Orinda 7th Grader Advances To Scripps National Spelling Finals

First there were 247. Then nine. One of them is a dead-serious 13-year-old Danville kid who attends school in Orinda, where he is a seventh-grader at Orinda Intermediate School. Aiden Meng has advanced to the finals in tonight’s Scripps National Spelling Bee, putting both Danville and Orinda on the map in a field represented this…

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