On Friday April 12, 2019. I had the opportunity to put together 50 spring bags with candy, toys, play-do, and pencils for Gillette hospital. When I was delivering all the bags I had seen some patients come and go but from each of them I had got a smile which made my day! I was really happy when my mom got in touch with Natalie from Gillette’s hospital, thank you so much for letting me be apart of that.
Junior Miss Princess Natalia Wilhelm
I am so thankful for Gertens for sponsoring me and the program. It was really fun to meet Dale one of the managers at Gertens. He was really nice and gave me orange flowers. I even got to take a picture with a giant gnome! I just want to thank them not just my sponsor, but everyone who supports the Miss Inver Grove Heights Scholarship Program.
Miss Inver Grove Heights
Tessa
The Good Samaritan Luncheon was a great opportunity to help fund raise for Good Samaritan. It was also a great opportunity to learn about how we make our greatest impressions when we are not trying to be impressive. We got to learn this from Joe Schmidt channel 5 sports anchor. On top of learning about how we make our greatest impressions we also got to meet many people who help run Good Samaritan and how the proceeds from this event helps them give their residents the greatest care.
Miss Inver Grove Heights
Tessa
It was fun seeing the students perform their unique talent when we participated as judges at the Discovery Charter School talent show. This student’s talent was playing piano. -Abi
Little Queen
Abi
On March 23, my Royal sisters and I had the opportunity to go to the Woodbury Luau. My Royal sisters and I got to do a limbo and hula hoop contest. We also loved to see the smiles we put on the kids faces. We also got to see other royalty and past ambassadors.
Little Miss Princess
Jayda
This parade was truly a spectacular event! For my first time ever, I attended the Vulcan Victory Torchlight Parade and it made the whole celebration of Winter Carnival even more fun! Tessa and I rode on the West Wind float with our dearest Stephanie Sutton, who was a West Wind Princess in 2004. Before the parade started we got to mingle around with the visiting royalty and it was so nice to see some of the girls I met at Queen’s weekend, like the girls from New Brighton, Woodbury, South St. Paul, and Cottage Grove. Of course the Rice Street ladies were there as well, and it’s always a great time when they’re around. Overall it was a lot warmer than last weekend so that really made it easy to keep our smiles on, since our cheeks weren’t numb this time. We love the West Winds, and wouldn’t have wanted to ride with anyone else, YEE HAW!!!
2019 Miss Inver Grove Heights
Joy
On Saturday, February 2nd we bagged groceries at the IGH cub foods for Neighbors, Inc. We helped raise money through donations and selling bags of food for the Neighbor’s food shelf.
2019 Little Queen
On January 28th I had the opportunity to meet with my sponsors Brian and Vicki Dzieweczynski, Old World Pizza. I wanted to thank them for sponsoring myself and the program. We talked about what events I had done and the fun I was having. Thanks once again for supporting our program.
Junior Miss
Alyssa
On January 30th, the day everything (except my job) closed, I braved the cold and finally completed my first service project! I decided to create a fundraiser on Facebook for helping the homeless and surprisingly, I got a lot of donations and some great feedback on it! I ended up raising around $300 and I went and bought discounted toiletries off Amazon (and a few from Target). My original plan was to create care packages and hand-deliver them to the homeless people who reside in what is now labelled, “Tent City” but after speaking with my mother and a Minneapolis police officer, I was advised to stay away from that area due to unsafe conditions for not only the people living there but visitors as well. From then on, I set out to find the most deserving homeless shelter that I wanted donate my goods to. I stumbled upon the organization called People Serving People and decided to share my gifts with them. It took me a couple tries, because my schedule has been so busy, but I finally found the time to deliver the toiletries and I’m so glad I chose this organization. They are still in need of items so if anyone has any extra items that fall under a category on the list, please do not hesitate to bring them there! They are in Minneapolis at 614 S 3rd Street and they are open every day from 9am-5pm.
If you are unable to donate to them, lets at least spread the word about this great organization!
2019 Miss Inver Grove Heights Queen
Joy
