Who Is The Next Beautiful Baby?
Who Is The Next Beautiful Baby?
Candidates are now being sought for the 2011 Beautiful Baby Contest.
This is not a live pageant, but a competition where the public is invited to vote for their favorite baby picture from a collection of submitted photos.
Photos are presented on an oversize easel, with a piggybank slot above each photo. The public votes by placing dollar bills into the slot of their favorite contestant. The baby who raises the most money wins.
Votes are $1 each and multiple votes are encouraged. Checks can also be submitted, made out to Homes For Our Troops. All of the money raised through the Beautiful Baby Contest is donated to Homes For Our Troops, a 501(c)(3) organization that builds free custom homes for severely wounded members of the Armed Forces.
The contest is being run by Lois Barber of Sandy Hook, and is being sponsored by the Northern Fairfield County Blue Star Mothers. The Blue Star Mothers is the national organization of moms who have sons or daughters currently serving our countryâs Armed Forces. Homes For Our Troops has been their national charity for the past two years running.
The contest will kick off on Friday, June 10, at the Sandy Hook Volunteer Fire & Rescue LobsterFest, running at the companyâs main station Friday and Saturday, June 10 and 11.
After LobsterFest the Beautiful Baby Contest easel will travel to Stop & Shop Supermarket in Sand Hill Plaza, 228 Main Street in Newtown, until Monday, June 27.
To enter their children, parents should send a nonreturnable 4-by-4-inch photo with the babyâs name and contact phone number written on the back, and a $10 entry fee check made payable to Homes For Our Troops.
Children can be up to 4 years of age, and they do not need to be Newtown residents.
Mercedes-Benz of Danbury will be providing a new convertible limousine for the winning baby and family to ride in Newtownâs Labor Day Parade on September 5, as the 2011 Beautiful Baby Winner. The winning baby will also receive a prize basket and his or her photo will be printed in The Newtown Bee.
Mail photo and checks to Beautiful Baby Contest, 33 Zoar Road, Sandy Hook CT 06482.
The deadline for photos is Tuesday, June 7, or the first 30 babies entered. The first baby entered into the competition will also have his or her photo printed in The Bee.