San Diego is My Home

11
Mar

Spelling Bee

Author: HelenKay, Category: Events & Happenings, News

In these days of scandals (thank you to the governor of NY), political wrangling (thank you Democrats) and lies (thank you to the authors who claimed to write memoirs but were really writing bad fiction), it’s good to know that some things are positive and wholesome.  I’m talking about the San Diego County Spelling Bee.  Seventy-one contestants met in Mission Valley yesterday to wow us all with their spelling abilities.  And so they did. 

Justin Song, an eighth-grader at Carmel Valley Middle School, won for the second year in a row.  The winning word was phylliform.  I had to look it up.  It means having the shape of a leaf…but you knew that, I’m sure.

Song now goes on to the Scripps National Spelling Bee.  Congrats to Song.