Southeastern Career Center, East Central Students Named Farmers Fair Queen, King

For Paige Gindling, becoming the Aurora Farmers Fair Queen is all in the family.

Brice Keeton and Paige Gindling are awarded scholarship checks from Ivy Tech Community College after they won the 2018 Aurora Farmers Fair Queen & King Contest. Photo via Aurora Farmers Fair.

(Aurora, Ind.) - You can’t have a proper fair without crowning a queen and king.

The tiara and crown were awarded on opening night Wednesday of the 2018 Aurora Farmers Fair. Twenty young men and women from 10 area high schools were competing to become royalty.

East Central High School’s Paige Gindling was named the queen. She is the student body president at ECHS, and plans to pursue a career in nursing or speech pathology. Her mother was chosen as the Farmers Fair Queen in 1991.

King honors went to Brice Keeton of the Southeastern Career Center. Brice is class president at the SECC in Versailles, where he is studying criminal justice. He has enlisted in the U.S. Army.

Gindling and Keeton each received a $1,000 scholarship from Ivy Tech Community College.

Queen runner-up went to Cheyenne Royce of the Southeastern Career Center. Corben Slack of South Dearborn High School was named the king runner-up.

Read more about the 2018 Aurora Farmers Fair here, or visit www.AuroraFarmersFair.org.

2018 Aurora Farmers Fair Queen and King Candidates

East Central - Paige Gindling & Austin Bruns

Jac-Cen-Del - Bailey Hon & Nathan Laswell

Lawrenceburg - Haide Clawson & Baylin Heidorn

Milan - Margo Taylor & Orrin Schmidt

Oldenburg Academy - Haze Kidd & Gabe Haverkos

Rising Sun - Sydney Bostic & Colby Ritter

South Dearborn - Lila Socks & Corben Slack

South Ripley - Jillian Scott & Jacob Brunner

Southeastern Career Center - Cheyenne Royce & Brice Keeton

Switzerland County - Alexandria Edwards & Garrett Demaree