The Rotary Club of Anguilla wishes to announce that the preliminary round of the annual Scotiabank and Rotary/Rotaract Spelling Bee facilitated by the Rotary Clubs of St Maarten Mid-Isle and the Rotaract Club of St. St. Maarten Sunrise, as well as the Rotary Club of Anguilla, was held on Sunday 14th October 2018 in St. Maarten at the Belair Community Center. Four students from were selected to represent Anguilla: Zakkai Lake from The Valley Primary School; and Jayda Adams, Ayana Carty and Tamara Hall-Sampson from the Alwyn Allison Richardson Primary School. The students were accompanied by a contingent parents, teachers and member of the Rotary Club of Anguilla.
A group of about 37 students competed to fill 10 slots to the semi-finals which will be held this Sunday 21st October 2018. We are happy to announce that all four (4) students from Anguilla successfully secured a place in the semi-finals, capturing a resounding forty percent (40%) of the semi-final slots. We are extremely proud of these students and ask the Anguillian community to join us in congratulating them and supporting them as they move forward in the competition.
The Rotary Club of Anguilla, a division of Rotary International, is a service organization whose stated purpose is to bring together business and professional leaders in order to provide humanitarian services, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and to advance goodwill and peace amply captured in its motto “Service above Self”.
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