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In a lawsuit filed last month, Stemilt Ag Services claims a former employee fraudulently billed for migrant workers so she would receive an extra $1.1 million.  The October 18th suit also alleges that former employee relations manager Elizabeth Hernandez Ascencio encouraged up to 50 field hands, to abandon their work before the apple harvest has concluded.  Th...

Stemilt handed out their annual grower awards at the company’s annual grower barbecue recently and celebrated 13 farms for their high quality fruit.   Categories included the best fuji apple, or best honeycrisp as well as organic, pear and cherry categories.   S...

Stemilt and the Washington Apple Education Foundation announced eight winners of various scholarships to help pay college costs.   The Thomas K. Mathison Scholarship is for $20,000 and is awarded to students who display high moral character. Tha...

Stemilt’s new shipping facility currently being built north of Wenatchee will include 100 solar panels and will make Stemilt the largest producer of solar energy in Chelan County.   The panels will produce enough power for about 1 ½ homes per year, a total of nearly 39,000 kilowatt hours.   The buil...

For the fourth year in a row, Stemilt employees joined together to ensure that every North Central Washington child in foster care received a gift from the Christmas wish list.  Stemilt’s Brianna Shales told he Washington Ag Network this event is something the employees look forward to every year.   “...

Stemilt Growers donated a truckload of apples, totaling approximately 48,000 pounds to Northwest during charity event in Seattle December 3rd.   The apples were dropped at KING 5’s Home Team Harvest drive for food and money for area food banks.   S...

Lighthouse Christian Ministries in Wenatchee hopes to move into a new building thanks in part to a donation from Stemilt Growers.   Stemilt is donating $150,000 in a matching campaign which would allow the charity organization the ability to purchase a new building to continue their work which includes a soup kitchen that feeds up to 14,000 people, medical and dental clinic, food distribution hub

Stemilt Growers announced the winners of their 2015 Grower Awards at their annual barbecue Thursday.   There were 13 total awards issued for specific varieties of apples, pears and cherries.   Director of Fieldstaff Jeff Heath said the recipients were selected based on the high quality of fruit they produced during the 2015 crop year.   ...

Stemilt Growers opened their on-site clinic to all their employees in September and President West Mathison said it has helped the bottom line.   “Imagine this: you can provide better service to your people, do it for free. They get a better visit and it actually costs the company less money.”   ...