Horses and volunteering occupy a lot of Rachel Price's time. And now she's making time for the duties of a Daffodil Festival princess. Price has been picked to represent Eatonville High School in the 2015 festival. She and princesses from 23 other high schools in Pierce County will participate in festival events, including the annual Grand Floral Parade next April. One of the young women will be chosen in March to be queen of the festival, which has been a county tradition in one form or another since the 1930s. The audience and judges at her school's princess coronation Nov. 5 learned that Price, the daughter of Del and Deborah Price, loves riding horses. And she gets involved. At school, she's been an Honor Society member, secretary of the Key Club, a tennis player, and a student representative to the Eatonville School Board. In the community, she volunteers with Changing Reins, an organization that provides horseback assisted therapies, at the Pierce County Fair and as a Nisqually Stream Steward. In the latter role, she works with the Nisqually River Council on projects to improve the environmental health of rivers and creeks. Also an avid piano player, Price plans to study chemistry in college. Along with Price, six other students at Eatonville, all of them seniors, were in the running for princess. The candidates, and their post-high school plans, included Kelly Jamison (major in law or criminal justice at Eastern Washington Univeristy), Brooke Brandt (become a history teacher), Samantha Gacke (elementary school teacher), Tess Upchurch (attend a university), Kathryn Sawyer (study nursing), and Alelxandra Richards (attend Northwest University and study pediatric nursing). pÇÇ
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