A new winery in Walla Walla is raising money to help cover health-care costs, Seattle Times

Seattle Times
April 1, 2016

ASHLEY TROUT understands the fear of being badly injured in a foreign country without health insurance.

The winemaker for Flying Trout Wines in Walla Walla was in a bad rock-climbing accident a few years ago in Japan. She was hospitalized for 42 days and endured five operations. Fortunately, the health care was superb and affordable.

This is one of many motivations for Trout to do something to help those in the Walla Walla Valley wine industry who don’t have health insurance. Perhaps greatest is her deep understanding of why many people in the wine industry — not only low-income Hispanic workers who toil in the vineyards — go without coverage.