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Search for 88th S&P Festival queen has begun

The Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival and Fair Association and the Past Queen’s Club have announced that the search for the new Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival queen has begun.
The association is looking for a special young woman to carry on the tradition of representing the oldest state-chartered harvest festival in Louisiana. She will be a goodwill ambassador for the Tri-City area and will represent the 88th Louisiana Shrimp and Petroleum Festival.
The deadline for submitting applications to the festival office will be 3:30 p.m. June 2.
Some of the requirements to be queen are:
—All candidates must be at least 18 years old and not more than 23 by Jan. 1, 2024. Candidates and their parents shall be residents of east St. Mary Parish and/or lower St. Martin and Assumption parishes.
—Each candidate should have attended at least their junior and senior year in an east St. Mary Parish high school. Candidates shall be high school graduates by not less than one year, shall never have been married, pregnant or given birth to a child.
—The queen is required to attend 11 festivals selected by the board. The new queen is encouraged to attend, when possible, all other festivals and any city functions to which she is invited. Required travel expenses are paid by the festival.
The queen must abide by all rules and regulations of her host festival when attending.
—She will also be required to attend the Mystick Krewe of Louisianians’ Mardi Gras Ball in Washington, D.C. Before embarking on her trip to Washington, D.C., she will be honored at a luncheon hosted by the governor and first lady of Louisiana in Baton Rouge.
—The queen will attend the Louisiana Association of Fairs and Festivals convention in Baton Rouge.
—If by some chance the parents of the queen should move from the area, the queen must maintain an area residence during the term of her reign.
—The queen must remain single during the year she represents the festival. In the event the queen should marry or something may cause her not to be able to represent the festival, the festival shall consider the crown vacated and all privileges and duties of the queen shall revert to one of the crown princesses, at the festival’s choice.
—The woman chosen to represent the festival must relinquish all other beauty titles, other than high school or college, and as a festival queen may not enter any beauty contest her year as queen.
—She must conform to all festival regulations as queen and must not conduct herself in any manner other than that befitting of a queen.
Information and applications may be obtained by emailing info@shrimpandpetroleum.org. Online information is available at www.shrimpandpetroleum.org/maids.
The Festival Executive Director Hailee Thomas is available at 985-385-0703 for further information.

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