Ms. Senior Shelby seeking contestants

Ms. Senior Shelby County Pageant is now accepting participants for its April 6 event, scheduled to take place at 2 p.m. at the ServPro Facilities on Highway 280 in Harpersville.

The pageant is open to women over age 60 and seeks to develop, foster, and promote programs and activities that dispel the myths of aging by enhancing the lives of senior women.

Past talent acts have included singing, dancing, playing an instrument, a monologue, a comedy skit, reading a poem, and displaying handcrafts and paintings.

The winner will go on to compete in the Ms. Senior Alabama Pageant at Wallace State Community College in Hanceville on Aug. 3.

Ms. Senior Shelby County 2008 Edwina Chappell went on to win Ms. Senior Alabama and placed in top 10 at the national competition.

“I’ve given my life for my family, and a lot of women always worked,” Chappell said. “It was just time to do something for self, have fun, showcase talent and make new friends. It is something for senior ladies to get out there do something with life and make a memory.”

Most recently, Ms. Senior Shelby County Niva Dorough, 61, of Harpersville, won Ms. Alabama Senior America 2012.

For more information, contact Edwina Chappell at 365-6080.