On Thursday, July 30th we volunteered at the Open Door Pantry in Eagan. The Open Door Pantry is an amazing organization that distributes food to the community. Here we helped shop for customers and pack boxes of nonperishable food items. Due to the Covid customers are not allowed to shop for themselves so we played a big part buy gathering the food items which they selected from a list, this was a little more difficult than before Covid because we had to pick it all ourselves. We were happy to help out with such a great organization. We also enjoyed meeting the other volunteers they were so helpful. At the end of our shift, we lent a hand in the cleanup process. We would like to thank The Open Door Pantry for letting us volunteer.
Miss Princess Ashley, Junior Princess Marissa, Junior Princess Taylor, and Little Miss Autumn
Open Door Pantry
Terrific Tuesday at South Valley Park
On Tuesday, July 28, Teah, Marissa, and I attend Terrific Tuesday at South Valley Park. At this event, we helped set up and guide visitors to the show. This week at Terrific Tuesday there was a band that came to entertain the families. We loved singing along with the songs as well as helping get the kids excited about the music and being outdoors on a beautiful Tuesday morning. Thanks to Parks and Recreation for letting us attend this event.
2020 Miss Princess
Ashley
Service Project – Animal Ark
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
River Falls “Quoranation”
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
From the Inver Grove Heights Scholarship Program
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.
Covid-19 Important Update
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/
Queen’s Weekend – St. Paul Winter Carnival
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
Princess’s Dance
On February 7th, my royal sisters and I attended the Princess’s Dance at the Inver Grove Heights Community Center. We had dinner, played games and did crafts before the dance started. We also got our photos taken in the photo booth and so did all our Dads. The DJ played some slow songs and all the girls got to dance with their dads. At the end we took a picture with all the little princesses.
2020 Junior Princess
Marissa
Service Project: Caring Hearts of Minnesota
On January 21, 2020, I dropped off the rest of the items for my first community service project. My community service project was where you can donate pretty much anything to Caring Hearts of Minnesota, and they will give it away for free to people that need it.
My target was to get to 500 items and we collected more than 700 items! The organization that I went to was in Farmington. I meet with a lady named Fran who was more than happy to receive all the stuff that I collected. I just want to say thank you to all my friends and family that helped my reach my goal. I’m so happy to know that I am helping people in need.
2020 Junior Princess
Marissa
Sponsor Visit: Quality Auto Care Center
I have been honored to be sponsored by Quality Auto Care Center throughout my candidacy and now my reign. It is very important to me that I show this business how much I value their continued support. Around the holidays I stopped in and visited with the owner, Bruce. We talked for quite a while and he told me all about the new things that have been happening there since my last visit. Bruce is such a personable guy and when you stop in he truly makes you feel like family. The fact that he took time out of his busy schedule to make time to meet with me really shows how much he cares about his community. I look forward to the rest of the year and he is one of the special people that have made that happen for me.
2020 Miss Inver Grove Heights Princess
Ashley
