Whitley County Junior Miss sets date for '09 event
(Talk of the Town photo by Jennifer Zartman Romano) The annual Whitley County Junior Miss program is an exciting evening of competition, as seen above in 2008.
By Pamela Thompson
At its April meeting the Board of Directors of Whitley County Junior Miss (WCJM) began planning for the 45th production of Junior Miss is this community.
The board has announced that the event will take place Saturday, September 12, 2009, at 7 p.m. in the Newell Rice Auditorium of Columbia City High School. Admission is $10 per person.
In addition to the contestants competing for the title of 2010 WCJM, the program will feature Kara Mawhorter, WCJM 2009 and first runner-up to Indiana’s Junior Miss. At the completion of the on-stage categories of fitness, talent and self awareness the last segment of the program is the recognition of the 44 Junior Misses who have represented this community at the Indiana Junior Miss Program and the naming of category winners and the new Whitley County‘s Junior Miss.
The Board of Directors will also recognize a community person with a “Life Time Supporter” award.
“This will be a special program which we hope everyone will enjoy,” said Anne Rentschler, a co-coordinator of the program. “We hope to have a good representation of girls from all over the county in our program to help us celebrate this extraordinary time in our history.”
Those eligible to compete in WCJM are girls who will be classified as seniors in Whitley County high schools for the school year 2009-10 including home schooled high school senior girls. All prospective participants must register on the national web site of America’s Junior Miss at ajm.org. Contestants must compete in the categories of panel interview, scholastics, talent, fitness and self awareness.
Cash scholarships are awarded to the category winners and the Junior Miss. The scholarships are administered through the Whitley County Community Foundation, the financial representative of WCJM, to the institution of higher learning selected by the contestant. At last year’s program the WCJM Board of Directors awarded $2600 in scholarships.
For further information, call 244-7467.