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CAPE GAZETTE, Friday, June 9 - June 15, 2000 - 27
CAPE LIFE
Curtain goes up on Miss Delaware Pageant June 9-10
Eighteen contestants
vie for state crown in
Rehoboth Beach
Tickets are now on sale for the
annual Miss Delaware Pageant,
set for Friday and Saturday, June
9-10, at the Rehoboth Beach
Convention Center. On Saturday,
June 10, a top 10 will be chosen to
compete for the title of Miss
Delaware.
The 2000 Miss Delaware
Pageant, Millennium Madness,
will feature Susan Powell, Miss
America 1981 as master of cere-
monies; returning Miss Delaware
1985 Michelle Harris Anderson
and the reigning Miss Delaware,
Kama Boland, as entertainers.
The show will include music by
pop star Ricky Martin, numbers
from the Broadway hit Smokey
Joe's Caf6 and selections from the
Millennium Celebration at Disney
World.
In addition, the University of
Delaware Dance Team will per-
form a preshow on Saturday
night.
Tickets for both Friday and
Saturday night may be purchased
in advance via the Miss Delaware
Web site at <www.miss-
delaware.org>.
Here's a look at the contestants
who will be vying for the title of
Miss Delaware 2000:
• Maria Teresa Martinez, of
Dover, is currently enrolled in the
masters of business administra-
tion program at Wilmington
College.
Her career ambition is to own a
business con-
sulting firm.
For the tal-
ent portion of
the competi-
tion, she will
perform a
comedic piano
piece.
• Romina
S h a 1 i z a MARTINEZ
Mohamed, of
Magnolia, is majoring in political
science/prelaw
at Wesley
College.
She hopes to
become a
lawyer.
In the
pageant, she
will perform a
vocal - musical
theater selec- MOHAMED
tion.
• Marisa Ann Erdman, of
Millsboro, is
majoring in
business
administra-
tion/marketing
at the
University of
Delaware.
She hopes to
pursue a
career as ERDMAN
either a corpo-
rate lawyer or in the acting arena.
She will offer a dramatic mono-
logue in the talent competition.
• Cheryl Lynn Crowe of Felton
is an education major at Wesley
College.
She hopes to attend graduate
school and wants to work with
special-needs
children. She
will play the
flute in the tal-
ent competi-
tion.
• Melissa
Ann Escaro, of
Seaford, is
working on
her masters CROWE
degree in clini-
cal social work at Widener
University.
She would
like to become
a therapist for
women and
adolescents.
For the tal-
ent competi-
tion, she will
offer a
B r o a d w a y ESCARO
vocal selec-
tion.
• Jaclyn Garton, of
Middletown, is
an elementary
education
major at
Wesley
College. She
wants to obtain
a master's
degree in spe-
cial education
and teach ele- GARTON
mentary
school. She will offer a musical
vocal selection in the talent com-
petition.
• Kelly Marie Kuhns, of
Newark, is currently working on
her masters of business education
Continued on page 28
Bob Bow¢ phot
Linda DiDominieis of Boston in First Street Station,
Rehoboth Beach, helps Miss Delaware 1999 Kama Boland
with her evening gown fitting in preparation for this year's
Miss Delaware Pageant, June 9-10, in Rehoboth Convention
Center.
IIIIIIIIII
Caulking material makes a great lip sealer
Remember when something
small, like a kitchen cabinet door
wouldn't close and your father,
without being asked, would head
out to the garage, pick out some
tools and fix it. I know it sounds
impossible.
But that's because today's man-
about-the-house will walk by that
kitchen cabinet door for the rest of
his natural born life, even if it has
a white flag flying from it in an
effort to surrender, and pretend it
doesn't exist. Of course, there are
several good reasons for this; the
main one being that the sports
playoff season lasts from January
through December. Guys are terri-
fied of missing even one playoff
game, because as everyone
knows, his whole body will disin-
tegrate into a soft, pliable disgust-
ing blob, which closely resembles
his wedding photograph.
The other good reason is that
AROUND TOWN
Nancy Katz
guys know there will be hell to
pay. From his last experience of
changing a light bulb 10 years
ago, he's learned that the minute
that he makes contact with any
kind of tool larger than a cuticle
scissors, there will be enormous
explosions and fires until the
whole house rises up and staggers
out into the street, eventually col-
lapsing, much like Godzilla.
When faced with this situation,
today's women have two choices.
They can either become a sex
slave to the f'wst repairman who
shows up, which is almost impos-
sible with hair rollers and a
stained corduroy bathrobe, or
enter the dark, deep, terrifying
world of the Parts Section of the
hardware store. There are so
many people who have never
made it out of this area that it used
to be a regular feature of the tele-
vision show "Where Are They
NowT'
A few weeks ago, I faced this
problem when I noticed a loose
tile in the bathroom that I'm sure
my husband has been keeping to
himself for the last five years.
Knowing that my chances of get-
ting a tile man to come out were
about as great as someone mistak-
ing me for Madonna, I went to a
large home center to find all the
tools to fix this.
The great thing about these
places:is that you .never have to
worry about what you buy,
because the likelihood of finding
your car when youcome out are
slim to none anyway.
M27 mission was to buy some-
thing called caulk and a caulking
gun, which remarkably doesn't
even require a 24-hour waiting
period. I perused the aisles, which
were filled with vats and vats of
things.
I could tell I was in the right
section because there were a lot of
guys covered in white dust, with
pieces of plaster hanging from
their hair. Since I had no idea what
this stuff looked like, it was a lit-
fie like picking someone out of a
police line-up after having drops
put in your eyes.
But with a little help from a
kindly store worker, who was
busy opening boxes labeled vats
of things, I was able to make my
purchases. Now the remarkable
thing about this is that the caulk-
ing material actually works, but
not necessarily on the file. It will
seal your hands to your face with-
in 10 seconds and your upper lip
to the bottom lip, creating a tiny
breathing hole, where you can
whistle the word "Help" when
you dial 911.
Obviously, we've reached some
sort of crises here in this country.
You can have your Million-Morn
March. And you can throw in your
Million Mothers against Gun
Violence March. I won't be there.
I'm still waiting for the Million
Small Repairs around the House
March.