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Carissa Belles a candidate for Pennsylvania State Laurel Festival Queen
Which high school senior will be the 2010 Laurel Queen?
It could be a new Wyoming Area grad.
Carissa Belles, Wyoming Area High School, will represent her school and community as a candidate for Pennsylvania State Laurel Festival Queen when the Wellsboro community celebrates the 69th Pennsylvania State Laurel Festival. Festivities for this family-friendly event began Saturday, June 12, and run through Sunday, June 20.
The queen candidates gather at noon on Friday, June 18, on the porch outside the Wellsboro Area Chamber of Commerce office, for the official welcome. The young ladies will then participate in the Queen’s Preview and Concert, set to start at 7:30 that evening at Wellsboro High School and featuring Tioga County-based Hamilton-Gibson Productions doing “The Music of George M.”
Queen candidates ride on professionally designed floats during the Laurel Festival Parade on Saturday afternoon; Saturday evening at 8 p.m. they return to the high school for the coronation.
Miss Belles, daughter of Richard and Lynn Belles, has been a member of Student Council and has served her class as an officer. She was in Students Against Destructive Decisions, Teens Against Tobacco Use, and cheerleading. She was named to the National Honor Society, helped with the yearbook, and participated in track and field. She has won several cheerleading awards, and has been involved in community volunteering with Red Cross and Big Brothers Big Sisters.
She plans to attend Penn State’s main campus to major in forensic science.
The Pennsylvania State Laurel Festival started Saturday with the Laurel Flyer Bicycle Race, Family Day/Children’s Health Fair, and continues throughout the week with other racing opportunities, great music, juried arts and crafts fair, the International Street of Foods, and a carnival.
The ever-fabulous Laurel Festival Parade starts at 2 p.m. on Saturday, June 19, and features high school bands, bagpipers, fire trucks, horses, floats, and more. The festival concludes Sunday morning, June 20, with a Union Church service on The Green.
Contact the Wellsboro Area Chamber of Commerce at 724-1926 or www.wellsboropa.com for more information.