Hutchinson Woman Named 71st Princess Kay of the Milky Way

ST. PAUL (WJON News) -- A Hutchinson woman has been named the 71st Princess Kay of the Milky Way.

Nineteen-year-old Rachael Visser represented McLeod County during the ceremony held Wednesday night a the Minnesota State Fairgrounds.

Visser will serve as a goodwill ambassador for the nearly 1,800 Minnesota dairy farm families. She attends the University of Minnesota.

Her first official duty as Princess Kay will be to sit in a rotating cooler in the Dairy Building to have her likeness sculpted in a 90-pound block of butter the first two days of the Minnesota State Fair.

Katie Ketchum representing Winona County and Grace Woitalla representing Stearns County were selected as runners-up. Each of those women won scholarship money.

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Princess Kay candidates are judged on their general knowledge of the dairy industry, communications skills and enthusiasm for dairy. The Midwest Dairy Association sponsors the program.

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