Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: WEDNESDAY, April 3, 1991 TAG: 9104030288
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: B-5 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: David M. Poole
DATELINE: ROCKY MOUNT LENGTH: Short
The Franklin County Board of Supervisors is expected to rescind its $240 contribution to KaRenda Jean LaPrade of Rocky Mount.
Supervisor Mike Brooks said he changed his mind and would vote to overturn the appropriation at the board's next meeting.
Brooks said he would help KaRenda raise her entry fee through private donations, but not public funds.
On March 28, the Board of Supervisors voted 4-3 to pay one-third of KaRenda's entry fee for the Miss Junior America Pre-Teen Pageant set for July. The non-agenda appropriation was requested by Supervisor Gus Forry.
Brooks said he supported the appropriation because he mistakenly assumed that KaRenda - who has won several beauty crowns - had won a local pageant and was moving to the next level of competition.
In fact, the New York pageant is run by a company that has no connection with any local pageants and is open to virtually anyone who pays the entry fee, Brooks said.
***CORRECTION***
Published correction ran on April 6, 1991.
Clarification
Because incorrect information was provided to the newspaper, entry requirements for the Miss Junior America pageant were mistated in a story in Wednesday's paper about Franklin County supervisors reconsidering a $240 gift to an 8-year-old contestant. The pageant, sponsored by a for-profit company in Cincinnati, is open by invitation only to 30 girls in three age groups from Virginia.
Memo: CORRECTION