Introducing Brighton Miss and Junior Miss Seminole Princesses

Jewel Buck, Stevie Brantley Crowned

By Susan Etxebarria

BRIGHTON — Jewel Buck, Bird clan, is the new 2006 Brighton Seminole Princess. Her mother is Emma Urbina. The eighth grader attends Yearling Middle School in Okeechobee County where she played this past year on the varsity basketball team. She is playing softball this spring.

At the competition held Feb. 16 to select the Brighton Seminole Princesses, Jewel recited the poem she wrote as a memorial to her baby sister Jorja Julia Urbina called “The Best.” The poem was published in the Seminole Tribune’s January November 25th issue.

Also selected was the new 2006 Junior Brighton Seminole Princess, Stevie Brantley, Panther clan. Stevie is a straight A student in the sixth grade at Osceola Middle School in Okeechobee County.

“I think it’s a great experience to represent the Tribe,” said Stevie as she was enjoying her first duties to be an ambassador for the Tribe at the Brighton Festival on Feb. 18–19.

Many tourists stopped to ask Stevie questions about her beautiful dress made by her clan grandmother, Mary Jo Micco. Stevie is the daughter of Theresa Nunez Boronei and her maternal grandmother is Alice Johns Sweat.

The Brighton Seminole Princesses also represent the Tribe in many Florida community parades such as the Speckled Perch Festival in Okeechobee City, Fla. and the Chalo Nitka in Moore Haven, Fla.