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Show Hatch Girl Wins Big In Statewide Contest HATCH Cassie Marie Makin-son Makin-son returned from the Salt Lake City Hilton where she participated June 21-22 in the Miss Utah America Amer-ica Pre-Teen Pageant exhilarated and excited about the two days of the most fun she's ever had. The 8-year-old third grader at Panguitch Elementary said she really re-ally didn't expect to win anything, and was particularly pleased when she returned home after being named a fourth semi-finalist for the title and carrying a big trophy for her first place win as Miss Personality Person-ality and a smaller trophy for her near-win as a photo finalist and the owner of "the prettiest smile." Mom Mary Makinson said that Cassie's photo by local photographer photogra-pher Dale Bagnell was admired as one of the most outstanding photographic photo-graphic portraits at the event Youngsters must be recommended recom-mended for the contest by a teacher or someone similar, and the Makin-sons Makin-sons say they don't know for certain who recommended Cassie. She competed in speech, photogenic photo-genic competition, talent (she sang God Bless the U.S.A.), in personal interviews and in "evening gown" where contestants wore prom-type dresses. Cassie's aunt made her special dress for the competition. The 21 girls from all over Utah were also issued matching outfits for performing in group entertainment entertain-ment song and dance routines.. "It was a wonderful opportunity for Cassie," said Mary Makinson. "Even though it was scary for her at times, it has increased her self-con- Cassie Makinson fidence and made her less shy. She loved it. See Hatch Girl Page 3A Hatch Girl Wins From Page 1 "We couldn't have done it without with-out the wonderful people in Hatch," she said. Townsfolk held a fund raising dinner at which Merrill Burrows Bur-rows entertained and came up with some $300 to help with costs of Cassie's competition. She also named Warner Ranch, Johnson Excavation, Ex-cavation, Grandma Grunts and fam-' fam-' ily members out-of-state as significant signifi-cant contributors. Dad Mark Makinson is foreman at Warner Ranch. Cassie has a brother and a sister at home. |