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Reigning Beauties

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Reining beautiesThese girls know a thing or two about poise as well as helping others. As current Kern title holders, ages 4 to 17, they say there is a lot to celebrate about our community.Young Miss Kern Elizabeth Schull, 17Junior Miss Kern County Dakotah Skinner, 15Pre Teen Miss Kern County Madison Swaim, 12Little Miss Kern County Destanee Sanchez, 7Grand Supreme Miss Kern County Savana Granados, 4What’s your favorite thing about being in pageants?      Elizabeth: Being able to have my crown work for my community. Being a positive role model for the youth of Kern County, showing them how to have a healthy lifestyle.      Dakotah: My favorite thing about being in the pageants is giving back to our community, helping others and being a good role model.     Madison: I have been able to do a lot more community service and I have also made a lot of great new friends.     Destanee: Making new friends and getting all dressed up.     Savana: Making new friends.How far do you want to go in the pageant world?     Elizabeth: I will be going on to represent Kern County at the California state finals in August and dream of being crowned Young Miss California.     Dakotah: Winning the Junior Miss Kern County has been a wonderful experience and at the end of my rein I will go on to compete at the California state finals and then I will focus on my college opportunities.Madison: I am going to go as far as I possibly can, and hopefully that means one day I will meet Donald Trump at Miss USA.     Destanee: I want to make it to the California state finals.     Savana: I’d like to be Miss America.What is your favorite thing (person/place/etc.) about Bakersfield and why?     Elizabeth: My favorite thing is my school Stockdale High and all of that Mustang pride. All of the people that support me in my dreams and life goals are my favorite. For places, I love downtown, Mill Creek Park, Father Garces at the circle, the Fox Theater, the Clock Tower at Pioneer Village, dinner at Wool Growers and desert at Dewar’s Ice Cream Shop.     Dakotah: My favorite person is my dad for providing me the opportunities to succeed.   And my favorite place in Bakersfield is Dewar’s ice cream shop. I love their peppermint ice cream.  It always brings a smile to my face.     Madison: Right now, my favorite place to go in Bakersfield is Rollerama.  I like to go there because my friends and I have a lot of fun there and I have met a lot of new people.     Destanee: My favorite person is my sister in Christ, Kelly Houghtaling, and my favorite place is Church Inc.     Savana: My favorite person is Mrs. Pam Schull, my pageant director. Favorite place is Chuck E. Cheese.If there were one thing you could change about Bakersfield, what would it be?      Elizabeth: I’d like to have more positive activities for teens.     Dakotah: The only thing that I would change in Bakersfield is our poor air quality.     Madison: I would like to reduce the amount of homeless people that we have on our streets. I would like to start a nonprofit organization to help these people here in Bakersfield.     Destanee: No more hungry or homeless people, and I’d like everyone to have love for each other.     Savana: I would like it if Disneyland was in Bakersfield.