San Joaquin County officials will be in Escalon for a special Pre-Construction Open House on Monday, April 24 as work is about to get underway on the Improve McHenry project. The open house will run from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. and will be hosted at the Escalon Community Center, 1055 Escalon Ave.; interested residents are encouraged to stop by at any time during the 90-minute open house to learn more about the project. Scheduled work will include widening 1.1 miles of McHenry Avenue from a point roughly 1,500 feet south of River Road to 190 feet south of Jones Road; replacement of two McHenry Avenue bridges, one over the Stanislaus River that spans San Joaquin and Stanislaus counties and one over the South San Joaquin Irrigation District Canal, replacing them with wider and safer bridges.