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RICHARD WI THE DESERT SUN
Amber Amaya (center) is crowned Queen Scheherazade,
Brandy Briones is crowned Princess Dunyazade and Ambry
Alday (right) is crowned Princess Jasmine during the 2010
Queen Scheherazade Scholarship Pageant on Saturday, in Indio
FAIR LADIES
Queen Scheherazade and her court
crowned for county fair and date festival
BY ALDRICH I t TAN
The Desert Sun
The title of Queen Schehera-
zade has returned to Indio,
Amber Amaya, 17, of Indio,
was crowned Queen
Scheherazade 2010 Saturday in
a ceremony at the Fullenwider
Auditorium on the Riverside
County fairgrounds.
She will also receive a $3,500
scholarship.
"It feels so good," the Indio
High School senior said. "I
wanted to bring the title back to
Indio and bea good example of
what we have here."
Cathedral City High School
senior Ambry Alday, 17, of
Palm Springs, was crowned
Princess Jasmine 2010.
BrandyBriones, 17, ofNorco,
was crowned Princess Dun-
yazade 2010.
They will each receive a
$3,000 scholarship.
The Queen Scheherazade
Scholarship Pageant is the first
main event for the upcoming
the Riverside County Fair and
National Date Festival 2010
scheduled for Feb. 12-21.
The winners were an-
nounced after 11 contestants
talked about their goals in busi-
ness attire, answered personal
questions in formal gowns and
questions about the festival in
Arabian costumes.
If you go
What The Riverside County
Fair and National Date Festival
2010
When: Feb.12-21
Where: Riverside County
Fairgrounds in Indio
Information: www.datefest.org
scholarship competition by the
October deadline. They were_
narrowed down to 11 girls
ranging from ages 17 to 21 after
a first round of interviews, said
Veronica Helgeland, assistant
fair marketing manager.
"Each of these girls is ex-
tremely qualified for this ti-
tle," Helgeland said of the fi-
nalists.
Amber, Brandy, and Ambry
will start promoting the county
fair throughout the year. It
starts with an appearance at the
Indio International Tamale
Festival parade in earlyDecem-
bet
It was a very exciting expe-
rience, but it is also a lot of work,
said Queen Scheherazade 2009
Madi DiPietm, who is now a
freshman at the University of
California, Los Angeles.
'There are times that the long
11-hour days are tiring," Di-
Pietro,18, of Hemet, said. "But
if you put your all into it, you are
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