Looking for a Legend

Looking for a Legend. I’m Greg Martin with today’s Fruit Grower Report.

The Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center is looking for a legend. According to Debbi Heintz, Executive Director of the Prosser Economic Development Association and a board member of the Clore Center they want to pay tribute to special people in the industry which started with Walter Clore.

HEINTZ: So the board wanted to not only honor him but others in the industry that had put a significant contribution towards wine grapes, the making of wine, anything to deal with the industry and so they came up with a fundraising event called the Legends event and that has taken place in the last three years.

Heintz says there are some minor changes to this year’s Legends of Washington Wine Hall of Fame Gala.

HEINTZ: We are not going to be able to have an event this year, a fund raising event, because as a board we are very involved in getting some infrastructure into place out at the site and so we have found another location to make the announcement and that’s at the Auction of Washington Wines in August in Seattle.

Nominations are now open for the Legends Hall of Fame and Heintz talks about what the requirements are.

HEINTZ: The requirement is that they be a resident of Washington no less than 25 years involvement in the wine industry. So we want home grown people that have really been a major contributor. And the nominees can be working in the industry now, retired or deceased.

More tomorrow on the Walter Clore Center construction.

That’s today’s Fruit Grower Report. I’m Greg Martin on the Northwest Ag Information Network.