Nevada County Picayune and Gurdon Times Newspaper Archive

Forest Festival Beauty Pageant crowns five winners

Gurdons Krissi Davies took the crown Saturday night to become the 2005 Forest Festival Beauty Pageant Queen, and was also voted photogenic winner.

Davies received first runner-up at the Clark County Fair Beauty Pageant this past week, where Gurdon native Carolanne Duke became queen.

The rain poured down from the aftermath of Hurricane Rita but cheers of encouragement came from a large crowd when Davies was crowned queen in the GHS cafetorium.

Davies will wave to the crowd at this years Forest Festival, on Saturday, Oct. 29.

If anything should happen that she can not be there, the 2005 Forest Festival Queen First Runner-up is Callie King.

Destiny Talley received second runner-up and won the interview contest.

As for the Princess category, Regan Renfro is the 2005 Forest Festival Princess, and also won the interview contest.

Cassie Carter is first runner-up and Jesi Wolf took second runner-up.

Faith Ledbetter is the 2005 Junior Miss Forest Festival, with first runner-up going to Rachel Pierce. Second runner-up and Miss Photogenic is Lacy Hill.

For the Little Miss category, Callie White is the 2005 Forest Festival Little Miss, with Ashton Hughes being selected as first runner-up.

Olivia Moore received second runner-up, but is also the reigning Little Miss Clark County.

As to the Tiny Miss group, Sidney Kuykendall is the 2005 Tiny Miss Gurdon Forest Festival. First runner-up and Miss Photogenic goes to Rachel Ledbetter, while Gracie Jester took second runner-up.

Master of ceremonies was Jim Farris, of the First Assembly of God, who praised the efforts of the pageant organizers, Billy Wells and Elaine Halliday.

"We appreciate you coming out to weather the storm tonight for our pageant," he said. "We do have some large flashlights if our lights go out."

The lights remained on throughout the pageant, but a tree was said to have fallen near the Gurdon City Park.