{"id":305427,"date":"2026-07-25T11:37:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:37:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305427\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T11:37:50","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T11:37:50","slug":"two-queens-crowned-winners-champions-named-at-2026-fuzzy-peach-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/305427\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Queens Crowned, Winners & Champions Named at 2026 Fuzzy Peach Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"

Crowned as Little Miss Peach 2026 on Saturday at the Fuzzy Peach Festival were Fernanda Rivas (3-6 yr olds) and Madilynn Diaz (7-10 yr olds).<\/p>\n

The annual pageant was held on the courthouse steps with 16 contestants in the younger division and 5 young ladies competing in the older division.<\/p>\n

Named as First Runner Up were Brynleigh Bloxom (3-6 yr olds) and Madison Helfenbein (7-10 yr olds).<\/p>\n

The Second Runner Up title was awarded to Riley Nguyen (3-6 yr olds) and Laney Lehman (7-10 yrs olds).<\/p>\n

Also participating in the 3-6 yr old division were Lakelynn Zeidler, Hadleigh Smith, Taylor Manuel, Karrington Escobar, Avacyn Oliver, Scarlett Holmes, Evelyn Grace Gauna, Alice Cooper, Wrenley Hanna, Kacelynn Sander, Ensley Diaz, Bonnie Deltenre, and Lanaya Craddock, and in the 7-10 yr division were Layla Moore and Jala Smith.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t3-6 yr old division
\n1st Runner Up \u2013 Brynleigh Bloxom, Little Miss Peach \u2013 Fernanda Rivas, 2nd Runner Up \u2013 Riley Nguyen<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\tLittle Miss Peach 2026
\n(3-6 yr) \u2013 Fernanda Rivas
\n(7-10 yr) \u2013 Madilynn Diaz<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t7-10 yr old division
\n1st Runner Up \u2013 Madison Helfenbein, Little Miss Peach \u2013 Madilynn Diaz, 2nd Runner Up \u2013 Laney Lehman
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Congratulations to all these beautiful young ladies on a job well done!<\/p>\n

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The Fuzzy Peach Festival 2026 also included a Youth Talent Show and an Ice Cream Eating Contest, both of which were won by Chasyn Yates.<\/p>\n

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Chasyn Yates (Courtesy Photo)<\/p>\n

Taking the heavy weight champion belt in the annual Dessert by MommaCakes cupcake eating contest this year was Aaron \u201cVanilla Gorilla\u201d Smith.<\/p>\n

Friday evening\u2019s event saw a cornhole tournament sponsored by the FreeCo Go Texan group, an easter egg hunt, bingo, and live music presented by Darrin Morris.<\/p>\n

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On Saturday there was the Peach Stroll, crafts, face painting, water slides, foam fun, barrel train rides, and zoofari exotic petting zoo.<\/p>\n

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So much fun was had by all who attended the annual festival.<\/p>\n

We\u2019ll see you next year!<\/p>\n

(Photos by Natalia V. Marsters)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Crowned as Little Miss Peach 2026 on Saturday at the Fuzzy Peach Festival were Fernanda Rivas (3-6 yr…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":305428,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-305427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-queens","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-queens","tag-queens-headlines","tag-queens-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=305427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/305427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/305428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=305427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=305427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=305427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}