Sky Valley’s Dusty Days pageant has proven legacy
Published 9:32 am Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Don’t dust off opportunities afforded at the 2011 Gold Dust Days Royalty Pageant.
Girls from second grade to seniors in high school who live in the Sky Valley are invited to participate in the Gold Dust Days Royalty Pageant on July 29 in Gold Bar.
The Flaming Red Hat Ladies of Gold Bar started the pageant five years ago. The Red Hat ladies organize the pageant and a tea for the girls.
What is totally nice is that the Red Hats also lend gowns for the participants to don in the formal wear portion of the event.
The girls are judged in three areas: their application and interview, personal introduction and presentation in formal wear. Emphasis is placed on the importance of gaining self-confidence, learning new skills, learning good attitudes about competition, and setting and achieving personal goals.
Jazmine Morgan is a former Junior Miss Gold Dust from 2008.
Katlyn Baller was crowned Miss Gold Dust in 2008.
They weren’t flashes in the Sky Valley pan. Three years later, Morgan is the reigning National American Miss Washington Preteen and Baller was appointed Miss Washington State Queen for Dream Girls USA.
Both will be back to help with the pageant.
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A flag exchange Saturday went well.
A service organization that represents current and former enlisted members of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard exchanged 100 new 3-by-5-foot nylon American flags for unserviceable U.S. flags.
The Fleet Reserve Association Branch 170 of Everett hosted the event.
“All 100 flags where given away and recipients were grateful to receive a new flag at no charge, but also in disposing their unserviceable flags,” says organizer Erv Hoglund. Branch 170 is planning a flag retirement ceremony, hopefully in June, to burn the old, worn flags.”
All of the other flags will be taken to a facility that can properly destroy them.
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Dale Hoggins, a board member at Edmonds Memorial Cemetery & Columbarium, will be the master of ceremonies at the Edmonds Memorial Day celebration. Family members of those who sacrificed their lives to defend our nation will be honored. If you are a member of a Gold Star family and can attend this year’s ceremony at 11 a.m. May 30 , please call Fred Apgar at 206-940-7502.
The cemetery is located at 820 15th St. SW in Edmonds.
Guests are encouraged to bring their own folding chairs. Refreshments, provided by the Lynnwood Emblem Club No. 366, will be served after the program and visitors are invited to stroll the cemetery grounds and take a self-guided tour using a walking map.
Tribute will be paid this year to Edmonds resident Michael Reagan, founder of the Fallen Heroes Project, whose mission is to create and distribute portraits of servicemen and servicewomen killed in Iraq and Afghanistan. To date, he’s drawn 2,400 portraits.
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The deadline is coming up to enter your artwork into the Puget Sound Bird Fest Poster Art Contest. Entries will be judged beginning June 6. They need entries by May 27.
The festival is Sept. 9, 10 and 11 in Edmonds.
A $200 prize, sponsored by Edmonds Arts Festival Foundation, will be awarded to the winner. The winner may display and offer for sale the framed original in the Edmonds Plaza Room at Puget Sound Bird Fest.
For all the details, go to www.pugetsoundbirdfest.org.
Kristi O’Harran: 425-339-3451, oharran@heraldnet.com.
