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www.goodfruit.com GOOD FRUIT GROWER DECEMBER 2016 7 State University; Frank Lyall, Yakima County Farm Bureau; Vicente Medelez, Opportunities Industrialization Center of Washington; Louisa Mora, Opportunities Industrialization Center of Washington; Jacqui Gordon Nunez, Washington State Tree Fruit Association; Jamie Ramon, Washington State Department of Agriculture; Mario Miranda Sazo, Cornell University; and Flor Servin, Washington State Department of Labor & Industries. Each of them made this project better. Additional thanks go to our transla- tors, Alicia Cardenas of ACS Translation Services and Pablo Pamlandez of the University of Washington. We hope the grower community responds well to the Spanish site. Please help spread the word about this new resource by sharing with others a link to the site. If you want a Spanish language fl ier for the site, let me know. With this, as with all our efforts, we appreciate your feedback and sugges- tions for improvements. As employees of a grower-owned publication, we work for you. You can contact me at casey. corr@goodfruit.com. Spanish speakers can contact Maria Fernandez at maria@ goodfruit.com. *** M y congratulations to Good Fruit Grower's 2016 Growers of the Year, the father and son team of Bill and Mark Zirkle, who were selected by our mag- azine advisory board. The Zirkles are prominent leaders and innovators in our industry, who are profi led in this issue by Senior Editor Shannon Dininny and Photojournalist TJ Mullinax. The Zirkles will receive the award later this month in Wenatchee at the annual meeting of the Washington State Tree Fruit Association. *** G ood news for those attending the hort show in Wenatchee: Good Fruit Grower is again teaming up with our friends at Wilbur-Ellis for a drawing to win a John Deere Gator. You can get entry forms at the Wilbur-Ellis booth or at our booth. We had a lot of fun doing this last year, when the winner was Scott Jacky, manager of orchard operations for Valley Fruit in Wapato, Washington . There's a video of him zooming around in the parking lot on our Facebook page. • O. Casey Corr is managing editor of Good Fruit Grower. The first section of this column is reprinted in Spanish on Page 18.