Vernon local to represent Canada on international pageant stage<\/p>\n
Published 10:00 am Tuesday, July 14, 2026<\/p>\n
A Vernon woman will wear Canada\u2019s crown. <\/p>\n
Entrepreneur Samantha Sewell has officially been named Miss Canada World International 2027 and will represent the country at the Miss World International pageant in Miami next summer.<\/p>\n
Spanning over nearly two decades the Miss World International organization functions as a five-day televised reality T.V. event and pageant hybrid that tests delegates on team building, media appeal, modelling and philanthropic platform development.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor Sewell, the global stage serves as the ultimate triumph over adversity. Diagnosed with Apraxia of Speech as a child and told she would never be able to communicate normally, she also survived severe high school bullying by both her peers and a teacher,\u201d said a media release. \u201cToday, she has transformed those challenges into advocacy as a public speaker and the founder of Vernon\u2019s Raising Stars Preschool established in 2022, which provides high-quality, inclusive early learning for local children.\u201d<\/p>\n
Throughout the next year Sewell will travel across the Okanagan, Canada and internationally to educate communities on anti-bullying, promote inclusion and empower others to pursue their dreams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Vernon local to represent Canada on international pageant stage Published 10:00 am Tuesday, July 14, 2026 A Vernon…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801843,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44,79004],"class_list":["post-801842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-news","tag-okanagan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}