Stickers: Two young women had sticker mania during Homecomers week.
Orient: Homecomers visitors could feel as though they had stepped out of the Midwest, right into Asia.
Local contestant: Ashley Booker was the only Jackson High School student competing for 2000 Miss Homecomers honors. A strong field of seven candidates revived the queen pageant, which had to be dropped last year due to lack of interest.
Lonely moment: Homecomers queen candidate Kara Kyle of Oran anxiously awaited the beginning of the queen pageant Aug. 26, from the contestants' room in the Cape County Courthouse.
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