Founder of the Auvil Fruit Company. He established the Washington Tree Fruit Research Commission. Grady Auvil received Washington State's highest honor, The Washington Medal of Merit by Gov. Gary Locke. Governor Gary Locke Gary Locke (born January 21, 1950 in Seattle, Washington) was the governor of (1997-2005), and the first Chinese American governor in the United States. ...
UPSTREAM ON the Columbia River, north of Wenatchee, GradyAuvil was constantly on the lookout for tasty new fruit.
GradyAuvil had heard about the fiasco, but his competitive drive got the best of him, which turned out all the better for us.
By the early 1970s, GradyAuvil had instructed his president and general manager, Paul King, to arrange for a limited number of Rainiers to be picked with care and packed by hand to protect the fruit from bruising.
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