Memory box honors Miss America 2009 Katie Stam

A memory box created for Miss America 2009 Katie Stam is on display at Artistic Impressions in downtown Seymour.

The box, created by Jan Sipes of Seymour, includes mementos of Stam's crowning as Miss America 2009.

Several area businesses, including Artistic Impressions, Quality Business Products, Jubilee, Petals From the Heart, The Engraver and Graessle-Mercer, donated items for the memory box, as did Stam's grandmother, Joyce Hackman.

Accompanying the memory box are several autograph books in which people can write a message to Stam.

The memory box will be on display at the Jackson County Fair and at the Seymour Oktoberfest. The memory box and autograph books will be presented to Stam later.

For information about the memory box, call Jan Sipes at 522-9446 or Kevin Greene of Artistic Impressions at 524-7701.

Over the July Fourth weekend, Stam participated in parades and festivities in Southern California to mark the nation's 233rd birthday.

She served as grand marshal of the Huntington Beach Centennial Parade and Celebration, where she was to ride on a float through the 2.1-mile parade route. She then participated in the Pacific Palisades annual Fourth of July parade.