Seenagers prepare for Miss Y pageant
Six beautiful and young at heart women will grace the stage this coming Saturday night at the Belize City Centre in hopes of becoming the sixteenth queen in the local Miss ‘Y’ Pageant. Duane Moody caught up with the seenagers at rehearsal at the Y.W.C.A.
Duane Moody, Reporting
It is one of most anticipated pageants and with good reason because the women who participate are fun-loving, energetic and gracious. Sixty year old Myrl Bowden was unable to compete previously but this year she will show the audience what she’s got…
Myrl Bowden, Contestant, Miss ‘Y’ Pageant
“I does always seh I want to get sixty to come to this pageant and now my birthday come from the third of April and I said I’m coming to Miss ‘Y’. My talent—I’m going to do a dance a Leila Vernon dance, Balaloo. I’m gonna dance.”
Second contestant is sixty-seven years young, Rosaline Rose-Marie Munnings—a kind and loving mother, grandmother and great grandmother—who says she is going to use monologue to woo the crowd and judges.
Rosaline Munnings, Contestant Miss ‘Y’ Pageant
“I’m going to do a monologue and it’s a true story from way, way back a true story. I’ll be in the prison and they will come and take me out because its time for me to go to the galas.”
Duane Moody
“What do you feel is your strength in the competition so far?”
Roaline Munnings
“Well, I’m here just for the fun and to help the ‘Y’.”
Sixty-nine year old Sonia Garnett is taking the third spot and she says that she is competing with the support from friends and family.
Duane Moody
“What is it that you are going to bring to the competition that will give the other contestants a run for their money?”
Sonia Garnett, Contestant Miss ‘Y’ Pageant
“A dance. I will do a dance because that’s my hobby.”
And this sixty-one year old seenager will vie for the title this year after her recent recovery from a leg fracture. Her name is Kathleen Stanford…
Kathleen Stanford, Contestant Miss ‘Y’ Pageant
“I’ll do my life.”
Duane Moody
“So you’re going to doing a monologue?”
Kathleen Stanford
“Yes about my life; the way we use to live in Sibun River.”
The fifth contestant is Joyce Tillett. The seventy-year old seenager of Burrell Boom says that the competition has boosted her self-esteem.
Joyce Tillett, Contestant Miss ‘Y’ Pageant
“I am doing a Creole skit and this is about daily life, young people and parents and things that parents need to do with their children. Life doesn’t stop at one place we can go on. There are so many people out there that need help and we as the older people, we should be setting the example. We should be telling them about life.”
The eldest of the bunch is seventy-six year old U.S. retiree, Olga Cook, who is a manicurist and pedicurist.
Duane Moody
“What is it that you are going to bring to the competition that is going to give the other contestants a run for their money?”
Olga Cook, Contestant Miss ‘Y’ Pageant
“Yes I’m gonna have them rocking tonight because I am telling them with all these baggage that they are carrying from their family and relatives and their children—baggage they are carrying invisible baggage and I want to show them how to get rid of it, the right way and be happy again.”
Duane Moody, reporting for News Five.
