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Each week Wagga Guide will feature 3 of the 9 Miss Wagga Wagga Quest Entrants

1. Melissa Potts

Age:  26 years old

Occupation:  Support Worker

Employer: The Leisure Company

Sponsor: Adams Kenneally White Chartered  Accountants

Interests/Hobbies: Swimming, Travel, Netball  and Photography

What is your motto in life? Live life to the fullest

List 5 goals on your life's to-do list:

- Open my own children’s play centre
- Travel the world
- Have my own house built
- Get married
- Have children

What are you hoping to gain from the Miss Wagga Wagga Quest?

I am hoping to gain more confidence, Meet new people and learn more about Wagga Wagga. 

Name 1 thing not many people know about you:

Birth mark on my head.

If you could have 3 wishes granted, what would they be?

-    Win the lottery so I can have the money to buy my business
-    To have a healthy and happy life.
-    To have my own private jet to be able to fly around the world.

 

2. Elizabeth Mclaughlin

Age:  20yrs

Occupation:  Student

Sponsor: Care mechanical services

Interests/Hobbies: I enjoy Travelling and performing arts, pets and walking

What is your motto in life?  To live life to the fullest

List 5 goals on your life's to-do list:

- Travel overseas again

- Complete tafe

- Get a job i love

- Go to university

- Go on a holiday in January.  

What are you hoping to gain from the Miss Wagga Wagga Quest?

Make new friends and to give back to the community 

Name 1 thing not many people know about you: 

I was in the last year seven group to attend Mount Erin High school

If you could have 3 wishes granted, what would they be?

- Have a house on the beach
- Be financially stable and happy
- A paid holiday

3. Jessica Hannan

Age: 21 Years old
 
Occupation: Support worker/bar tendent

Employed:The leisure company/Romano's
 
Sponsor: The union club hotel
 
Interests/Hobbies: Being active, Road trips spending time with family and friends
 
What is your motto in life? Anything you wish to do in life if you have your heart set on it, you can acheive it.
 
List five goals on your life's to do list?

- To complete my diving to be a dive master (Scuba diving)

- Swim with the sharks at south west rocks in sydney

- Swim down to 42 metres to see the letters on the side of the ss. president coolidge (largest divable ship wreck in the world)

- Move to townsville

- Be an air hostess
 
What are you hoping to gain from the Miss Wagga Quest?

Confidence in myself and the great feeling you get after helping some one in the community who openly puts there hands up to help every time help is needed or a job needs to be done.
 
Name one thing not many people know about you? My Favourite sport is Rugby union, Go the Wallabies!
 
If you could have three wishes granted what would they be?

- To win the lottery

- To get rid of poverty and harmful diseases

- To find a cure for cancer and other life threatening diseases

4. Stephanie Anderson

Age: 21

Occupation: Project Manager

Employer: MJM Solutions Consulting Engineers

Sponsor: MJM Solutions Consulting Engineers

Interests/Hobbies: Netball, reading, watching sports (AFL, NRL)

What is your motto in life? A ‘don’t do things by halves’ approach  and to remember that sometimes things happen for a reason

List 5 goals on your life's to-do list:

- Finish my Bachelor of Urban and Regional Planning

- Have two children

- Build my dream home

- Go bungy jumping

- Die of old age with some great memories and no doubts

What are you hoping to gain from the Miss Wagga Wagga Quest?

My main goal was to do something to really test myself and see what I am capable of. The experience has certainly tested me so far, which is good. I also really want to make a valuable contribution to the Wagga Wagga community.

Name 1 thing not many people know about you:

I have an odd sort of ambidexterity.  I can do some things with my left hand, some things with my right hand and others I can use either hand just as easily.

If you could have 3 wishes granted, what would they be?

- Happiness for my family and friends

- A cure for all diseases and illnesses

- Having the ability to time-travel would be fun

 

5. Lazetta Gaffney

Age:     24

Occupation:     Property Manager

Employer:    Remax Realty Consultants

Sponsor:    Amanda Joan Millinery

Interests/Hobbies:    Golf, Gym, Catching up with Friends and Family

What is your motto in life?     Be like a postage stamp, stick to one thing until you get there

List 5 goals on your life's to-do list:

-  Build my own house

- Have an investment portfolio

- Own a business

- Travel the World

- Own a HSV car


What are you hoping to gain from the Miss Wagga Wagga Quest?

- Meet people

- Better yourself

- Build confidence/self esteem

- Develop better communication skills

- Be an effective ambassador for the young people of wagga wagga

Name 1 thing not many people know about you:

I love dogs especially mine

If you could have 3 wishes granted, what would they be?

- Cure or prevention for Cancer  

- Win the lotto

-  Lifetime of happiness for everyone