Sunland-Tujunga Watermelon Festival - Sponsored by the Sunland-Tujunga Lions Club


Sunland-Tujunga
Watermelon Festival 2008

AUGUST 8-10, 2008

Sunland Park -- Sunland, California
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Meet the Sunland-Tujunga Watermelon Festival Queen  
The Making of a Queen

The race is on to choose the Watermelon Festival Queen and Junior Princess! 

Three candidates for Queen and two for Junior princess (and their sponsors) are busy selling votes at $1 each.   The candidate with the most votes at 7 p.m. on August 4 is the winner!

The Queen, Princesses and the Junior Princess will be crowned on August 8 at 7:30 on stage at the Watermelon Festival. 


Meet the 2008 Candidates for Queen



Brittany Elgin
Verdugo Hills Family YMCA

Brittany is a Varsity Cheerleader at Golden Valley High School in Santa Clarita, wherebrittany she is also a member of the Link Crew.  She has a black belt in karate, loves to help animals, and likes sports.

"I would like to be the Watermelon Festival Queen because I have always seen and admired the queens when I was little and going to the Festival.  I think it would be an honor to represent the Verdugo Hills YMCA and this community as the Queen.  I think I would do a great job representing Sunland-Tujunga at various events throughout the year.

I want to raise money for the YMCA because I have grown up in the Y since I was a baby.  It has been a very big part of my life and I have had some of my best times at the since my mom has worked there for 24 years."









Verdugo Hills High School Cheerleading Squad
 

Verdugo Hills High School Football Squad



Meet the 2008 Candidates for Junior Queen         

Heather Choi






The Courts of Festivals Past

Festival Court 2005
Festival Court 2006
Festival Court 2007




Gift Donors

Gifts will be donated to the winners of the contest by their sponsors and local merchants




 



How the Queen Is Chosen

It has been said that it takes money to make money. In August each year, it takes money to make a queen - the Queen of the S-T Lions Club Watermelon Festival. The candidates for Queen and their sponsors have six weeks to sell as many tickets at $1 each as they can, and the candidate selling the most tickets in each age bracket wins the crown.

The contest officially begins on July 4th and ends on the Monday preceding the Festival.

A candidate for Queen must be a young woman 16 - 25 years of age who is of good character, available to be present at the Festival, and is sponsored by a charitable, service, fraternal or non-profit organization or is raising funds for one. Candidates for Junior Queen must be a junior miss who is 10-15 years of age. All of the other qualifications also apply to her.

The Contest is a fund-raiser for the Lions Club and the groups and organizations raising money for service, community, education, religious and charitable purposes. The income from tickets sold by each sponsoring group and organization is divided evenly between the Lions Club and the sponsor or designated organization.

The deadline for turning in ticket stubs and money for the contest is August 4, 2008. The queen will be crowned onstage at the Watermelon Festival on August 8 at 7:30.

Groups and organizations wanting to raise more money may continue selling tickets until 5 p.m. August 10.  Ticket stubs and money may be turned in at the Festival headquarters RV at the Festival throughout the weekend.

The sponsoring organization or group receives their check from the Sunland-Tujunga Lions Club by August 31.

 

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