A busy time for Miss Teenage SK

If you have been out to just about any event in Yorkton in the past month-and-a-half there’s a pretty good chance you’ve seen a girl wearing a tiara and a sash.

Kirsten MacDonald  earned the title of Miss Teenage Saskatchewan April. Since then, she has been working the Yorkton event circuit drumming up support for her bid to be Miss Teenage Canada.

The 19-year-old said she has wanted to do modelling since she was in Grade 4. She is currently represented by a Regina angency and has done some commercial work.

Miss Teenage Saskatchewan seemed to be a nice fit for some down time between high school and post-secondary education.

One of the significant aspects of the national competition is fundraising, which counts for 15 per cent of a competitor’s final score.

The pageant’s 2016 charity is Free the Children, a Canadian human rights NGO founded by the Kielberger brothers.

Kirsten kicked it into high gear last week with a number of events including a barbecue hosted by RH electric, a bottle drive that filled her family’s garage, a burger night at Brown’s Social House.

She has also appeared at a number of other events recently not related to her own fundraising efforts including, a barbecue in support of Yorkton Transitional Homes for Youth, the Rediscover Downtown Festival, Relay for Life and the Painted Hand Casino Pow Wow.

“Part of it is just getting out and supporting the community,” she said.

Undoubtedly, the more she does, the more it will raise her stock at Miss Canada when it convenes July 17 in Toronto, if only in raising her confidence.

And that, she said, was one of the amazing things about competing at the provincial level. What does she hope for a the national level?

“I think just the experience of it all,” she said. “I think it’s going to be an amazing opportunity just to go there. It would be really cool if I won some awards, but it’s okay if I don’t. There’s going to be, hopefully, a lot of opportunities when I get there.”

She’s not looking too far beyond that at this point. She’s currently working in health care, but also likes business. She has loose plans to take college or university level classes, but nothing concrete.

And she still has modelling aspirations, possibly even acting down the road. She did drama in high school.

It all depends on what the world might have in store for her.

For now, it is enough to be doing what she is doing and see what unfolds.

“I am having so much fun,” she said.