PORT ANGELES — “Ability” won the annual All-City Spelling Bee for fourth-fifth-and sixth-grade students last week.
Maria Roldan, a fifth-grade student in Gail Kite’s Roosevelt Elementary class, correctly spelled the final word, “ability,” in the contest among 28 students in Port Angeles public and private schools.
Two students from Jefferson Elementary won second and third places.
Sixth-grader Lexie Peabody won second place, and fifth-grader Tru Wiggins took third.
Peabody’s teacher is Leah Bauman; Wiggins’ teacher is Theresa Schmid.
The three top spellers received a Soroptimist-Jet Set “bee” trophy and a gift bag from the a gift bag from the North Olympic Library System, which oversees public libraries in Clallam County.
Port Book and News provided books and gift certificates. All participants received certificates of commendation.
Participating students were from Port Angeles School District schools, as well as Queen of Angels and Olympic Christian schools.
They had been chosen as finalists in their class and school bees and had advanced to the citywide bee in the Port Angeles City Hall council chambers on Wednesday.
Bee finalists and their schools were:
■ Dry Creek: Nate Adamire, Leah Haworth, Cheyenne Johnson-Stimbert, Rwehabura Munyagi and Skylar Tomason.
■ Franklin: Zach Allison, Holli Butler, Brennan Gray, Julia Heim, Mikayla Kostelecky and Grace Sanwald.
■ Hamilton: Peyton Harris, Julian Martinez, Mikey Nesbitt and Makayla Ramey.
■ Jefferson: In addition to second-place winner Lexie Peabody and third-place winner Tru Wiggins, finalists were Emily Jernigan, Owen Nevaril, Skyler Sullivan and Devan Tulley.
■ Olympic Christian: Josh Jones and Lily Robertson.
■ Queen of Angels: Violet Beltran, Molly Braaten and Emily Bundy.
■ Roosevelt: In addition to first-place winner Maria Roldan, Bobbi McAdow competed.
Soroptimist-Jet Set judges were Jean Fairchild, Judi Hoffman, Billie Moore, Marian Mertz and Ruth Thomson.
Marsha Robin was the “pronouncer” of words.
