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James Vance

Better late than never. Went to Laney for a year after HS. Then went to Feather River College for one semester, and then went to work at the family business until September of 1971. I then enrolled at the College of Alameda finishing with my AA in Business.

Went back to work at the family business in 1974, and then became a stockholder in 1979.

Married my first wife Carolyn in 1981, and our son Michael was born September 5th 1984,and then Sarah came along March 13th 1987.

Carolyn and I didn't see eye to eye on most things and separated in September of 1993, and officially divorced in 1994. Finally I had some peace. My Michael and Sarah are 27, and 24. Mike graduated from SAC State in 2006, and Sarah from there also in 2008. Mike works for Best buy in Folsom, Sarah works for seeno Homes in concord, Ca.


Forgot to tell you that I was an Oakland P.D Reserve Officer from 1974 until 1986. Left there and went to Piedmont P.D from 1986 until 1992. I finally landed at COCO County S.O. working in San Ramon from 1992 until 1999. 25 years was enough.

During the time between divorce and re-marriage, Managed to have joint custody of both children, work, do Reserve duty, and FINALLY get my my BS in Business from JFK University in 1997. I forgot to mention that Dad Passed away in 1995, and Mom in 1997. This allowed me to move out of my Condo in San Ramon, and in to a house. Life is wierd sometimes, because our house is 5BDR when there was just Michael, Sarah, and Myself there. When you read below, it is interesting that we ended up needing that much space. (Karma)?

Ironically, I ended up marrying the love of my life, Ann whom I dated in 1978. Her brother Pat Burke and I were good friends fom the old OPD days, and he told me that her drunken Husband finally walked out on her in 1997.

Wasting no time, Ann and I became "friends" shortly thereafter, and married July 18th, 1998.

Ann has two children also. Josh is 29 and a Pramedic with AMR out of Oakland, and her Sarah who is 19 still lives with us. Everybody was living at the house after that. Altough Josh went away to in October of 1998, and graduated from UCSC in 2002. Although he was so close to home, he managed to come up almost every weekend.
She works with me at California Electric Co, is my total soul mate, and we are doing anything we can to try and save this 84 year old family business during what I term to be a depression.

Time will tell.

Sorry to report that we had to close Califronia Electric Co. 12/23/2009.
Ouch. a 70% drop in revenue.

On a brighter note, My step son Josh is getting married 5/12/2012, and My sarah will also tie the knot 11/3/2012. We told Michael that he would have wait until 2013 for his turn.
Best wishes,

Jim Vance.

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