From supplying water pump bicycles to undeveloped countries to empowering impoverished women and orphans, Bob Pagett, the founding president of Scotts Valley-based Assist International, learned about giving at an early age.
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Having spent my tender years being shuffled from one aunt’s house to another, I was often found clamming with them on the ocean shore in Westport, Wash., or shaking crab in our family’s cannery on its wharf.
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Peyton Emma-Sue Starkes, daughter of Jessica Cloresia Starkes of Felton, was born at 9:51 p.m. Nov. 28, 2012, at Dominican Hospital in Santa Cruz. Peyton weighed 7 pounds, 12 ounces.
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