Poloronis 4-H’s top public speaker
An Apalachicola Bay Charter School fourth grader has won the district 4-H public speaking competition in Wakulla County, the first time a Franklin County student has won at the district level.
Kami Poloronis, who lives in Eastpoint, was the judges’ choice out of all the fourth and fifth graders from six neighboring counties with her speech on”Making the World a Better Place.”
Poloronis has earlier won both the school and Franklin County competition.
On May 4 she competed against county winners from Leon, Wakulla, Jefferson, Gadsden, Gulf and Liberty counties.
Poloronis swept the competition and went home with a certificate of achievement and a $300 prize.
Meet the Editor
David Adlerstein, The Apalachicola Times’ digital editor, started with the news outlet in January 2002 as a reporter.
Prior to then, David Adlerstein began as a newspaperman with a small Boston weekly, after graduating magna cum laude from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts. He later edited the weekly Bellville Times, and as business reporter for the daily Marion Star, both not far from his hometown of Columbus, Ohio.
In 1995, he moved to South Florida, and worked as a business reporter and editor of Medical Business newspaper. In Jan. 2002, he began with the Apalachicola Times, first as reporter and later as editor, and in Oct. 2020, also began editing the Port St. Joe Star.