The 4th Annual Miss Greater Kansas City & Miss Kansas City Scholarship Pageant will be held at 7 p.m. this Saturday, Feb. 5 at the Wilson Center for the Performing Arts at the Platte County R-3 High School in Platte City.
Ticket prices are $10 and children 4 and under are free. For a small price you will be entertained with a family show featuring Miss Kansas City Kari Gai and Miss Greater Kansas City Lauren Alumbaugh, as well as Mattie Elliott and Morgan Carnes, current Outstanding Teen titleholders.
“Don’t Stop Believing” is the theme for this year’s production as talented and outstanding young women from across the state complete for the opportunity to represent the Kansas City area in the Miss Missouri Pageant held in June in Mexico.
Pageant emcees will be Lacey Fitzgerald, Miss Missouri 2008 and Wesley Miller, Mid Market Sales Representative for Yahoo! Inc. Both Lacey and Wesley bring many years of pageant and broadcasting experience to the stage.
The Miss Greater Kansas City/Miss Kansas City Pageants are preliminary local pageants to the Miss America/Miss Missouri Pageants. This competition will provide scholarships to the winner and runners-up of the participating young women.
Angie Young is the director of the Miss Greater Kansas City/Miss Kansas City Pageants. Mrs. Young organized the Miss Boonville Pageant 2000. She has been the director of two Top 10 contestants at the Miss Missouri Pageants, a 4th runner up to the Miss Missouri crown. Mrs. Young has participated as a certified judge in other local pageants across the state and has served at the Treasurer of the Missouri Local Pageant Directors Association. Angie may be contacted at 816-805-2619 or ayoung1976@att.net for further information. Additional details are also available at the pageant website www.missgreaterkansascity.org.