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
2
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!
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