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Vanessa King, Executive Director
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Date Posted: Sunday, June 24, 02:59:28am
Hello!
We have reduced the entry fee for the 2007 Miss Black Ohio USA Scholarship pageant and have made it into a 2-day event rather than a 3-day event. The pageant will take place at the Shedd Theater, located in the Columbus Performing Arts Center, in downtown Columbus and will be on Saturday and Sunday only, August 11-12. Anyone wanting to still arrive on Friday night, since you will most likely be either 8:00 Am or 9:00 AM on Saturday, can stay at our host hotel or at a hotel of your choice.
The new entry fee for Teens is $150 and for Miss $250. Teens will not be required to stay at the hotel and only need to report for scheduled events and Miss Delegates will be sharing rooms. Should teen delegates decide to stay at the hotel, their fee will be the same as the Miss delegates. All delegates are still required to purchase the $100 ad page used for the photogenic competition. If you are a Miss do not want to room alone or room with a family member or other non-contestant, you will pay $50 for the other half of the room cost. Should any teen decide to stay at the hotel and does not want to share rooms with another delegate, she will also pay the additional $50. For those wanting to stay on Friday night, please let me know as we see how many are interested so we can find roommates; you will pay $50 for the Friday night stay or $100 if you do not want to share rooms with another delegate.
All applications, fees, paperwork and photos are due by July 18; we may extend the deadline even later, depending on the number of applications received. However, the hotel reservation deadline is July 20, so that deadline cannot be extended. That means you will have to make your reservations yourself and pay whatever the rate is at that time.
Don't miss out on the opportunity to compete in the Ohio Pageant and be selected as Miss Black Ohio USA 2007 or Miss Teen Black Ohio USA 2007. Our Miss Division winner will go on to compete at the national Pageant in June 2008 in The Gambia, in conjunction with their Roots Festival. This year, every delegate received a full scholarship to the college of her choice, $5000 cash before leaving The Gambia and were appointed by the Gambian President as Good Will Ambassadors. Those selected as Ambassadors will have an opportunity for additional travel to The Gambia. Delegates also were invited back for the Inauguration Ball on July 22 to celebrate the 7th year of the President's reign in office. Those electing to go will again receive an all-expense paid trip (airfare, hotel, ground transportation and meals paid) for this trip and will be staying 10-17 days; they will leave for The Gambia on July 11 or July 18 and return on July 28. They will be paired with a young lady in The Gambia who will be competing as delegates in a pageant to be named "Miss July 22," to work with her to prepare her for competition. Note: The delegates are also currently conducting a book drive to help fill a library's shelves at the new library at one of the schools that has been named The Miss Black USA Library. Delegates will be taking the opportunity during this trip to take books with them to help fill the shelves. If anyone is interested in donating books, please contact me, as Chavin Rucker, Miss Black Ohio USA 2006, will be going on this return trip. I do not know of any pageant where the state winners were given such a prize package It has not yet been released as the total prizes the national pageant winner and runner-ups received this year. I do know that a dinner in the honor of Miss Black USA 2007, Kalilah Allen of Tennessee, was held after the rest of us returned back to the US. Kalilah was presented with $100,000 in custom-designed diamond and gold jewelry! Now tell me, do you want to miss out on such an opportunity?
If you haven't done so already, get your applications in before it's too late! I am sure that the 2008 national pageant will be just as amazing as this year! For those who have not yet applied as a delegate yet, please contact me by email or phone ASAP for the paperwork, which can be sent by email or US Mail. For those you have applications and have not yet sent them in, there are documents and forms that are part of the application packet that are not in the packet you received as additional paperwork would be sent out to you after we received your initial application and deposit. Full packets containing all paperwork are now being sent out since the deadline will be here soon. If you have your application packet and have not sent in all your required paperwork, ads and fee balances, please make sure you do so before the deadline.
For those in the teen pageant, we now have a national competition operate by one of our other state directors called Teen Essence, that we plan to send our teen winner to. This is also a scholarship pageant and has similar areas of competition that Miss Black Ohio has. It is open to ages 4-18, so if anyone knows of any younger girls who may want to participate, please contact me. I am working with the Teen Essence Director on recruiting delegates.
I look forward to hearing from those of you who quailfy and hope you decide to enter...you could be the next Miss Black Ohio USA or Miss Teen Black Ohio USA!
Vanessa King, President & Executive Director
Miss Black Ohio US Scholarship Pageant
Email: director@missblackohiousa.org or MissBlackOhioUSA@aol.com
Phne: 614-638-5531
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