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Florida Strawberry Festival Crowns Junior Royalty

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By KEVIN BRADY | TBO.com

Published: January 13, 2009

PLANT CITY Four girls were crowned in their respective age categories Saturday at the Florida Strawberry Festival's annual Junior Royalty pageant.

About 120 girls ages 5 through 15 competed before a nearly capacity crowd of about 1,000 at Tomlin Middle School.

The contestants were judged on personality, overall appearance, natural beauty and smile. The winner in each category included: baroness (5 to 6 years old) Tori Wegner; duchess (7 to 9 years old) Reagan Brown, princess (10 to 12 years old) Elizabeth Padilla; and queen (13 to 15 years old) Danielle McCullough.

Junior Royalty is the first of two major pageants leading up to the strawberry festival. The other, the festival's queen pageant, for Plant City area women between 16 and 20 years old, is 6 p.m. Saturday at Tomlin's auditorium, 501 N. Woodrow Wilson St. Thirty-two young women are scheduled to compete for that title.

Tickets are $10 and go on sale 6 p.m. Friday at Tomlin. Any unsold tickets will be available at the door the night of the pageant.

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