MISS OREGON: Brings awareness to Lincoln City
Posted: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 2:00 pm | Updated: 3:05 pm, Wed May 4, 2016.
Ali Wallace, Miss Oregon, spent Community Days last week touring Lincoln City, stopping in on events and making friends.
Wallace is the ninth Miss Oregon to visit Lincoln City for Community Days, she said.
“It’s so cool, because even though it’s a very jam-packed week, I have heard nothing but amazing things from my Miss Oregon sisters who have come to Community Days,” she said. “They say it’s the most fun week they had as Miss Oregon.”
Wallace visited the Chamber Luncheon, Mo’s for an Ice Cream Social, Family Promise for the infamous Lock Up, Rotary, Hillside Place and many other events during her time on the coast.
Her next stop is the Miss Cascade Pageant, an extension of the Miss Oregon pageant.
“It is an honor to be an official hostess to the state of Oregon and get to travel to different cities, serving our community,” she said. “I travel through the whole state. I have a busy schedule so sometimes I don’t know what I’m doing next week, but I do know that it is filled with different volunteer opportunities.”
Wallace has great passion for her position and appreciation for the tie-in it has to local communities.
“I was born and raised in Oregon; I’m a true Oregonian,” Wallace said. “I just could never imagine being Miss Washington or Miss Nevada. I have always been an Oregon girl. I have always wanted to be involved in the Miss America program.
It’s incredible to be Miss Oregon; it’s something that has been a part of my life since childhood and I am so passionate about this state.”
Wallace said she competes in the Miss Oregon and Miss America program because of the positive traits it emphasizes.
“The reason I compete is because this program emphasizes community service and academics,” she said. “We are the world’s largest scholarship provider for young women. We emphasize talent, but also that an individual should be well rounded, do well in school, participate in your community, have a cause or issue that you are passionate about and actively promoting.”
For Wallace, this issue comes in the platform of traumatic brain injury education and awareness, a subject close to home.
In 2008, Wallace sustained a traumatic brain injury during cheerleader practice when she poorly executed a tuck that resulted in her landing on her head and neck.
Since then, Wallace has been a strong advocate for awareness and education surrounding traumatic brain injury, becoming a founding member of Brain Champions, an organization dedicated to the prevention of and successful and careful management of concussions and traumatic brain injuries in youth sports.
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