Editor, Gazette-Journal:

The success of any activity which Adult Literacy on the Middle Peninsula, Inc., hosts is due, of course, to the visible (and invisible) participants. ALMP had four great teams in the Mathews Market Days’ Spelling for Literacy fundraising event.

With great enthusiasm The Young Patrons, The Buzz, The Book Worms and The Queen Bee(s) did their very best to raise the most funds yet for Adult Literacy to carry on its programs in Gloucester, Mathews and Middlesex counties. This year’s teams lived up to the dreamed competition when The Young Patrons (three college-aged students—two from Gloucester and one from Mathews) challenged the more-seasoned teams. One of the college students found a former teacher now in the role of a competitor. Although The Young Patrons were the first team to gracefully bow out of the Spelling for Literacy Bee, they aided the cause by raising a substantial amount of money and providing good entertainment by being the o...