Christopher Bayston, a seventh-grade student at St. George Elementary School, will return to Washington, D.C. this Memorial Day week to represent Kankakee and Iroquois counties in the national Scripps Spelling Bee.
Photo by Daily Journal photographer, Michelle Gannon. For complete coverage, visit The Daily Journal website.
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He's got A-P-T-I-T-U-D-E!
Bayston wins spelling bee two years in a row!
For the second year in a row, St. George Elmentary School 7th grader Christopher Bayston took first place in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee sponsored by The Daily Journal and the I-KAN Regional Office of Education.
Twenty-four students from schools in Kankakee and Iroquois counties participated in the event March 9 in Kresge Auditorium at Olivet Nazarene University.
Christopher correctly spelled "aptitude" to win the event. Second place winner was Sheena Chatrath, an 8th grader at Grace Baptist Academy; third place, Peter Johnson, an 8th grader at Matneno Middle School; and fourth place Haniah Zaheer, a 7th grader at Bourbonnais Upper Grade Center.
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