Miss Maine USA makes rounds, including Harbor Hill

Source: http://waldo.villagesoup.com/community/story.cfm?storyID=69510

By Staff

BELFAST (March 18): Miss Maine USA Katee Stearns visited Wednesday with residents at Harbor Hill during her two-day tour through Waldo County.

Stearns, a University of Maine student, is raising money to help with the costs of a gown and a state gift that are required of contestants. The pageant will be televised April 21 on NBC.

Miss Maine USA Katee Stearns and Rosie Richardson at Harbor Hill. (Photo by Terri Mahoney)

Stearns was interviewed on WERU on Wednesday, and paid a visit to Searsport District Middle School to meet student Derrik Kenney, who has been diagnosed with Ewing's sarcoma, a form of bone cancer.

Tim Murphy of Murphy's Coffee House on lower Main Street, one of Stearns' business sponsors, hosted the aspiring model and dancer. When she toured downtown Belfast, Stearns carried flowers from Holmes' Greenhouse and rode in a town car from Rockland Ford.

Ernie Chase, a resident of Harbor Hill in Belfast, chats with Miss Maine USA Katee Stearns. (Photo by Terri Mahoney)

Thursday, Stearns' scheduled stops included nursing homes and schools, along with Ducktrap River Fish Farm, where her mother works, as well as the Lookout Pub on the waterfront.

Stearns was named Miss Maine USA at a pageant in South Portland last November. She was Maine's Junior Miss in 2004. She had also won three national dance championships by the time she was 14.

She studies kinesiology and dance at UMaine, where she is a peer tutor along with her academic work.

The Miss USA Pageant features contestants from all 50 states and can lead to an appearance in the Miss Universe competition.

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