| Platz Represents Missouri Well in the National Spelling Bee at Washington D.C.
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Elizabeth Platz may not yet realize the magnitude of what she has accomplished with her march to the Scripps National Spelling Bee Competition in Washington D.C., but someday she will.
Platz just missed the semifinal round of the competition, tying for 42nd place out of the 293 spellers who competed. Unfortunately, the top 41 advanced to the next round.
During the first round of competition, the spellers took a computer test which had 50 words for them to spell. Out of the 50, a total of 25 random words counted and the other 25 didn’t count. Elizabeth spelled 21 of the 25 words correctly that counted. Each word spelled correctly during that test counted for one point. She completed the first round with a total of 21 points.
For the full story, see this week’s issue of the Shelbina Weekly.
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| Annual Relay For Life Event
Planned for Saturday Night
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Many local people will converge on the Shelby County Fairgrounds on Saturday for a very good cause. The annual Shelby County “Relay For Life” will be held with teams competing overnight to see who can raise the most money to fight cancer.
The event starts 5 p.m. on Saturday and run through the night until 5:30 am Sunday.
This year’s theme comes for the TV show “Survivor”. It is Survivor “Shelby County.”
Just about everybody is close to someone or knows someone who has had cancer in their life. It is an ongoing struggle to try to find a cure and find ways to fight the many forms of cancer.
For the full story, see this week’s issue of the Shelbina Weekly.
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| Highway 36 Construction Progressing
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Crews were pouring pavement about one-half mile west of the Salt River Bridge on Highway 36 Friday morning. The new lanes will be for west bound traffic on the Highway 36 Four-Lane Project. Workers are trying to take advantage of the dry weather to get as much done as they can.
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| Lights Shine in Honor of Cancer Survivors and Remembrance of Those Lost
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A special luminaria ceremony during the American Cancer Society Relay For Life of Shelby County remembers those lost to cancer and honors those who have battled and won. The luminaria candle lighting to represent these individuals is on June 6, at 9 p.m. at the Shelby County Fairgrounds in Shelbina.
Anyone desiring to purchase a luminaria may do so by contacting Connie Snider at 573-588-2312 or Mary Lu McConnell at 573-588-7876. Each luminaria candle is $5.00.
“It will be beautiful when all the bags with candles are illuminated around the track,” said Connie Snider, Luminaria co-chair. “We hope to sell enough to light the entire area.”
For the full story, see this week’s issue of the Shelbina Weekly.
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| 1970 FFA Livestock Judging
Team First to go to Nationals
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South Shelby retired Vo-Ag and FFA instructor Herman Peeper said that actually the first South Shelby FFA team to take first at state and go on to national competition was in 1970.
In April of 1970 the Livestock Judging Team composed of Mike Rutter, Tim Lackey and Harold Bono took first place honors in State FFA competition.
The team then went to national competition in October of 1970 at Kansas City where they placed in the top 15 teams in the United States.
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