Benhumea to reign over 2019 Maple Leaf

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The 2019 Maple Leaf Royalty: Taylor Jones, Queen Samantha Benhumea, and Emily Egger.

Samantha Benhumea was crowned Maple Leaf Queen for 2019 at the big pageant Sunday night at the Carthage R-9 Auditorium.

The 2018 Maple Leaf Queen, Amber Kennebeck, crowns her successor for 2019, Maple Leaf Queen Samantha Benhumea, after the annual Queen Pageant on Sunday, Oct. 13, at the Carthage R-9 Auditorium. John Hacker

She will be joined by the Royalty, Emily Egger and Taylor Jones, as they preside over the variety of events that make up Maple Leaf week and represent Carthage on area television and radio programs.

Benhumea is the daughter of Carmen Topete and wants to be a general pediatrician upon completing college.

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Benhumea won the talent and on-stage question portions of Sunday’s pageant.

The talent she showed was cake decorating, showing a time-lapse video of her decorating a cake while serving that cake to the judges during the program.

Other winners at the pageant were Eggers, who won the interview competition, which was held earlier Sunday, and Elizabeth Smith, who won the on-stage modeling competition.

These three will be joined by the 2019 Maple Leaf Princess Kennedy Baptista, Prince Israel Saba, Little Miss Charli Darling LeMasters and Little Mister, Manuel Alexander Prieto, who were all crowned during a pageant earlier Sunday afternoon.

They will all ride a float in the Maple Leaf Parade on Saturday, Oct. 19.

The seven candidates for 2019 Maple Leaf Queen line up on stage immediately prior to the crowning of the three members of the royalty. Pictured are (from left) Emily Egger, Elizabeth Smith, Emily Dawn Shellenbarger, Katherine Macy, Taylor Jones, Aubrie Fewin, and Samantha Benhumea. John Hacker
The crowning of the 2019 Maple Leaf Royalty continued on Sunday. The afternoon pageants crowned (front) the Maple Leaf Little Miss Charli Darling LeMasters, the Little Mister Manuel Alexander Prieto, (back) the Maple Leaf Princess Kennedy Baptista and Maple Leaf Prince, Israel Saba. John Hacker
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