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Miss New Jersey to Visit Ocean City for Portrait Unveiling Monday

The portrait will be unveiled at the Ocean City Free Public Library.

Visitors to the Ocean City Free Public Library might think they’re seeing double on Friday.

Two Miss New Jerseys?

Not quite. One is the real one, the other will be a portrait to be put on display.

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Miss New Jersey Cierra Kaler-Jones will visit the library for the unveiling of her portrait, donated to the Miss New Jersey Education Foundation by David Holtzman and the Holtzman Gallery, Monday morning, 11 a.m.

Holtzman Gallery is located at 5301 Atlantic Avenue, Ventnor.

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Kaler-Jones, of Galloway, was crowned Miss New Jersey on the Ocean City Boardwalk earlier this year.

The Miss New Jersey Pageant has been held at the Music Pier in Ocean City since 1996.

Herportrait will be on display at the Ocean City Historical Museum located in the Ocean City Community Center next to the Library.

The shoes she wore in the “Show Us Your Shoes” Miss America Parade, her local pageant crown and the dress she wore in the Miss New Jersey Pageant will also be on display.

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