Autumn Hecker was crowned champion at the Pequot Lakes District Spelling Bee Written By: Dan Determan | ×
Eighth-grader Autumn Hecker listens intently before correctly spelling eccentric to win the Pequot Lakes District Spelling Bee on Friday, Feb. 19.Dan Determan / Echo Journal
While the breadth of words to spell could have led to a calamity, the students were far from circumspect, and judges showed anything but iniquity as spellers showed their initiative in achieving their linguistic goals.
Pequot Lakes Middle School had 15 of its best and brightest students come together in a school classroom to show off their vocabulary skills with words such as those in quotations in the previous paragraph during the school district’s annual spelling bee Friday, Feb. 19, with a veteran of the contest standing tall at the end.