VAN WERT – The 2021 Peony Pageant, originally taking place in April,
was canceled and then rescheduled when some state-ordered mandates were
lifted and re
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The 2021 Peony Pageant, originally to take place in April, was cancelled and rescheduled when some state-ordered mandates were lifted and revised.
In order to crown a queen and award scholarships, this year’s contestants will be competing at 10:30 a.m. Saturday, June 5, in the S.F. Goedde Building gymnasium. Per committee and pageant rules and regulations, the contestants will be scored by a panel of judges.
Shown are the nine young women competing in this year’s Peony Festival Pageant.
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Each year, the Peony Festival Pageant Committee sends area schools in Van Wert, Paulding, Mercer, Allen, and Putnam counties applications to submit one senior candidate to represent their school in the pageant. Every school’s selection process is different, but all candidate selections are made solely by the area schools.
More than 167,000 people were vaccinated in the first week of Phase Two of South Africa’s Covid-19 vaccine roll-out. They received just the first dose of the Pfizer vaccine.
The roll-out was given a boost over the weekend, with the finding that the Pfizer vaccine can be stored in a refrigerator for a month. Previously, it was estimated that the vaccine would last in a standard fridge for only five days, but new data prove otherwise. The change was approved by the South African Health Products Regulatory Authority after its counterparts in Europe and the US made the same call. Read more about what this means for the roll-out here.