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A few interesting facts about Patricia Starr: She drives a big red one-ton truck and loves to tap dance; Scott Evans, Mayor of Atlantic City, proclaimed her the “Bicycling Beauty Queen” in 2008; She pedaled 3,622 miles across America at age 67 to raise money for scholarships at Santa Barbara City College*; Governor Heineman proclaimed September 19 th as Patricia Starr Day in the entire state ofNebraska; She’s an inspirational speaker admired by all ages and has a “hole in one” on the Jack Nicklaus designed golf course, Pawley’s Plantation, in Myrtle Beach, SC; She takes vitamins but no drugs of any kind; She plays a four-manual pipe organ; She lays tile and does concrete finishing; She wakes up happy every morning; She’s a Red Hatter; To raise money for scholarships in Wahoo, NE she pedaled 1,400 miles from Wahoo to Atlantic City as Ms. Sr. Nebraska 2008** placing as 4 th Runner up out of 44 contestants in Ms. Sr.America—you can read about the highs and the heartbreak in her next book, Journey of a Lifetime; She’s a nutritionist; She and handsome husband, Gabriel, live in Santa Barbara, CA and Wahoo, NE where they are restoring their 1888 home; She has three children and a granddaughter; Purple is her favorite color; Her measurements are 37-27-37; As a concert pianist, her flying fingers dazzle audiences with Chopin Polonaises, Rhapsody in Blue and Bumble Boogie from Nashville and Branson to both ends of the country; She’s hypoglycemic—a real challenge on the long bicycle rides;
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She loves crossword puzzles and plays trombone in an 80 piece band; She was Ms. Sr. California 2006 and 2 nd Runner-up in LasVegas; She walks two miles almost every day; She sings and directs choirs and bands and plays tennis; She survived a nasty Brown Recluse spider bite without any necrosis; She’s a Delta Zeta and happily married to a “younger man”(20 years age difference); She has done high fashion, ramp and tea room modeling; She’s an actress and a landscape designer and gardener; She is a photographic model; She eats peanut butter sandwiches (hold the jelly); Wahoo has honored her with an Ambassadorship; Perfume makes her sneeze; She received the Howard Hansen Award for her zeal in promoting music education; The extensive print articles across America have chronicled her activities as have Pinky Kravitz from Atlantic City, NJ to Key 3 News in Santa Barbara, CA; She grew up in a cornfield in Nebraska and is proud of it; She won an Excellence Award in Memoir at the prestigious Santa Barbara Writer’s Conference; She has been honored by Mayor Marty Blum of Santa Barbara and California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, Diane Boxer and Pedro Nava; a 6 page chapter of the ride is included in an ESL textbook used world-wide and published by Thomson / Heinle and CNN; And lastly, she is an author and wants you to accompany her across America. Enjoy the adventures! |