No Miss Davenport this year

DAVENPORT — Like the town 13 miles to the east, there will be no Junior Miss representing the city this year. The Celebrate Davenport committee recently announced that there weren’t any applicants for Miss Davenport and the program won’t have a representative this year.

Celebrate Davenport spokeswoman Torri Mielke said the committee opened the program to all 16-18-year-old girls in Davenport last year. The current Miss Davenport, Rikkiana Chavelas, was last year’s lone applicant.

City Councilman Lance Strite, Chavelas’s uncle, said at the May 8 City Council meeting that Chavelas will again ride the float at Pioneer Days in July.

Davenport isn’t the only area city to not have a Junior Miss representative this year. There’s no Miss Reardan-Edwall 2024 after no girls there applied.

And just one girl, Samantha Crawford, applied to be Miss Harrington.

“As a committee, we will be making changes to the current float that will include shortening and simplifying the float,” Mielke said. “We hope to see more interest in our program moving into the future. For now, we will continue to fund raise and promote our program”.