21.Were you ever mentioned in a newspaper?

When I was 14, my dad bought a Honda 50 Motorbike. I was learning how to ride it, shift gears etc (it shifted like a motorcycle). We lived out in the country- on the Kettle River, near Barstow, WA. There was an old road on the property that just went around in a circle and Dad told me to stay on that road.  I got bored doing that after awhile and took off down a dirt road that was next to the river bank  and headed south toward the neighbors property. When I got to the fence line,  I turned the bike around, not really knowing how tight you could turn, and made a wide turn that had me headed right toward the river bank. I got scared, pulled back on the hand throttle and dove over the side of the 40 foot river bank.   I came-to with my face in the water, I looked up the bank, saw my dad and passed out again. My red and white TV shirt was all red.  I had a skull fracture and a concussion.

 The Statesman Examiner (Colville paper)  came out and took a photo of me with my head wrapped up in a bandage, sitting on my motorbike in my PJ's, with mama standing in the background.

When I was 16, I was a Miss Kettle Falls Princess  and as "royalty"- we had our pictures in the paper.

 At 18 I had a photo in the "weddings section" of the paper.