Community participation doubles in this year's Losing BIG competition

Patti Steele won this year's Petersburg Parks and Recreation's Losing BIG Petersburg competition by a public majority vote.

Steele was one of ten contestants, split into two teams, led and encouraged by team captains Christin Fankhauser and Shelly Pope.

Each contestant entered the competition with a set of goals to meet and guidelines to follow each week related to exercise, diet and stress relieving activities. Each week, Petersburg residents tracked how contestants performed through Facebook and KFSK and voted for their favorite contestant. Only the top contestants each week remained in the...