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Show P.iKeA8 Thursday. anujr SO. IHb P.i-k Rword I 11! Mrs. Utah7 goes for 'Mrs. America' title Cm Serving Breakfast Lunch & Dinner Daily 7 a.m. to 1 0 p.m. You can be in and out in a flash! Free Delivery 5 p.m. to 1 0 p.m. daily Buy any sandwich and get a Free Large Drink Located at the Resort Center, Park City Ski Area by KL'RT KIDMAN Record staff riter Krestine Perkins believes she is on a mission from God. So far. she has conquered L'tah now she's alter America. The incredibly energetic 36-year-old from Heber City was named Mrs. L'tah 19S6 earlier this month, after a grueling five-hour final session ses-sion at the Capitol Theatre in Salt Lake City. She will compete for the Mrs. America title in Las Vegas on April 10. 'I've always wanted to go on a mission for my church and this is the way I can do it. I am on a mission from God. and if He wants me to win. I will." Perkins won the L'tah title by beating 49 other contestants and all the odds. At 36. she was older than almost all of the other contestants. She ad- '-' 1 I i h J A? Krestine Perkins is in the running for Mrs. America to be held April 10. HP America's New Cuisine T ' 5 featuring Unique Preparation of Prime Rib Duck Pork Loin Pastas Shrimp Pizza Leg of Lamb and more Car 19 Restaurant Serving from 6 p.m. to 10 p.m. daily Reservations recommended 43S 49- M.iin St. 9338 Rc.ir Km ranee Parking in Swede All JJ Off the Slopes and Cold? We can install a spa in that spare room. Paul de Groot Contracting General Builders since 1976 Builders of the Blue Church Lodge 268 Main Street 649-7581 Serving Park City and SLC mits she wasn't the prett.es .ladj the contest. She w as divorced before her marriage to John six years ago; And four years ago. she was nearly 50 pounds overweight. I guess I really broke all the molds "said Perkins. "When I said I was go.ng to run for Mrs. Utah people peo-ple said I didn't have a chance because mv hair was too short. I was too old and a lot of other reasons. I wasn't like the past queens-young tall, dark and out of the fairy-princess fairy-princess mold." . The impossible dream all started about six vears ago when, after twp vears of Irving to cope as a single parent. Krestine met John and they married, creating a sort of ' Brady Bunch." , ... Krestine and her three children moved in with John and his three children. "It was a tremendously difficult situation at the beginning because John's kids weren't sure they wanted a new mother," Perkins explained ex-plained "I gained about 50 pounds trying to bring the two families together. But after we were all sealed seal-ed together in the (Mormon) temple, the tension eased." It was then time for Perkins, who at one time had owned a franchise for The Diet Center, to lose some weight. Regular exercise and a balanced diet helped her shed the ballast in about a year. "I had to lose the weight because I was setting a bad example for everybody I had helped when I was a diet counselor," she said. She has done so well in shedding her weight that in March, The Diet Center is going to use her in its national na-tional advertising campaign. "Before" and "after" photographs of Perkins will grace quite a few national na-tional magazines. So, how did a self-proclaimed backpacking girl' get interested in becoming Mrs. Utah? "I took my daughter, Jenny, to a modeling agency and they happened to say that they needed some mother models," Perkins said. "While I was there getting photographed, I met Ellen Scheiss, the assistant director of the Mrs. Utah pageant, and she asked me if I had ever thought about competing." The mission had begun. To prepare for the pageant, Perkins took lessons from Mrs. Utah 1985, Tricia Quai. 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Post Office Box 1760 1700 Park Ave. (Behind Jans) Park City, Utah 84060 Reservations: 649-9739 walking, talking and she ; s! visualizing herself as the neu-T Utah. ihe even went as far a- ; rowing the crown and banner having her picture taken so a: could actually see herself in the "It may sound crazy, but it worked for me," she said. ea' The pageant consisted of bath -;iit and eveninp pmin n' 0 ., .uiiip(( ii and the women were judged on -" owv, uicy answer question put to them by the jU(K "I have been told 1 won becaC my inner beauty and mv srI rn Mils aaiu. i m t0nServ1tivo 1 pageant. Even my evening J was conservative." At the finals in tho u. , Tot coiibervauve cuy ot Las,V- rciivuio aaja one won I Stray (rj her conservative ideals. ' 1 "I think I have a great chance Las Vegas because I've already 49 beautiful women. All I have to is beat 49 more," she explain "The quality of women in Utah is high that I feel I have already beat the best. Perkins believes becoming America would break even m molds and open a lot of doors women. She can hardly contain enthusiasm when she talks of the portunities of speaking to differ groups such as single parents those who need to lose weight. Far from believing that contest l J . 1.. . . inis son are uegrauing to womf Perkins believes that most of tb ladies who make that sort of els actually wish they could win pageant. "I think they are afraid of the unknown," she said "I am also going to create a with The Diet Center at their m offices in Rexburg, Idaho," shea exuding confidence. "I want to the publicity director for their 2, franchises in America. Now I've won Mrs. Utah, I think I have chance of convincing them of hint me." And what of her chances of becont ing Mrs. America? Well, the other Mrs.'s could be in a bit of trouble Perkins has already started 1 visualize it by acting as though si has already won. It worked once. Who knows whe-the whe-the mission might end? Continued from . . . cei nf pe si tii th Si to MIDWAY 654-1102 Shuttle from A1 and was among the 14 semifinalisL- "I realized there was danger it volved, but at the same time, 1 dft think about the possibility of 11 making it," she said. Preston found out about it-tragedy it-tragedy when principal Jack Dozr came to her science class and It!: her the shuttle had exploded. "I said, 'Jack, you're kidding.' '"I'm not kidding,' he said. '"Please, tell me you're kidding, she pleaded. But it was true. And, to Preston, was ironic. "One of the whole ideas of putti:. a teacher in space was to make it whole thing real," to bring the real ty of space travel closer to homes'' said. "What an awful way to have:' become real or personal," she: "I never dreamed it would be I this." The UPI story quoted Garnassa; ind that the rn-nilnL "Mike" Stf was "my mother hen . . . he watch my first launch." I "All the other people I knew. ar-, particularly Mike, learned to love is very difficult for me persons.;, when you lose so many friends au( once," he said in a trembling voice j "I don't know anytime that 1 been so shocked and so moved sir my first wife was killed in a carat -dent," he said, blinking back tears : Garn, a Park City resident. II-into II-into space aboard the Challenge A sister ship, Discovery, April 1-y 1985. "I would go again," he said He said that when he flew m shuttle, the danger was known, not mentioned. . "You just always assumed"! everything would go right,' ne "You always assumed, like do, that if it happened, it would" pen to somebody else." 1 , Featuring tin W W-I rmfl d oonjour ae tram, frozen yogurt, served in HOT waffles, crepes, homemade cones or cups. With fruit or candy toppings. Creamy, Smooth & Satisfying .yet less than 30 calories per ounce Adjacent to the skating rink at the Resort Center 649-1733 |
