(From Left to Right)
1st Attendant Sarah Scott
Queen Andrea Turner
2nd Attendant Rebekah Neal

By MATTHEW FORTE
HERALD STAFF WRITER

Friends showed their support of Andrea Turner with purple — the color of royalty in Roman times — T-shirts, which read “Dream with your heart.” Her dream came true.

Turner, a Circleville junior, was crowned Queen Wednesday night of the 2007 Circleville Pumpkin Show. Her First Attendant is Sarah Scott, a Teays Valley junior and Rebekah Neal, Circleville’s senior representative, was named Second Attendant.

Turner is the daughter of Mark and Angela Turner. Scott is the daughter of Mitch and Capi and Rebekah is the daughter of James Neal and Tambra Nunley.

Turner said the main idea of about festival she wants to convey to others is the community tradition, “where everyone can get together and have fun,” she said.

“I want to thank my family, everyone at church, everyone at school, my savior, Jesus Christ, and everyone who puts on the Pumpkin Show and makes it happen.”

Once on the stage, six of the 12 queen candidates are asked one question by a judge. Neal was asked about the positive aspects of growing up in a small town. She loved growing up in Circleville and being familiar with the Pumpkin Show traditions, she said.

Scott was given the following situation — you are driving a new car with room for one passenger and stop at a bus station where there is the man of your dreams, a man who will give you $25,000 and a sickly woman. What do you do?

Scott would take the woman to a hospital to get help, she said.

MISS PUMPKIN SHOW Andrea Turner

1ST ATTENDANT Sarah Scott

2ND ATTENDANT Rebekah Neal

Scott would take the woman to a hospital to get help, she said.

Turner was asked what one thing she would change about herself.

Her selfish nature, so she would be able to love other people more, she said.

Sponsors of the prize packages are Images Unique Photography, Sharff’s, Block’s Shoes, Christopher’s Don Boutique, Maggie and Me, Porter’s Auto Detailing and Dry Cleaning, Classic Cutters, Rhonda’s Hair Gallery, Chamber of Commerce, Market on Main, Christy’s Pizza, Movie House, Savings Bank, Forget Me Knot and Circleville Herald.

2007 Miss Pumpkin Show Judging