Alcario Castellano, the grocery-clerk-turned-lottery-winner who used his fortune to reignite Silicon Valley’s communities of color, died Saturday at his home in Saratoga. He was 90. What began as a $141 million California Lottery jackpot in 2001 became, in time, a modern parable. A wave of excitement that fateful day between Castellano and his wife, Carmen, turned into clarity. The couple came up with a list of names they could help in Silicon Valley — and so began the Castellano Family Foundation. “He’s always been an activist as long as I’ve known him,” son Armando Castellano told San José Spotlight. The…
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