Maleny Show Ball

Saturday night at the show ball

by Lea Parkes

For many, Saturday night was spent sitting in their lounge rooms waiting to find out the results of the federal election. However, at the Maleny Show pavilion it was all about finding out who would be the 2019 Show Personalities.

Bethany Lanham, Jaimee Sweeting, Kimberly Bland, Maleny Show Society president Ivan Hankinson, Chloe Lanham, Bernadette Hodgson, Sharn Phipps and coordinator Helen Gilmour-Walsh

The Junior Show Princess is the category for girls aged 15–17 years. Maleny Dairies’ Kimberley Bland was crowned the winner and Maleny IGA’s Bethany Lanham was the runner up.

Miss Show Girl was won by Chloe Lanham and the runner up was Sharn Phipps. This category is for women aged 18-28 years and, as locals would know, both work at Maleny IGA.

The most successful Charity Person was Jaimee Sweeting, whose very proud mum Anne Denman won the category a couple of decades ago.

This year’s Rural Ambassador was Bernadette Hodgson, who is passionate about sharing an understanding of farming with the rest of the community.

The Show Ball is traditionally the launch of the Maleny Show, which gets underway on Friday, May 31 and continues on Saturday, June 1.