Dakota VanSickle, 16, Logan Elm High School junior - Dakota is the daughter of Tim and Debbie VanSickle of Laurelville.

Dakota is a varsity football and competition cheerleader, runs varsity track, is a key club and TEAMS member and is on the yearbook staff and prom committee, she was also a former class president. She is a member of the Adelphi United Methodist Church and 4-H, and volunteers for Toys for Tots, levy campaigns, the soup kitchen, relay for life and nursing home luau.

After high school she plans to attend college and study early childhood development and eventually open her own daycare center.

She would like to invite the service men and women of our armed forces to the Pumpkin Show. She would show them that without their sacrifices, festivals like the Pumpkin Show might not be possible.

Dakota's favorite memory of the Pumpkin Show is cheering for her older sister in the 2001 Queen's Contest. It was so exciting watching her make the court and representing the Pumpkin Show at all the different festivals.