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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