The representation of Knox County in the Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival served as shining stars of beauty and grace in the Princess Coronation held on Friday night of the festival each year. Bethany Bargo represented Knox Central High School and Danielle Brooke Green represented Lynn Camp High School.
Participation in the Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival Princess Event is about beauty, style and personality, but for us a community it is really about corporation with our neighbors and celebrating who we are as a people and individual communities. Our neighbors in every direction from Barbourville are important to us as a city and county. Our relationship and inner action together as a whole speaks volumes about our willingness to see others be successful in their individual efforts.
The Daniel Boone Festival is a highlight of Knox County, as the Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival shines a spot light on the City of Pineville. These two festivals are different in nature but similar in effort and design. The Daniel Boone Festival shows our history and expresses the heritage we as a people hold. The Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival has history as the oldest festival in Kentucky only second to the Kentucky Derby. People come and participate from all over the counties showing off their goods through tents and venues and of course what would any festival be without food and lots of it.
Being a representative of their individual schools, as Bethany and Danielle both did was just one of their duties. Their biggest task at hand was representing Knox County , each community and all of us as a people. It almost sounds like the job of an elected official, but the real work of any county is always accomplished by those who live, work, go to school and serve the interest of other before their self. One interesting fact I would love to learn from all those that participate each year in our festivals is the number of community hours they have volunteered or given to the benefit of others. I would suspect we would be surprised by the number of hours our young people are giving to others. Some of their efforts through church, others through high school clubs and yet others through their involvement with athletics or other extra hour activities like 4-H or First Priority.
Giving to the benefit of others is not always the first trait one sees in someone else. Certainly it is not a characteristic that jumps out of you as a child, but there are signs that if noticed early on and encouraged, will make a lasting impression as they develop in their teen and early adult years.
Our representatives to the K.M.L.F. are good examples of those types of characteristics and traits. You and I as adults are well suited to attempt to catch up in our efforts if we are behind in making a difference by giving our effort and energies. The best example I know of such service would be that see in the action and words of Jesus Christ. He wasn’t noticed in those developing years but given the right time, after solid training when His moment arrived He was able to step up to the plate, or cross, and follow through.
My encouragement having watched these ladies step out of their shells during the Kentucky Mountain Laurel Festival is for me to continue my journey of being a light that others will see shining for His glory. After all the scripture says for us to let our light shine so others will see your good works and glorify the Father.
Until then
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