BETHANY BLITZ/PressJoseph Moran was surprised when a cannon blasted streamers right after he was announced the North Idaho Regional Spelling Bee champion. The homeschooled fifth-grader will get an all-expense paid trip to Washington D.C. for the 2017 Scripps National Spelling Bee atthe end of May. On the left is runner up Maria Aguiar, an eighth-grader from Coeur d’Alene Charter Academy.

March 19, 2017