Sequim Irrigation Festival

Sponsor: Tender Touches Spa

The opportunity to meet lots of new people excites Sarah as she begins her journey as Irrigation Festival Princess. Sarah is constantly smiling and hopes to inspire others as she fulfills her role over the coming year.

Sarah is the 17 year old daughter of Ken and Paula Berkes. She was born in New York, but her family has lived in this area since she was four years old. She has one older brother, John, who is a freshman at Gonzaga University.

An opportunity to job shadow Eddie Bauer’s Vice President inspired Sarah to make fashion a central element of her future. She plans to go to Pepperdine University or Santa Clara University where she will major in business and minor in journalism. Combined with her love for fashion, Sarah plans to become a fashion magazine editor.

Community service is a major component of Sarah’s school related activities, as she is part of the Honor Society and the Interact Club, is a member of the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA), Random Acts of Kindness and Women in Networking, as well as secretary of the International Club. Sarah loves to run for fun, as well as bike and walk.

During her summers she volunteers at the Children’s Montessori School, and has spent the last five years involved in the Teddy Bear Tea, an Olympic Medical Center function. She has been involved in her church’s efforts to raise money to build wells in Uganda and hopes to travel there in the next couple of years.

Sarah is an oxymoron in that she appears to be a “girly girl” whose clothes and makeup are always perfect, but also lets her “tomboy” side out when she can be found wakeboarding, sledding, and playing X-box.