Miss Utah Week

4th runner up - Hanna Christenson and myself - 2nd runner up

Thank you all for the support and love! I am not Miss Utah this year but I am so honored to have won the Miracle Maker award and Swim preliminary once again this year! The Miracle Maker award is given to the contestant who raised the most money for the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. I was able to do that because of the people in Davis County! Also I walked away as the 2nd runner up. It was a great accomplishment and I will receive much needed college scholarship money. One of the largest volunteer groups and service opportunities is the Miss America Organization. I am honored to have participated in the program. I sure love the Miss Utah Organization- Thank you to my friends family and my new amazing friends I left with! And a big thank you to the Miss Utah family for all you do!! I love each and every one of you! I will be doing a service project in the next month that our community can become involved with - not as a title holder but as Ciera Pekarcik :) Stay tuned for more!
Also check it out! http://www.standard.net/topics/drugs/2011/06/26/uvu-student-crowned-miss-utah-miss-davis-county-second-runner

This isn't Goodbye - I just got started!

           It is finally here - Miss Utah week. I want to thank all my supporters, the community, my sponsors and my family! This year has been a lot of fun and exciting work as well as big learning experience. I am passionate about what the Miss America Organization can do for the young woman, our community and anyone who chooses to be involved. I have been able to raise over 1500 dollars for the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals (aka Primary Children's Medical Center in SLC) because of your contributions as a community and involvement in service. I have done over 500 hrs of service myself through several events I organized as well as those of others! For the chance to become involved - I thank you. The email list that was started just 3 months ago has grown to over 50 followers! This blog alone has had over 1500 views! None of this would be possible with out you.. YOU! Thank you! I love you all and will continue to promote service the rest of my life. I know what it can do for each individual and for a community. If any one would like to participate in the upcoming Miss Utah events the information is below! I hope to see you there - I'm not done yet :)

Monday June 20th: Show me your shoes parade: 6:30 PM @ GARDNER VILLAGE - This is Free! There will be dancing with live music and a chance to meet all the contestants! Such a fun family event.
Wednesday June 22nd: Evening Dress and On Stage Question
Thursday June 23rd: Talent night
Friday June 24th: Swimsuit
Saturday June 25th: Final Night - Top 10 compete
tickets at http://www.arttix.org/

Also:

Miss America - Teresa Scanlan will be coming Saturday night as the guest of the evening :)

Don't miss out!

Utah Davis County Children's Justice Center Golf Tournament

I'm very passionate about what the Utah Davis County Children's Justice Center does. They are a resource for Davis County families with children who have been sexually abused. Their Center provides a comfortable,child friendly environment where highly trained professionals talk with the children about what has happened to them. The Center provides medical care for abused children, crisis counseling for their families, and provides a forum for case staffings between investigators and prosecutors. Over 400 Davis County Children were seen at the Center last year.I have been on the "Friends board" at the Davis County Children's Justice Center for the past two years. I have been able to work with some amazing people as well as create different fun ways to raise money for the CJC. This morning, bright and early, was their annual Golf Tournament.

This is one of my favorite events - I was able to participate last year as well but the weather was not nearly as nice. 

Ernie, the owner of Schneiders Bluff, and myself get along really well! 

This is one amazing man.

.. and he taught me a few tricks. 

Although the Utah Davis County Children's Justice Center Golf Tournament was a lot of work.. we made some time to play as well :)

glee DC sectionals

Today- Thursday May 19th I was honored to judge a 4-H Glee contest. Several 4-H after-school Glee programs have spent the past few months rehearsing and preparing two songs for the Davis County Glee competition. In this process they have learned vital preforming skill that will most defiantly carry them in life no matter what they decide to do. It was beyond difficult to choose one group to walk away with the trophy but somehow we did it. It was a rainy day full of some amazing talent! This was one fun event and I was thrilled to be part of it! Way to go everyone!

The three judges who made the decisions. Davis County commissioner Louenda Downs, Casey Allen (Musical expertise) and myself.  

The Black Outs were a little excited to win the Glee contest :)

What talent Davis County has!! Keep preforming! 

Another wonderful meeting with the Davis County Commissioner's

Tuesday, May 17th, I asked to meet with the Davis County Commissioners. I was able to update them on all the fun events I have had the privilege of being involved in lately - I was also able to tell them how my own events had gone in the past few months. I also informed them about the upcoming Miss Utah activities starting June 20th to June 25th.We discussed how positive the Miss Davis County program has been not only for myself and the other young woman involved but also our community as a whole. I love our commissioner's for many reasons, but mainly because they understand and can see what this organization does. I look forward to their constant support of the Miss Davis County Pageant!

