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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Jan Roberts-Dominguez / The Bulletin
July 27, 2004
A full 11 months had passed since my last encounter with a tree-ripened nectarine. So as I stood in the middle of the Corvallis orchard, my expectations were on edge. The main crop was still a good week from harvest, but my friend Harry Lagerstadt, owner of the orchard, recognized a desperate....