Sunday, January 21, 2007

Miss Maryland departing for Miss America pageant

by Barbara W. Carson

Miss Maryland 2006 Brittany Lietz, 21, was recently honored with a send-off celebration Jan.7 at the Elks Club in Hagerstown. About 135 family, friends, pageant officials and other supporters gathered as Miss Maryland left to compete for the crown of Miss America.

Lietz is a cancer survivor having been diagnosed with stage two melanoma in 2005. She has worked to bring awareness to the prevention, detection, treatment and research of this disease.

Guest speaker was Robert Nicolay from the Joanna M. Nicolay Melanoma Foundation. He spoke of Lietz's support of the foundation.

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