It s a safe bet that anybody who watched the Miss Arkansas Pageant June 10 remembers Cori Keller. During the onstage conversation among the five finalists, Keller, competing with the Miss Metro preliminary title, spoke tearfully of her father and how he was watching from cardiac ICU in Little Rock.
A new Miss Northwest and Miss Northwest's Outstanding Teen will be chosen on Sunday, Aug. 14, following a competition set to begin at 2 p.m. on the stage of Detroit Lakes Middle School's George Simson Auditorium.
Watching Arkansas Miss America preliminary pageant which started with an arrival celebration June 11 in Little Rock one name kept popping up. Ebony Mitchell, competing as Miss Dogwood, won the preliminary evening gown competition, the preliminary on-stage interview competition and the preliminary talent competition with her tap dance to "Respect."