Thursday, May 8, 2008 at the 

Kingston Literacy’s 14th Annual

Electronic Scrapbook 

14th Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee (2008) Electronic Scrapbook

Contents Page Table of Contents 2

Our Grate Supporters 3

The Winners 7

The Teams 9

The Cast, Crew and Committee Too 30

The Last Word 34

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Busy Bee (Major) Sponsor 

Our Grate Supporters!

Canada Trust

TD Canada Trust (Golden Title Sponsor)

Worker Bee (Team) Sponsor ($275) 

Cheerleader Sponsors ($100) 

Check out pages 5 and 6 for businesses and groups who entered teams!

HOMESTEAD LANDHOLDINGS

FIRST IN AFFORDABLE HOUSING

PETERS GUARDIAN DRUGS (Est. 1930)

640 KING STREET WEST, ONTARIO K7M 2E5 (613) 548-7595 • (613) 546-5165

Good, Elliott & Hawkins, LLP

153 Brock Street 544-1330

700 Progress Avenue Kingston

Tel: (613) 384-3163

More Grate Supporters

KINGSTON

CO-OPERATIVE HOMES

14-1338 Princess Street, Kingston Tel: (613) 544-3873

2447 Princess Street, Kingston Tel: 613-549-8777

Friends of the Kingston Frontenac Public Library

Silent Auction and Team Prize Sponsors Grizzly Grill Hillside Coffee Company Hotel Belvedere Indigo Books & Music Jack Chiang Jake by the Lake JM’s Restaurant (Ambassador Hotel) John Hazell (TD Canada Trust, V.P. Commercial Banking) Julia Mendoza King Street Sizzle (Four Points Sheraton) Kingston 1000 Islands Cruises Kingston Computer Planet Life is Good Store Limestone Unlimited Lorraine Winsor McClelland & Stewart Marshlands Factory Outlet

Annick Press Beachcomber Hot Tubs Bell Albert Breckenridge (Manager, TD Canada Trust) The Body Shop Bread & Butter Bakery and Fine Pastries The Brick Bursta Baskets Canadian Woman's Fitness Card’s Bakery Carl Richards Cask & Keg Changes Hair & Esthetics Salon Chuck E. Cheese Curves for Women Daniel Cumming Direct Signs 20/20 Eric Palmer, Mortgage Intelligence Evelyn Maizen First Data Acquisition Greco’s Greek Islands Mediterranean Grill

Silent Auction and Team Prize Sponsors

Mediterranean Garden Merilyn Simonds Microage Michael Brunette (TD Canada Trust, V.P., Ontario North & East Region) Mike Jefferies (V.P., Branch Manager, TD Waterhouse) Misters Fitness Mortgage Intelligence Mr. Sub Neil’s Flowers Novelis Paper Backs Bookstore Potter’s Nurseries Rob Mooy Robin Williams S&R Department Store Scholastic Canada Ltd Seasons’ Promise Shaw Festival

Southeastern Telecommunications Stained Glass by Yolanda Steven Heighton Stratford Festival Taylor Studios TD Bank TD Canada Trust TD Waterhouse Canada Ted Casey The Star Diner 1000 Islands Kayak Thousand Islands Playhouse Time to Laugh Totally Clips VIA Rail Villager Custom Screenprinting Windmills Cafe Yolanda Jewelry

Bergeron Clifford Chris Clifford, Shawna Langille, Anne Newell

The Winners of the 14th Annual

Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee

Best Spellers − 2008

More Winners in the 14th Annual

Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee

Most Pledges Raised: TD Canada Trust Jean Roff, Emily Wilfong, Lynn Germain

Best Team Spirit: Kingston Frontenac Public Library (sponsored by the Friends of the Library) Anthony Petryk, Kimberly Sutherland Mills, Christina Tracy

Best Costumes: Kingston This Week − The Weekly Rage Rhonda Jarvis, Rob Mooy, Sherri Paterson

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 

The team: Chris Clifford, Shawna Langille, Anne Newell

Bergeron Clifford

Personal Injury Lawyers

201-1000 Gardiners Road Kingston, ON K7P 3C4 Phone (613) 384-5886 Fax: (613) 384-0501

Bombardier Transportation 

The team: Marilyn Amodeo, Haig Krikorian, Marge Thomson

Bombardier Transportation 5055 Taylor Kidd Blvd.

