The Mountain Times
By Brooke Geery
Jamisyn Baker and Olivia Suker are cousins with more in common than just a bloodline. In a few months, the girls will compete together in the Miss Vermont USA/Teen Pageant, happening June 5-6 at Spruce Peak Performing Arts Center in Stowe.
Baker, 15, is a sophomore at Rutland High School, and will be competing for her first time, vying for the title of Miss Vermont Teen. Suker, 19, currently holds the title of Miss New England Silver Queen, the first pageant she entered. This time she’s hoping to be crowned Miss Vermont USA. She grew up in Shrewsbury, and is currently studying human biology and cognitive science as a freshman at North Carolina State University.
CASTLETON â A local teenager and pageant finalist created a fundraiser to benefit dairy farmers that she hoped would raise $100 by the end of the month but has already raised $500.
Madison Spafford, 16, a Castleton resident and student at Middlebury Union High School, began selling bows at the beginning of the month that can be placed on livestock or pets as âBoots and Bows.â She asks those who donate $1 for a bow take a photo of the animal once the bow is put on, post it to social media and âtagâ her so she can repost them to her Instragram page @maddie.p.spafford.