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13th Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee (2007) Electronic Scrapbook
Contents Page Table of Contents 2
Our Grate Supporters 3
The Winners 8
The Teams 11
The Cast, Crew and Committee Too 33
The Last Word 38
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Worker Bee (Team) Sponsor ($275)
Check out pages 11 to 33 for businesses and groups who entered teams!
More Grate Supporters
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Cheerleader Sponsors ($100)
HOMESTEAD LAND HOLDINGS
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
Downtown Lotto Centre
120 Princess Street (613) 549-9930
Aaben Windows and Doors Jack Chiang Classic Video Direct Signs 20/20 Downtown Lotto Good Elliott Hawkins LLP Guardsman Insurance Services Ltd. Homestead Landholdings Peters Drugs William Poulos, Law Office Thomson Jemmett Vogelzang
1071 Midland Avenue · (613) 384-1296
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Silent Auction and Team Prize Sponsors Limestone Unlimited Louise Tait, Royal LePage McClelland & Stewart Michele Zigman-Peebles Microage Mike Jefferies (V.P., TD Waterhouse) Mr. Suntan Neil’s Flowers Novelis Pet Parade Plus S&R Department Store Salon Manon Scholars Education Centre Scholastic Canada Ltd. Screening Room Seasons’ Promise Shaw Festival Slippery Solutions Southeastern Telecommunications Spas4Paws Stratford Festival Tangles & Co. Taylor Studios TD Bank TD Canada Trust TD Waterhouse Canada Inc. Thousand Islands Playhouse Totally Clips Via Rail
Ale House Canteen Ambiance Hair & Body Care Annick Press Bell Albert Breckenridge (Manager, TD Canada Trust) Bursta Baskets Camera Kingston Canadian Women’s Fitness Changes for Women Detail Masters Plus Greek Islands Grizzly Grill Gusto Restaurant Hershey Chocolate Shoppe Hillside Coffee Company Holiday Inn Hotel Belvedere Jack Chiang J.A.K.K. Tuesdays JM’s Restaurant (Ambassador Hotel) K-Town Physiotherapy Keg Steakhouse & Bar Kids Can Press Kiley Paving King Street Sizzle (Four Points by
Sheraton Kingston) Kingston 1000 Island Cruises Kingston Computer Planet
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Chapters Bee Captors Dan Milling, Susan Talbot, Pam Whitmore
Best Spellers – 2007
The Winners of the 13th Annual
Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee
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Best Spellers, Runners Up: Senior’s Centre Diane Ball, Juliet Milsome, Peck Peckover
More Winners in the 13th Annual
Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee
Best Costumes: Ongwanada Karla Benoit, Martin Kandler, Amy Wartman
Most Pledges Raised: TD Canada Trust Shannon Falcao, Harriet Johnston, Jean Roff
Best Team Spirit: Bergeron Clifford Shawn Langille, Anne Newell, Tisha Roy
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Bergeron Clifford
The team: Shawna Langille, Anne Newell, Tisha Roy
Bergeron Clifford
Personal Injury Lawyers
201-1000 Gardiners Road Kingston, ON K7P 3C4 Phone (613) 384-5886 Fax: (613) 384-0501
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Better Beginnings for Kingston Children Sponsored by Canada Post
The team: Dorothyanne Brown, Wendy Christopher, Leann Cunningham
This team was sponsored by Canada Post.
Canada Post has been a tremendous supporter of literacy in Canada, and we greatly appreciate their ongoing participation in the Bee!
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Boys & Girls Club of Kingston & Area
Sponsored by Viner, Kennedy, Frederick, Allan & Tobias LLP
27 Place d'Armes, Kingston, ON K7L 4V6
Phone: (613) 542-7867 Website: www.vinerkennedy.com
We provide expertise in many areas of law, representing a broad range of clients. We endeavour to provide client success by understanding their needs, keeping in regular contact with them and providing prompt advice.
The team: Mandy Crowder, Brittany Tough, Brandy Young
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Canadian Woman’s Fitness CWF All Stars
The team: Michele Hussey, Sandra Pappas, Jane Zigman
785 Blackburn Mews West, Kingston
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Certified General Accountants—Kingston
The team: Diana Foreman, Mary Ann Lyon, 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
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Chapters Bee Captors
While Chapters has always been very supportive of Kingston Literacy’s efforts, this was the first year that they fielded a team in the Bee. You would never have known it, given their first place performance. Congratulations to this awesome first time team!
The team: Dan Milling, Susan Talbot, Pam Whitmore
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City of Kingston
The team: Pam Sorensen, Mary Helen Webster, Michele Zigman-Peebles
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.
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Cunningham, Swan, Carty, Little & Bonham
The team: Andrew Bonham, Caroline Thomas, Pierre Vanderhout
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
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Empire Life Teh Gud Spelerz
The team: Sue McDermid, Nathalie Nayan, Mary Beth Saulnier
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!
