MORNING LIFT: Driving through the Lee G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park with the man who calls it home

MORNING LIFT: Driving through the Lee G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park with the man who calls it home

The Morning Lift takes us to Ashland to pick up Lee. G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park Deputy Director Gary Pettit.The Wildlife Safari Park has been voted the top safair park in the country in the USA TODAY 10Best Readers Choice Awards for five consecutive years. Pettit tells us it has come a long way since the property was first purchased by Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium back in 1996.In 1996, he says it was mostly cornfields. He was working…