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Recession helps MJC's ag museum move ahead
Posted: 11/07/2009 12:52 AM
By John Holland
Picture busloads of Bay Area schoolchildren heading along Highway 99 toward a museum that explains what happens on the farms they're passing.
That's the vision for the Ag Science Center, which has been planned for the west campus of Modesto Junior College for more than a decade.
The vision could become reality sooner than expected, thanks to a drop in the estimated cost from $23 million to $18 million.
As with many construction projects, the recession is the reason, project director Michele Laverty said. About $4 million has been raised, but a big fund-raising push could allow construction to start in 18 to 24 months, she said.
Laverty and other leaders in the effort provided an update to about 75 supporters at a Thursday gathering near Salida.
They saw updated sketches for a center that would use high-tech displays to show how farmers produce food.
One display, for example, invites people to walk through an imaginary mag- nifying glass to see huge images of what's in the soil.
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