On Saturday March 25, my Royal Family and I were able to volunteer at Cub for the Neighbors Food Drive. We helped them a lot and almost made the money goal they had set. We helped with passing out grocery lists, and packing groceries. It was a lot of fun, the people were very nice and it was a great day.
Katie Mitchell
2017 Junior Princess
On Friday February 10th my royal sisters and I were able to attend the Daddy Daughter Date Night with our dads! The event was held at the Inver Grove Heights Veterans Memorial Community Center.
The evening started out with a yummy spaghetti dinner. Afterwards, we were all able to have pictures taken with our dads in a professional photo booth. There was also a scavenger hunt bingo game that we were able to play. The funnest part of the evening was dancing with our dads! There were so many younger girls there with their dads. They all looked like they were having so much fun dancing and they were all so cute!
The evening ended with all of us girls getting a single red rose. It was a pretty awesome night!
Abigail Cheyka
2017 Little Princess
On Saturday January 28th,my royal family and I had the opportunity to support the St. Paul Winter Carnival at the Grand Day Parade. It was wonderful to see the surrounding communities from all over Minnesota and Wisconsin come together on this chilly winter day. I loved seeing the newly crowned Winter Carnival family attend their first parade, as well as how happy they were to be selected as royalty. I can’t wait to get to know the 2017 Winter Carnival Royal family throughout our upcoming year together!
Megan Rauschnot
2017 Princess
On January 27th my sisters and I attended the Winter carnival Royalty Coronation at the River Centre. We got to meet up with many different groups, there were even a few from out of state. The show was amazing we did a lot of dancing and singing. There was a funny skit teaching us about the winter carnival. Lots of air horns, guns, and whistles went off all night. Then it came to crowning the wonderful new court, so nervous for all of them. Gave me a knot in my stomach. I am so proud of the new Court, it will be great to see them throughout the year.
Payton Litz
2017 Little Miss
On Friday, June 24th, my royal sisters and I had a great time at the South St. Paul Kaposia Days parade. Before we went to line up, we socialized and took pictures at a pre-parade party graciously hosted by Holly Pugh and Scott Cocchiarella. Then we headed over to our line up spot and talked with more royalty and took even more pictures! Once we were on our way, the parade itself was a blast! We saw a lot of people we knew on the parade route since South St. Paul is only a stone’s throw away from Inver Grove Heights. This parade route is one of the longer ones when compared to other cities’, but throughout the entire parade the streets were packed!! And I mean packed. That really shows how much community support there is in South St. Paul! After the parade we headed over to the VFW. While we were there we ate some awesome food (the jalapeno peppers were my favorite), chatted with other royalties and the South St. Paul candidates. Speaking of candidates, the South St. Paul coronation is our next event! We cannot wait to welcome the new girls who are selected to represent their city for the next year. With that said, however, I can speak for all of us by saying that we love Meg, Kaitlyn, and Molly, and we honestly do not want them to give up their crowns! They have been so kind, funny, and friendly towards us throughout our time together. I hope the new girls and my royal family are just as close!
Rachel Wanger
2016 Junior Miss Inver Grove Heights
Over the past couple months I have been collecting clothes and hygiene product donations for a designated place In my school, which we have named Cory’s closet. This is a closet for those in need and who are not able to get these products on their own. It’s very important that they get the proper care they need. It is in honor of my brother who is no longer with us, but loved this school and was a Simley High School graduate. I hope to get more people interested. I would like to thank Mrs. Walsh for giving me the space to do this, it is a big help! We will keep it going for the years to come!2016 Miss Inver Grove Heights
Princess Liv and I attended the Rice Street Kick Off Dinner on the 8th of June. It was a fun filled event where we were able to meet the 7 amazing rice street candidates and celebrate the current girls in all they’ve done. A big thank you to TST for the amazing food, the Mac and cheese was awesome! I loved looking at the desserts and hearing the different things they did on classic twists!
Thank you Rice Street!
Stephanie Fox
2016 Miss Inver Grove Heights
On June 14th, the Inver Grove Heights royalty attended the Farmington Ambassador coronation.it was great to see all of the other royalties as wells as the 2015 ambassadors one last time. Although we are sad to see these 9 lovely ladies leave, we are very excited to welcome the next group. Congratulations to Miss ReAnn Eidahl, Miss MaKayla Ford, Miss Emma Ulrich, Jr. Tatum Hodkins, Jr. Anna Singewald, Little Ava Henry, and Little Gabriella Wallmuth. We can’t wait to get to know you all!
Liv Swenson
2016 Inver Grove Heights Princess
Wow, what a crazy day! Farmington Dew Days parade was our second of the day, but easily the more eventful one. The weather was on our side in the sense that it wasn’t raining, but the heat would not let up! Luckily our line up spot was in the shade. Before the parade we had the chance to briefly talk with the newly crowned Farmington royalty, as well as others. After socializing, we returned to our float and discovered that there was a pig behind it! She was in the parade too, and so naturally, in addition to taking a few pictures, we had to pet her. She was kind of prickly, like a porcupine, but still very cute. At 5:00 the parade began. It was super fun and it had a great spectator turnout. There were few spots in the parade where there was no one to wave to or smile at! All was good until we were in the home stretch. Then, the car battery died. We (as in the five of us on the float) smiled awkwardly as we watched the rest of the parade move ahead without us. However, the wait did not last long because the gracious group in front of us, the people representing Seal King, agreed to use their truck to pull the dead vehicle and float the rest of the way (thank you, thank you, thank you!). Once we started moving again, the crowd cheered, and the five of us laughed as this was surely a parade to remember. Like I said at the beginning, it was a crazy day for all of us, but those kinds of events make the best memories, right?!
Rachel Wanger
2016 Junior Miss Inver Grove Heights
Kickoff dinners are one of my favorite events. It’s the start of a new year for royalty programs and the official start of candidacy for many excited young ladies. On June 16th, the Inver Grove Heights Royalty attended the Kaposia Days Kickoff Dinner at the Clarion Hotel in South Saint Paul. It was exciting to learn more about the candidates and their sponsors. They are all wonderful ladies and we are very excited to see who will be representing South St. Paul as the 2016 Kaposia Days Royalty at their coronation on June 25th! I would also like to congratulate, Carol Swenson, who received the Nancy Fisch Spirit Award. The Spirit Award goes to a community member who has demonstrated outstanding community spirit and involvement. Carol Swenson, along with her husband, Dan, have been involved with community scholarship programs since the 1980’s. They even had a large role in starting the Miss Inver Grove Heights Scholarship Program. Carol is a current board member for the Miss IGH program as well as the Kaposia Days program. We are so proud of her and deeply appreciate her commitment to our community.
Liv Swenson
2016 Miss Inver Grove Heights Princess
