Miss Australia has first contestant who uses a wheelchair

Posted February 27, 2017 by Mandy Smith in Recreation

Follow the link to CNN’s article on the first contestant to use a wheelchair enter in a world pageant!

Justine Clark is helping break barrier for those with disabilities!

http://www.cnn.com/2017/02/23/health/pageant-contestant-wheelchair-trnd/index.html

Mandy Smith

Mandy has worked at RCIL since June of 2009. She is a Certified Orientation and Mobility Specialist and provides services in 32 counties to individuals who are blind or have low vision and are 55 years and older.

Ms. Wheelchair Kansas Looking for Contestants

By Mandy Smith | January 18, 2023

Ms. Wheelchair Kansas is searching for women of achievement, who are wheelchair mobile, to serve as contestants in the Eighteenth Annual Ms. Wheelchair Kansas event. Contestants can be nominated by a person or group or can choose to participate in the program. The 2023 event will take place on March 17-19 at the DoubleTree Hotel in Lawrence. Contestant application packets are…

2019 Ms. Wheelchair Kansas Crowning Cermony

By Mandy Smith | February 22, 2019

The Ms. Wheelchair Kansas (MWKS) crowning ceremony is scheduled for Sunday, March 3, 2019, 2 p.m. at the DoubleTree Hotel in Lawrence, Kan. The ceremony will be open to the public and free of charge. It will include platform speech presentations by the contestants; a keynote speech from Ms. Wheelchair Missouri, Hilary Muehlberger; farewell from the current titleholders, and crowning…