Four years on, nonprofit still needs $800,000 for new building

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Sheila Jones, left, and Rosie Poe make boxes to ship auto parts in the Emory Valley Center’s workshop. A fundraising drive to raise $3.3 million for a new building is $800,000 short.

Photo by Bob Fowler

BOB FOWLER/NEWS SENTINEL Sheila Jones, left, and Rosie Poe make boxes to ship auto parts in the Emory Valley Center’s workshop. A fundraising drive to raise $3.3 million for a new building is $800,000 short.

Four years into an ambitious fundraising drive to obtain $3.3 million for a new building, a nonprofit received a $75,000 boost Wednesday from a U.S. Department of Energy contractor.

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