Janet Green spent most of her career working on cartoons for studios such as Disney and Warner Bros.
So it was only natural that, after a bout with cancer that forced Green into an early retirement, she continued to work in entertainment.
One of her post-retirement projects became the annual “Antique Road Review” musical variety show at the Luepke Senior Center. Green, who splits her time between Los Angeles and Vancouver, helped launch the show seven years ago and has remained involved ever since.
Green, 78, created the sets, costumes and music for the show’s latest iteration, which was performed three times earlier this month.
She also performed a few numbers, but her passion is in the show’s planning stages. “Even when I’m entertaining on my own numbers, the fun is getting the costume together and getting the story for the song that I’m going to do,” she said.
Getting to exercise her creative muscles makes the show worthwhile for Green. “My mind never stops, and it needs to be creative,” she said. “I’m very bored and very unhappy when I’m not creating something. I don’t care if it’s a cake or a show or whatever, but I have to be doing something that’s fun and enthusiastic.”
Two Clark County women to compete for pageant titles
Tatum Schroeder has always been an athlete, but she harbored an interest in fashion and modeling. So when she was getting her hair done and her hairstylist, Miss Vancouver USA 2010 Courtney Peebles, suggested she apply for the equivalent teenage pageant, Schroeder decided to go for it.
Now both women will be competing Oct. 9 and 10 in Burien for the 2011 state titles. If they win, they’ll go on to vie for the titles of Miss USA and Miss Teen USA. Miss USA will then compete in the Miss Universe pageant.
“I’m pretty excited but nervous at the same time,” said Peebles, a 19-year-old Camas High School graduate and Vancouver resident. “I can’t wait.”
“It would be so awesome” to win Miss Washington Teen USA, said Schroeder, 16, a junior at Camas High School who’s doing the Running Start program at Clark College.
If they win, Schroeder and Peebles would be featured on the second season of the online reality show “The B Girls” as they and other contestants from around the country prepare for the national pageant.
Both women are competing for a most photogenic award in their respective divisions at the state level. The Miss and Teen winners of this contest, determined by online votes, will each receive a fashion photo shoot. To vote, go to http://www.misswashingtonusa.com and select “Contestants.” Voting closes at midnight on Oct. 8.
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