Make Unders - Not Make Overs

I had the honor of speaking with a group of young woman about their beauty inside and beauty outside. I explained that I have found a way to become a balanced young woman through pageants. It was a lot of fun to see all the different interests these girls had. We all discussed by using our talents and serving others you can define yourself as an individual. We also talked about taking care of our bodies by working out – eating right – protecting our skin from the sun– being clean etc. Next we discussed our unique beauty and how we are all beautiful because of our differences and that you should focus on reaching your own potential and not to compare yourself to others. I than started some “Make Unders” as appose to “Make Overs”- I explained that make up is meant to enhance who you are.. not change you or hide you. We had a lot of fun playing with different natural looks – these girls all had different styles and they all looked beautiful! What an impressive group of young ladies! 

                                                            Thank you for letting me come be a part of your lives. Remember to be your own beauty!

Reading at KinderCare in Farmington

On April 25th I was able to go visit KinderCare in Farmington! I read some of my favorite books to the kindergarten class. Although KinderCare's Farmington location is just a few years old KinderCare has supported our local communities and families for more than 40 years. This company promotes literacy each and every day; they are partners with tens of thousands of children in learning to read, every year. I love that this daycare has such a strong emphasis on education. I was honored to be able to promote the importance of reading to our children as Miss Davis County to one of our Davis County KinderCare's. I look forward to future relationships and a possible service chain with these adorable kids! Thank you Farmington KinderCare for loving Davis County's children. 

Finding Yourself Through Service-Jennie P. Stewart Elementary

Today was the closing assembly for our service project at Jennie P Stewart Elementary!

 They had emphasis on children's health and of course... service!

 I even had a chance to "be healthy" by jumping rope IN my sash and crown!

 The students made a paper loop and collected them for each hour of service they did.

Wow! Over 500 hours of service completed by these tenacious schoolers!

 Russon Brothers Mortuary donated $1.25 for each service loop. Their generous donations were given to the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals! Thank you so much! These hospitals do so much for kids in need and it's great to see communities get involved!

The service chain is growing and growing and...

 growing! After only two weeks they have a service chain that loops their whole gym!

Congratulations and Thank You to Jennie P Stewart Elementary and all their kids!!!

If you are interested in doing a service chain for your school, business or organization, please contact me (Ciera Pekarcik, Miss Davis County 2010) at cierapekarcik@yahoo.com. Thanks!

THANK YOU SPONSORS - Masterpiece Images

The Miss America program is a nonprofit organization and it would not run without charitable sponsors. I'm so thankful for my amazing sponsors this year. Masterpiece Images in Ogden Utah have done my photo's and sponsored my tribute page for the Miss Utah 2011 pageant. I had the honor of working with Ryan Hadley - He is incredibly talented. It was comfortable, professional and fun! They are located 1029 25th St. Ogden, UT 84401. Their phone number is (801) 612-9799. Check out their webpage at  http://mpiphotovideo.com/. They do family portraits.. wedding photography.. they do incredible video's and more! It's worth taking a look. I was beyond impressed. Here is a sneak peak of a few of my photos from our shoot.

Thank you again Masterpiece Images for helping me represent Davis County at the Miss Utah pageant this year. 

Children's Miracle Network 5k results

What a successful event full of fun and charitable individuals. We raised 640$ today for the Children's Miracle Network! Our first 4 contestants to finished received a free bowling game and shoe rental from Boondocks in Kaysville. Those individules where:

                                                     1st Place: Ben McEntire     Time: 20 min flat

                                                     2nd Place: Austin Mower   Time: 21.30 min

                                                     3rd Place: Hilary Hardy      Time: 22 min flat

                                                           and a tie for 4th

                                                     4th Place: Brindy Whipple  Time: 23.33 min

                                                     4th Place: Anna Eschler      Time: 23.33 min

2nd, 3rd and both 4th place winners

(Our 1st Place winner kept running :))

Khols in Layton contributed 500$ as well as sent 5 volunteers! What an amazing company I will certainly go out of my way to shop at. They do so much volunteering unsaid!

Here are some pictures of our participants-

Thank you all for making this such a success. I love Davis County, I love the Children's Miracle Network and I love what service can do for others and for yourself. 

And thank you volunteers!!!