Wilber Czech Queen This is Me

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 Web References

1. 1. Nebraska Czech Travel

   www.nebraskaczechs.org/nsq.htm - [Cached]

   Published on: 1/1/2006   Last Visited: 4/8/2007

   Her great-great-great grandparents brought her grandfather to America from Kray Tabor, and they settled in Nebraska near Wilber. The family has lived and farmed in the Wilber and Milligan areas for many years.
   
   Her heritage is important to her because it has made her who she is today. The customs and foods are interesting and unique and the stories and folklore give her things to share with others and without it she would not be complete.
   
   She is involved in family preservation by participating in Czech festivals and speaking and wearing her kroj. She educates people about the Czech culture and teaches them about her heritage. She has learned to make kolace and makes them for her friends.
   
   2006-2007 Wilber Czech Queen
   
   Halley represents the Nebraska Czechs of Wilber. She is the daughter of Kirk and Janey of Crete. Her talent for the pageant was a speech about young love in relationship to the Prune Song (Svestkova Alej) with a minor accordion twist. She won the Miss Congeniality award at the pageant.
   
   She is a graduate of Wilber-Clatonia Public High School and is currently attending Kansas State University. She is majoring in agricultural communications and journalism. Her future ambitions are to work in the filed of graphic design and public relations within the agricultural field. She hopes to work in the communications department in the beef or crop industry.
   
   Her activities are serving as a College of Agricultural ambassador, and she is involved in the animal science club Block and Bridle. She is a member of the Wilber-Clatonia Czech Alumni Band and Wilber Czech Beseda dancers. She lived in Western Australia in the outback working on a cattle station for one year.
   
   Her ancestors came from the towns of Vamberk, Merklovec, Kardasovia and Sapotonice in Bohemia. Her heritage is important to her as she takes great pride in promoting her heritage and feels privileged to know so much about it.
   
   She is involved in the preservation of family heritage as she teaches friends about the Czech culture such as dancing the Polka, baking kolace, vdolky, babovka and dumplings and sauerkraut.