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Thursday, May 7, 2013
Kingston Literacy & Skills 19th Annual
Electronic Scrapbook
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19th Annual Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee (2013) Electronic Scrapbook
Contents
Page
Our Grate Supporters 3-10
The Winners 11-14
The Teams 16
The Faces Say It All 35
The Cast, Crew, Committee and Volunteers Too 36-38
Want into the Hive? 39
The Last Word 40
Our Grate Supporters!
Platinum Plus Naming Sponsor ($2,500)
Our Grate Supporters!
Platinum Sponsor ($2,000)
Our Grate Supporters!
Gold Sponsor ($1,000)
One-Team Sponsors ($325)
Our Grate Supporters!
Supporter Sponsors ($100)
More Grate Supporters ...
Good, Elliott & Hawkins, LLP
153 Brock Street Kingston, ON
544-1330
Independent Retirement Planners Inc.
Grate Prize Sponsors
Thank you!
Thousand Islands Playhouse
Taylor Studios
Grate Silent Auction Sponsors Karen Davis Kingston WritersFest Leejay Levine Trust Liz Devries Lone Star MicroAge Kingston Museum of Civilization and
War Museum Rosemary Mason Scholastic Canada Ltd. Shaw Festival Soul Speak Glass Art Taylor Studios TD Gananoque Ted Hsu, M.P. Thousand Islands Playhouse Tourism Kingston VIA Rail Canada Inc.
Ambassador Conference Resort
Bagot Leather Goods Barb Carr Barb Love Beachcomber Hot Tubs Bread & Butter Bakery Bursta Baskets Cantabile Choirs Carl Richards Confederation Place Hotel Dan “The Amazing” Cumming David Craig Evelyn Maizen Gananoque Boat Lines Home Hardware (Gananoque) It’s Sew Beautiful Jane Owen
Generous Donations
Thank you to: Motion Specialties Kingston for donating the use of their wheelchair ramps. VIA Rail for donating a trip worth $1,171 to our silent auction. Royal Military College for donating the use of their Molton Clock Timer.
KPMG Colonel Stephen Cadden (Honorary Chair), Danielle Burns, Mike Gaylord, Debbie Fell,
Lisa Ray (Chair)
The winners of the 19th Annual
Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee
Best Spellers – 2013
Canadian Defence Academy Mary Arnold, Major Melissa McIlroy, Dr. Karen Davis
The Winners of the 19th Annual
Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee
Best Costumes – 2013
Empire Life Mary Crawford, Carole Johnson, Kay Munn
The Winners of the 19th Annual
Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee
Most Team Spirit – 2013
KPMG Danielle Burns, Mike Gaylord, Debbie Fell
The Winners of the 19th Annual
Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee
Most Pledges – 2013
The Teams! We salute each and every team that
participated in the Bee. Without their support, talent and sense of fun, we would probably be the Grate Groan
Spelling Bee. Thank you all!
Bergeron Clifford LLP
The team: Amy Blaser, Shawna Langille, Anne Newell
CFB Kingston Command Group
The team: Jennifer Prince, CWO Michael Beaulieu,
Colonel Stephen Cadden
Canadian Defence Academy Sponsored by Don Wyld C21 Town & Country Realty Inc.
