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14 businesses to enter girls f new wrinkle in fair queen contest by debbie shallhorn the 1975 3rd annual search for a queen of the markham fair is being run by gerri seeley of unionville we have asked various businesses to enter contestants because its a better way of get ting girls but were not discouraging girls who enter themselves she said mrs seeley con tinued we ask for their name address phone number hobbies and the name of their school or- business affiliation we want girls who know something of agriculture we dont really want models or girls from toronto so we set boundaries to the south and west at steeles avenue and bayview avenue respectively all contestants must be between 16 and 21 and there are approximately 8 or 10 girls entered each year the judging this year will be on friday october 3 the girls are judged on personality ap- pearance and their 2 minute prepared speech on ontario agriculture or how the markham fair contributes to the com munity the judges names are always kept secret first prize is 100 with donated prizes from local businesses said cathy michaud mrs seeley so the girls do quite well the queen is chosen along with 2 princesses and last years queen will crown the new one mrs seeley said the new queen will then be on hand at the fair on saturday and sunday when shell be drawing winning tickets in various contests and presenting trophies she concluded her duties over the year are light she attends the annual banquet and assorted dinners of the- agricultural society and she enters the miss cne contest in august with all other ontario fair queen winners o completing her reign martha mulholland queen of markham successor cathy- fair in 73 officiates at the crowning of her avenue millikeri by debbie shallhorn i was entered by my cathy michaud of boyfriends sister and at p 14th avenue millikcn is first i was angry she completing her year as said but i went through 1974 markham fair with it for a joke right of 14th q i never had so much good health to alt at the hi congratulations to the 120th annual markham fair laura secord candies markham 102 main st iga plaza 2940444 markham witff for fine family portraits in natural color call us for a sitting now markham photo centre 117 main st markham 294418 attention in my life and i really loved it you can also come in for a lot of criticism however when youre walking around the fair especially from guys they can really be cruel she reflected on what winning did for her it makes you more open i was forced to be more outgoing she said i had to answer questions geared towards 5f agriculture on flowers vegetables and even sewing plus i made a prepared speech which had to be on either what the markham fair does for the community or ontario agriculture i really didnt have too much to do over the year iattended some dinners and dances of the agricultural society in february i went to the convention of annual faired at the royal york for 2 days all the fair queens had to be there i was at the cne august 1314 for the miss cne sweetheart of the fairs contest again all the other girls were there over 80 of us she enjoyed meeting the other girls saying we were all in the same position and we pretty well thought the same way about a lot- ofj3- things cathy said one of the girls she met was judged ather local fair by how good a sales pitch she- could make to the judges about an old wreck of a car i cathy will be on hand to crown the 1975 miss markham fair asked about the possibility of entering another such contest herself shej replied i dont think r would the woman who ran the cne contest had been amiss canada and she said the miss universe and miss world contests had been the most degrading experiences of her life i dont think i could lakeit- cathy is just back from europe and hopes to be working thisfall o