GOLDENDALE, WA.- With 95 percent of the funds in hand, the Board of Trustees of Maryhill Museum of Art has unanimously agreed to begin construction on the 25,500 square foot Mary and Bruce Stevenson Wing. An official groundbreaking ceremony for the first expansion in the museum’s history will be held Friday, February 18 at 3:30 p.m. The event is open to the public and media. At the Board’s January 22, 2011 meeting, Trustee Laura Cheney, capital campaign co-chair and daughter of museum benefactors Mary and Bruce Stevenson, urged the group to move forward with construction. Cheney’s motion was unanimously approved. While $450,000 remains to be raised to meet the project’s $9.3 million construction costs, the Board and staff are confident that enough donor support and momentum exists to carry the project to completion by the target date of March 2012; the overall capital campaign goal is $10 million