The Star: February 15, 2024
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• By Daniel Alvey<br />
Like Georgia Waddington,<br />
Miss Canterbury finalist Paige<br />
Sullivan also says pageants these<br />
days hone in on things other<br />
than beauty.<br />
“I found out that half of the<br />
score is made up of community<br />
work, and I thought I was already<br />
doing that anyway,” Sullivan<br />
said.<br />
At 22, Sullivan was one of the<br />
youngest people in the world to<br />
become a Rotary president. She’s<br />
now hoping that experience will<br />
help her win Miss Canterbury,<br />
66 years after her grandmother<br />
claimed the title.<br />
“<strong>The</strong> reason why I entered<br />
was that I found out my nana<br />
(Dianna McFarlane) was Miss<br />
Canterbury in 1958 . . . It is more<br />
so focused on who you are as a<br />
person, rather than, I guess probably<br />
back in the 50s when nana<br />
did it, what you looked like,”<br />
Sullivan said.<br />
Entering the pageant was “very<br />
new to me and quite outside of<br />
my comfort zone,” she said.<br />
Sullivan is one of 14 finalists in<br />
Miss Canterbury. She now lives<br />
in Halswell but is still heavily<br />
involved in the Rotary Club of<br />
Lincoln. She is its immediate past<br />
president (from June 2022 to July<br />
last year).<br />
“I joined the club when I was<br />
18 and was involved in a number<br />
of different leadership roles.<br />
“I feel like I’ve been raised<br />
by a lot of the older members<br />
in our club, so they were all so<br />
supportive when I took on the<br />
(presidency).”<br />
As part of the Miss Canterbury<br />
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Hoping to follow in her<br />
grandmother’s footsteps<br />
LEGACY: Miss Canterbury<br />
finalist Paige Sullivan’s<br />
grandmother, Dianna<br />
McFarlane, won the<br />
competition in 1958.<br />
competition, Sullivan is running<br />
a fashion show to raise money for<br />
I Am Hope.<br />
“I have big goal which is<br />
$10,000, I don’t know if I’ll make<br />
it to that, but I thought I’ll just<br />
set it high and see what happens,”<br />
Sullivan said.<br />
<strong>The</strong> Miss Canterbury final is<br />
on March 17, with the top five<br />
competitors selected the day<br />
before.<br />
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