Sikes captures pageant title
Suzanna Sikes, 19, of Gentry was named the 2013 ArkansasState Fair Queen recently in Little Rock. Sikes represented Benton County in the competition and is the first pageant winner from Benton County.
She is planning a trip to Rwanda next summer as part of an internship program, enjoys riding horses with friends, showing her prize hog at the fair, volunteering with the poultry club and scrapbooking. She is the daughter of Rusty and Carla Sikes.
Lord honored
for service
Allyn Lord, director of the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale, has been awarded the Southeastern Museums Conference James R.
Short Award. The award recognizes administrators who have more than 20 years’ service in the museum profession.
Lord was named director of the Shiloh Museum in 2005. Prior to that, she was registrar for the University of Arkansas Museum and assistant director for the Rogers Historical Museum.
Stoll wins pageant
Theresa Stoll, 21, of Bella Vista recently won the first Arkansas U.S. Miss pageant.
Stoll will travel to Clearwater Beach, Fla., next July to represent the state at the national U.S. Miss competition.
In addition to winning the pageant, Stoll won awards for best actress and best talent. Pageant contestants were judged on academic achievement, volunteer service, resume, personality wear, evening gowns and a personal interview.
Stoll works with CASA, Havenwood, and the UNITE Foundation, an organization she co-founded.
She is also CEO of the fashion company UNITE Apparel.
Local artists in pastel show
Cynthia Kresse of Eureka Springs, Charles Peer of Siloam Springs and Vicki Ross of Bentonville have had works accepted for the Arkansas Pastel Society’s fifth national exhibition, “Reflections in Pastel,” which opens Nov. 8 at the Butler Center in Little Rock.
More than $5,000 in cash and prizes will be presented during the show’s opening reception, set for 5-8 p.m. Nov. 8 at the center. The show features 56 works in soft or oil pastel from artists across the country.
The show will run through Feb. 22. Hours are 9 a.m.-6 p.m.
Monday through Saturday.
Sugg receives history medal Ann Wiggins Sugg received the Historic Preservation Medal from the Marion Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution at the Fayetteville group’s monthly meeting in October.
Sugg’s father, C.B. Wiggins, managed the construction of the Lake Wedington recreation site in the 1930s, and Sugg has worked tirelessly to preserve, restore and expand the site since the 1980s, when it was threatened with demolition.
Send information about birthdays, honors and reunions to [email protected], [email protected] or Northwest Arkansas Achievers, P.O. Box 7, Springdale, AR 72765.
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