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County’s top spellers revealed

Tribune Staff

| February 21, 2017

Printed in the February 22, 2017 edition

Photo by Chanae NielsonNavajo County Spelling Bee Champion Jett Jue (left), a seventh grader at Winslow Junior High School, sealed his win Feb. 15 after an intense final round by spelling the word “symbiosis” after correcting the misspelling by his competitor of the word “ephemeral.” Second place went to eighth grader Dylan Clark (middle) and third place to seventh grader Claire Lopez (right), both of Blue Ridge Junior High School.