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By. Robert Galster

& News Reporter
robert@ninews.com

fal GABRIELA Petivoky’s
eu pageant career has come

4 full circle. The latest

installment of her beau-

tiful run is probably
a also the last.

_ A week ago, Petivoky, 20, was
unceremoniously stripped of her
Miss. Canadian Intemational title
after taking a job at Surrey’s Hooters

tam Restaurant,
, =" She won the pageant competi-

A tion in March.

Tee “She was disqualified for failing
B vo follow the rules and regulations of
her contract which she signed after
ashe was warned,” said Dolly Scott,

Soa director of the pageant.

The rules and regulations state
thar contestants, including winners,
cannot usc the pageant's name with:
Out receiving written permission

fbcforchand.

Petivoky recently appeared in a
television news item on the Hooters
aa restaurant and was identified as the
Miss Canadian International winner.

@ < Petivoky says she didn’t break the
rules. For starters, she told) the

pageant organizers of her intention
ito work for the popular restaurant chain.
In addition, she used her mother’s maiden name on her Hooters
Mapplication to further distance the pageant from her job application.
> “1 understand if [ ever did use the name (of the pageant) Md cail

her,” said Petivoky.

— Hooters manager Hank Hampton is standing by his employee
land said the restaurant's lawyers are jooking into taking legal action

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aato restore Petivoky "s crown.
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“We're just taking u stand on this io help Gabis
“She's always been on time, she’s a great waitress and she’s grea

” said Hampton.
with

customers — she fits the Hooters image toa tee.”
But Scott paints a different picture of ber former top girl. She says

Petivoky is a capricious opportu:

st who purposely killed her chances

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and West Vancouver since 1969

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NEWS photo Paul McGrath

GABRIELLA Petivoky’s decision to work at Hooters Restaurant fulfilis a longtime desire, but
she didn't figure on losing her Miss Canadian International crown in ihe process.

in the pageant world.

“She's loving the publicity, she’s dlutely leaving it. She's just
having a ball with it,” said Scout. “She figures the rules and regula-
tions don’t apply to her. Even if fF sent her our, they wouidn’r accept
her at the international level now.”

Indeed, if pageant organi tend to avuid controversy like the
plague, few would touch Petivoky with a ten-foot pole. Media atte
tion surrounding the stripping of her crown has reached internation-
al proportions with American tabloid shows such as Extra and Inside
Edition clamoring along side the BBC, CBC and various newspapers
tor her time.

“My throats st

ng to hare from att this talking,” she said.

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Teen’s body
recovered —
in Caulfeild

By Catherine Bare and
Anna Marie D'Angelo

THE badly decomposed body
of a 17-year-old Ladysmith
resident was found in Lower
Caulfeild on Sunday.

Zachariah

Faulkner said Steudle was last seen on Aug.
30. Steudie did not come home from work that
day. He was reported missing two weeks later.

“There is nothing suspicious from our
end,” said Faulkner about Steudle’s disappeaz-
ance.

Steudle, who has family in Calgary and
Thunderbay, was entered tn the police comput-
eras being missing by Ladysmith RCMP last
week.

West Vancouver Police Sgt. Jim Almas said
the police did not have an estimated time of
death. Almas said on Tuesday it was too carly
to say if foul play was suspected or to give a
preliminary cause of death.

An autopsy is slated for this afternoon.

On Sunday, West Vancouver firefighters
risked dangerous terrain at night to recover the
body.

The decomposed body was discovered at
the bortam of Nelson Creek Bridge. The area
is popular among locals, whe walk, hike and
bike along a trail leading off Cranley Drive and
Blucbell Drive.

Witnesses say that three men in their carly
20s were scen leading police to the site late
Sunday afternvon,

A recovery team worked for more chaa ae
hour in the darkness using ropes and safety
equipment to reach the body. Assistant tire
chief Steve Sentes was on hand te lead a team
of five firefighters and osu police officers.

He said the bodv was located in a rugged,
heavily forested area and the team had to exer-
cise extreme caution. Three staff members
from the coroner’s department were atso on
hand.

Officials at the ne speculated as to
whether the unidentified person fell trom the
Upper Levels highway located above.

One firefighter from the recovery team con-
firmed that, based on his experience, the body
had been in the location for at least five da’

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