Sam Comento:  

Hi all, Yep I'm still kickin' ! I signed up for Classmates a long time ago but never posted any information. I don't do "social media" as such, but I'm making an exception here. I plan to be the last person on the planet to sign up for Facebook. Just my preference. I went to Foothill College after graduation and went to work for Kiklok Corp. in Redwood City building equipment for the food industry. I spent 20 years there building and then installing and servicing the equipment all over North America. In 1982 I went to work for Peco Controls Corp. in Milpitas and am still working for them. We build quality control equipment for the food, beer and beverage industry consisting mainly of fill level monitors, vacuum monitoring systems and X-ray inspection devices for contaminant detection. I am the Sr. Application Engineer, field service support and R&D engineer. I have one son (50) and one daughter (48) and three grandchildren all living in Gilroy. My wife, Dianna and I bought a ranch (210 acres) in Southeast Missouri in the middle of the Mark Twain National Forest in 2010 for our retirement. The ranch is surrounded by National Forest land, about 1.5 million acres! We are "off the grid" as they say, 28 miles from the nearest loaf of bread in a Walmart! We joined LifeFlight, a helicopter service for emergency medical care. We have electricity (and a backup generator), propane gas, Satellite entertainment and Internet, 2 drilled water wells and one Artesian well. We have LOTS of Whitetail deer, Turkeys and small game. We also h...Expand for more