She says although the contest will be done individually, the announcement of winners and the program itself will be pieced together at the end. Winters say the contest has been outlined with all regards to safety for both the committee and the young ladies.
Locally, we could have practice here, spread apart and that’s what we’ve been doing,” said Winters. So nationals went digital on Zoom and did their actual national program in Mobile, Alabama in June via Zoom so we decided we could do the same thing. So, we shut down for a while and held our breath to see what was going to happen and I started off with nine girls in March and I ended up with six girls in June and they were still interested. So, we stopped and we were still going to continue but then, we got word from nationals that we couldn’t continue that we had to shut the program down. “We started up with the girls in March and we had a couple of practices and got everybody in gear and then COVID hit and schools shut down. Toni Winters, the chairperson for the scholarship program better known in this area as Junior Miss, says rather than cancelling, program organizers will be hosting a virtual scholarship contest this weekend. (Seguin) - Organizers of this year’s Distinguished Young Women’s Program are not letting the threats of the COVID-19 pandemic ruin years of tradition.
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