Norphlet boy takes spelling honors

By: Allison Gatlin - El Dorado News-Times

Jace Vance, a seventh-grader at Norphlet Junior High, looks to the judges after spelling ‘untenable’ to win the Union County Spelling Bee at the TAC House on Friday. Taylor Harris, background, a sixth-grader at Smackover Elementary, came in second out of 24 spellers from throughout Union...

Rallying from an initial misunderstanding of the word “deodorant” and the less common spelling of the word “anaemic,” Norphlet seventh-grader Jace Vance took the Union County Spelling Bee, beating out the other 23 champions competing Friday afternoon.

Vance, who...

Published: 02/02/2013