|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
||||||||
|
Local |
||||||||
|
Spelling competition nets nearly $10,000 G.E. Massey team is top finisher By ANDIE LEATHERMAN, LTN Staff Writer March 27, 2002 - A Tuesday night spelling bee raised almost $10,000 for the Lincolnton/Lincoln County Chamber of Commerce and the county’s Public Education Foundation. Spellers from 34 corporate, school and civic teams competed. Enunciator Gaye Howard started easy with words like “unnerved.” As the night went on, the words got more difficult. Profits started rolling in with words like “post tension.” Capitalizing on team members’ competitive streaks, they were allowed to “buy back” misspelled words with a $25 contribution. “Verisimilitude” took the first team out of the running. Several kept buying back words, staying in until the last round. It was then that competition got tough. The buy back option was gone. “Braggadocio” did all but one team in — G.E. Massey Elementary School. Team members Lisa Jenkins, Sandra Helms, Gigi Holman and Christy Setzer pooled their brain power to win. The teachers admit there were no late study sessions. They say it wasn’t needed. “We didn’t (practice), we’re just teachers,” Jenkins said. The Education Foundation will use its half of the money to bring technology to the classroom. School Superintendent Jim Watson was excited about the money raised. “It speaks well for the community,” he said. “This is the type of community event that not only raises money but gives people a chance to come out and have fun and experience teamwork.”
|
||||||||
|
© 2001 Lincoln Times-News |
||||||||
|
||||||
|
