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Mendota chamber seeks Sweet Corn Festival mini-royalty contestants · Illinois Valley - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Mendota Chamber seeks sweet Corn Festival Mini Royalty contestants. Written
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  by Matthias Warner, this article is being read by an
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  automated voice brought to you by Everlett. As preparations continue
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  for the twenty twenty six sweet Corn Festival, the Mendoda
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  Area Chamber of Commerce is looking for candidates for the
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  Mini Royalty pageant. Candidates must be five years of age
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  on or by the date of the contest or entering
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  kindergarten and must be a resident of the Mendota Elementary
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  School District. According to the release, parents can register their
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  children by completing a registration form and statement of intention.
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  Forms are available from the Mendota Area Chamber of Commerce Office,
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  Graves Hume Public Library and online. The forms must then
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  be turned in or sent to seven hundred Illinois Avenue
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  Pobox six hundred and twenty by Friday, July thirty first,
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  twenty twenty six Mendota Sweetcorn Festival Mini King and Queen
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  will be selected on Saturday, August eighth. Many Royalty contestants
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  should meet behind the first State stage at eight forty
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  five to nine am for check in. A parent will
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  be able to stay behind the stage with the child
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  Judging will take place from nine nine to forty five am.
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  The pageant will begin at ten am on the first
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  State Stage. In case of rain, check the sweet Corn
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  Festival Facebook page for updates. Chairpersons for the event, Kristin
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  Atherton and Kelly Becker, announced that the twenty twenty six
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  mini King and Queen will each be presented with fifty
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  dollars in chamber gift certificates. According to the release,