The reigning 2011 Miss Shelby County Megan Picklesimer will crown her successor, Miss Shelby County 2012, on Friday, July 22, 2011 at a “Night at the Cinema”.
The 2012 Miss Shelby County Pageant will be held at the Shelby County High School Auditorium in Columbiana, Alabama located at 101 Washington Street. Miss Shelby County is a preliminary pageant of the Miss Alabama and Miss America Pageants, the largest scholarship organization for young women in the world, over $45 million dollars since its inception.
Contestants must be between the ages of 17 and 23 and live, work, or go to school in Shelby, Chilton, Jefferson, Talladega, Bibb, Coosa, and St. Clair counties. Contestants will attend a get acquainted tea party on Tuesday, July 12, 2011 at 5:00 p.m. There is one required rehearsal on July 21, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. Interviews will be held on the afternoon of July 22 at Shelby County High School with the pageant beginning at 7:00 p.m. that night.
All paperwork must be submitted by June 30, 2011 to Director Pam Oliver at P. O. Box 1762, Columbiana, Alabama 35051.
This year two new scholarships are being awarded: the Sonya Lefkovits Community Service Award ($500) and a new scholarship to Troy University (academic restrictions apply). In the last three years over $36,000 in scholarship money, tuition grants, and gifts have been awarded to the winners.
The Vignette Club of Columbiana, a member of the Alabama Federation of Women’s Clubs, has produced the Miss Shelby Pageant for 24 years. All proceeds from the pageant are given in scholarships as well as community donations to local schools, the Safe House, the Owens House, and other non-profit community services.
Last year the Miss Shelby County Pageant won the coveted Outstanding Closed Pageant Award from the Miss Alabama Organization. Past Miss Shelby Counties include: Liz Cochran, Miss Alabama 2009; Deidra Downs, Miss Alabama 2004 and Miss America 2005, and Amie Beth Dickinson Shaver, Miss Alabama 1994.
For more information and registration papers, go to www.missshelbycounty.org or contact the director, Pam Oliver at 205-283-1893, 205-668-6844 or email [email protected].
