The children of Max E. Benitz Sr. have published a book about their late father, a Washington state senator and one of the pioneer fruit and wine grape growers in the Roza Irrigation District. Senator Max E. Benitz, Sr.: ‘Mr. Energy’ chronicles the life and career of Benitz, who helped create Washington State University, Tri-Cities, and worked with the late Dr. Walter Clore to plant some of the early wine grape vineyards in Washington. The book, published by NorTex Press of Fort Worth, Texas, was written by his daughter, Eileen M. Benitz Wagener, of The Woodlands, Texas, and Dr. Michele […]