Word: lietz
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...many public-health advocates acknowledge that no message from doctors is as powerful as one from an appealing spokesperson who can compete with the gorgeously bronze Hilton and Simpson. Brittany Lietz, 21, may be a candidate. Slim, blond and incredibly frank, the nursing student was crowned Miss Maryland last month and will compete in the Miss America pageant in January, with skin-cancer awareness as her platform issue. She has already spoken dozens of times to kids about how she was a hard-core tanning-bed user--baking three or four times a week for 25 minutes a session--until...
...Lietz, along with dermatologists everywhere, is trying to steer teens away from tanning beds and the sun and get them to use sunless tanning lotions instead. The beauty queen tells high-schoolers how she tried some 30 different lotions before she found one that didn't look too orange or streaky. But it's a tough sell. Hendershot concedes that everyone "oohed" and "aahed" when one local girl got a fancy spray-on tan. "Personally, I wouldn't do it," she says. "I don't know why." And that's the inexplicable resistance that dermatologists are hoping will fade away...
Local Shriners read about Lietz and offered their help...
...Today, Lietz, only 12 years old, is well on his way to accomplishing his goal. He played a moving rendition of the theme to Titanic at the convention by moving the cello's bow with his left foot...
...fathers of both Lietz and Williams joined the Shriners after their children's experiences helped them learn about the organization...