NEW PAGEANT LAUNCHED FOR GIRLS WITH DISABILITIES

Bree Goelze, a San Marcos resident and Ms. U.S. 2022, has launched a new pageant for girls with disabilities, which will be held on June 22.

“Miss California Extraordinaire provides contestants with disabilities an experience of a lifetime,” states the event website, https://missextraordinaire.com. “Every contestant is a winner and receives a title.”

Goelze adds that it is more of an esteem pageant event rather than a beauty pageant in that it focuses on building self-esteem and confidence in every participant.

In addition to the ceremony, Goelze has begun a monthly Girls’ Day Out for the contestants, which o ers an avenue for the families of special needs kids to network about resources they have discovered in the community while having fun together as a group and celebrating their special kids.

Goelze is married to a firefighter and is the mother of four boys. She is actively involved in charity work in addition to her job as a speech-language pathologist.

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Ilana Huff