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Miss Arkansas To Be Guest Speaker; Annual Honors And

Awards To Be Given The Prescott-Nevada County Chamber of Commerce annual banquet will be next Tuesday, May 14. The banquet will be held in the Prescott Middle School cafetorium beginning at 6:30.

A Carousel of Dreams is the theme for this year's banquet.

Many chamber members and other residents have been asked to dream and to envision the future of Nevada County for the next 20 years and to formulate the Nevada County development plan.

Miss Arkansas -- Paula Montgomery -- will be the featured speaker. She also perform at the banquet.

Miss Montgomery was a top five finalist in the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City last fall. Upon completing her reign she will resume her education at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, where she will be a senior majoring in broadcast journalism. Until her Miss Arkansas duties began, she was an advertising producer at KATV in Little Rock.

Also entertaining the banquet crowd will be Steve Kelsey of Eureka Springs. Be prepared for a one man blitz of favorite traditional and original tales and songs neatly woven together with down-home humor.

Playing guitar, banjo, spoons, French harp,bones, mandolin, autoharp, dulcimer, washboard and other instruments, Kelsey transforms spectators into participants.

It is said he began telling stories the first time he came home late. He has since performed professionally in Europe, Mexico, Canada and 26 states.

Honors and awards will be given to some very special Nevada County people. As in past years the following honors will be awarded at the banquet: Nevada County Farm Family of the Year; Emmet, Nevada and Prescott Schools' Educators of the Year; and the Prescott-Nevada County Citizen of the Year.

"We have chosen to continue the Treasure of Gold Award which was presented for the first time in 1995," Gordon said.

Special recognition will be given to some very deserving athletes from the county. The 7A District boys basketball champion Nevada Blue Jays; the District 7AA and Class AA South Regional girls basketball champions Prescott Wolveretts; and the District 7AA and Class AA State champion Prescott Curley Wolves football team will be honored for their respective

Tickets are available at the Chamber for $13 each.

Tickets may be purchased at the chamber office, the Bank of Prescot and the Nevada County Branch Bank of Delight.