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Reach center seeks input from ag industry

By the Tri-City Herald
Published: Jan. 24, 2013 at 12:00 a.m. PST — Updated: Jan. 23, 2013 at 10:48 p.m. PST
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The Hanford Reach Interpretive Center is seeking input from the agriculture community as it develops an exhibit for the long-planned museum set to open next year.

Local farmers, growers, food processors and other agriculture-related officials and workers are invited to the conversation from 5 to 6 p.m. today at the Gauntt family's hangar, 2035 Richenbacher Road in Pasco.

The general public also is welcome. Refreshments will be served. Admission is free. Call 943-4100 or email DiannaM@VisitTheReach.org to RSVP.

The Reach center also will debut two mini-exhibitions today, its leaders said in a news release. They include a display created from the Herald series on Mid-Columbia agriculture from last fall and one focused on the Grand Coulee Dam and Columbia Basin Irrigation Project created by Drew Gamboa, a high school student.

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