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While Sandra Seifert first had her public debut in bikini and skimpy suits before claiming the prestigious beauty title, she will be judging a no-bikini pageant, fresh from her conquer of Miss Philippines-Earth 2009.
   Loay Mayor Rosemarie Lim-Imboy confirmed that Miss Philippines-Earth 2009 Sandra Seifert of Negros Occidental will be judging the Miss Loay 2009 pageant on June 4.
   Mayor Imboy has also reinvented the Miss Loay pageant into an event far grander than the past attempts, including the prize package which minimum afloats at above P9,999.
   Different from previous beauty pageants, Miss Loay 2009 will shun the bikini portion. This is to maintain the rapport between the local government unit and the church. Instead, Mayor Imboy prefers to have a portion where the candidates wear sporty attire. This is also a way of preserving the dignity of the candidates.
   The 19 officials candidates, who will vie for the Miss Loay title now designed in real contest format, have prepared three production numbers. They will be trimmed down to ten along the pageant. And, five will have to make it to the finals.
   There had been Miss Loay pageants in the past. But this time, it will be a real competition based on beauty and brain or total personality, according to Jorendel- -the main event coordinator.
   Fresh from a series of personality enhancement sessions, the candidates were presented to the media on Monday last week at the Loay Sangguniang Bayan session hall.
   After the press conference, Imboy had a personalized interaction with the candidates in her office where she urged them to value more the pre-pageant activities that offer a lot of learning experiences that enhance their personalities, as she gave them tips on staying cool and encouraged them to aim for the best.

disipolo sad diay ni si mayor imboy ni gov gwen garcia. dili ganahan naay swimsuit competition ang mga beauty pageant. hinuon kung indigay lang sa utok ang gusto nila, ok na walay bikini portion. diretso nalang sa question and answer or kung kwartahaya lang man. counting nalang dayon nya diretso koronahan ang kandidata nga daghan ug kwarta. di na jud kinahanglan ang bikini or swimsuit portion.

majority of the candidates shun the bikini portion. they consider it degrading and unnecessary.

Sort of Inner Beauty, Intellegence and Talent Contest. I like this para ma aghat ug apil ang mga talented pero conservative.

Displaying the female body to such beauty contest is exploitation with or without bikini.

Ngano bitaw kasagaran diha sa atua mga local beauty pageant naa jud nang bikini.Diri sa U.S naa man gyud mga event nga beauty contest in every town once a year like miss independence day or miss labor day or miss irish,naa pud every county(miss christian county,montgomery) ug states(miss illinois state fair) wala gyud ko  kakita nga naay bikini.Ila diri kay question and answer portion ug gown competion raman.Mas conservative pa man sa akong pamati ang U.S kay sa Pilipinas ngan ug pageant pageant.Gawas siguro ug Miss America ug Miss Teen U.S.A kay national naman na mao naa nang bikini portion.

I agree with you "Proud"!

Quote from: Raquelproud boholana on May 30, 2009, 11:32:34 PM
Ngano bitaw kasagaran diha sa atua mga local beauty pageant naa jud nang bikini.Diri sa U.S naa man gyud mga event nga beauty contest in every town once a year like miss independence day or miss labor day or miss irish,naa pud every county(miss christian county,montgomery) ug states(miss illinois state fair) wala gyud ko  kakita nga naay bikini.Ila diri kay question and answer portion ug gown competion raman.Mas conservative pa man sa akong pamati ang U.S kay sa Pilipinas ngan ug pageant pageant.Gawas siguro ug Miss America ug Miss Teen U.S.A kay national naman na mao naa nang bikini portion.

Basin atol sa Winter ang event Raq.

Di oi summer kaajo. Kasagaran mga activities diri kay summer man.Like the 4th of July perti maluto halos atong utok sa kainit lagi. Na shock gani ko nga way bikini ila Miss miss diri.

Maayo bitaw na nga purely talent ang contest para ma ila ug kinsay maayo.

Bisan pa ug wala mag bikini ang contestant, puede gihapon hubo-an sa taw nga wild ug imagination (didto lang sa iyang huna-huna).

Can you imagine a male contest wearing stuff like this? Come on, guys display your most treasured in a sexy apparel!

The title is misleading. I thought there's supposed to be a swimsuit coimpetition part but the contestants aren't wearing bikinis. 

in most part of the country, beauty pageants have bikini portions. some even hold bikini open and people embraced it as part of the changes in life. it so happen nga naay daghang tigpaka aron ingnon nga mga officials nga kuno sila conservative nya diay to lawom ug dut.