EASTON NEWS
by Hillary Hallett
The first round of the 2015 Scripps National Spelling Bee will be held at the Easton Jr/Sr High School Gymnasium on Wednesday, Jan. 14, at 9 a.m. The winner and runner-up will then advance to the Aroostook County Spelling Bee.
The Scripps National Spelling Bee is the nation’s largest and longest-running educational promotion, administered on a not-for-profit basis by The E.W. Scripps Company and local spelling bee sponsors in the United States, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Department of Defense Schools in Europe; also, the Bahamas, Canada, China, Ghana, Jamaica, Japan, New Zealand and South Korea.
The purpose of the bee is to help students improve their spelling, increase their vocabularies, learn concepts and develop correct English usage that will help them all their lives.
The program is open to students who have neither turned 16 nor passed beyond the eighth grade, and who attend schools that officially enrolled with the program for the current academic year.
Happy Days Club
The Easton seniors’ Happy Days Club held their last meeting of the year on Oct. 23, 2014. They did not meet in November or December, due to the holidays.
The group’s next meeting will be Thursday, Jan. 8, 2015 at the Manor for a pizza party at 11:30 a.m. In this meeting, they will be selecting a nominating committee for the 2015 club officers.
All Easton seniors are invited to attend and bring a friend for pizza and a fun afternoon.
Kiwanis meetings
Kiwanis Club of Easton meets on the first and third Tuesday of each month from 6-7 p.m. at the Odd Fellows Hall; everyone is welcome to attend. Dinner provided for a small fee. Please plan to join them.
Snowmobile news
The Easton Trailbreakers are planning a breakfast ride at 8 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 11, to the Washburn clubhouse.
Hillary Hallett is the correspondent for Easton. She can be reached by sending an e-mail to: hillary_jt@myfairpoint.net or call 551-7737.
