Portland Tribune, March 7, 2012, B
In the end, not even the ‘c’ in the word ‘irascible’ could deny Katie Carter victory in Saturday’s 2012 Portland Tribune/Comcast Regional Spelling Bee.
For Carter, 12, a seventh-grader representing Beaverton’s Village Home School, it was a command performance of sorts, coming off last year’s fifth-place showing in the same contest.