My very last pageant, my own retirement pageant, took place this past weekend in Merritt. I drove up early on Wednesday, my first time driving on the Coquihalla highway. The 2010 B.C. Ambassador candidates had already been up in Merritt all week rehearsing and preparing for their events on Friday and Saturday. Wednesday evening, I…
This weekend was my last pageant as a B.C. Ambassador: in seven days I will be passing on my crown and banner to another deserving individual. On Friday, I travelled to Penticton with the newly crowned White Rock youth ambassadors and Miss White Rock 2010/2011, my sister, @ChloeWoodin. My mom chaperoned us, and we met…
After spending countless weekends away visiting other communities in B.C., I got to welcome visiting royalty from all across the province to my home town. The Miss White Rock pageant and White Rock Youth Ambassador gala was held on Friday, kicking off White Rock’s Spirit of the Sea festivities held annually on the August long…
Today was the first day of my five day adventure: three pageants, three parades and a whole lot of dinners, socials and driving. I woke up at 5:30 a.m. and left White Rock around 6:30 a.m. to catch what should have been the 7:25 a.m. Greyhound leaving from Langley to Osoyoos. But the bus was late….
Yesterday, I held my second fundraiser garage sale for Free The Children, and to great success. As British Columbia Ambassadors, my team and I have dedicated our reign to raising funds to build a school in Kenya, through Craig Kielburger’s Free The Children organization. The school has been a two-year projec started by our ambassador…
When the weather gets warmer and the days get longer, it means that pageant season has finally arrived. This weekend I travelled to Vancouver Island to take part in the Lake Cowichan Lady of the Lake pageant with my fellow B.C. Ambassadors. We caught an afternoon ferry on Friday so we would have time to…