From Press Reports

Jennifer Ellen Cooper, Choctaw County's Junior Miss, will be traveling to Meridian July 20 to compete in the state program for the title of Mississippi's Junior Miss.

Jennifer is the daughter of Tom and Jean Cooper of Ackerman. She will be a senior at Ackerman High School where she is involved in numerous activities from academic to extra-curricular.

Preliminaries for the state program will be July 24-25.

Jennifer will compete in Fitness and Self-Expression one evening and talent the other evening. Finals for the top ten selected in the program will be held July 26. It is at the end of this evening's competition that Mississippi's Junior Miss will be announced.

If you would like to purchase tickets for the preliminaries and final night, you may contact Glenda Thomas at 693-5353.

Jennifer can also receive best wishes in the form of cards, letters, e-mail, and flowers to her in care of:

Mississippi's Junior Miss Program Choctaw County's Junior Miss-Jennifer Cooper at 2400 8th Street Meridian, MS 39302. Her email address for the week will be:jennifercooper@msjrmiss.com

There will be a "Trunk Show" for Jennifer at the Ackerman Methodist Church on July 17 at 6 p.m. She will be performing her talent piece and modeling her attire that she will be taking to Meridian.

The Choctaw County Junior Miss Program is sponsored by the Twentieth Century Club, who hopes that everyone will support Jennifer by writing letters, e-mails, and attending the trunk show.