ELTOPIA -- Gary Middleton, owner of Middleton Organic Orchards and Middleton Organic Specialty Foods in Eltopia, was recently elected to a two-year term on the Board of Directors of the Tilth Producers of Washington.
Tilth Producers is a 600-member statewide nonprofit organization which promotes ecologically sound, economically viable and socially equitable farming practices that improve the health of our communities and natural environment.
More than half of the membership is organic and sustainable growers, followed by agriculture professionals, farm suppliers, resource organizations and organic industry representatives.
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Lovella 'Ditto' Kniveton
Lovella 'Ditto' Kniveton
ELTOPIA -- Lovella "Ditto" Kniveton, 93, of Eltopia, died Jan. 12 in Eltopia.
She was born in Stockton, Calif., and lived in Eltopia for 54 years.
She was a retired assistant postmaster and homemaker.
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