lexie plays in the touch tank while being held by her grandmother, Janet Morrell. Desjardins is holding a grand reopening this weekend at the new location of Mr. Drew and His Animals Too in Poland.
Drew Desjardins, right, shows Gussie Law and his mother Eva Wang how the gold panning station works Wednesday at Mr. Drew and His Animals Too in Poland.
Cippa McBride, left, the resident turtle expert at Mr. Drew and His Animals Too, talks Wednesday about turtles to the Van Dyke family in the turtle enclosure at the new Poland headquarters. From left are Shannon, James, Margaret, and grandmother Sherrie.
One of the dozens of fish tanks at Mr. Drew and His Animals Too displays coral from Maine on Wednesday in Poland.
Mr. Drew and His Animals Too staff member Cippa McBride holds Pepper, a hedgehog, while visitors pet her Wednesday in Poland.
Jeckle, a 10-foot, 30-pound boa constrictor, curls up in its container Wednesday at Mr. Drew and His Animals Too in Poland.
A pair of green-wing macaws hang out after talking to visitors Wednesday at Mr. Drew and His Animals Too in Poland.

A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Russ stumbled into photography as a college student working toward a career in psychology. His great-grandfather Louis B. Costello was the publisher of the Lewiston Daily...

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