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This is a

year of firsts for Northgate High School and last month,

the school had its first Miss Northgate Scholarship

Pageant.

Margaret

Skrmetti won the title, which featured 18 contestants.

During the

evening, the contestants were judged on appearance, poise

and presentation, on-stage personality and overall

appearance.

The young

ladies first appeared in jeans and tee-shirts to

introduce themselves to the judges and then returned in

evening gowns to tell the judges something interesting

about themselves.

Semifinalists

selected included Jessica Ivey, junior; Jennifer DeBono,

freshman; Morgan Barfield, senior; Kara McLaurin,

sophomore; Bridgette Carton, senior; Chayna Bate,

sophomore, and Margaret Skrmetti, freshman.

In the

second round, the contestants were questioned about the

autobiographies they had provided and the judges selected

Carton, Bate and Skrmetti as finalists.

Before the

announcement of Miss Northgate, category winners were

named. The winners were:

Freshman princess - DeBono.

Sophomore princess - Bate.

Junior princess - Ivey.

Senior princess and Miss

Photogenic - Carton.

Carton also

placed second runner-up, while Bate was first runner-up.