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Published daily in Bend, Oregon, by Western Communications, Inc. Copyright 2007.
By Shannon Dininny / The Bulletin
June 22, 2008
TONASKET, Wash. — When Ray Colbert wanted out after five decades of growing apples, his son didn’t want the farm in Washington’s rugged sagebrush just south of the Canadian border. No one else did either.
So Colbert sold the last big piece of his operation, an....