Byline: John Castellucci

Oct. 9--PAWTUCKET -- Less than a month before she's to represent Rhode Island in the Miss American Sweetheart beauty pageant in Orlando, Fla., 8-year-old Imani Vazquez and her family are facing eviction from their apartment on Quality Hill.

Imani, who won the Miss New England Sweetheart title at a regional pageant in Framingham, Mass., is handling the situation with the aplomb of a beauty queen.

Sitting in the kitchen of her family's apartment at 106 Spring St., she tells a reporter she's not only going to Disney World in Orlando the week of Thanksgiving, when the pageant is scheduled, she's traveling there by airplane.

"I'm going to ...