EPHRAIM, Utah — A $2.4 million grant will help fund the new Innovative Agricultural Center project announced by Snow College during its Founders Day celebration Wednesday.

According to Technical Education and Workforce Development Vice President Jay Olsen, they would not only be honoring their past but also building a way forward for students to continue working and living in rural areas.

"This is a fun step forward for the A.G. department," he said. "Targeted for rural coal-impacted communities to help retrain those who may be displaced by the coal world. So it was funded to help a lot of those coal miners who would be small farmers to give them additional skills to still be in rural Utah."

Founders Day is meant to celebrate the college's original start 137 years ago in central Utah.

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