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Show Miss Pleasant Grove Pageant Prepares Girls For Life . ! W w ' -U U, ' .; 1 vrHI : 0 ; -: Eleven young women will compete for the title of Miss Pleasant Grove on Saturday, March 26. They are Talysa Anderson, Lexie Carr, Tamela Daley, Andrea Gneiting, Rachel Ra-chel Green, Mikayla Harmon, Janelle Matheny, Brooke Savage, Sav-age, Eliza Shumway, Tayler Welch and Lea Wride. To help the girls prepare for this event, the pageant committee com-mittee provides workshops to teach them skills to help them succeed. The girls must learn a production number, choreographed choreo-graphed by Tiffani Miller. They are coached on how to walk and present themselves to the judges. judg-es. The young women are also given the do's and the don'ls when it comes to interview. Director Di-rector Terry Marchbanks said, "I think it is an awesome experience ex-perience for them to learn life skills that they don't get the opportunity to learn any other way. They learn how to interview, inter-view, how to perfect their talent and keep physically fit. When you do a pageant, you are at the top of your game in all of these areas. It is fun to see how the girls grow, develop and learn life skills." In order to compete, the girls are required to raise at least $100 for the Children's Miracle Network, a Miss America Pageant fund raiser. Each contestant must also have a platform, something that she Miss Pleasant Grove Pageant Coordinator Terry Marchbanks directs the girls in "pageant skills " in a series of workshops designed to help prepare the girls for the upcoming pageant. Pholo courtcsy ofTimpanogos Times strongly believes in. Each girl is encouraged to do 20 hours of service to promote the cause they have chosen. "These young women are doing pretty major projects of service at this time," stated Terry. "It's pretty awesome to think about what is being done and the changes that can be made in the community com-munity because of these young women." For the second year in a row, Pleasant Grove is participating partici-pating in the Little Miss program, pro-gram, which is a mentoring program that comes from the Miss America organization. Each contestant will choose a young girl between the ages of 4 and 7 to be her "Little Miss". These young girls will receive a crown, a T-shirt, and perform their own production number num-ber on stage the night of the pageant. Each contestant will be accompanied by her Little Miss on stage throughout the evening as well. Contestants will be judged in the following areas: Evening wear 20, On-stage question 5, Persona! interview inter-view 25, Swimsuit 15 and Talent 35. The Miss Pleasant Grove Pageant is a scholarship pageant pag-eant and the newly named queen will receive $3,500; first attendant, $1,500; second attendant, at-tendant, $900; third attendant, $500; and fourth attendant, $300. Other awards given will be the Platform, Evening Wear, Swimsuit, Interview and Talent Award. The winner in each of these areas will receive re-ceive $100 as well as the girl who sells the most tickets. Tickets may be purchased from contestants in advance for $7 or at the door the evening eve-ning of for $8. The pageant will be held at the PGIIS auditorium audi-torium with the doors opening at 6:30 p.m. Come and support these lovely young women. |
