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“I just got the check this morning,” Larry beamed on Aug. 28, after winners were announced in late July. He serves as produce manager at the Super 1 Foods store in Texarkana, Texas.
“I never imagined that I would win first place in a contest like this that was going on all over the country,” Larry said, noting that he was excited to have won $50 in a scratch-off portion of the contest just for entering.
Grand prize in the contest — which was held to promote that Chile’s fresh peaches, plums, nectarines and other fruit are available in winter — was an all-expense-paid trip for two to Chile valued at $10,000. Larry was one of the five $2,500 first-place winners from as many geographic regions, with his display beating out others in eight states spanning from New Mexico to Tennessee.
Basic guidelines were to build and photograph a display using only fruit that could be identified as Chilean and to mention or use Chilean Fresh Fruit Display logos and materials.
“This is a great honor for Larry and our company to have a display selected as one of the top in the nation,” said Pete Leung, vice president-perishable operations. “We’re very proud of Larry’s effort and congratulate him on this big award.”
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TEXARKANA, TEXAS--Finding fresh summer fruit in the dead of winter may have come as a bit of a surprise to some customers last year — but theirs was no where near the surprise Larry Evans had when he learned of his first place, $2,500 award in the national Chilean Fresh Fruit Display contest.
