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Aquafest royalty volunteer 2,308 hours

Published 1:30 am Thursday, January 26, 2017

By Herald Staff

Aquafest royalty volunteer 2,308 hours
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Aquafest royalty volunteer 2,308 hours
Royalty with the Miss Aquafest pageant program helped with the U.S. Postal Service’s Stamp Out Hunger food drive in May 2016, one of a number of volunteer efforts in 2016 that earned each of the girls a Presidential Volunteer Service Award for service hours. (Contributed photo)

Members of the Miss Aquafest pageant program together accumulated 2,308 hours of volunteer service in 2016, earning the program a Presidential Volunteer Service Award for a fifth year.

The girls and women organized food and toy drives, helped at the food bank, raised money and walked laps for cancer and suicide awareness causes, helped with school supply programs for military families, spruced up a local park, and more.

The volunteer directors of the program are Dixie Behn and Christine Egelstad. Lifetime queens are Grace Egelstad, Ellie Behn and Hannah Krutsinger. The 2016 royalty included Kaylyn Rickard, Ava Gourley, Audrey Barlow, Dakota Richards, Makenna Kimble, Syah King, Lily O’Brien, Cassandra Kunselman, Alexa DeMerchant, Natalia Lagunas and Katie Stevens.

The pageant is a scholarship program for girls ages 5-18.

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