Millhaven, Ontario K7M 6J1

Certified General Accountants − Kingston 

The team: Sandra Durant, Diana Foreman, Michelle Paquin

Certified general accountants are trained in the full spectrum of accounting. Broadly and deeply competent, CGAs have the education and training required to fulfil advanced business and financial functions. Certified General Accountants Kingston

City of Kingston  Team name: The Beta Blockers 

The team: Joy Amey, Sandra Pappas, Solvieg Swinamer

This team is part of the hard-working crew at Ontario Works, that provides employment and financial support to people in need. The goal of Ontario Works is to help people gain employment and/or the skills they need to obtain a job and become self-reliant.

City of Kingston Team name: The Seussettes  

The team: Pam Sorensen, Michele Zigman-Peebles, Mary Helen Webster

This team is part of the hard-working crew at Ontario Works, that provides employment and financial support to people in need. The goal of Ontario Works is to help people gain employment and/or the skills they need to obtain a job and become self-reliant.

Cunningham, Swan, Carty, Little & Bonham 

The team: Andrew Bonham, Kurt Pearson, Andrea Risk

Cunningham, Swan, Carty, Little & Bonham LLP Finding Solutions. Getting Results.

201-1473 John Counter Blvd Kingston, ON

Phone: (613) 544-0211

Website: www.cswan.com

The team: Angela Enman, Matthew Holmberg, Pierre Vanderhout

Empire Life has been one of the Bee’s strongest supporters over the years. In addition to sending and sponsoring teams, their staff members have helped us out, and they even desktop-published and printed our program for many years. We are very lucky to have such a strong , community-minded company based here in Kingston!

Empire Life

Independent Living Centre 

The team: Susan Charlesworth, Rob Maizen, Douglas Mitchell

298 Concession Street

Kingston, ON K7K 2C1 Tel: (613) 542-8353

Indigo Books & Music 

The team: Kristine Bernard, Neil Hobkirk, Dan Milling

Indigo Books & Music 259 Princess Street, Kingston K7L 1B4 Tel: (613-546-7650

James Reid Funeral Home 

The team: Scott Cameron, Wanda Adams Lazure, Anita Lister

James Reid Funeral Home, Cataraqui Chapel 1900 John Counter Blvd. Kingston, ON K7M 7H3 Telephone: (613) 544-3411 Website: www.jamesreidfuneralhome.com

James Reid Funeral Home

Kingston Frontenac Public Library  Sponsored by the Friends of the Library 

The team: Anthony Petryk, Kimberly Sutherland Mills, Christina Tracy

With 17 branches in the Greater Kingston and Frontenac region, the Kingston Frontenac Public Library is a treasure trove of books, movies, cds, computer and internet access, and community resources, but their greatest asset is their knowledgeable, helpful and caring staff.

Kingston Frontenac Public Library Team name: KFPL Tag Team  

Sponsored by TD Canada Trust 

The team: Crystal Adams, Aswin Rajan, Daniel Rose

This team, despite their young age, were keen competitors and gave teams with more experience (and more grey

hair) a run for their money. Good show!

Kingston This Week Team name: The Weekly Rage 

The team: Rhonda Jarvis, Rob Mooy, Sherri Paterson

Kingston This Week 607 Gardiners Road Kingston, ON K7M 3Y4 Phone: 613-389-7400

Kingston Whig‐Standard 

The team: Paul Schliesmann, Jordan Press, Lindy Zywot

Ongwanada Sponsored by TD Canada Trust 

The team: Cindy Chappell, Diane Doogan, Maureen Hughson

ONGWANADA Community based support to individuals with developmental disabilities and their families in Kingston and Eastern Ontario 191 Portsmouth Avenue, Kingston K7M 8A6 Tel: (613) 548-4417

Re/Max Realty Concepts Corp. Team name: Realty Good Spellers 

The team: Marcia Jones, Jan Patterson, Bob Winsor

You can tell that these three would be great in the realty business, because they take their spelling seriously (crossing every “t” and dotting every “i”), but they also know how to have a great time. If I were buying or selling a property, those are both things I would look for in a realtor. Wouldn’t you?

