A fabulous Big Lake Ambassador coronation

After a great year of representing the Big Lake community, the 2015/2016 Ambassadors passed on their crowns Saturday at the Big Lake Jr. and Senior Ambassador Cornation, held at the High school.It was a fun and exciting coronation with lots of royalty from other communities including Delano, St. Francis, Annandale, Montrose, East Bethel, Winsted, Monticello, Ms. Minnesota world tour, Wright County dairy princess, Lester Prairie, Sherburne County Fair, Elk River, Maple Lake, Albertville, Mpls. Aquatennial, former Big Lake Ambassadors and the Royal Court from the St. Paul Winter Carnival!  During the coronation, former Big Lake Ambassador Kailyn Johnson, who is participating in the Minneapolis Aquatennial Ambassador Scholarship Program was presented the Queens Charm by Aquatenial Ambassadors.Kailyn will spend a lot of busy days capped by the Coronation of the 2017 Aquatennial Ambassadors Sat.,  July 23 at 4 p.m. at the Ted Mann Concert Hall on the University of Minnesota campus. The Aquatennial Ambassadors presented Big Lake’s Mayor, Raeanne Danielowski with the Honorary Commodore Award. This award is presented at the coronation to an individual for being an outstanding community member recognized for volunteer work. The St. Paul Winter Carnival Royalty was at the coronation as well. With the Vulcans, Princes, princesses, king’s guard and of course the King and Queen of the snows (Big Lake’s own Alyssa Sigafus) it was defiantly a good time! The St. Paul Winter Carnival Royalty also presented an award to four amazing community members: Norm Vossen, Raeann Daneilowski, Dee Leslie and Dennis Nagorski for their outstanding volunteer work! As part of the coronation, each Ambassador shared a special memory with the audience.Kayla Robertson said her favorite memory was visiting all of the other Royalty at the St. Paul winter carnival and helping at the omelet breakfast. Allie Bahe’s favorite memory was playing kickball with the boy scouts before a parade.

Cady Shaw’s favorite memory was at the Monticello River Fest parade when their cd started to skip and the song from the Little Mermaid “kiss the girl” kept playing over and over.  

Izzy Rasmussen said her favorite memory was at the Maple Lake parade when they won the costume contest.  Jr. Ambassadors Ava Rain and Madeline Peterson both said their favorite memory was Twins Sparkle night.After a year filled with meeting new friends and helping in the community, the former Big Lake Ambassadors truly did an amazing job!  As for the candidates, they spent almost a year preparing to be crowned the New Big Lake Ambassador. They helped at numerous events and have given countless hours of their time volunteering. Each Jr. and Senior candidate had to write an essay and collected food for the food shelf for the chance to win an award.The winner of the essay award for the senior candidates was Selena Kruger and the Jr. Essay award went to Allie Cross. Senior candidate Jade Fruge won the award for most food collected and Jr. candidate Alley Cross won most food collected the as well.  Natalie Seyko won the award for selling the most spud fest buttons, selling 129!After all the visiting Royalty was announced and all of the awards were presented it was finally time for the moment everyone was waiting for. Jr. Candidates lined up and the first crown went to Alley Cross and the second crown went to Calissa Pishney. Next the senior Ambassador candidates lined up, while holding hands they hoped to hear their name announced. 

The first awarded was Ms. Congenial and it went to Salene Kruger. The first 2016/2017 Big Lake Ambassador crowned was Emily Langager who was sponsored by River Wood Bank. The second Ambassador crowned was Salene Krueger who was sponsored by the Big Lake Fire Dept.The third Ambassador crowned was Jade Fruge who was sponsored by the Knights of Columbus. 

And the fourth and final Big Lake 2016/20017 Ambassador chose was Natalie Seyko.

Tears were flowing as the four new Big Lake Ambassadors and two new Jr. Ambassadors took the stage to sit with their Royal Court.

Congratulations to the new 2016/2017 Big Lake Ambassadors!!