Circle City Miss Corona Scholarship Pageant Erlinda Armendariz failed to pay scholarships as advertised Internet

Okay. This is getting ridicules. Lets clarify some things here.   Nic-of Corona is Nicole Baldwin the Junior Teen Miss Corona on this law suite that was stripped of her scholarship. Oh yeah, she is also the proxy representative for 2008-2009 as well as the proxy representative for 2009-2010 Jr Teen Miss California United States. Proxy meaning she purchased the title to represent California in a pageant held in Las Vegas. I love the way she talks about her mother. Here let me quote her. I cant even go into what you have done to this Ellen person. Not to mention April, Amelia and Melissa. And many more, to many to list. Ill address these three ladies in a second. I actually think it was written by Ellen herself. It sounds like her. Just like she stated in her last E-mail to me. Pit Bull that will never give up. This sounds just like her. If it is Nicole writing this kind of stuff. I really fill sorry for her, she is following in her mothers footsteps. This is coming from a person who say they go to church and even quote the bible on face book. In my opinion people who hold grudges against others will just shrivel up and die, Ive learned to forgive people. It feels better. Why should I hate.

As for the person who lives in Temecula responding to this joke. I actually think its someone in this group of three trying to make me out as a bad person. I dont know anyone from Temecula. Funny that they list themselves as anonymous (in Temecucla) Why not be upfront with who you are. I guess you have something to hide. Why didnt you post this bad experience with me. You took the time to make a comment so why stop there.

So lets start with the three people Nic stated above. Amelias husband died, during the time that her daughter was queen. I couldnt make it to her husbands funeral, because it was the same day I had to have my son at his physical for Boot Camp USMC. I had to be their at 3am, drive back home and then out to LA to Amelias husbands funeral. In the next few weeks following the funeral I lost two very close friends.

My sisters x-husband. Your thinking hes her x-husband. Well for the amount of years they were married. Her step-kids still to this day consider her mom and us family and they come to our family function . He died of Cancer. The other was the son of a life long friend of my mothers. We grew up together. He was found murdered in a telephone booth in LA. With all this going on I still hadnt sent out the sympathy card for Amelia and her daughter. To my surprise I got a call from Amelia, Im still not sure what the call was for other than she started out upset because I didnt go to her husbands funeral nor did I send her card out. When I tried to explain why, she wanted to know why I didnt notify the Queens and their moms about the deaths in my family. They dont have a clue who these people are so why should I impose on them. She said she would have gone to their funeral. Why? Anyway she was very upset with me. As we continued talking I was well aware of marital problems with her and her husband and I made a comment which was probable not the right thing to say. But I did. I said that in time things will get easier for her and her daughter. With all the problems I have had with my x-husband over the last 7 years I would have preferred him to have died. Well that was it. I started getting e-mails from Amelia non stop. Telling me how rude I was. I has contacted by April as well regarding Amelia. Aprils daughter was the sweetheart queen. Telling me that she can not believe how inconsiderate I was to Amelia, who had just lost her husband. That I have to learn how to talk to grieving people. I guess my loosing two close friends, didnt count as me being a grieving person also. Not to mention that my son had just left to the Marine Corps. I had to remind April, that Amelias husband did not live in their home. He was staying in an apartment, or I should say hotel. I tried apologizing to Amelia, but she would not accept it. Then at an event that one of my queens attended where she was receiving an award for saving a young boys life. They should up to support their sister queens wearing titles from a different pageant. Sending me a e-mail stating that they will never show up to a Corona event wearing the Circle City Miss Corona crowns again. I then sent them an E-mail stating that I was accepting their e-mail as their official resignation. In Melissas case, she actually had two daughters who were queens. I did not strip their titles but informed their mother along with several other queens that they needed to make more appearances or they would be jeopardizing their scholarship. Each of her daughters made an appearance at 1 event each. Day of the Child and the 4^th of July parade. I know because I keep track of appearances. We host a Queens meeting once a month and they are advised as to where and when appearances are to be made. I believe Melissa showed up to two of these meetings. E-mails are sent out letting the queens and their parents know of upcoming events as well. I also spoke with Melissa about a month before the queens were to give up their title inviting her to bring her daughters to crown the new queens and she could not make it. That she totally understood the reason her daughters were not receiving their scholarships. Because these little girls, are under the age of 10 I did not strip their titles. Allowing them to keep their crowns. According to our rules they are to return all prizes and awards given. Have not received one thing.

Know lets get back to nics response. She states that now where does it say in Natalies response that I made any type of arrangements to pay anyone. Let me quote Natalies response The last time the girls have ever heard from you with any offer of resolution was December 27, 2009. In this e-mail I sent out I agreed to pay them each $50 a month until I got my Income tax back. My personal income tax, at that time paying them in full. Did I receive a yes I will agree from any of them NO! I did get a response from three of the other queens saying that they agreed. Actually some made other arrangements. I did received an e-mail from I believe it was either Natalie or her mom stating that it was not acceptable and that there are ways to ruin a business by word of mouth. Something along that line. I would have to go back and re-read the e-mail. I also listed a breakdown on this e-mail as to how much each of the queens were entitled to. Nicole was listed as Zero. Since then e-mails have been sent to everyone in town and outside of town. I guess Ellen is determine to win. I have been contacted by people who as far away as Yucaipa, the High desert, Rancho, Moreno Valley, just to name a few, have received e-mails from Ellen. Most of these people are asking me what is going on. I just tell them that Ellen is on a mission to win. I stripped her daughter of her scholarship and to quote her last e-mail she said she is a Pit Bull when it comes to her daughter and she will win. Most of these people have had run ins with Ellen as well as her daughter Nicole. Some to the point that the police have had to be called in. I have statements from these people to justify the removal of her scholarship. Nic also makes a comment about where are the returned checks. Why would I send checks out if they are not in agreement with the proposal. You also make a comment about a demand letter. I dont know what demand letter you are talking about. The only item I received was paperwork that I was served with at a public event attended by several public officials. You could have had me served at my home address but instead you choose to do this in front of a big crowd. Were you trying to cause a scene. I think you made a bigger scene by walking out before the meeting we were at was over.