Realty Concepts Corp Brokerage

613-389-7777

Seniors’ Centre 

The team: Diane Ball, Bob Gordon, Peck Peckover

Seniors Association Kingston Region 56 Francis Street, Kingston K7M 1L8 Tel: (613) 548-7810

Skeleton Park Skeletymoglogists 

The team: Skot Caldwell, Steven Heighton, Adam Newman

Skeleton Park Skeletymologists

This dynamic trio is a past winning team of the Bee. With a name like the Skeletymologists, they’d have to be pretty good spellers!

Talking Books Book Club 

The team: Madeleine Patton, Linda Poce, Barbara Yates

The Talking Books

This book club was one of the first teams to enter the Bee in 2005. From their spelling prowess, it is obvious that there is a link between the ability to spell and the amount you read!

TD Canada Trust 

The team: Jean Roff, Emily Wilfong, Lynn Germain

Canada Trust

TD Canada Trust has been an incredible supporter of the Bee right from our very first year. Whether it be by entering teams, sponsoring teams, providing amazing prizes for our Silent Auction, volunteers for the event and beyond, they have shown how much the community means to them in spades!

The Cast and Crew

While it may take a village to raise a child, it takes a small army to run and maintain an event like the Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee. Kingston Literacy has been very fortunate to have had tremendous support from the community 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!

Fred Laflamme:

Honorary Chair

Mike Reid: Master of

Ceremonies

John Lazarus: Master

Pronouncer

As any of you long-time Bee fans know, Jim Elyot has been the Master of Ceremonies for this “grate” event for many years— 9 in fact—but this year, he wasn’t able to come due to a family commitment. Luckily for us, he enlisted Mike Reid of The Drive 98.9 to pinch hit, and man, did he do a fantastic job. The Bee is a bit of a complicated event in some ways, and Mike just rolled with it, doing a phenomenal job. Many thanks, Mike, for being such an awesome host.

It’s hard to know what Fred is more well known for: his many years as the publisher of the Kingston Whig-Standard and his publishing career before that, or all the amazing local causes he has championed, striving to make our community a better place. We were thrilled to welcome Fred into the hive this year as our Honorary Chair. We are very grateful to Fred for all his time and help with this year’s Bee.

Who could be better to give each team their words than John Lazarus? As a professor in the Drama Department at Queen’s, and an acclaimed writer, actor, and broadcaster, his command of the language is staggering. His crystal clear diction and intimate knowledge of words would make it easy for teams to spell, if only the words were more simple!

The Judges Paula Allen, Garry McColman and Buzz Collins are our illustrious judges. They let the teams and audience know if each word is spelled correctly, or not. The judges also have the final say if anyone challenges a spelling, or decision. Their tools include the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, and several loud noisemakers. Their wisdom and good humour help keep the Bee buzzing.

...And Committee Too

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.

Verna Mann has been on the Spelling Bee

Committee since 1996, when she was 21!

Evelyn Maizen, this year’s Co-Chair, has been with the

Bee since 1999.

Jane Zigman was a team member in years gone by.

2008 Spelling Bee Committee

Shirley Kalfin (co-chair) Barb Love Evelyn Maizen (co-chair) Verna Mann Nancy Pearce Kelly Wheaton Lorraine Winsor Jane Zigman Irene Casey (staff) Martha Rudden (staff) Donna Vinkle (staff)

Shirley Kalfin, Co-Chair, is a long-time committee member.

Where would we Bee without our terrific volunteers? A number of wonderful people helped us out on the night of the Bee, and we would have been lost without them. Here are just a few.

Want into the Hive?

The 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 Allison or Irene 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 2008 Bee raised over $18,277 dollars for these programs, and for that we are truly grateful. The Bee also helps to increase public awareness about Kingston Literacy, 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!