Airway Chooses Royalty In/Around: Airway Heights

Thu., Feb. 26, 1998

By Mike Prager mikeprager15@gmail.com (509) 459-5454

Candace Hultberg grew up in a drag-racing family and has a dream of someday getting behind the wheel of a funny car.

For now, she’ll have to settle for the swirl surrounding her selection as Miss Airway Heights.

Hultberg, 16, is the daughter of Glen and Rebecca Hultberg. She lives in northeast Spokane near Hays Park and is a junior at Rogers High School.

She works at Yoke’s Pac ‘N Save in Airway Heights as a courtesy clerk, making her eligible to be Miss Airway Heights.

Hultberg was chosen from 10 contestants last Saturday during a pageant in Airway Heights.

The runner-up was Andrea Schumacher, 17, a junior at Medical Lake High School. She will reign as princess during the coming year.

The pair will appear in the Lilac Parade and more than a dozen other community festivals, including the Airway Heights Blast Fest over the Fourth of July holiday.

This is the third year Airway Heights boosters have hosted a community festival and selected royalty.

Hultberg said she’s spent a lot of time in Airway Heights over the years because her father runs a car at Spokane Raceway Park each summer.

“I love the sights and smells out there,” she said, explaining that one day she’d like to drive a dragster just for the excitement.

Hultberg is saving money from her job so she can pay for a 1984 Camaro Z-28 that her parents have purchased for her.

She isn’t passive about her interest in cars. She is one of two girls taking an auto mechanics class this winter.

Her long-range plans include college, probably at Gonzaga University. She said she wants to be a prosecuting attorney some day.

“I just want to succeed in life,” she said.

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MEMO: This story also ran under headline: Junior from Rogers High named Miss Airway Heights, in the North Side Voice, page N3, in the column Cross-town Neighbors: News from the West Plains.

This story also ran under headline: Junior from Rogers High named Miss Airway Heights, in the North Side Voice, page N3, in the column Cross-town Neighbors: News from the West Plains.

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