2012 People’s Choice Winner: Shannon Grissom I'm nominating myself for writing nine songs in just two months with Jason Shepherd . . . all done virtually. He's in Kentucky and I'm in California. We've never met! Here's a link to the Playlist.
	2011 People’s Choice Winner: Honeybees On the 1,939-acre Rancho Potrero de Santa Clara, Christopher Shelton introduced the first honeybees to California in March 1853. The site is now Mineta San Jose International Airport. Shelton purchased 12 beehives from a New Yorker in Panama and transported them by rail, "Bongo" pack mule, and steamship to San Francisco. Only enough bees survived to fill one hive, but these quickly propagated, laying the foundation for California's modern beekeeping industry.
	2010 People’s Choice Winner: Russ Goodsite Russ Goodsite is winner of the people's choice selection for 2010. He was born in the Valley of Hearts Delight in 1951, at the old O'connor Hospital on Race St. He worked at the National Semiconductor Corporation for 25 Years and at Supertex Semiconductor. A 1969 grad from Overfelt High school, Russ's passion has been local history. He took classes with Historian Clyde Arbuckle and, although San Jose has changed dramatically, he still carries the ball and has become an amateur historian on Facebook.
	2009 People’s Choice Winner: Bean Spray Magic Pump Patented in 1904 in Los Gatos, it was the first effective way to spray trees for scale and other diseases.

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