Tuesday's Internet Edition, 04:15 AM, May 13, 2008.
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Editor - Nine girls have entered this years Junior Miss Roane County competition that will take place Saturday in conjunction with the W.Va. Black Walnut Festival Scholarship Pageant.
The pageant features Roane residents who are in either the seventh or eighth grade. As with the senior division, the junior pageant consists of interview, streetwear and evening gown competitions.
Junior Miss Roane County will participate in the coronation and parade for the 54th annual festival Oct. 9-12. The winner receives a $100 savings bond and a prize package.
Cassandra Richards, then a seventh-grader at Spencer Middle School, won the title a year ago.
Contestants, all from Spencer and students at SMS, include:
Allie Cole, 13, an eighth-grader
Eve Cottrill, 14, an eighth-grader
Chelsea Epling, 14, an eighth-grader
Alexis Farmer, 12, a seventh-grader
Muriah Nutter, 13, a seventh-grader
Alexandria Parkin, 13, an eighth-grader
Alley Reynolds, 14, an eighth-grader
Ashleigh Stockner, 14, an eighth-grader
Brittany Workman, 14, an eighth-grader
