Alyssa Logan joined the Sportsman’s Holiday Court because she saw it as an opportunity to get involved more in her community.
Logan, 17, is one of six young women who are candidates to be queen of this year’s Sportsman’s Holiday festival, to be held July 11-13. The queen will be selected at a coronation banquet on July 10.
“I wanted to positively represent Sweet Home, and I also want to be that princess in the parade that the little girls look up to, like I did as a child,” Logan said. “I can be a great role model, show how to make good and smart choices as a teen and get involved in the town we live in.”
She thinks she would make a good representative for Sweet Home “because I am very helpful, honest, and very much a people person; and I love our community,” she said. “I feel I would do a great job, and I’ll do all I can to make this town more known for its name, Sweet Home.
“I love the fact that it is small and everyone knows everybody and it is so pretty, with the lake very near. It has the greatest group of people around. It is very homey-like.”
She said her friends would describe her as “trustworthy, very fun, outgoing and friendly. I am a great advice giver and someone that will be there through thick and thin for you.”
Logan is the daughter of Tami and Neil Nightingale of Sweet Home.
She is a junior at Sweet Home High School and maintains a GPA of 3.25 and better.
She has been active in cheerleading for three years and is going into her fourth year on varsity. She participated in track her freshman year. She played in the powder puff football game. She participated in the Linn-Benton Community College Health Careers Academy.
She attends Community Chapel and has participated in the youth group there for years. She works at McDonald’s and babysits.
Her volunteer activities include working as an office aide, lake cleanup, the safety fair and the Oregon Jamboree. She was involved in the downtown cleanup for May Week. She is a peer tutor and an elementary PE instructor, helping with children with special needs. She has participated in canned food drives.
She enjoys cheerleading, shopping, scrapbooking, spending time with her family and pets and hanging out with friends.
If she could live in any time in history, she said, “I honestly am perfectly fine with this time period now. Every era has had its good and bad times. It just depends on what you have experienced. I think I just feel very comfortable now. I love living at this time.”