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WCU chancellor to host forum on NC bond issue

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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Western Carolina University Chancellor David Belcher will host an educational forum at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 29, in the theater of WCU’s A.K. Hinds University Center to address the regional importance of the Connect NC bond proposal. 

On Tuesday, March 15, North Carolina voters will decide on the $2 billion referendum, which would fund state and local infrastructure needs, highway projects and state parks improvements, and provide $110 million for a new WCU Natural Sciences Building.

Belcher will address how bond approval would help communities in Western North Carolina in addition to educational needs, such as funding local water and sewer projects, health care initiatives and the Department of Agriculture and National Guard. 

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