The Emery School District hosted their annual district spelling bee on Feb. 9 at the Emery High Little Theatre. Ralph Worthen from the district office conducted the spelling bee with Diane Carter the pronouncer and Kerry Larsen was a judge for the event.
The spellers started with spelling their names in the practice round. The first round began with words like, trek, waltz, diary, croon, tornado, daily, monsoon, loiter, muskrat, mammoth, womanly, learned, Netherlander, aspen, dreary, ballerina, Capricorn, fiend, nostril, caboose and dearth.
The second round brought sultan, diorama, falsetto, geothermal, crescent, llama, gradient, mathematics, harmonica, stoic, furlong and hypothesis.
In the third round Tyler Stilson spelled ambulance and Grace Bernard spelled contraband, Becca Miller spelled threshold.
In round four Stilson spelled hurricane, Bernard spelled protein and Miller spelled fathom.
In the fifth round Stilson missed the word adios and Bernard missed the word algebra. Miller spelled the word sumo correctly. She then had to spell one more word correctly to be the champion. She then spelled carnivore correctly to win the bee.
This left Bernard and Stilson tied for second and third. So they had a tie breaker round. Stilson spelled the word giraffe correctly and Bernard missed the word anchovy. Stilson then had to spell an additional word correct and he missed the word crochet. This put both he and Bernard back into another round. Bernard missed the word alamo and Stilson spelled hosta correctly. He then had to spell an additional word, conjecture, which he spelled correctly to take second place.
Becca Miller from Canyon View Junior High was the winner of the spelling bee. Tyler Stilson was second place and Grace Bernard was third place.
Contestants included: Book Cliff Elementary; Jarrett Guerrer-fourth grade; Jordynne Gingerich-fifth grade Mikella Morris-sixth grade; from Ferron Elementary-fourth grade Grace Bernard-fifth grade-Carson Childs-sixth grade Maddex Behling; Castle Dale Elementary-fourth grade-Serinity LeRoy-fifth grade-Amy Sorensen; sixth grade Adriane Bernard; from Cottonwood Elementary- fourth grade-Ayden Rowley, fifth grade-Mason Bell, sixth grade Ashanti Adams; from Huntington Elementary-Jaqsyn Rudd-fourth grade, Libby Faimalo-fifth grade, sixth grade-Madilyn Simmons. Cleveland Elementary spellers were: fourth grade Kinlee Payne, fifth grade-Carley Young, and sixth grade Justin Curtis. From San Rafael-seventh grade-Tyler Stilson and from Canyon View Junior High Becca Miller-seventh grade and Katie Christensen.
The top three winners will represent the Emery district at the regional meet in March this meet will be held at Grand County High School.
Emery District hosts spelling bee
"Tyler Stilson, second place, Becca Miller, first place, Grace Bernard, third place."