Miss Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Organization 460 Dry Valley Road                   Phone 717 248 5576 Lewistown, PA 17044                   Fax 717 248 2013 February 24, 2002                      Press Release Miss Central Pennsylvania Pageant to Make Changes in “Artistic Expression” Portion of Pageant Competition   The Miss Central Pennsylvania Scholarship Pageant announced today that changes will be made to the information provided to contestants beginning for the 2003 Miss Central Pennsylvania Pageant. Pageant organizers believe that two of the presentations in “Artistic Expression,” in the 2002 pageant held on Saturday at the Lewistown Area High School were in poor taste. As a result, future contestants will be told in initial mailings that all presentations in “Artistic Expression” must be in good taste. Contestants will also be told that if there is any question about their presentation they should contact pageant organizers before submitting their application. Additionally, contestants will be told that if, when performing at the “Artistic Expression” rehearsal, the pageant organizers consider their talent to be in poor taste, that the talent will have to be changed or they will be dropped from the pageant. It is hoped that the result of these changes will be a show in which everyone in the audience, as well as pageant organizers, will feel comfortable. In the meantime the Miss Central Pennsylvania Pageant wishes to apologize to anyone in the audience who was made uncomfortable or who was offended by the presentations this year.