Dairy Royalty Receive Their Crowns & Sashes

The Meeker County American Dairy Association held its annual Princess Banquet on Sunday in the Church of Our Lady Social Hall in Manannah. The dairy royalty for 2025 received their crowns and sashes.
The dairy princesses include Paige Frenchick, Claudia Frenchick and Elizabeth Thyen. They each gave a speech explaining the importance of the dairy industry and they ways they will promote it. Paige Frenchick also spoke about the trip she got to take to Alabama last November with other members of the Peanut Butter & Milk Festival Committee. The junior princesses include Ella Lahr and Mikyla Gerding, and the dairy ambassadors include Izzy Lahr, Virginia Isaacson and Alexis Blunt.
The princesses, junior princesses and ambassadors promote the dairy industry – mostly during the summer months – by reading to children in libraries, helping during Cheeseburger Days, riding in parades, serving milkshakes and ice cream in the malt booth at the Meeker County Fair and attending other events.