Eight Middlesex girls seek little miss spat title
The 2024 Urbanna Oyster Festival queen and little miss spat contestants are busy working on their community service projects this summer. Each queen contestant must volunteer a minimum of 25 hours benefiting Middlesex County.
The 67th Urbanna Oyster Festival is set for Friday and Saturday, Nov. 1 and 2.
Keep a lookout for more information in the Southside Sentinel and on social media about the contestants’ individual projects and ways to support them. A story on each queen’s community service project will be featured in the Sentinel.
The 2024 Urbanna Oyster Festival queen crowning ceremony is set for 4 p.m. Friday, Nov. 1, at the Middlesex Volunteer Fire Department station (the Urbanna firehouse).
For information, call the Urbanna Oyster Festival office at 804-758-2122 or Christy Hogge at 804-832-0036.This year there are seven queen contestants, each of whom has at least one little miss spat contestant. (A spat is a baby oyster.)
As the Oyster Festival has evolved over the years, so has the selection of the queen and little miss spat. What was once a beauty pageant is now a scholarship-based competition for the queens. The queen contestants must be high school seniors and residents of Middlesex County. Each queen contestant mentors a first grade contestant as her little miss spat.
The queen and little miss spat competition starts in the spring and extends until the crowning at the Oyster Festival on Nov. 1.
You may follow the links below to read introductory articles written by the queen contestants.
The 2024 queen contestants and their little miss spat contestants include, in alphabetical order:Â
- Hailey Bruce and Leah Fuccella.
- Anna Crown and spats Holden Sweeden and Charlee O’Bryan.
- Elena Fomin and Josie Anton.
- Zikirah Morris and Felicity Acevedo.
- Kayleigh Moye and Rosie Robertson.
- Karli Parker and Monroe Hudnall.
- Cheyenne Sears and Scarlett Ebinger.
