Mendota<\/a> High School, she participated in football and basketball cheerleading. <\/p>\nShe was inducted into the National Honor Society, earned honor roll every semester and maintained a 4.0 grade point average. <\/p>\n
Bielema received the Mendota BPW Scholarship and Hogan National Scholarship.<\/p>\n
In the fall, she will be attending Illinois Wesleyan University to seek a bachelor\u2019s degree in nursing. <\/p>\n
She plans on working as a certified nursing assistant while attending school. <\/p>\n
After completing her bachelor\u2019s degree, Bielema plans to get her master\u2019s and be an orthopedic nurse practitioner.<\/p>\n
This summer Bielema is working at West Side Family Dentistry. <\/p>\n
Her job duties include working on all the files and adding them to an online system, as well as sorting photos and adding them to the system. <\/p>\n
Some of her hobbies include fishing, doing yard work and hanging out by the pool. <\/p>\n
She plans to hang out with family and friends until school starts in the fall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruby Bielema will represent the Mendota BPW in the 79th Annual Sweet Corn Queen Festival pageant. While at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[50731,61042,113085,9,24,50729,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-305935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-illinois-valley-front-headlines","tag-la-salle-county","tag-mendota","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newstribune","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}