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Local teen takes home Young Miss N.C. title |
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Published August 8, 2003 |
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Elaine Gregory |
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By DIANE TURBYFILL, LTN Staff Writer Elaine Gregory is 2-0 on the pageant circuit. The 13-year-old Lincolnton teen entered the Majestic Little Miss Lincoln County in February and took home the title. She then progressed to the Young Miss North Carolina Pageant in July and won the crown. Gregory competed against more than 100 girls in the Young Miss Pageant. “I think dancing has gotten me really far,” she says. Gregory has been taking dance since the age of three. She feels her experience helped her in talent and with confidence under pressure. During the Young Miss Pageant July 23-26 at Lenoir-Rhyne College, Gregory competed in swimsuit, evening gown, talent and interview. She performed a clogging routine for her talent. Her clogging talent will also be featured in the coming Apple Queen Scholarship Pageant Saturday, Aug. 16 at the Citizens Center. The young pageant winner is looking forward to representing her home state. “This whole year I’ll be traveling around North Carolina,” she says. Her community service project will include raising money for and visiting the Masonic Orphanage in Oxford, N.C. Gregory feels she is a strong fund-raiser and will do a good job. In the past she has helped raise money for Communities in Schools. The active 8th-grader attends Lincolnton Middle School where she is student council secretary and plays on the volleyball team. Her mother, Mariann, says her daughter’s devotion to her hometown is what prompted her to enter the pageant. “It was something that she wanted to do. Since she was born and raised in Lincolnton, she wanted to represent Lincoln County.” Gregory does not plan to make pageants her life, but she does hope to enter the Apple Queen Pageant one day. She feels the pageant experiences have been enriching. “It has been a good chance to express my personality and get to meet new people,” she says. She is the daughter of John and Mariann Gregory and has three brothers, Phillip, John and Spiro.
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