Feb 06, 2021

SES's Kade Riffel is the county spelling bee w-i-n-n-e-r

Posted Feb 06, 2021 10:50 PM
<b>Winners of the top three places in the Saline County Spelling Bee are, from left, Charlotte Knopf, Southeast of Saline, third place; Broden Turner, Coronado Elementary School, second place; and Kade Riffel, Southeast of Saline, first place.</b> Photo courtesy Mike Garretson
Winners of the top three places in the Saline County Spelling Bee are, from left, Charlotte Knopf, Southeast of Saline, third place; Broden Turner, Coronado Elementary School, second place; and Kade Riffel, Southeast of Saline, first place. Photo courtesy Mike Garretson

By SALINA POST

A new spelling bee champion was crowned today as Southeast of Saline's Kade Riffel won the Saline County Spelling Bee.

Kade was among 17 students from Coronado Elementary School, South Middle School, Cornerstone Classical School, Southeast of Saline, Meadowlark Elementary School, and Schilling Elementary School who participated in the competition at Southeast of Saline, Mike Garretson, Saline County Spelling Bee coordinator, told Salina Post. The oral Scripps Howard spelling bee was open to any fourth- through eighth-grade student in Saline County.

Kade will now head to Wichita March 27 to represent Saline County in the state spelling bee.

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