We've Got The County Covered
We've Got The County Covered
Sara Davidson, the K-12 music teacher and speech and drama coach for Simms School District, welcomed competitors to the Simms/Power-Dutton-Brady speech and drama tournament on January 18. Although temperatures were below zero across the Hi-Line as well as in Simms on Saturday, the hospitability was warm for the sixteen schools that competed in the Pre-Divisional Challenge. The Harlem and Chinook teams were among those in attendance, although the Dodson and Hays-Lodge Pole Co-op team travelled to Livingston to participate at the Paradise Valley Invitational hosted by Park High School.
Paul Condon’s Hays-Lodge Pole Co-op team brought home a couple of wins. The Dramatic Theater duo of Littleman Iron Bear and Loy Molina performing an excerpt from John Steinbeck’s Of Mice and Men captured third place. And, for the second weekend in a row, Nature Bracelet and Randall Werk, the duo who competed in Classical Theater, placed fifth with their piece “Excerpts from Adam and Eve” by Mark Twain.
With her Memorized Public Address—a speech by J.K. Rowling—Monique Gray competed but didn’t place.
From Chinook, all six team members traveled to Simms. The Sugarbeeters had three duos performing in drama events: Lillyanna Munari and Olivia Standiford in Classical Theater and Gavin Lemro and Grace Ymzon, as well as Jase Pursley and Liam Edwards in the Drama Humorous Duo category. Standiford and Munari placed third, as did Pursley and Edwards. The third pair, Ymzon and Lemro placed fourth in Humorous Duo. The scores of these combined performances enabled the team to win second place in the Class C Drama Sweepstakes.
On the Speech side of competition in Simms, Harlem’s Dante Jackson performed his rendition of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” in the Dramatic Oral Interpretation category, placing seventh. Unfortunately, his teammate, Stanley Spangelo didn’t place in his Humorous Oral Interpretation event.
All three of the Blaine County teams are gearing up for the Northern BC Speech and Drama Divisional Meet on January 25 at Shelby High School. Fifteen other schools have proclaimed their intentions to attend that weekend event.
