Animal Ark is a non-kill animal shelter in Hastings, Minnesota. Animal Ark has dogs and cats available for adoption or fostering. I collected some dog toys and learned how to sew and made some cat toys with Catnip, and also purchased some cleaning supplies for the shelter. There are cat condos that are really nice that the cats live in, while they are staying there. I was also hoping to volunteer there, but because of Covid, I was sadly not able to. My royalty sister Teah and my sister Kenzie help deliver some of the items.

2020 Junior Miss Inver Grove Heights Princess
Marissa

It has been a long few months for our royal family, not being able to attend any events, but on Thursday, July 9th, we were able to support the River Falls Ambassadors and attend their coronation! It was exciting to see other royalty programs again and talk to them about what their festival has been up to recently. What River Falls called as a “Quoranation” was uniquely held on a baseball field as we got to meet the candidates. We look forward to spending this next year with the newly crowned River Falls Ambassadors!

2020 Miss Inver Grove Heights
Amy

Although a former member of our program has included her titles from her time with our program on her social media profiles, she is no longer affiliated with the Inver Grove Heights Scholarship Program. Her comments on recent social media posts do not reflect the mission and the values of our organization.

Due to concerns surrounding Covid-19, the Inver Grove Heights Scholarship Program Board of Directors regrets to announce that we will suspend our candidacy program for those seeking to become our next class of Inver Grove Heights royalty until 2021. In addition, we will be cancelling our coronation program scheduled for September 2020.

This was a very difficult decision for our board, but we felt it was in the best interest in order to keep everyone safe. We have asked our current 2020 royalty to stay on for the next year and we are grateful that this have accepted this role.

We look forward to resuming regular activities as soon as we can and encourage potential candidates for 2021-2022 to apply on our website, www.missigh.com.

Thank you for your understanding,

Rochelle VanKempen
President, Inver Grove Heights Scholarship Program
http://www.missigh.com/

For my second service project, I picked making Get Well cards and cards of Encouragement for the residents at Augustana Health Care, Apple Valley.  This place is special to me because my great-grandpa lives there. During this hard time with the Coronavirus, many of the residents get lonely and start to go into a depression so I decided to help out. With the help of so many people, we were able to make 410 cards. We made enough cards to give every resident in the facility a card such as the Transitional Care Center, Nursing Home Floors and Assisted Living Center. I wanted to thank everyone that helped put in all of the work in those cards so that the residents could have a brighter day.
-2020 Junior Miss Inver Grove Heights

Teah

For my first service project, I did Corey’s Closet. Corey’s Closet is an organization created by one of our board members Michele Fox. This organization is to help teenagers and families with necessities that they need such as toiletries, clothes, etc. Corey’s closet is located at Simley High School. I chose to reach out and help this program because I can’t imagine what it’s like going out with things that you need and I think that it is important that people reach out and help organizations such as Corey’s Closet.
I would like to thank everyone who contributed to the donations and those who helped make my service project possible. I hope that all of the items that were donated help many people in need.
-2020 Junior Miss Inver Grove Heights 

Teah

For my second service project as the 2020 Miss Inver Grove Heights Princess, I decided I wanted to give back to the animals in the community. I started my project by reaching out to friends and family and asking them if they would be willing to donate any cat or dog supplies. I was very grateful to receive many donations from so many wonderful people. Thank you so much if you helped contribute to this project. Next, I decided that I wanted to handmake dog toys to donate as well. With the help of my mom, I ended up handmaking almost 100 dog toys to donate as well. These dog toys were made out of fleece that I had leftover from my last service project where I made tie blankets for children’s hospital. This fleece was also donated to me by friends and family. Once I had all of my supplies together I dropped off the supplies at Last Hope which is an animal organization that is located in Farmington. This organization helps to supply dog and cat items to people in the surrounding areas. On top of this, they also help get dogs and cats into foster homes until they can be adopted out. I am so grateful that I got to work with such an amazing organization on this project and I am also so grateful that I had the help of so many friends and family members to complete this project.

2020 Miss Inver Grove Heights Princess

Ashley

On Saturday, February 29th my royal sisters and I participated in the Inver Grove Heights Scholarship Programs Leap Year bowling event.  It was a lot of fun. There was bowling, a silent auction, and a taco feed. It was fun spending time with all of the girls from different royalty programs. Thank you to everyone from the community, neighboring communities, other royalty programs, and the past royalty and their families for coming out and supporting our program!

2020 Little Miss Inver Grove Heights

Autumn

For my first service project, I chose to collect donations for Secondhand Hounds Animal Rescue. Secondhand Hounds Rescue, fosters and finds forever homes for dogs and cats. This project was special to me because that’s where we got our dog, Millie. For a little more than a month I collected new and gently used dog/cat supplies. I reached out to family, friends, and our community for donations. I am thankful for the amount of support I received from everyone. Thanks to all of the support I was able to donate so much stuff for the animals! 

2020 Little Miss 

Autumn

For the kickoff of St. Paul Winter Carnival, I was fortunate to represent Inver Grove Heights at Queen’s Weekend. During this four day event, we had 97 ambassadors visiting from all over Minnesota and Wisconsin! We had a full weekend that included saying farewell to the 2019 Winter Carnival Royal Family at their coronation and meeting the wonderful 2020 Royal Family. We played around at the science museum, met the Vulcan crews from the past years, created our own paintings, and attended the Grande Day Parade!

This was a very memorable weekend full of a lot of smiles, minimal sleep, and various snacks! My two favorite parts of this entire weekend would be being able to see and hug my Inver Grove Heights royal family at the coronation and being able to walk the parade and interact with the excited crowd!

2020 Miss Inver Grove Heights
Amy

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