This article was originally published in The Examiner on April 13, 2017.
By Eleanor Skelton
Staff Writer
The Some-Bunnies Miracle special needs beauty pageant brought contestants all over Southeast Texas and beyond to West Brook High School on Saturday, April 1.
“One of our contestants travels six hours just to get here,” LaRanda Pippin said. Pippin started We are Miracles Pageants in 2013.
“They’ve been in it every year,” she said. “We’ve got one from Louisiana that came this year.”
We are Miracles holds a total of four pageants each year.
Her daughter, Paris Pippin, has special needs, she said.
“I was cleaning in her bedroom one day and went to my little boy’s room and saw he
had all these trophies and she didn’t have any,” Pippin said. “I thought it would be a good thing to start in our community, those miracles, to give them a day, a spotlight, and forget their doctors’ appointments for a day.”
Contestants from newborn to age 30 are eligible to enter, and West Brook’s Academic for Life special education class co-hosts the production.
This year’s We are Miracles King was Clark Gernale, 20. The We are Miracles Queen was Annie Keierleber.
Pippin said the next pageant will most likely not be until 2019. She plans to pair a military veteran with “each of our miracles.”
Eleanor Skelton 