What is your day job?

CEO and Owner Paving – heavy highway contractor, primarily do heavy concrete and little dot work. 

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What is your motivation to participate in Pelotonia?

Participated in every Pelotonia riding in all of them except. ?. Initial motivation with a good friend who had childhood leukemia (riding with him). Both grandfathers had cancer and were treated at the James – family ties piqued his interest. My father went through treatment at The James last year; he had lymphoma intervascular in his brain causing strokes. Finished chemo treatment and is now in remission!

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What is your secret to fundraising?

Not real good secrets. Go back to the same wells for personal fundraising and they commit. I ran a personal peloton before and had a community (Team Sparanza) for 5yrs w 50 members. Put on wine tastings and bake sales, raffle drawings, sold tickets etc to win a bike.

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What does Simply Community mean to you? (the team and the words)

A true community peloton. The words can’t better describe the group, and everybody involved, no matter what you ride how far, or just volunteering it’s an amazing supportive effort.

Favorites:

Riding bikes, a musician – undergrad in music ed. Plays instruments and enjoys collecting instruments. Love cooking, spending time with family – travel w fam, been to France, UK, Belgium, Bahamas, Dominican Republic