P-I-S-T-A-C-H-I-O WINS WAKILEH A SPELLING BEE.(LIFE & LEISURE)

Byline: Kathleen Dooley

Abdallah Wakileh spelled ``pistachio'' to become the 1994 RegionalSpelling Bee champion at Proctor's Theatre last month. He is a seventh-grader at Burnt Hills-Ballston Lake Middle School. By spelling the word correctly, Wakileh earned the right to represent the Capital Region at the National Spelling Bee in Washington May 29-June 4.Peter Bryce of Amsterdam, a sixth-grader in the Amsterdam City School District, was runner-up. Michael Lapetina, a Shaker Junior High School seventh-grader; Jiwoo Park, an eighth-grader at Van Antwerp Middle School; and Megha Padi, an Iroquois Middle School seventh-grader; were also regional winners.

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