Hort Association hires Bruce Grim Orchardist and attorney Bruce Grim of Entiat, Washington, has been appointed executive director of the Washington State Horticultural Association to succeed Jim Hazen, who left this summer to join Broetje Orchards in Prescott, Washington. For the past seven years, Grim has managed four fruit-marketing cooperatives (the Washington Apple Growers Marketing Association, Washington Pear Marketing Association, Mid-Columbia Pear Marketing Association, and Northwest Cherry Marketing Association). He will continue to manage the four cooperatives in addition to serving as executive director of the Hort Association. Association President Mark Holtzinger said that as a voluntary, dues-based organization, the […]