Article: PEOPLE; Brainerd woman wins Mrs. Minnesota crown.(NEWS)

Kathy Thompson of Brainerd won the 2001 Mrs. Minnesota Pageant on Saturday night at the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul.

Thompson, 38 and a mother of two, is the 25th winner of the pageant. She faced 21 contestants in a preliminary round Friday and during the final competition Saturday.

Thompson's daughter Tara, a teen pageant competitor, had talked her mother into entering her first pageant competition.

"She said, `If I can do it, you can too.' She's definitely my little inspiration," Thompson said.

Contestants compete on poise, personality, physical appearance and the ability to relate to the married women of Minnesota, said Faith ...

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