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Indigo Books & Music We are the “I” in Team Indigo—Team Indigo
The team: Mathew Fletcher, Ted Girard, Krista Hunt
Indigo Books & Music are longstanding supporters of literacy in general, and Kingston Literacy in our community. Through their major sponsorships of our Words and Wisdom series, as well as their over-the-top participation in Writersfest and Kingston Reads, they have shown incredible support and leadership. Thanks Team Indigo! Again.
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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
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Kingston Frontenac Public Library Sponsored by the Friends of the Library
The team: Laura Pallister, Anthony Petryk, Kimberly Sutherland Mills
With 17 branches in the Greater Kingston and Frontenac region, the Kingston Frontenac Public Library is a treasure trove of books, movies, cd’s, computer and internet access, and community resources, but their greatest asset is their knowledgeable, helpful and caring staff.
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Kingston This Week The Weekly Rage
The team: Joyce Cook, Rob Mooy, Sherri Paterson
Kingston This Week truly is our community newspaper, and a tremendous supporter of Kingston Literacy, and literacy issues in general. Whether it’s by providing excellent coverage of all our events and programs, or sponsoring Writersfest, or participating in the Bee, the good folks at KTW are definitely champions for literacy!
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Ongwanada Sponsored by TD Canada Trust
The team: Karla Benoit, Martin Kandler, Amy Wartman This team was sponsored by TD Canada Trust.
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!
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Ontario March of Dimes Sponsored by Empire Life
The team: Janet Anderson, Sherrie Gaylord, Jennifer Ryan This team was sponsored by Empire Life.
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!
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Re/Max Realty Concepts Corp. Team name: Realty Good Spellers
The team: Marcia Jones, Jan Patterson, Bob Winsor
You can tell that these three are 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 want to be sure of. Wouldn’t you?
Realty Concepts Corp Brokerage
613-389-7777
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Seniors’ Centre Team Name: Supergenerians
The team: Diane Ball, Juliet Milsome, Peck Peckover
The Seniors Centre
Seniors Association Kingston Region 56 Francis Street, Kingston, ON
(613) 548-7810 [email protected]
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The team: Skot Caldwell, Steven Heighton, Adam Newman
Skeleton Park Skeletymologists Sponsored by Kingston Co‐operative Homes
14-1338 Princess Street, Kingston, ON K7M 7N9 Tel: (613) 544-3873
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Talking Books Book Club
The team: Laurel Bates, Dodie Prieditis, Sandy Taylor
The Talking Books
This book club was one of the first 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!
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TD Canada Trust
The team: Shannon Falcao, Harriet Johnston, Jean Roff
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!
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Upper Canada Office Systems
The team: Amy Axford, Chris Healey, Ken Martin
40 Grant Timmins Drive, Kingston (613) 547-8070
Upper Canada Office Systems provides intelligent and creative solutions for your office environment. As the largest vendor of office furniture and technology from Belleville to Kingston to Brockville, they will help you create an efficient environment, maximize employee productivity and achieve your business goals.
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XCG Consultants
The team: Danielle Belair, David Chang, Gillian Dagg-Foster
33 Earl Street Kingston, ON K7L 2G4 Tel: 613-542-5888 Email: [email protected]
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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!
Jack Chiang Honorary Chair
Jim Elyot Master of
Ceremonies
John Lazarus Mispronouncer
For the last six years, Kingston Whig-Standard Photo Editor, author and Order of Canada recipient Jack Chiang has been the Honorary Chair of the Grate Groan-Up Spelling Bee. In this role, he has helped us to promote the Bee and raise its stature significantly. He has also acted as a judge at this event for the past 10 years, entertaining the audience and teams as well! Thank you Jack, for all your support.
We have been very fortunate to have local media icon Jim Elyot as our Master of Ceremonies for the last nine years. While always the consummate professional, Jim takes on the role of ringleader, stand-up comic, traffic cop and general evening facilitator, keeping this event moving. He is never at a loss for words, and adds so much to the fun of the evening.
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 simpler!
The Judges Paula Allen, Jack Chiang and Garry McColman 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!
Evelyn Maizen, this year’s Co-Chair, has been with the
Bee since 1999. Jane Zigman was a team member in years gone by.
2007 Spelling Bee Committee
Shirley Kalfin (co-chair) Nora Kiley Evelyn Maizen (co-chair) Verna Mann Nancy Pearce Lorraine Ross Lorraine Winsor Jane Zigman Martha Rudden (staff support) Donna Vinkle (staff support)
Co-Chair Shirley Kalfin (left) has been with the Bee since 2001, while Lorraine Winsor (centre)
joined the Committee in 2004.
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Where would we Bee without our terrific volunteers? A number of wonderful people helped us out on the night of the Bee last year, and we would have been lost without them. We know lots of great folks will again be on hand to help us out.
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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 Martha or Donna a call at (613) 547-2012. We are always on the look out for new workers and drones!
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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 2007 Bee raised over $18,500 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!