JOHN RISHEL/THE EXPRESS Clinton County Fair queen Haili Frank was wearing her fair queen crown on Thursday when she climbed into the pen with her market hog “The Miracle Pig” which will be auctioned off at the fairgrounds on Saturday.

MACKEYVILLE — Sunday night, Sugar Valley Rural Charter School student Haili Frank was standing on the main stage being crowned 2019 Clinton County Fair Queen.

Frank was ecstatic to win over the judges and edge out candidate Jozelyn Charles, 18, of Avis, and earn a chance to compete for Miss PA State Fair Queen at Hershey in January.

However, on Thursday morning, she was standing beside ‘The Miracle Pig’, with only her senior project on her mind.

On Saturday, August 3, at 3 p.m. during the Clinton County Fair Livestock Auction, she will be selling her market hog as her senior project. All proceeds will be donated to the Children’s Miracle Network of the Geisinger Janet Weis Children’s Hospital in Danville.

“Raising animals for the fair has always been my passion, so I decided this year to incorporate it with my senior project,” she said, noting that she also raises goats, lambs and rabbits.

Frank, the president of the Future Farmers of America Club at the Sugar Valley Rural Charter School, is also vice president of the Clinton County Stockman’s 4-H club and president of the Clinton County Bowmasters 4-H Club.

“I have been raising pigs since I was 9, along with being involved in the fair. Now fair queen, I am definitely going to stay involved,” she said.

Frank, the daughter of Clinta and Eric Frank of Mill Hall, said she lives on what she calls a “farmette,” and borrows a barn to raise her pigs.

“If it is what you want to do, you take the steps you need to get there,” she said.

“I wanted to make my senior project my own, so I figured this was the best way to incorporate the things I have done throughout my life,” she said.

Frank also mentioned that she is planning on organizing a bowling fundraiser in the fall at Clinton Lanes, with benefits also going to the Children’s Miracle Network.

“We don’t have all the details worked out yet, but we are thinking of costume bowling around Halloween,” she explained.

There are more than 10 million kids who enter a children’s hospital like Geisinger Janet Weis Children’s Hospital across North America every year. To provide the best care for kids, children’s hospitals rely on donations and community support, as Medicaid and insurance programs do not fully cover the cost of care.

Since 1983, Children’s Miracle Network Hospital has helped to fill those funding gaps by raising more than $5 million, most of it $1 at a time through Miracle Balloon icon campaigns. Its various fundraising partners and programs support the non-profit’s mission to save and improve the lives of as many children as possible.

Fun at the Clinton County Fair continues through Saturday with a parade set for 12:30 p.m. Saturday along with fireworks at 9:45p.m., weather permitting.