Miss America Scholarship Pageant ~ Judges Workshop

Today I became an official "certified" Judge for the Miss America Scholarship pageant. Many of us spent the day learning about what it is like to sit on the "other" side of the table, and it was truly eye opening as to how judging works for MAO. I am looking forward to judging some preliminary state pageants in 2009 and hoping to be able to pick that one "special woman" who just may become our next "Miss Connecticut"!

Nikki's Walk ,Run and Roll for Pediatric Cancer

Nikki's Mom and I, with a little "help" from "Build a Bear"! Read Nikki's story below!

After the remnants of Tropical storm Hannah, we all awoke to a truly beautiful sunny day!
Perfect day for the 6 annual "Nikki's run walk and roll" to support pediatric cancer, in Manchester.
I joined Miss Ct USA 2004,Shiela Waitr , Miss CT Earth, Tracy Harrison to help make this a truly memorable event.




Nikki Giampolo was a cross country runner at RHAM High School in Hebron, CT. In July of 2001, Nikki was diagnosed with osteosarcoma, a rare type of bone cancer that often affects young people.
Nikki's dream was to help other children with cancer by increasing awareness so that they would be diagnosed as early as possible. It was also her wish to give more children with cancer the hope of finding a cure by funding research programs. Nikki died just 6 months after her diagnosis, on New Year's Day 2002.

PLEASE! Support cancer research!