Local residents to compete in pageant
The Ontario Miss Mid-West and Princess Pageant will be held at the Walkerton Community Centre on July 13. The doors open at 6:30pm and the pageant starts at 7pm.
With 39 girls competing, president and CEO Barb MacArthur says the pageant is the largest in mid-western Ontario and includes contestants from Wellington, Huron, Perth, Grey and Bruce counties. The theme for this year’s event will be “A Little Bit Country.”
For the third year, the Jordan Lynn Fawcett Memorial Award will be presented to one of the Princess contestants. Jordan was the 2007-08 Ontario Little Miss Princess, who passed away Nov. 2, 2010.
Emily Giberson 2012-13 Ontario Little Miss Princess will be passing on her title, assisted by 2011-2012 Ontario Miss Mid West Queen Emily Burgess, of Harriston.
During the pageant, organizers will be presenting a cheque to a member of the Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southwestern Ontario.
Wellington County residents participating in the 2013 pageant include: McKenna McGovern and Katelyn Poersch of the Mount Forest area; Shaelyn Thompson and Eden Powell of the Harriston area, and Nicole Dipucchio and Katherine Idzik of the Arthur area.
