Bailee Smith, Miss South Carolina Pre-Teen danced for the Cancer Association.

Bailee Smith Bailee Smith.jpg2 Bailee Smith.jpg3Bailee Smith, Miss South Carolina Pre-Teen danced for the Cancer Association. Bailee participated in Dancing with the Spartanburg Stars. Hundreds of thousands of dollars were raised for the Cancer Association for Spartanburg and Cherokee Counties.

Amaris Shipman, Miss North Carolina Jr. Pre-Teen, participated in Stuff the Bus!

AmarisAmaris Shipman, Miss North Carolina Jr. Pre-Teen, participated in Stuff the Bus! This event is organized by the Cumberland County Social workers. Stuff the Bus is held to assist children with getting school supplies.

North Carolina Jr. Pre-Teen Queen Amaris Shipman, volunteered at the Fayetteville Observer’s Kidtopia.

Amaris Amaris.jpg2 Amaris.jpg3 Amaris.jpg4 Amaris.jpg5North Carolina Jr. Pre-Teen Queen Amaris Shipman, volunteered at the Fayetteville Observer’s Kidtopia. This event was presented by Village Family Dentistry at the Crown Coliseum. This was a  hands on event for kids included inflatables, live entertainment, food, and activities. Amaris had a great time helping and was glad to be able to lend a hand to such a good cause!

Amaris Shipman, Miss North Carolina Jr. Pre-Teen, volunteers during the holidays!

Amaris Shipman Amaris Shipman.jpg2Amaris Shipman, Miss North Carolina Jr. Pre-Teen, volunteers during the holidays! Amaris volunteered in her local community of Cumberland County. She had the spirit of giving and was able to give back in her town.

Nikya Hightower, Miss North Carolina Pre-Teen has been busy representing the National American Miss!

Nikya Nikya.png2 Nikya.png3 Nikya.png4 Nikya.png5 Nikya.png6 Nikya.png7 Nikya.png8Nikya Hightower, Miss North Carolina Pre-Teen has been busy representing the National American Miss!  She has donated books to her local church. Nikya also was featured as visiting royalty at the county fair where to got to help crown the winners. She also volunteered in the mailroom for the Child Advocacy Center. She has had such a good time volunteering and helping out in her community! Nikya also met former American Idol contestant and Congressional runner for North Carolina Clay Aiken at a town hall meeting. She has also received a letter of recognition for the mayor at the city hall meeting.

Anna Grace Reep, Miss South Carolina Princess, has been busy volunteering around town.

AOG AD donating to NA donations LM parade pic lm parade2 NAM queens at MCI photshoot with mayors Queen at sponsor SC Princess Anna Grace Reep, Miss South Carolina Princess, has been busy volunteering around town.  Anna-Grace was in the Little Mountain Reunion parade in August representing NAM as Miss South Carolina Princess. It is South Carolina’s Oldest Folk Festival and part of her hometown of Newberry County. Even in a light rain, Anna-Grace rode in the parade & afterwards visited with some of the crowd talking about NAM and how it promotes confidence in their girls.
She then met with the Head of School at her school to donate school supplies that were collected at her South Carolina state pageant. Brian Fitzgerald, Head of Newberry Academy thanked her for such a generous donation to go toward the student body. He is so proud of his second grader who is South Carolina Princess for National American Miss. Anna Grace participates in Eaglette Cheerleading and is on the High Honor Roll for the school.

Anna-Grace also met with the Mayors of the towns in Newberry County South Carolina last night.  She met with the Mayor Lisha Senn of Silverstreet, SC; Mayor Darryl Hentz of Pomaria, SC; Mayor Derek Underwood of Prosperity, SC ; and Mayor Foster Senn of Newberry. They all wanted to meet with her and wish her luck as she will represent our community & state at Nationals. 

Also she met with Mayor Derek Underwood privately as he welcomed her nonprofit thrift store Angels of Grace to the town of Prosperity. She had appeared in an advertisement with her sister in the Newberry Magazine where the Thrift Store had moved to Prosperity. It was featured on page 24 in the September/October edition. Anna-Grace is the ambassador and a volunteer in the non-profit store. She helped it moved and works in the store setting up displays, sorting clothes, and also helping children shop in the store.

After a busy  day with school, cheerleading practice & appearances, she stopped by one of her proud sponsors Zesto’s of Newberry to get supper. Mr. Jack the owner knows that their Fried Chicken is her favorite food. They always have their NAM Queen a chicken leg & a milkshake ready.

Baylee Smith SC Pre-Teen Queen and Anna-Grace SC Princess together at Toni Buskers Workshop in Greenville.  Anna-Grace attended last year’s MCI event in Nashville and is part of the MCI family.

North Carolina Jr. Teen Queen Meredith Twigg donated books to local elementary school and church.

Meredith Twigg Meredith Twigg, National American Miss North Carolina Jr. Teen Queen donated the books from the pageant to the principal of Bessemer Elementary School in Greensboro.  Bessemer Elementary School and First Baptist Church Greensboro hosted a “Steps to Success” Kindergarten camp for children. The camp aims to equip these new kindergarteners, some of which do not speak any English, with the necessary skills and confidence needed to start school. Meredith is volunteering this week as a “Buddy” for the children and travels through a mock school day each day. Breakfast and lunch is provided by the church. Meredith donated all the books to the school to be used as take home books for these children to have. Some of these children live in the Children’s Home and others do not have books at home. Students will get take home “homework” bags with these books in them.

Miss North Carolina Jr. Pre-Teen Cover Girl Faith Anne Yeley volunteered with A Child’s Place.

Faith Anne

Faith Anne.png2Miss North Carolina Jr. Pre-Teen Cover Girl Faith Anne Yeley
got right to work!Faith Anne and her family loaded up her dads truck with
as many boxes of school supplies that would fit the night she was crowned
Jr. Pre-teen Cover Girl and queen’s court 1st runner up for the state
of North Carolina.Faith Anne and her family started sorting through boxes and
organized all the supplies into categories. Once they were through sorting,
they had enough supplies to fill at least five classrooms or more! Thank you
to everyone who donated supplies the weekend of the Winston-Salem pageant!
You helped make a difference in so many children’s lives in need!Thank you to
A Child’s Place for being that resource for children in need. Faith Anne
looks forward to working with this organization more in the future.

Lexie Spooner, Miss South Carolina, Jr. Pre-Teen, was featured in 2 local papers!

SCMAKING A DIFFERENCE.  Lexie Spooner, Miss Jr. Pre-Teen for South Carolina, organized a donation drive and bake sale for Friends of Colleton County Animal Shelter.  Using Sweet Dreams, Sewn Seams and Jelli Beans as a drop off location, Spooner collected 30 rolls of paper towels, bottles of Dawn dish detergent, Clorox bleach, pet food and much more. On Saturday July 12, she held a bake sale and raised over $340 for the animals of Colleton County. Lexie, was featured in The Press & Standard and The Colletonian.