Media release: Elite mountain bike racer, Mikayla Parton, wins Youth Mountain Award
The festival’s youth ambassador award, established in 2015, celebrates adventurous young people, the landscapes they choose to explore and the outdoor pursuits in which they excel.
The young winner needs to have shown resilience and determination to succeed within their chosen area of expertise, shown results through their own efforts and ideas, given back to their community, whilst being thought of as an example of excellence by others.
Mikayla Parton epitomises these winning principles perfectly. Her meteoric rise to the top of the international downhill mountain bike race scene, from riding her first trail bike in 2015 to placing fifth at the UCI Mountain Bike World Championships 2020, in just five years can be attributed to an obvious raw talent, constant hard work, dedicated training, motivation, focus and a dogged determination for success.
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Gene Doxey is the newest member of the Warner Springs Unified School District Board.
A flip of the coin on Monday night by board President Jeannean Rombal at the school board meeting decided the winner after Doxey and Terry Cox tied with 352 votes apiece for one of three board seats in this past November’s election.
Doxey called “heads” after the quarter was determined to have both a head and a tail as Rombal tossed the coin and slapped it on the back of her palm in a room inside Warner Elementary School’s old library .
Doxey, 76, was on the Warner Springs school board from 2006-14. The Pacific Beach native retired from a 32-year teaching career in Ramona.
dave macleod is now the first person ever to free climb 1,000 oh, my gosh. i m getting dizzy. look at that. i m afraid of heights. you don t like heights. no. 1,000 feet up st. john s head on the isle of hoy in scotland. free climbing means just using hands and feet with some rope for safety. i can t look. seems reasonable. it took ten hours to complete the grueling climb. we re told macleod was so at ease he stopped halfway up to admire the view, even snapping a few photo as well. guess that s not an activity you d sign up for, huh? no. if i go up to like the arch in st. louis and look over the edge, my knees just start buckling. really? i cannot i am petrified of heights. that is a brave guy. all right, paula. well, we ll keep you steady and no puke here on the desk. we ll be right back with more world news right after this. ain t about what s waiting on the other side it s the climb