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WESTERN WEEKEND: Esme Gutierrez has joined Devon McMorrow in an annual contest that has been refurbished to focus on community service. Both young women are selling raffle tickets.   David Briggs

For the last five years, Esmeralda Gutierrez has watched the Western Weekend parade from the sidelines, admiring the newly crowned queen as she waved them by. Tally Romo, a princess from a few years ago, has been a role model for her; this year, Ms. Romo encouraged her to run for the new incarnation of the Western Weekend Queen: the Junior Grand Marshal. Now Ms. Gutierrez—known to friends as “Esme”—is herself set to ride in…