Mikala Mohr. Reigning in 2022 Steamboat Days parade. With the title a $3,000 scholarship.
Other changes: A firmer Winona connection
WINONA, Minn. – The Miss Winona pageant has been rejiggered to exclude carpet-bagging contestants who shop around for local pageants for a foothold in quest of going to the pinnacle Miss America pageant. Beginning this summer contestants just be graduates of a school in Winona School District 861 or from Winona or living in Winona. This precludes Winona college students whi actually hail from elsewhere, said Mikaela Mohr, the current Miss Winona. The title is also changing: To Miss Winona Steamboat Days. The aim, Mohr siaid, is to move away from the traditional beauty contest format. Competitors will be judged on one-page essays and in-person interviews, she said. “There’s no fitness, there’s no talent, no evening gown,” she said. “t’s kind of pulled away from the pageantry side and more into scholarship and just furthering women’s education.”