LOGAN – Isabella Corona is United International Elite (UIE) International Queen in the princess division and is working on two service projects to help her community.
Before Isabella was Miss UIE, she first did a pageant in Logan called Cache Crowns. One of the directors at Cache Crowns gave Isabella and her mother information about “the service project, and being able to put your title to use and do it through service,” said Melissa Corona.
Melissa is the mother and a spokesperson for her daughter, Isabella Corona.
She was UIE Miss Utah Princess of 2024-25 and that took her to Atlanta, Georgia to compete for the international title. She is now UIE International Queen in the princess division of 2025-26.
During the summer, Isabella sold cotton candy at three events: Black and White Days, Health Days in Smithfield and the Lewiston Fourth of July. She used the money she raised and bought school supplies for teachers.
“She bought things like paper towels, Kleenex, hand sanitizer, things for the teachers that they normally have to pay for out of their pocket. So she tried to buy things so they wouldn’t have to bare that burden,” said Melissa Corona.
Isabella’s next service project was to raise money for school lunch debt, but the school said there was a bigger problem than the debt. “There was a bigger need for kids that go home hungry on the weekends,” Melissa explained.
Isabella and her mother Melissa got to work and started working on what type of meals kids can take home and cook themselves.
“We made a bunch of weekend meal kits for easy meals for little kids, like mac and cheese and cup of noodles and pop tarts, things like that.”
Isabella and her mother will drop off the prepared meals at schools that are in greater need of the help.
“We’re doing that one the first Friday of every month. We’re doing 50 meal kits every Friday, the first Friday of every month.”
Isabella does one service project that is internationally. She does this project yearly, going to Mexico every six months. She receives donations of clothes and shoes that kids may need.
“We take clothes to people there that wouldn’t normally have clothes or shoes, like my husband went to school with no shoes his whole life,” Melissa said. “So it’s important. We always take 20 pairs of shoes, and then my daughter just hands them out to people that need them.”
Donations of food or clothing can be dropped off at 265 West 1400 North and let the front desk know they are dropping these items off to be donated.