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February 19, 2021
When Paige Huntington of the East Texas town of Jefferson and a graduate student at the University of Texas Health Science Center in Tyler, was crowned National Watermelon Queen at the National Watermelon Convention in February 2020 after a year as Texas Watermelon Queen, it was with the expectation that she would, like her predecessors, spend the year making personal appearances across the country promoting watermelons.
Paige Huntington
Then COVID-19 intervened.
“Over the past year, we have had to adapt our roles in the industry to meet the social requirements of today’s society due to the global pandemic,” said Huntington. “We have had to become solution-based thinkers and come up with different ways to promote our favorite fruit since we aren’t able to do things such as in store promotions and marathons.”