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- Allen, Dorothy
- Barnett, Tracy L.
- Beasley, Thomas Dykes
- Boerner, Heather
- Bond, Prof. G. A.
- Borg, Jane W.
- Brown, Barry
- Bryant, Mary
- Cartier, Robert
- City Council, Santa Cruz
- Collins, Allen
- DiStasi, Lawrence
- Dunn, Geoffrey
- Farnham, Eliza W.
- Foote, Mary Hallock
- Forbes, Elizabeth M.C.
- Gibson, Ross Eric
- Giffen, Barbara
- Goody, Hal
- Gourley, Sarah Hinton
- Hamman, Rick
- Hibble, John
- Hubbard, Henry G.
- Hyman, Rick
- Jensen, Lisa
- Johnson, Jim
- Kimbro, Edna E.
- Koch, Margaret
- Krassow, Janet
- Krassow, Randy
- Laizure, C. McK.
- Lehmann, Susan
- Lydon, Sandy
- MacDougall, Laurie
- Marston, D.S.
- McCrackin, Josephine Clifford
- McMahon, Daniel
- Metropolitan Transit District, Santa Cruz
- Morones, Carmen
- Negro, Adele
- Nelson, Robert L.
- Nichols, Kathy McKenzie
- Norris, Frank
- Nurske, Peter
- Ochoa, Jerry
- Orlando, Alverda
- Payne, Stephen Michael
- Pedersen, Rechs Ann
- Perry, Frank
- Piwarzyk, Robert W.
- Pokriots, Marion Dale
- Port District, Santa Cruz
- Public Works Department, City of Santa Cruz
- Raymond, Isabel H.
- Reader, Phil
- Reynolds, Pamela
- Roorbach, Eloise J.
- Ryan, MaryEllen
- Scherini, Rose
- Schiffrin, Andrew
- Sentinel, Santa Cruz
- Silva, Nikki
- Snell, Earle
- Souza, Margaret
- Swedberg, Donna
- Times, Aptos
- Trabing, Wally
- Turner, Anne
- Tutwiler, Paul
- Ulrich, Fred
- Van De Werfhorst, Laurie C.
- Water Department , Santa Cruz City
- Wilson, Craig R.
- Yamanaka, Sharon
- Young, Ann
- Young, John V.
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The making of beet sugar is preeminently the industry of Watsonville. Some years ago Claus Spreckels, the famous Sugar King, had his attention attracted to the peculiar adaptability of the rich alluvial soil of the Pajaro Valley to the cultivation of the sugar beet. The Sugar King is a man ..." [More]
Excerpted from The Western Beet Sugar Company