Word: griego
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JonBenet was a veteran of dozens of contests, a confident and adorable pixie who kept scrapbooks documenting her pageant appearances. Those who saw her perform say she was a force to be reckoned with. "She was such a natural," says LaDonna Griego, director of the Colorado program for the All Star Kids organization, based in Dallas. "But she was untouched by it. When JonBenet won, she was just as giddy as the first time, and she was just as happy, it seemed, to be an alternate. At the Christmas pageant, she sat there and just said to herself, 'Please call...
Parents and pageant organizers also claim that competing dramatically enhances a young child's self-confidence. "I started with my daughter, who was beautiful but shy," says Griego. "She became much more outgoing. But the real difference was in my son, who was very shy and never walked with his head up. Now he's a totally different person. Very confident...
...they promised. Of 1,100 structures that were destroyed or damaged during the riots, about half were rebuilt with the help of loans, insurance money or the owner's own funds. Of the remaining half, about 250 are still vacant lots. "He's not atypical," says Linda Griego, a former L.A. deputy mayor who is now president of RLA, a redevelopment organization formed just weeks after the riots. "There were others like him who every time they took two steps forward went back...