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Miss Busti Winner Looks To Support Community

Reece Beaver, a Southwestern student who in April was crowned Miss Busti 2023, is pictured. Reese Beaver was chosen as Miss Busti to represent the Busti Fire Department, Busti Fire Auxiliary and Busti Bicentennial Committee recently at the Busti Fire Hall. Reese is a junior at Southwestern High School. Runners up were Lauren Cotter and Madilynn McIntyre. The Auxiliary also presented an tiara and sash to Mrs. Busti 2023, Joyce Dahlgren, who is a 61-year active member of the organization and was one of the planners of the original queen contest held in Busti. Submitted photo

Reece Beaver, who was crowned Miss Busti 2023 at the Busti Bicentennial Kickoff event in April, is now looking to support the community through her new role.

A junior at Southwestern High School, Beaver is part of a big family — with four younger siblings — and has been a member of the Busti community her whole life. Being Miss Busti allows her the opportunity to offer support and give something back to the community that has raised her.

This is the main goal Beaver is trying to achieve by being Miss Busti, and also what she wrote about for her essay for the competition.

“We had to write an essay, and there was no word limit, but we had to write about what being the Bicentennial Busti Queen would mean to us,” Beaver said. “I wrote about being a community member and participating in softball and basketball, and how the community has shaped my life.”

Beaver said the girls participating in the contest then had to dress up and go to the firemen’s hall where they walked in front of a panel and read their essays to them, along with answering a few character questions.

Beaver said she was happy to be crowned Miss Busti 2023.

“It meant a lot to me,” Beaver said. “It gives me the opportunity to represent people and be a role model to the people of Busti. I can meet people I haven’t met before and it gives me the opportunity to be a better citizen of Busti.”

With the Busti Bicentennial celebration lasting all summer, as Miss Busti, Beaver has to attend all of the events that are set to happen. Her first two were the celebration in April at the Rod and Gun Club and the Memorial Day parade where she was on a float. Beaver is required to go and socialize and get to know the community and be represented at all of the summer celebrations.

Besides being Miss Busti, Beaver is involved with basketball, having been on Southwestern’s varsity team since she was in seventh grade. She also is on the track and field team and participates in XGen Elite in Buffalo. Beaver hopes to get a basketball scholarship when she heads off to college in two years.

Besides the scholarship, Beaver plans on majoring in business and minoring in political science. Right now her main two top colleges are Roberts Wesleyan University and Daemen College, though those may change depending on the basketball scholarship.

“I want to then attend law school and become a lawyer,” Beaver said. “That’s the goal.”

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