For a small city, Eugene residents have a knack for ending up on national stages.
One of the most recent examples is Abigail Akins, Oregon’s 2025 teen representative in the national pageant Miss Volunteer America. A 16-year-old at Willamette High School, Akins attended the competition in March and will hand off her crown to a new Miss Oregon Teen Volunteer in January.
Akins won $2,750 in scholarship money for the title, and she hopes to someday use it to go to college for aerospace engineering…