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Mayor Ian Hamilton told Grade 3 students from St. Mary Elementary School he was inspired earlier this year by an 11-year-old boy who wrote to him asking for playground equipment.
"He is only 11 years old and he wrote me a letter and I have to say I was pretty impressed with that," said the City of North Battleford's mayor.
During their class tour of city hall, the students had a question-and-answer period with Mayor Hamilton in council chambers. He urged every one of them to get involved in making North Battleford an even better place and suggested they might take part in the big Earth Day clean-up on Apr. 22 – or even one day run for a seat on council or the mayoralty itself.
When Mayor Hamilton offered up his own chair to the students, hands shot up and several of them rushed up to be the first to sit in the mayor's chair in the council chambers.
Future leaders, undoubtedly, every one of them.
