Beach Haven’s Christa Steiner certainly had an exciting week during the 2019 Miss New Jersey Competition held at the Resorts Casino Hotel’s Superstar Theatre.

On Thursday, the second night of preliminary competitions, Steiner won the onstage interview component of the competition. The judges asked her what legislation she would want her local representatives in Trenton to sponsor and/or pass. She responded she would like them to push a bill promoting arts funding and explained why, which ties in nicely with her social impact initiative, ART for SMART, which promotes arts education.

This year’s Miss New Jersey Competition’s preliminaries split the 28 contestants into two groups, with 14 engaging in…