Miss Michigan scholarship competition changes venue for 2022

MUSKEGON, MI — After years of being held contained in the Frauenthal in downtown Muskegon, the Miss Michigan occasion is quickly shifting to a brand new venue throughout city.

The 2022 Miss Michigan Scholarship Program is scheduled to conduct its three-night pageant on the Orchard View Excessive Faculty auditorium, situated at 16 North Quarterline Street in Muskegon. The 812-seat facility would be the momentary location from June 16-18, as a substitute of the Frauenthal Middle downtown.

The change of venue comes as a short lived adjustment to assist the nonprofit in the reduction of on spending, Miss Michigan Scholarship Program State Government Director Paula Dewall informed MLive/Muskegon Chronicle.

“In 2021, we confronted funds shortfalls due to the pandemic,” Dewall stated. “Our board of administrators voted to make cuts for 2022, and a kind of was a short lived venue.”

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In keeping with Dewall, Jim Nielsen, the superintendent of Orchard View Faculties, invited the Miss Michigan Program to make use of the college to host its competitors as a substitute.

The annual occasion options contestants from round Michigan competing for scholarship cash. The candidates will compete for the title with expertise, an on-stage query, a social impression initiative and night put on.

Whatever the venue, Dewall stated she is happy for this 12 months’s occasion.

Due to COVID-19, all friends who weren’t vaccinated needed to put on a masks for the 2021 present. Now, Dewall stated it’s extra relaxed.

“It will likely be a extra relaxed ambiance as a result of we don’t have that stress,” Dewall stated. “Now that extra have been vaccinated and have obtained their boosters, individuals are feeling so much higher about it.”

This 12 months, the present will start at 6:30 every night time as a substitute of the same old 7 p.m. begin time.

Right here is that this 12 months’s program schedule:

Wednesday, June. 15

All Miss candidates be a part of collectively for his or her first public outing beginning at 6:30 p.m. in Texas Roadhouse, 5250 Harvey St.

Thursday, June. 16

The Miss Michigan Preliminary Competitors commences at 6:30 p.m. at Orchard View Excessive Faculty

Friday, June. 17

Miss candidates meet collectively at 11 a.m. for miniature golf on the Duck Creek RV Resort in Muskegon, 1155 W Riley-Thompson Rd.

Teen candidates meet at Orchard View Excessive Faculty for the Miss Michigan Excellent Teen at 6:30 p.m.

Saturday, June. 18

Miss Michigan’s winner is chosen in the course of the closing night time of the competitors at Orchard View Excessive Faculty, starting at 6:30 p.m.

“We’ve already surpassed final 12 months’s ticket gross sales,” Dewall stated. “We’re very joyful to open it again up, and I feel we’re going to have extra folks within the viewers this 12 months.”

Like final 12 months, the occasion will probably be live-streamed on-line for all who can not attend in particular person, based on Dewall.

Tickets are actually on sale for $40 every till the showcase begins on June 16. Doorways will probably be open to the highschool at 6 p.m.

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