The afternoon sun plays over the façade of the WCA Carving Facility Tuesday afternoon. The WCA recently received a $250,000 grant from the MJ Murdoch Charitable Trust to put towards the facility's completion.
A local carving facility and cultural center is a big step closer to completion.
The MJ Murdoch Charitable Trust awarded a $250,000 grant to the Wrangell Cooperative Association this week. That leaves about$100,000, or 35 percent of total cost of the building, remaining before the shed's cost is totally funded, said Tis Peterman, a grant writer and administrator with the WCA.
"We're really excited about it," she said.
The carving facility - known informally around town as the "carving shed," a description better suited to the utility building near Shakes Island currently used for some traditio...
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