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February 25, 2014 LEE/OGLE REGIONAL SPELLING BEE
Forsythia fortuitous for Forreston teen Hippopotamus tramples Polo student in Round 28 BY KATHLEEN A. SCHULTZ
DIXON – Ogle County eighthgraders were like two brainiac bookends up on the stage, politely battling it out for the title of queen bee. Brunette and bespectacled Lena, bold and confident on one side of the stage. Tall, blond Anna, reserved and intense, on the other. It was Round 22, and 24 other spellers from grades three through eight had been eliminated. It was down to the two slim 14-year-olds. Heifer, Lena spelled. Wainscot, Anna lobbed back.
Guillotine. Troika. Taupe. Glasnost. Beleaguer. Perennial. Banzai. Eiderdown. Neither gave an inch. The audience waited in the darkened auditorium, silent and still. Then the inevitable. Hippopotamus. H-i-p-p-o-t-a-mu-s. Immediately, Lena knew her mistake. Anna’s turn. She spelled forsythia, to finish round 28, then camphor, to take Round 29. With that, and a sweet, subdued smile, Anna Snider, the Forreston Junior High School spelling champ, became the winner of the
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2014 Lee/Ogle Regional Spelling Bee, held Thursday in the Dixon High School auditorium. She won an all-expenses-paid trip for two to National Harbor, Md., just south of Washington, D.C., to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee at the end of May. She will take her mom, Stephanie; father Matt will hold down the fort at home. Anna also won a $100 U.S. savings bond, a Webster’s Third New International Dictionary, and an online subscription to Encyclopedia Britannica. FORSYTHIA CONTINUED ON 3
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Anna Snider, 14, a Forreston Junior High School eighth-grader, reacts to winning the Lee/Ogle Regional Spelling Bee on Thursday morning at Dixon High School. She wins an all-expenses-paid trip for two to National Harbor, Md., just south of Washington, D.C., to compete in the Scripps National Spelling Bee at the end of May. For a list of students who participated go to A2.
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