ACC Prairie Innovation Centre Assiniboine’s Prairie Innovation Centre for Sustainable Agriculture welcomed a $500,000 donation from Gord and Diane Peters and the Brandon Area Community Foundation. The Peters’ are no strangers to Westman and are well-known for supporting various community projects. In 2009, they set up a partnership with the Brandon Area Community Foundation to facilitate longterm giving. The Centre is ACC's vision for the future of agriculture in Manitoba, and will address industry and economic needs in this important sector. In Manitoba, it’s projected that one in five jobs in agriculture will go unfilled by 2029. The Prairie Innovation Centre
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is their made-in-Manitoba solution and aims to expand seats in agriculture-related programming from 300 to more than 800. This one-of-a-kind Canadian college project, to be located on ACC's historic North Hill campus, will bring together collaborative learning spaces, applied research labs and multipurpose spaces that will serve both industry and the college community.
