Community Corner
Meet Miss Farmington Candidate Grace Newlin
Farmington-Farmington Hills Patch profiles candidates who will participate in the July 17 pageant.
The 2013 Miss Farmington pageant will be held on July 17 at theFarmington Civic Theater. Registration was open to all girls between the ages of 14 and 18 who live or attend school in the Farmington Public Schools district, and nine contestants applied. Farmington-Farmington Hills Patch introduces you to them in this series.
Grace Newlin
Grace Newlin will be a junior at Farmington High School, where she enjoys being involved with theater, straight plays and musicals. She also likes to exercise and sew, and Newlin is relying on her curly hair to help her stand out on stage.
“A lot of the other girls have really straight hair, and my hair is crazy and wild. I think it makes me special,” Newlin said.
Having competed in the Miss Farmington Pageant last year, Newlin has been to many community service events. Her favorite event was the daddy-daughter dance, she said.
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“The girls were just so cute dancing with their dads. They had corsages, and the dads were wearing boutonnieres. It was just a picture-taking moment,” said Newlin.
In preparation for the pageant, Newlin has been making daily trips to the library.
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Newlin said, “I have been researching everything about Farmington and Farmington Hills, about downtown and the people that used to live here.”
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