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Monday, July 7, 2025 at 9:47 PM
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Local cherry growers need help

Times are tough for your neighborhood cherry growers. Farmers whose families are dependent upon the fruit for their livelihoods get up and go to work each day knowing they may or may not get money from their harvest.

Times are tough for your neighborhood cherry growers.

Farmers whose families are dependent upon the fruit for their livelihoods get up and go to work each day knowing they may or may not get money from their harvest.

That’s painful. I know firsthand the trials of the cherry growers. I grew up on a cherry farm and remember well my dad, who had a day job as a mason, coming home, eating dinner and going out in the orchard.

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