Spelling bee!

Beauty and the Beast: Lumiere, Beast, and Belle 

The winning word was SEROTINAL. *

I had never heard it but when it was defined I realized it had the same root as "serotonin" so I spelled it "s-e-r" rather than "s-i-r" or some variation.  My guess was right!  With that, the ZBPL team won the 12th annual Corporate Community Spelling Bee on Thursday evening.

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This was ZBPL's fourth win. Steffi and I have been 2/3 of the team since the beginning.  (I have a newspaper clipping of the first win --before I began blogging -- but it's in a folder somewhere that I can't find.)





Stevens and Rosemary (with Daryn looking on) were in the library cheering section.

The spelling bee is a fundraiser for the Coalition for Healthy Communities
Teams are sponsored by businesses and organizations -- individuals, too (our state representative, the county clerk, the county coroner (whose team came in second), the state's attorney). 

There's a bucket raffle and a 50/50 drawing.  I donated a tote bag with books and a quilt.  I won a gift basket with ground coffee, cookie mix, and mugs.

* I don't remember what word the runners-up misspelled.  There were 9 rounds. I remember spelling "malapropos" and "monotheism."