If anyone has had a cell phone where the screen goes out, you know what I am talking about. Occasionally the cell phone screen works. My phone does not mark unidentified calls, when the screen works to return a call.

Funny how this is listed as they are being ripped off. That I refuse to contact them or pay them. Yet know they are making mistakes stating that they did hear from me. That I did contact them. Nic is trying to make it sound like Natalie is talking about something different. I have the copies of the e-mails to show the court. Sending e-mails out to everyone quoting or saying the wrong thing is called slander. Writing a letter to the newspaper so that they would write up a story using a photo with 13 people in it was a little miss leading. Try going on line and reading my comments on the article. I was contacted by the news media to respond. Funny she miss quoted things several times. I then sent a e-mail to her and the editor. Funny I got a response back from her, she was not to happy. Remember papers write only what sells papers. I also posted a photo of three of the 4 girls in this lawsuit. This is the photo that should have been sent or should have been posted in the paper. I left out the 4^th queen only because she is under 10 years old. Oh! I did get an e-mail from her mom, asking me if her daughter was still going to receive her scholarship because she attended 50% more events than the other little queens. However none of the others involved in this law suit have contacted me. I have though been contacted by several city officials saying that they received an anonymous blue envelope in the mail with a copy of this article in it. Why not place a return address on the envelope. What! You dont want people to find out who is slandering me and the pageant. Wow!

It is true that the 2009 Circle City Miss Corona Queens have not received the scholarship money owed to them. I believe in speaking the truth about what is going on. I hope you will read on to hear the truth.

The 2008-2009 Circle City Miss Corona Queens were the first queens crowned by our pageant. These queens did not compete for their title they were appointed by me. After several months as queens 2 of the younger queens withdrew from the pageant before there reign was up, therefore forfeiting their scholarships. I did allow them to keep their crowns and sashes. However in the contract their parents signed I had every right to request everything back. This would be the Sweetheart and Toddler Queens.

Each of our contestants are asked to sign a contract as well as a list of rules and regulations pertaining to the pageant. In order to receive your scholarship you as a queen must attend at least 75% of the events listed for you to attend if you are a Pre-teen through Miss Queen. If you are a Baby through Junior Queen, you must attend at least 50% of the scheduled items. The 2008-2009 Baby and Little Miss Queens were contacted and explained that if they did not attend events related to the pageants contract they would not be receiving their scholarship at the end of their reign. These two queens are sisters. When I spoke to their mother she said that she understood and would be satisfied with just the sash and crown. These 4 queens did not attend the pageant for 2009-2010. If I go back and check appearances, with the exception of two queens not one has made it to 75% of the events scheduled.

This left me with 7 queens. The Junior Queen, choose to run in our 2009-2010 and applied her winnings to the entry fee for this years pageant. This left 6 queens that still needed to receive their scholarship. Because this was our first year putting on the pageant we did not anticipate several unexpected expenses. Like paying the school district $800 for a janitor and needing to pay for a 1 million dollar insurance policy to put on the pageant this last year. These were expenses that were given to me 3 days before the pageant. There were several other unexpected fees that needed to be paid by our pageant.

Each of these queens received a written notification as to the reason why they had not received their scholarship and were promised that they would be paid in due time. For two of the queens there is no problem and they will wait to be paid. One of the queens demanding payment was striped of her scholarship due to her and her mothers problem with moral issues. This is also another rule on our contract and rules and regulations that are signed by each contestant. If they are a minor it is signed by their parent. This Queen

(Pre-teen Queen) due to her talking bad of people, caused a contestant to withdraw from the pageant as well as several other harmful comments regarding other queens. Her mother sent letters to everyone regarding an incident her daughter had with my daughter regarding her talking on her cell phone and talking while other people are trying to train the contestants. Her mother insulted my daughter demanding an apology to her daughter in front of all the contestants. I agreed but said that my daughter would only apologize for the tone of voice she used, not the reason. This was not good enough. She threatened that if her daughter did not receive a proper apology that she (the mother) would cause a scene which would involve having the police brought into the mater. At this point she was told to not come back. Because of this she has instigated the other queens to demand their scholarship paid to them immediately. I have explained that at this time I can not pay all of them their scholarship money but will be paying them as the money comes into the company. We will be hosting our fundraiser in a couple months and I will have no problem paying them. I also informed them that as soon as I got my taxes back I would pay them as well. I have tried to make some type of payment arrangements with them but they have files a small claims case against the pageant anyway. The paperwork from the court, states that I as the defendant should try to make some type of payment arrangements with them. But they do not want to work something out. So I am left no other alternative but to show up in court to have the court make arrangements with them.

I hope this has cleared the matter up with all who look at this rip-off report. I am not trying to rip off these queens I am trying to work with them to get them paid as quickly as possible.

I am a member of the Corona Chamber of Commerce and the reason I do not have a Corona business license is because the main location for my business is in Redlands.