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September 24, 2004
| From surfer to high-tech revolutionary |
Evergreen entrepreneur Jay Elliot offers real mobility
By Dan King
Staff Writer
It’s a long way from Año Nuevo to Silicon Valley. Perhaps not as the crow flies, but culturally, the two are worlds apart. Evergreen resident and entrepreneur Jay Elliot grew up on Año Nuevo near the coastal town of Pescadero, on a ranch his family had owned since 1839.
“It’s a very unique spot,” said Elliot, a fourth-generation Californian who is now founder and CEO of the software company Powerhouse Technologies Group, makers of the Migo. “As a child I was in the ocean all the time. I built my own surfboards. I was a big surfer and all that stuff.”
Elliot would emerge from that beach boy upbringing to obtain Read
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Evergreen Premier Boys U12 soccer team wins 2004 National Cup
The Santa Clara Sporting Pumas, a U.S. Club Soccer team comprised mostly of Evergreen players, won the National Cup Championship in the Premier Boys U12 category in North Carolina this summer. Head Coach Dan Silva and assistant coaches Jose Luis Lopez and Dave Siracusa led this hard-working team to victory.
Most of the team members began playing together in 1999, when they were part of a recreational team in the Mt. Hamilton Youth Soccer League. Today, they are a serious “soccer-only” traveling team that trains two to three times a week. So serious, in fact, that one assistant coach, Siracusa, also is the head coach for San Read
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