By TIM ENGLE
The Kansas City Star
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She’s no longer crowned in Atlantic City, and her pageant can now be seen only on cable. But there’s still no beauty queen quite like Miss America.
The reigning Miss America, Jennifer Berry, arrives in Kansas City today and will be at the zoo Tuesday to hand out free ice cream. Tuesday is also her 23rd birthday, the first one she’ll spend away from her family in Tulsa, Okla. Happily, her best friend, dance instructor Meredith Smith, lives here.
As we chatted with Berry the other day (she was headed from New York to, yes, Atlantic City, for a dance tournament appearance), we realized there are …
10 reasons it’s good to be this Miss America
1. Her platform is ice cream. OK, not really. But she is national spokesperson for Blue Bell Ice Cream, a gig that came about after she mentioned on Tony Danza’s show that Blue Bell is what she misses most about home. (“You can’t find it everywhere,” she explains.) Favorite flavor: mint chocolate chip. And if you’re wondering how someone in Miss America’s shape can eat ice cream, she’ll tell you: “Moderation.”
Her actual platform is speaking out against drunken driving and underage drinking. When she was 15, a 16-year-old friend died in an accident that involved alcohol.
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