Community oraganizations to hold fundraising tournament
Lettered tiles are set to fly for literacy fundraising and awareness in Saskatoon on Mar. 7 READ Saskatoon has partnered up with CUMFI and the Saskatchewan Intercultural Association to put on a "Speed Scrabble" tournament at the University of Saskatchewan library.
It's all been organized
Speed Scrabble is a free-form, fast-paced version of the classic boardgame, played without the board. The objective is to use tiles as quickly as possible to form words, with tournament participants scoring bonuses for literacy-related words like "grammar" and "adjective."
"Literacy is taken for granted, and a game like Scrabble is taken as something that's fun, and a leisure activity," said READ Saskatoon's executive director Sheryl Harrow.
"For many of the adults that we work with it is far from a leisure activity."
There will be 12 teams of four competing in the tournament, like the city council team "Civic Spellers," the aboriginal student centre team "Scraboriginals, a"nd the Saskatchewan MLA team "Masters of the Lightning Anagrams."
"Through twitter and through facebook we can already see the teams are starting to taunt and tease each other," said Harrow.
She explained how recent studies have shown one in three Saskatchewanians faces daily struggles when it comes to reading.
"Literacy is like good drinking water. It's very easy for those of us who have lived with good drinking water to take it for granted."
All proceeds will go toward literacy programming.
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