By Benjamin Xornam Glover
AFTER weeks of preliminary competition at the municipal and district levels to select representatives to compete in the Miss UE @ 50 beauty pageant, all is now set for the grand finale tonight, November 4 at the Bolgatanga Catering Rest House.
Eighteen ladies, two from each of the nine municipal and districts in the region, are currently being camped and groomed in Bolgatanga ahead of the event. The pageant forms part of activities marking the creation of the region in 1960.
The ladies vying for the coveted crown are Paulina Pandorh and Bernice Kumassey (Bolgatanga Municipality), Persis Atubiga and Lamisi Jemima Ayiigah (Bawku Municipality), Gifty Abianica and Shiela Anaam Amoatale (Builsa District), Helen Mmalebna Bosana and Prudence Weken (Talensi-Nabdam district) and Alberta Azumah Ayinzemi and Portia Adongo (Bongo District).
The rest are Fulera Musah and Patricia (Kassena-Nankana East District), Regina Azuwaria and Mercy Akwolaga (Kassena-Nankana West District), Edith Atila and Angela Samari (Bawku West District) and Marie Mohamadu and Mabel Sundong (Garu-Tempane District).
Artistes expected to perform at the function include Iwan, D-flex and Sherifa Gunu. Prize packages for the event were yet to be announced at the time of going to press.
Miss Upper East @ 50 is supported by PZ Cussons, Antrak Air, Soul Train Nite Club, Look Good Beauty Salon and Havilak Beauty Salon. Other sponsors are Auntie B Beauty Salon, Sera Lodge Hotel, La Paix Guest House and Power Lodge.
Meanwhile, some local music artistes are unhappy that they had been ovelooked and not given any roles to play in the organisation of the pageant.
Some of them said if the objectives of organising the Golden Jubilee celebration included highlighting the achievements of the region and exposing its potentials to the outside world, the event organisers should have offered them the chance to exhibit their talents instead of spending so much money to bring down artistes from other parts of the country.
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