Tonight is the night for this year's Bonners
Ferry Distinguished Young Women, 2016.The event, with this year's theme of "Around the World in 80 Days," promises to be a scintillating and fun-filled event. To see some great choreography, performances, talent presentations, and an overall great production, get your tickets for tonight's show. Several scholarships and awards will also be made at tonight's program. The Bonners Ferry program has the reputation of providing among the largest amounts of Distinguished Young Women awards in Idaho. Last year over $15,000 in scholarships and awards went to Distinguished Young Women contestants.
Reigning Distinguished Young Woman Shaleyna Higgins will be completing her year of service, and will be passing the crown on to our new Distinguished Young Woman. This year's candidates for Distinguished Young Woman are:
Samantha Branson
Jennah Smith
Jill Alexander
Taja Hoban
Madalynn Kelley
Rachel Young
Lexie LeVesque
Serenity Winey
Brittany Spangler
Mary Fioravanti
Alaina White
Cameron Haworth
The emcee for tonight's program will be Bonners Ferry's own Michaela Dirks.
Michaela is a former
Distinguished Young Woman (then Junior Miss)
participant, and represented Bonners Ferry as
its Junior Miss in 2008-2009. She graduated from
Bonners Ferry High School in 2009 and received
her degree in Broadcasting and Digital Media
from the University of Idaho in in 2014. While
in Moscow, she was the program director for
radio station Bull Country 99.5 as well as the
morning show host of “The A.M. Experiment” and a
recurring guest host for ESPN 1400’s “Local
Sports Talk.” For the past year, she has lived in Seattle working as a production assistant for ESPN and Campus Insiders. When she is not working, she says she loves exploring outdoors, coffee dates with friends, and long conversations on the phone with her mom. Traveling often for work, people always ask her where she is from and although they often confuse it with Ohio and end up making awful potato jokes, she loves telling them she was born and raised in Bonners Ferry, Idaho.
The local Distinguished Young Women committee is grateful to Michaela for taking the time to host this year’s program, and welcomes her back home to Bonners Ferry.
The Distinguished Young Women program tonight begins at 6:30 p.m. at the auditorium at Bonners Ferry High School. Tickets for this year’s show are available for $12.00 at Mountain Mike’s Health Food Store. All seating is reserved.