The Lima Rotary Club is proud to have sponsored Tuesday's Regional Spelling Bee.
Opemipo Balogun, a seventh-grade student at Shawnee Middle School won the recent Regional Spelling Bee presented by the Rotary Club of Lima and The Lima News. In addition to being Regional Champ, Opemipo will compete this May at the Scripps National Spelling Bee in Washington, D.C. She competed against 29 other local students and correctly spelled the word "fatuously." All thirty regional competitors received a Webster dictionary courtesy of Lima Rotary. Opemipo studied her word list 30 minutes a day in preparation for the spelling bee.
Photo of Opemipo courtesy of The Lima News.