{"id":21389,"date":"2015-07-24T13:56:53","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T18:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=21389"},"modified":"2015-07-24T14:03:13","modified_gmt":"2015-07-24T19:03:13","slug":"trio-of-bemidji-state-students-chasing-queen-of-the-lakes-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2015\/07\/24\/trio-of-bemidji-state-students-chasing-queen-of-the-lakes-crown\/","title":{"rendered":"Trio of Bemidji State Students Chasing 2015 Queen of the Lakes Crown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Two Bemidji State University students and one student who will be attending BSU as a freshman this fall are competing for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquatennial.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Minneapolis Aquatennial<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a> Candidate Program and Pageant&rsquo;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquatennial.com\/event\/show\/83085448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Queen of the Lakes<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a> crown on July 25. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 76th Anniversary Queen of the Lakes Coronation will be held at the University of Minnesota&rsquo;s Ted Mann Concert Hall at 4 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bemidji State students participating in the competition are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Bethany Berkner, a sophomore in nursing from Sleepy Eye, Minn.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Justine Green, a sophomore in elementary education from Buffalo, Minn.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Becca Green from Silver Lake, Minn., who will be a freshman at BSU this fall.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"s1\">The Aquatennial Ambassador Organization is a Minnesota nonprofit that provides $10,000 in educational scholarships each year for the Queen of the Lakes and Princesses after the completion of their year of service. The organization seeks to inspire young Minnesota women to achieve extraordinary futures by providing professional development opportunities through networking and mentoring.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong><span class=\"s1\">Links<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquatennialambassadors.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Aquatennial Ambassadors<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquatennial.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Minneapolis Aquatennial<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"p3\"><span class=\"s2\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquatennial.com\/event\/show\/83085448\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Queen of the Lakes pageant<i title=\"External link\" class=\"bsu-icon bsu-icon-external-link small ms-1\"><\/i><\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Bemidji State University students and one student who will be attending BSU as a freshman this fall are competing for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquatennial.com\">Minneapolis Aquatennial<\/a> Candidate Program and Pageant&#8217;s 2015\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aquatennial.com\/event\/show\/83085448\">Queen of the Lakes<\/a> crown.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21391,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[872,9,25,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-homepage","category-news","category-people","category-top-story"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21389"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21395,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21389\/revisions\/21395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}