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Lindsay Museum Gets Bad News on Potential Grant

Project to improve animal radiography and study animals' diets will not get Pepsi funds.

The Lindsay Wildlife Museum sent out a Facebook message Monday calling off the online support as the museum was informed its application has been denied in the Pepsi Refresh Project.

The Lindsay Wildlife Museum thanks its friends and supporters very much for voting for its application online, but the issue is moot, said Executive Director Loren Behr.

The Walnut Creek museum had applied to get funds to upgrade its radiography equipment to the digital age, and fund study of the diets of wild animals in the area. 

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The museum's wildlife hospital now uses film radiography (X-rays) to see, for instance, if there are pellets or fishhooks in the body of an animal brought to the museum. The result is a lack of efficiency and a need to sometimes forgo some radiography because of the expense, said Behr.


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