Dayton Fair Queen Crowned Sunday

 

A Freeport junior was crowned Dayton Fair Queen during the weekend.

Isabelle Lindsay, a Freeport Senior High student involved in many activities - including as a mock trial attorney, on the quizbowl and mathletes’ teams and as a vocalist with the women’s ensemble and senior county choir - received the crown from 2015 Queen Kara Zoloscik August 14 at 8PM.

2016 Dayton Fair Queen Isabelle Lindsay and Runner Up, Jordyn Powell were crowd on Sunday evening to kick off the 2016 Dayton Fair. (submitted photo)

Runner-up Jordyn Powell will be a junior at Punxsutawney Area High

Lindsay was one of six contestants vying for the crown.

Before she gave up her crown, Zoloscik, 20, said the lessons she learned from three years of competing for the crown made this past year all the more memorable

“I gained a lot of interview skills through that and public speaking skills through the speech. I know I was (nervous) – my mom had to encourage me a little bit to turn in my application,” Zoloscik recalled. “Once I talked to the queens that were crowned the other two years and they said ‘You’re so close – you just have to do a little bit of tweaking here and there.’

“It’s definitely a good experience. The skills and stuff you learn from it is once-in-a-lifetime.”

Zolocsik’s public speaking experience so far has helped her successfully become a part of the Pennsylvania Beef Council’s ‘Millennial to Millennial’ (M2M) 2.0 Program – a program that, according to the organization’s website, “creates beef community advocates for use at large consumer events and speaking engagements, educating the public about beef and beef production.”

Fair queen contestants were interviewed and give a 3-5 minute speech to judges at the Marshall House before the August 14 crowning at the grandstand on the Dayton Fairgrounds.

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