Mora County Notebook: Students compete in Spanish Spelling Bee

Mora  Middle School recently held the district Spanish spelling bee with 35 students taking part. There were more who signed up but because of illness were not able to take part in the activity.

Ruth Fort/For the Optic

Rita Sanchez - teacher, Ashley Regensberg, Danielle Guiterrez, Fidel Valdez, Briana Pacheco, Albert Romero, Matthew Cockrell, Travis Romero, Jeffrey Chavez, Onnica Pino and Genoveva Hurtado recently competed in the Mora Middle School Spanish Spelling Bee. Pacheco will compete in the state Spanish Spelling Bee in April.

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The young people had been given a list to study and worked to do their best in the spelling bee.

At the Mora Spelling Bee volunteers were present to help. David Rael was the pronouncer and Alfrida Valencia was a judge along with the teacher, Rita Sanchez. The ten top spellers shown in the picture traveled to Peñasco on Friday to compete with the students in Peñasco and Taos.

The top speller in each school will travel to the state Spanish spelling bee on April 9.

The student from Mora who was the top speller is Briana Pacheco. She is the  daughter of Louis and Crystal Pacheco. She is a seventh grader in Mora Middle School. When she takes part in the state Spanish spelling bee she will be competing against students from all over the state of New Mexico.

Ruth Fort is a Mora County correspondent. She may  be reached at (575) 387-6523 or ruthfortchacon@yahoo.com.