Whitfield Education Foundation's Celebrity Spelling Bee Is Tuesday

  • Monday, November 11, 2013

The Whitfield Education Foundation's inaugural Celebrity Spelling Bee is this Tuesday at Crosspointe Christian Centre with dinner being served between 6 and 7 p.m., followed by the spelling bee at 7:30 p.m.  It will be emceed by WRCB Newschannel 3 News Co-Anchor David Carroll.

The $25 tickets include dinner and a chance to watch community celebrities compete for top speller.

Proceeds help fund the Foundation's Innovative Teaching Grants in Whitfield County Schools. The celibrity spellers are:

  • David Aft -- President of the Community Foundation of Northwest Georgia
  • Brian Anderson -- President of the Greater Dalton Chamber of Commerce
  • Dan Combs -- State Farm Insurance Agent
  • Sara Davis -- Retired Whitfield County Teacher
  • Tom Dickson -- State Representative
  • Louis Fordham -- Whitfield County Board of Education Chair
  • Tony Ingle Dalton State College Basketball Coach
  • Jamie Jones -- Dalton Daily Citizen Editor
  • Greg Kinnamon -- Attorney
  • Lynn Laughter -- Whitfield County Commissioner
  • Lori McDaniel -- Dalton Utilities Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations
  • Cherri Robertson -- Alfa Insurance Agent
  • Ty Ross -- Dalton City Manager
  • Naomi Swanson -- Dalton Tea Party Organizer
  • Joe Yarbrough -- Senior Vice President of Advanced Manufacturing of Mohawk Industries

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