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Thirty-three students from across the region will meet this Saturday in The Chronicle-Journal Regional Spelling Bee. Competition starts at 1:30 p.m. at the Community Auditorium and is hosted by Chronicle-Journal publisher Colin Bruce. Students in grades 4 to 8 will face off to see who has the best spelling skills. The winner will receive a trophy, laptop computer and a $5,000 scholarship, and will advance to the Canwest Canspell National Spelling Bee in Ottawa, March 24-29. The Egg Farmers of Canada provided the scholarship and the laptop computer comes from The Chronicle-Journal. Last year, Bishop Gallagher‘s Emilio Lachaine-Robertson, who was 13 at the time, took the title by spelling palindromic, which describes a word or phrase that reads the same backwards or forwards. Sir Winston Churchill elementary school Grade 8 student Logan Turner is in the competition for his third and final time, having reached the age limit. Turner won the inaugural bee in 2008 by spelling parfait while representing Agnew H. Johnston public school. More than 4,400 students took part in school-level spelling bees. Lakehead University is again partnering with The Chronicle-Journal for the regional bee by providing education students and three professors as judges. They‘ll be joined by nationally recognized pronouncer Dave Jenkinson from the University of Manitoba. The Canwest Canspell program is presented by Canada Post. Top of Page |
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September 2, 2010, 8:49 am |