WJBD and WSIQ continues its series introducing you to the eight candidates seeking to be Marion County Fair Queen 2026.<\/p>\n
Candidate number three is Lorilee Rose of Kinmundy who is a South Central High School student. She became interested in the contest after seeing how her younger sister Jane Taylor Rose had grown and enjoyed being the Marion County Junior Miss.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love all of the girls, and I gained a lot of confidence already since the first time I stepped out here. I\u2019ve made so many friends.\u201d<\/p>\n
Rose plans to go to Murray State University in Kentucky to become a physical education teacher and study school administration.<\/p>\n
Candidate number four is Kallie Walsh of Salem. She is a graduate of Mt. Vernon High School and later moved back to Salem. She is currently studying nursing with a minor in business at SIU-E.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo I\u2019ve grown up around many fair queens. I have always loved the fair. I\u2019ve been to the fair every single year, all week long, and I just love being able to represent our community.\u201d<\/p>\n
Walsh says the boot camp program for the contestants was a blast. She also liked participating in the fundraising chicken dinner at the Salem Elks and learning the dance that will be part of the pageant.<\/p>\n
The Marion County Queen Pageant is Monday night at the fairgrounds. It begins at seven.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WJBD and WSIQ continues its series introducing you to the eight candidates seeking to be Marion County Fair…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309392,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[9,24,63,122,124,123],"class_list":["post-309391","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\/309391","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=309391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}