Shown left-to-right are Morrison Community Unit School District #6 Spelling Bee winner Shelby Veltrop with alternates Cadie Unger and Jerrica Bormann. The local spelling bee was on Wednesday, January 31, 2018.
Twenty-seven students in grades five-through-eight competed for the privilege of ascending to the annual Lee-Ogle-Whiteside Regional Spelling Bee. Veltrop will vie with 37 other winners on Thursday, February 22, at Dixon High School, 300 Lincoln Statue Drive, Dixon, IL.
One winner will advance. That feat includes an all-expense paid trip to National Harbor, MD, for the final contest in late May, the Scripps National Spelling Bee.
