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The best year of my
life... yet!
GREENVILLE – “My admiration for the fair queens started when I was
nine,” said Jenna King, 2013 Junior Fair Queen. “The fair queen gave me
a ribbon… I was in shock that the queen would give me a ribbon.”
Jenna, an Edison Community College Communications 121 Public Speaking
student, was giving a “speech” presentation to Kiwanis of Greenville.
She told them involvement in fair Royalty was a family thing… her
oldest brother was a second runner-up king. Her second oldest, Lucas,
was the 2012 Junior Fair King. She went to her first pageant at the age
of 12, then at 15 became the youngest member of the court for which she
was responsible.
Jenna remembered the interview process. There were three people, all
from outside the county. When it was her turn, her brother opened the
door to the interview room and said, “Go hard on her… she’s a tough
one!” then shut the door behind her.
“The interview was mostly interaction,” she said. “However, I found out
later the significance of two chairs in front of the judges… you were
supposed to take the one closest to them.”
She remembers thinking she’d just go for the fun of it, then try again
next year. All she hoped for was to make the Top 7 out of 16
contestants. She did. The stress eased up. They named Third Runner-up,
then Second, then First… “Then they said, now the 2013 Darke County
Youth Fair Queen, Jenna King!
“I was just sitting there, clapping, when the...
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