Hunter Wheeler News Today

Creekland Middle School eighth-grader Max Bailey correctly spelled “quid pro quo” and then “Yorkshire” to win the 2024 Cherokee County School District Spelling Bee Jan. 17 at Cherokee High School.

Several people are tied for second place with only the National Championship game on Monday to break the tie.

On May 1, 2019, Jacey Yarns was diagnosed with stage 3B lung cancer. On Nov. 11 last year, doctors removed the top of her left lung. On Oct. 29 of this year, Yarns, who is from Grand Island, had part of her liver removed along with two lymph nodes from her pancreas. On top of everything else, she was hospitalized last month with COVID-19. Yarns, who will turn 54 on Jan. 10, is the mother of four, three of whom are grown. Her youngest, 17-year-old Hunter Wheeler, still lives at home with her. He...