Jennifer Diacono, the winner of this year’s Miss Malta of Michigan, US, visited Malta to meet a number of relatives. She was accompanied by her parents, sister and grandmother.
For all of them, except for her grandmother, who was born in Sliema and who last visited Malta some years ago, this was their first visit to the country.
The Miss Malta of Michigan pageant is one of the functions organised by the Maltese American Community Club of Dearborn, Michigan. The main sponsors of these events are Bank of Valletta and Printwell, which is owned by the president of the club, Paul Borg.
The club organises other traditional Maltese functions such as the feasts of St Paul, St George, Santa Marija, St George Preca, a Maltese picnic, Christmas Eve Mass and a New Year’s Eve dinner dance.
There were nine contestants in this year’s pageant, which is held annually.
Ms Diacono will be graduating from university as a teacher later this year.