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 rid...