Logan County Fair 2022

2022 LOGAN COUNTY FAIR LINCOLN DAILY NEWS JULY / AUGUST 2022 Page 91 Julia Collins, Atlanta, daughter of Ashley and Josh Collins. Collins will be a junior at Olympia High School. To display communication skills, which is 40 percent of the score, queen contestants spoke on a topic of their choice. Most talked about their lives and lessons they have learned such as facing and overcoming challenges, embracing people’s differences and lending a helping hand. Other topics were changing how we see mental health issues, treating everyone with decency and keeping music and arts in school curricula. For the pop question, contestants were asked a two-part question. To lead into the question, Kurtz said at times, pageants receive criticism for focusing too much on physical appearance. The question was: Other than your outward appearance, what attributes do you most like about yourself and how would you apply it to your time as Miss Logan County Fair? Answers included being hardworking, organized, determined, outgoing, kindhearted, open minded, and very genuine. Others mentioned confidence, a good work ethic and a drive to do best even in challenges. The rest of the scoring was based on an interview earlier in the day plus an evening gown competition to display their stage presence. The local Junior Miss competition began in 2017 for girls between the ages of nine and 12. In 2018, the range was changed to ages 11 to 13. The 2022 Logan County Junior Miss Alayna Briggs was escorted to the stage by her father H.E. Westen. Briggs welcomed everyone and said it has been a great month working with seven wonderful ladies. She then told the crowd to sit back and enjoy the pageant. Junior Miss contestants sashayed across the stage to the song ‘Dance With Me Tonight.’ This year’s junior miss contestants included: Ellie Wrage, Andrea Rogers, Preslee Sherren, Ashten Wolf, Jena Boesdorfer, Isabella Pollice and Andrea Noltensmeier. Seventy five percent of the junior miss scores came from an interview with judges earlier in the afternoon. Another 15 percent came from answering the pop question asked by Kurtz and 10 percent on stage presence. Kurtz asked each contestant if you could bring something new to the fair, what would it be and why? Answers included an online design category for visual arts, more activities for littler kidsand a food tasting contest. Other answers were wristbands to get to the front of food Continued p TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 2022 STORY by Angela Reiners