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It is time once again for this year’s Kamloops Ambassador’s Society Miss Kamloops coronation and the candidates have worked tirelessly for months preparing for this amazing opportunity! These empowered future leaders have spent the last six months taking courses in a broad range of skills from public speaking and etiquette to financial planning and auto mechanics. They have amassed countless volunteer hours networking and serving Kamloops, preparing for their chance at achieving top honours. “Miss Kamloops is not the beauty pageant of yore, but a program that encourages teenage girls to broaden their horizons and ultimately gain confidence,” said organizer Teresa Dares. Many perfectly attractive girls and young women today perceive themselves as too short, too heavy or too plain to ever consider competing in a beauty pageant. I know as a teenager I struggled with selfimage. Fueled by the media and society’s unachievable standards of beauty, I let my thoughts and feelings about my looks define everything about me, including my right to have fun and be social, to go to dances, to enjoy close friendships, or to date nice boys who would treat me with dignity and respect. I knew I would never be one of the popular girls who graced the hallways of my high school, gliding through semes-
ters with confidence and refined elegance. It wasn’t until I first stepped on stage in my high heels and swim suit that I finally discovered I was my own worst critic and that in my quest for mediocrity I had found my own unique beauty and perhaps something to offer the world after all. Fast-forward a quarter of a century later and even though I hung up my sash and crown a long time ago, I attribute my successes in life to the times I spent doing pageantry and the doors it opened for me. The candidates for Miss Kamloops 2015 are Isaiah Johnson, Emily Crowe, Chloe Filimek, Haley Baker, Andrea Simmons, Cherise Rehder, Kaitlyn Guise, Emyrson Philip, Miranda Roberge, Brittany Wojak and Adaira Chicoine. These outstanding young women are all between the ages of 16 and 18 and attending school in addition to the courses and community events they have participated in, all the while being judged on their prepared speeches and knowledge of Kamloops. The candidates would like to thank their sponsors for all their help this year. On Saturday, July 11 starting at 6:30 pm at the Sagebrush Theatre, the new Miss Kamloops 2015 will be selected to represent the City. She and her co-ambassadors will embark on a year long odyssey to boost Kamloops at communities - continued on page 2
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