Literacy in Kamloops' spelling bee on Monday morning at the Delta Hotel downtown (Image Credit: CFJC Today)

By Chad Klassen

SPELLING BEE

Literacy in Kamloops’ spelling bee raises more than $16,000 for programs

May 17, 2022 | 3:08 PM

KAMLOOPS — A spelling champion was ‘anointed’ on Monday morning at the Delta Hotel downtown in an event that helped raise more than $16,000 for Literacy in Kamloops.

Anoint — with just one ‘n’ — was one of the words at the 11th annual Spelling Bee.

Unlike last year when there was a 50-person limit, the conference room was filled with seventeen teams participating and trying to spell some of the toughest words out there. Monday’s event is LinK’s first big fundraiser of the year.

“Raise A Reader’s in September, so this is the start of it now. We’re starting to fundraise for Raise A Reader, which we get a percentage of matching funding from the province, and that’s pretty much what keeps our programs going through the year,” said LinK’s outreach coordinator Fiona Clare.

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The event raised $16,125 for literacy initiatives in the city, and the competition was fierce, seeing three teams tie for first place forcing a tiebreaker.

“There was a lot of friendly competition and we actually went to a three-way tie at the end with Sun Peaks Rotary, the bookclub and TRU Spellcats. They had both been champions in the past,” said Clare. “We had to go to a word scramble and the bookclub, they actually just saw the word and knew it right away. It was ‘imagination,’ and so they are our winners.”