48th Haweater Weekend offers family fun for everyone - Manitoulin Expositor
“The baseball tournament was also really busy and they were really awesome playing through the rain on Sunday,” continued Mr. Burnett. “We had another fantastic Miss Manitoulin pageant for the third year in a row featuring six great contestants. Miss Manitoulin 2015 Brittany Manitowabi was a welcome presence throughout the weekend and even sang O Canada at our opening ceremonies. For the first time in over 20 years the Haweater parade was cancelled, which Mr. Burnett said was a huge disappointment, “but thankfully the weather cleared in time for the fireworks and we had a great turn out,” he added. Haweater Weekend 2015 kicked off with the Miss Manitoulin pageant at the Manitoulin Hotel and Conference Centre on Thursday night. Six ladies from across Manitoulin competed for the title including Brittany Manitowabi, April Torkopoulos, Sarah Bayer, Delaney Madore, Megan Misner and Kieran Harper-Hogge. The girls went through a multi-tiered process to determine who would be crowned the next Miss Manitoulin, including one-on-one interviews prior to the pageant with the judges, a fashion show featuring Island fashions, an evening gown competition,... In the end, 19-year-old Brittany Manitowabi from Wikwemikong was crowned Miss Manitoulin 2015. The opening. Source: www.manitoulin.ca
