South Surrey teen model Annika Van Vliet is no stranger to the spotlight, and it’s about to get a whole lot brighter.
At 15, Annika has posed for numerous photo shoots, given television interviews and walked fashion-week runways in both Vancouver and Toronto – activities she only began dipping her toe into about a year ago.
On Saturday (Sept. 9), she’ll shine in the Big Apple, with her photo among 500 to be featured in a jumbotron video presentation in New York’s Times Square launching the 2023 Buddy Walk, an annual event to raise awareness for Down syndrome in the U.S.
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