of the Year by the MN/ND Alzheimer’s Association for her work to educate. She has served as co-chair, emcee, team captain, and a Champion Club organizer. She has helped raise over $23,000 for Alzheimer’s in five years. Bailey was second runner up Miss Minnesota Outstanding Teen in 2010, first runner up in 2011, and was crowned Miss Minnesota Outstanding Teen in 2012. That year she competed for Miss America Outstanding Teen in Orlando, Fla., meeting 52 other women from every state and Washington, D.C., and Puerto Rico. “I have never felt like I have had to give up anything or sacrifice anything,” she says. “Stage fright doesn’t even bother me any-
more. I’ve been in front of so many people. I really came out of my shell after my second pageant.” In August 2013 Bailey was crowned Miss Brainerd Lakes and will compete in the Miss Minnesota Pageant in June 2014. Her wish is to compete some day on the Miss America stage in Atlantic City, N.J. At the present time, Bailey attends Bethel University in St. Paul and is majoring in Accounting and Finance with hopes of becoming a CPA. The pageant scholarship programs have paid for her first two years of college, one of the reasons she continues competing and developing her piano talent. It is important to Bailey that Bethel is Christ-centered and she loves
the people and the college. Bailey is a girl with strong, solid goals and these goals include continuing working with Alzheimer’s. She also has developed a line of jewelry called Ashley’s Hope which she uses to raise monies for the Alzheimer’s Association and for Children’s Miracle Network, an affiliation of the Miss America Scholarship Program. “I never realized the impact I was having on those around me until I received 24 handwritten thank you letters from a class I spoke to,” Bailey says.
Bonnie rokke Tinnes
Bonnie was born and raised in Minnesota, where she has lived most of her life. She is an English and Russian teacher, a registered nurse, author of fiction and nonfiction, and a poet and has five published books. Bonnie and her husband Gilmen have lived in the Brainerd lakes area for almost 20 years. The most important thing in her life is her family, especially her grandchildren. Besides writing, gardening and cooking are two of her favorite pastimes.
Bailey with her parents, Duane and Pamela Wachholz.
Bailey’s Blog: www.missbrainerdlakes2013.blogspot.com Website: www.missbrainerdlakes.weebly.com Summer 2014 | her voice
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