The team: Mary Arnold, Major Melissa McIlroy, Dr. Karen Davis
Cunningham Swan
The team: Andrew Bonham, Kalen Ingram, Carolyn Shelley
DND School of Communications and Electronics
The team: Walter Wood, Mike Jackson, Amul Waraich
DND School of Communications and Electronics
The team: Angela Kehren, Joseph Ash, Erik Esselaar
The team: Mary Crawford, Kay Munn, Carole Johnson
Empire Life
Kingston Frontenac Public Library Sponsored by the Friends of the Library
The team: Anne Hall, Carol Vanderhelm, Christina Tracy
Kingston Frontenac Public Library Sponsored by Kingston Frontenac Public Library
The team: Laura Carter, Claudette Richardson, Wilma Kenny
Kingston Literacy & Skills – LINC Sponsored by the Board of KL&S
The team: Ursula Davis, Jade Garrison, Ellen Turcotte,
Kingston City Police
The team: Julia Moore, Patti Loyst, Steven Koopman
Kingston WriterFest Sponsored by Bombardier
The team: Diane Schoemperlen, Kat Evans, Anne Powers
Kingston Military Family Resource Centre
The team: Karen Norman, Lindsay Browness, Lori Richardson
KPMG
The team: Danielle Burns, Mike Gaylord, Debbie Fell
K ROCK 105.7/KIX 93.5/ 102.7 The Lake
The team: Boomer, Wayne Matthews, Big Kris
Ongwanada Sponsored by Kimco Steel Sales Limited
The team: Stephen Petrick, Marsha Smith, Lori Johnson
Queen’s University Library
The team: Laurie Scott, Jane Philipps, Ainslie Thomson
1000 Islands Playhouse
The team: Ashlie Corcoran, Charlotte Gowdy, Susie Allan
TD Canada Trust
The team: Keith Notley, Jennifer Ladbrook, Lynn Germain-Neoclous
The faces say it all!
The Cast and Crew
Kingston Literacy & Skills has been extremely fortunate to have the kind of steadfast support it’s had from the community over the last 19 years. It takes a small army of volunteers to run this event. Here are just some of the folks who play key roles in the Bee, many of whom have helped us out for years!
Col. Stephen Cadden: Honorary
Chair
Jim Elyot: Master of
Ceremonies
Carl Richards: Master
Pronouncer
This was Jim’s 14th year as Master of Ceremonies! How lucky are we to have him. He keeps the Bee humming along — on track and on time, and with his own brand of bee-musing humour. We grately appreciate Jim’s continued support. Keep on buzzing Jim!
We welcomed our new Honorary Chair—Colonel Stephen Cadden — into the hive. His enthusiasm for the Bee and his passion for literacy was a bee-utiful thing!
The Judges
Tanis Fairley (retired school principal and current social justice activist), Rob Mooy (Kingston This Week), and Lisa Ray (KROCK) and are all seasoned veterans of the Bee and were back again this year. They make sure teams don’t miss any letters and make the final decision on correct spellings. Thank you Tanis, Rob, and Lisa for all your help.
This year, Lisa Ray, one of our long-time judges, spread her wings and took on the role of Chair. She really created a BUZZ at the Bee, and we are very happy and grateful to have her as “Queen Bee”.
Lisa Ray: Chair
Carl Richards, of KIX 93.5 and 102.7 The Lake, lent his best radio voice to the Bee this year and did an outstanding job of it. Welcome Carl! Hope you had as much fun as we did!
...And Committee … A large part of why this event is so successful is that the volunteer committee that has organized it has been incredibly dedicated, hardworking and creative. While some might content themselves with a successful event, and leave each detail as it was the previous year, this committee consistently seeks out new elements, and works hard to make sure it is always fresh. While some faces have changed over the years, consistent traits of most committee members are their dedication, originality and great sense of humour.
2012-13 Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee Committee
Left to right—Liz Devries, Verna Mann-Renaud, Suzan Irmak, Barb Love, Evelyn Maizen, Laura Cornell, Sam Kalb, Cheryl Bird (staff), Pat Peat, Lisa Ray (Chair)
Where would we Bee without our terrific volunteers? Many wonderful people helped us out on the night of the Bee, and we would have been lost without them. Here are just a few...
… And Volunteers Too ...
Want into the Hive?
The Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee Committee are dedicated folks who know how to work hard and
have fun at the same time. If you are interested in being a part of this committee, please give Cheryl or Allison a call at 613.547.2012. We are always on the
look out for new workers and drones!
The Last Word
While the Bee is a wonderful event, and tons of fun, it does serve a couple of very important purposes. First, it helps to raise critical funds for our Family Literacy programs, which receive no government funding for their ongoing operations. These programs support and encourage the development of reading in families, especially in high-risk areas. The 2013 Bee raised over $22,000 for these programs, and for that we are truly grateful. The Bee also helps to increase public awareness about Kingston Literacy & Skills, and literacy issues in general. The more people who know about both, the better.
Thank you for your interest in both the Bee and Kingston Literacy & Skills!
