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Whiteville Forestry Center To Morph Into Natural Sciences Museum

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Officials with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences are renovating its Museum of Forestry facility in Whiteville.  But the forestry museum's board will have to raise $100,000 as part of the process. 

Legislators wrote into the state budget a requirement for the fundraising effort as a means of proving the facility has value to the Whiteville community.

Museum of Natural Sciences director Emlyn Koster says plans are to turn the building into a hands-on community learning facility.

"We're going to be taking proven techniques of bringing children into interactive touch with the world around them -- both indoor and outdoor -- in a joint approach to bring learning with a particular reference to the forestry ecosystem into what we do out there," Koster says.

Koster says play spaces, labs, and classroom learning will all be involved in the facility.  He expects the funds to be raised and the changes implemented by the end of next June.

Gurnal Scott joined North Carolina Public Radio in March 2012 after several stops in radio and television. After graduating from the College of Charleston in his South Carolina hometown, he began his career in radio there. He started as a sports reporter at News/Talk Radio WTMA and won five Sportscaster of the Year awards. In 1997, Gurnal moved on to television as general assignment reporter and weekend anchor for WCSC-TV in Charleston. He anchored the market's top-rated weekend newscasts until leaving Charleston for Memphis, TN in 2002. Gurnal worked at WPTY-TV for two years before returning to his roots in radio. He joined the staff of Memphis' NewsRadio 600 WREC in 2004 eventually rising to News Director. In 2006, Raleigh news radio station WPTF came calling and he became the station's chief correspondent. Gurnal’s reporting has been honored by the South Carolina Broadcasters Association, the North Carolina Associated Press, and the Radio Television Digital News Association of the Carolinas.
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