New Westminster resident shooting for Miss World Canada title
The usual New Year’s resolutions run the gamut of losing weight to less drinking to vowing to be a nicer person. Rarely do they involve entering a beauty contest.
However, it does for 22-year-old New Westminster resident Andrea Glisic, who will compete in the Miss World Canada competition at the River Rock Casino on May 19.
“Part of my New Year’s resolutions was to step up out of my comfort zone, something that would be a little bit scary while facilitating some growth,” says Glisic.
To fulfil her resolution she hopped online to see what she could find and came across an ad on Facebook for Miss World Canada. Beauty pageants weren’t something she held in high esteem, but this one, she noted, raised funds for Variety, The Children’s Charity. Since she works for an out-of-school care program and is in her third year of a bachelors degree in child and youth care at Douglas College it seemed like a good fit if she was to venture outside of her comfort zone.
“It was a little bit different then most beauty pageants,” says Glisic, a New Westminster secondary graduate who moved to the Lower Mainland from the former Yugoslava in 1996. “I like the fact it’s about children.
“It’s more than skin deep. It’s beauty with a purpose.”
The swimsuit, photogenic and talent portions of the pageant are optional and done before judges only.
The evening gown segment and interview are worth 40 per cent each, with fundraising accounting for 10 per cent and a director’s score evaluating contestants over the week of the pageant the other 10.
Her entrance fee was $2,095. She recently had a fundraising night in Surrey, and is planning a car wash and yard sale, and the rest will come from “friends and family that I’ve been harrassing.”
Glisic says she would be happy to collect $1,500 to go toward Variety, but is a little less than halfway to that goal. “It’s been a little harder than I thought it would be.”
Glisic will be in tough. According to her there are 14 contestants from the Lower Mainland and others coming from back east to vie to represent Canada at the Miss World Pageant.
Win or lose, Glisic says she would like to open up a day care of her own one day. She believes there’s a market for it because the one she works at has a three-year wait list.
ggranger@newwestnewsleader.com
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