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Local pageant winners will reunite

THE IRREPRESSIBLE Gertie Todd is searching far and
wide for past and potential Miss North Shore winners and
candidates to help celebrate the pageant’s 40th anniversary.

The July 19 reunion also marks
Todd’s 40th year as the pageant's
director.

But before the party starts,
Todd says she has to get down to
the serious business of tracking
past candidates for the reunion
and attracting new candidates for
the 1991 Miss North Shore pag-
eant. Family, friends and past
contestants are all welcome at the
celebration.

“Our big thing is searching for
these people as well as new can-
didates. I’d like to have them all
come,’” she says.

The celebration will be held at
recCentre Lonsdale following the
pageant at Centennial Theatre,

The driving force behind the
pageant, Todd has a fang history
of community invol\ ement.

A justice of the peace and a
former city alderman, Todd is the
former 26-year owner of Orchid
Florists and current owner of
Perfect Setting Bridal Complex on
6th Street.

The pageant’s history actually
extends back to 1948.

According to Todd, Kay Dixon
was the first pageant winner on
the North Shore, crowned as Miss
Elks Club in 1948 in Mahon Park.

By iv51, Todd became involved
with the Kinsmen Club and orga-
nized the first Miss North Van-
couver pageant. In 1963, the
Lions Club took over the North
Vancouver portion cf the pageant,

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with Todd still at the helm.

It wasn’t until 1971-72, when
the North and West Vancouver
pageant franchises amalgamated,
that the first Miss North Shore,
Lenora Samuel Baker, was
crowned,

Or so Todd thinks. After cor-
recting herself several times on
dates and names, Todd says she
hapes she has it right because ‘‘I
mean there's those litule darlings
out there and they're so god-
damned critical.’’

But that is the past. Todd is
now busy recruiting new ‘‘girls’’
as she calls them for this year’s
pageant.

Each candidate will be respon-
sible for finding a sponsor from
the business community. Can-
didates will also take a modelling
course and participate in several
community events, Todd says.

So when is Todd planning on
tetiring from the pageant
business?

“God, you'll hate to hear it but
you're going to have to take me
out in a wheelchair. { hate to miss
it,’’ says Todd.

For more information on the
pageant and the reunion, contact
Todd at Perfect Setting, 124 West
16th St., North Vancouver, 985-
0555.

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GERTIE’S GIRLS: Former Miss North Shore winners celebrate 40 years of pageant history with
pageant president Gertie Todd (second from right). Standing with Todd are Tara Paat, Miss North
ere Coleen Reynolds, Miss North Shore 1972-73, and Dickie McInnis, Miss North Shore

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