Wednesday, April 24, 1991 - North Shore News - 43

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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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" EWS photo Nell Lucente 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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