Thursday's Internet Edition, August 28, 2008.
for 54th festival
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Morgan Cottrell (center) was crowned queen of the 2008 W.Va. Black Walnut Festival during a pageant Saturday at Roane County High School. Allie Cole (left) was named Junior Miss Roane County and Michelle Randolph won the MIss Roane County title.
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- A Roane County High School junior has been selected to reign as queen of the 2008 W.Va. Black Walnut Festival.
Morgan Taylor Cottrell, 17, of Spencer was chosen from a field of 28 candidates Saturday during the annual Miss Black Walnut Festival Scholarship Pageant in the RCHS auditorium. She was crowned by last year’s queen, Katie Murray of Ripley.
Queen Morgan is the daughter of Tim and Debbie Cottrell.
The official coronation ceremony will take place Thursday, Oct. 9 on the opening day of the 54th annual festival in Spencer.
Miss Roane County was also selected during the pageant and younger girls competed for the title of Junior Miss Roane County.
Michelle Randolph, 16, of Spencer was named Miss Roane County in a competition open to girls entering their sophomore, junior or senior year at RCHS. Randolph, currently a sophomore, is the daughter of Richard and Jennifer Randolph.
Allie Cole, 13, of Spencer was chosen as Junior Miss Roane County. The competition included nine girls in the seventh and eighth grades. Cole, an eighth-grader at Spencer Middle School, is the daughter of Todd and Amy Cole.
The festival queen was named after personal interviews and streetwear and evening gown competitions. Heather Crum, 19, a Marshall University student from Henderson, was first runner-up to Cottrell. Amanda Dolan, 19, a West Virginia University student from Spencer, was second runner-up; Randolph was third runner-up; and Leslie Garrett, 15, a Calhoun County High School sophomore from Mt. Zion, was fourth runner-up.
In competition for Miss Roane County, Allison Holliday was first runner-up, Callie Jones second runner-up and Brittney Hanshaw third runner-up. Holliday and Hanshaw are RCHS sophomores while Jones is a junior.
SMS seventh-grader Alexis Farmer was first runner-up to Junior Miss Roane County. Brittany Workman was second runner-up and Alexandria Parkin third runner-up. Both are SMS eighth-graders.
Marcie Uhl, 18, a Parkersburg High School senior, was named Miss Photogenic among the older girls and Muriah Nutter, an SMS seventh-grader, earned the same title in the junior division.
Nutter also was given the People’s Choice award for decorating a box that raised funds for the American Cancer Society’s Relay for Life.
Katie Cox, an RCHS senior, won the Miss Congeniality title in the senior division and Alley Reynolds, an SMS eighth-grader, was the junior division winner
